Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Friday 19 August 2011 07:04 PM, Sidu Ponnappa wrote: > > I know people with ThinkPads that have gone for three or four years > without any repairs at all. Macs aren't as reliable, but they come > close. +1 for ThinkPad reliability. I bought (an economy model at that - R51e, if I'm not wrong) w

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 03:00 +0530, krish wrote: > > Haven't heard good things about Lenovo customer care. > > > +1 > I've had very bad experiences with them regarding Lenovo x120e laptop. > A > trauma of 25 days. looks like laptops and you do not get on well. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 22:33 +0530, Manokaran K wrote: > > 3 years with acer - power adapter died after 2 years - bought a new > one. > > That's it. (and it came with linux). > > > > > I have an Acer now (a TM 6292) and an Aspire One. Problem with both is > that > it gets very hot - even the keys

[Ilugc] One day FOSS session in Angel College of Engg at Tiruppur

2011-08-19 Thread Raman.P
Dear all On behalf of ILUGC I did one day workshop in Angel college of Engg and Technology at Tiruppur. I covered FOSS intro,Baisc gui,perl, mysql and git. It was atteneded by about 60 students mostly from neighbouring college. On behalf of ILUGC I thank the management, HOD-IT Prof.Parthasarath

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread krish
> > > Haven't heard good things about Lenovo customer care. +1 I've had very bad experiences with them regarding Lenovo x120e laptop. A trauma of 25 days. -- krish ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread krish
> 3 years with acer - power adapter died after 2 years - bought a new one. > That's it. (and it came with linux). > 2 years with acer and I ran 7 times to their service center in first 3 months with LCD issues, then heating issue and finally keyboard. Sold my laptop after that. -- krish __

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Manokaran K wrote: > > I have an Acer now (a TM 6292) and an Aspire One. Problem with both is that > it gets very hot - even the keys are hot to touch. > > What model are you using? And what's your exp? > I have an Acer Aspire 5745, with Ubuntu 11.04 and I use

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Manokaran K
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 4:14 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:00 +0530, 0 wrote: > > > Hows the service / support from Lenovo? > > > > > 3 years with acer - power adapter died after 2 years - bought a new one. > That's it. (and it came with linux). > I have an Acer now (a

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Sidu Ponnappa wrote: > I want a reliable machine that I > allows me to stay focussed on my work while providing a good > experience. I don't want to have to mess around with X just to plug in > a projector or to have a dual display. > I agree with some of your po

[Ilugc] call for student's and research people

2011-08-19 Thread aravindh aravindh
HI Luggies, We Jaya foss club are inviting student's and research person's from various colleges to participate in the DEMO stalls in Software Freedom Day on sep 17th 2011.They can display their own projects and existing open source tools.for more info aaravindh...@gmail.com.Regards, N.Naresh Aravi

Re: [Ilugc] Output redirection help needed

2011-08-19 Thread 0
> Thanks all for helping me out. The above thing works perfect. and can anyone > give me explanation of what it does? One is it redirects to /dev/null and > what does 2>&1 really does? man page is your best friend. try man bash and search for "REDIRECTION". -- 0 _

[Ilugc] [OT][JOB]

2011-08-19 Thread Sathia S
[Forward] *Experience required for the Job:* 0 - 1 years *Annual Salary of the Job:* 1.0 - 2.0 Lacs *Job Location:* Chennai *Dear Candidate,* Hi Greetings from KRDS! KRDS, European Leader in Facebook Marketing and Software Development, is looking for brilliant PHP develope for their CHENNAI OFF

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Sidu Ponnappa
> Suppose I make my Macbook a dual boot machine, does it void Apple's > warranty? Not if you use Bootcamp, the dual boot software that ships with OSX. The catch is that it is literally dual boot - only one other OS besides OSX. > If you are going to use the computer for web development, I would sa

Re: [Ilugc] Output redirection help needed

2011-08-19 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Sathia S wrote: > > > espeak 'hi' > /dev/null 2>&1 Thanks all for helping me out. The above thing works perfect. and can anyone give me explanation of what it does? One is it redirects to /dev/null and what does 2>&1 really does? -- Regards, Prasanna Venkadesh

Re: [Ilugc] Output redirection help needed

2011-08-19 Thread Sathia S
> > # espeak hi > temp > > espeak 'hi' > /dev/null 2>&1 Regards sathia http://www.sathia27.wordpress.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Output redirection help needed

2011-08-19 Thread Krishna
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > I have written a chat applicaiton(via terminal) using ruby 1.8.7 and i want > > # espeak hi > temp > > but again the message appears in terminal > try #espeak hi &>temp Bye, Krishna. ___ ILUG

Re: [Ilugc] Output redirection help needed

2011-08-19 Thread subhojit ojha
> > >I dont want these to be displayed in terminal and i wanted this to > redirect > >to some file. > if you doesn't need to display the message, you can redirect it to /dev/null file. Regards Subhojit ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 16:00 +0530, 0 wrote: > > Hows the service / support from Lenovo? > > > > Haven't heard good things about Lenovo customer care. If you are ok > with > a windows/linux laptop then I recommend dell with the right coverage > options. I have used dell since 2005 and I have avai

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread 0
> The change of environment that am comfortable with is defenitely weighing on > my mind! I did not know we can run Mac OSX in a virtual machine. Is it just > downloadable? In which case I'll check out ThinkPad X220. > > Hows the service / support from Lenovo? > Haven't heard good things about Len

[Ilugc] OAOD (openarena)

2011-08-19 Thread Dhastha
Application: openarena What it is: fast-paced 3D first-person shooter. OpenArena is an open-source content package for ioQuake3 licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game. Though OpenArena is a free replacement for id Software Inc.'s Quake 3 Arena, it is NOT compatible w

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Sarma Tangirala
If you aren't writing code for OS X and thinking of dual boot, you could get a windows machine and use the extra money to buy an external moniter unless you WANT a mac. Sent from my Android. On 19 Aug 2011 12:28, "krish" wrote: > Leave the OSX in peace; use Virtualbox or VMWare and if you need ev

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:28 PM, krish wrote: > Leave the OSX in peace; use Virtualbox or VMWare and if you need everything > seamless.. pay for VMWare commercial version. > > +1 You can also use Parallels Desktop http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/ It works great. Regards, Arun

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-19 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 11:19 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 10:52 +0530, Karthikeyan S wrote: > > planning to create videos/movies, you can buy Mac system. > > linux is not good enough? > Probably. The bundled audio visual apps which come along with any Mac is incredible.