Re: [Ilugc] [opinion]Dear Gnome devs: Please stop trashing Gnome!

2012-08-01 Thread kenneth gonsalves
t; Haven't tried Fluxbox but I am going back to Gnome2's reincarnation > MATE > from Fedora 18. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTE1MDI great news - I have seen MATE on mint - love it. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] [opinion]Dear Gnome devs: Please stop trashing Gnome!

2012-08-01 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ced the tag. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] headphones in fedora 17

2012-07-30 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 20:17 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:59 PM, kenneth gonsalves > wrote: > > > update - the headphones work out of the box on my wife's much newer > > laptop running Fedora 16 > > If you play music/sound on

Re: [Ilugc] headphones in fedora 17

2012-07-30 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 15:47 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > I just bought a headphone/mike set. I cannot get it to work in Fedora > 17. Tried every possible combination of settings. I booted my machine > into linux mint and the headphones work out of the box - any guidance > would be

[Ilugc] headphones in fedora 17

2012-07-30 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, I just bought a headphone/mike set. I cannot get it to work in Fedora 17. Tried every possible combination of settings. I booted my machine into linux mint and the headphones work out of the box - any guidance would be appreciated. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

[Ilugc] open source hardware

2012-07-29 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/27/open-source-model-disrupts-the-commercial-drone-business/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] how to multitask

2012-07-28 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi an open source hacker at the olympics: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/tpbarron/16001 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/sports/olympics/racewalkers-compete-outside-the-spotlight.html -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] Open source and business

2012-07-25 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 16:56 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > One last comment - do not write code unless 1. some one pays you or 2. > you need it for something you want to achieve. You can think of some > fantastic idea that you think will be the next facebook or will > fulfill &

Re: [Ilugc] Open source and business

2012-07-25 Thread kenneth gonsalves
stic idea that you think will be the next facebook or will fulfill a need that people will pay for - ok, if you must, do it, but do not expect to make money from it. As some one said, if people will not pay for something, they certainly will take it if it is free. -- regards Kenneth

Re: [Ilugc] want info about plone hosting providers

2012-07-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
, it takes about 5 minutes to set up a plone site in webfaction - and from several years of using webfaction for various clients, I can testify that it rocks seriously, and their support and uptime is absolutely fantastic. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___

Re: [Ilugc] want info about plone hosting providers

2012-07-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
re is no one to take care of it , is it no one to take care of it, or no funds to pay for it? As for shared hosting, webfaction would be your best bet. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] erpnext

2012-07-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, has anyone used erpnext, if so what opinion? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] URL you requested has been blocked as per DOT guidelines

2012-07-23 Thread kenneth gonsalves
been blocked, because the URL is > banned.1 > > URL = pastebin.com/vjpbm8XH" works for me on bsnl landline - I use opendns. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] openings python & Twisted developers.

2012-07-23 Thread kenneth gonsalves
nings call or email at thanks for encouraging open source and also approaching our group. Please affix [JOB] and [COMMERCIAL] tags in the subject line in future. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] dual boot success

2012-07-23 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2012-07-23 at 13:22 +0530, kish wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Vignesh Rajendran > wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, kenneth gonsalves > > wrote: > >> something more exotic? > >> > > > > Try Gentoo > > >

Re: [Ilugc] YMA looking forward to volunteers, executive council members

2012-07-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 09:40 +0530, ஆமாச்சு wrote: > Founded by members of this list, Yavarkumana Menporul Arakkatalai - > indigenous Software Foundation for Free Software is looking forward > to > expand its activities. the translation to english is wrong -- regards Kenne

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Looking for a java programmer

2012-07-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
will refrain from further usage. although apache and tomcat and java are open source, this is a Linux users group, posts with respect to other *nix flavours are ok, but I am of the view that Windows does not qualify. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Best compatible USB DataCard for latest Ubuntu

2012-07-19 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-07-19 at 16:43 +0530, R.Kanagaraj (RK) wrote: > After testing some brand, I stuck with MTS data card it works out of > the > box. with Xubuntu, Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 17. how old is your machine? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] kill

2012-07-18 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:14 +0530, Noorul Islam K M wrote: > May be this one is customized by Debian or the OP might be using some > *nix variant. I heard some rumours that he uses BSD ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List

Re: [Ilugc] Shell script with arguments

2012-07-17 Thread kenneth gonsalves
d accordingly. does not yum or apt-get do this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] dual boot success

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 11:10 +0530, 0 wrote: > On 07/16/2012 10:49 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > one reason why I need more distros is that my bsnl data card has not > > worked for me after fedora 12. It does not work in mint either. So I > am > > looking for a dist

Re: [Ilugc] dual boot success

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
not worked for me after fedora 12. It does not work in mint either. So I am looking for a distro in which it will work. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] dual boot success

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:12 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 5:19 PM, kenneth gonsalves > wrote: > > > finally succeeded. I did not use lvm. What I did: > > Congrats. However, the mystery behind the 40GB (from a another > thread) remains unresolve

Re: [Ilugc] [fosscomm] Hacking and Activism

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
esponses are going to be disjointed in each of those > mailing list. > > Please post them individually and summarize the discussion from each > of the lists in one final post. I agree - I pressed reply to his post and got some bounce from some other list. -- r

Re: [Ilugc] Hacking and Activism

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 02:46 +0530, A. Mani wrote: > But the FSMK people have decided to use the term "ethical hacking" for > "hacking + Activism" and possibly beyond. > http://www.fsmk.org/ethical-hacking morons -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

[Ilugc] dual boot success

2012-07-14 Thread kenneth gonsalves
System /dev/sda1 *2048 11469004757344000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 114690048 122882047 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 122882048 24006860758593280 83 Linux -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing

[Ilugc] workshop at Sri Ramakrishna Engineering College, Coimbatore

2012-07-14 Thread kenneth gonsalves
managements do their utmost to give us all the facilities, they pay expenses and even give an honorarium! This is my experience in the Coimbatore region and in Kerala. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-13 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ns on a daily basis, it was dinned into me that one could have at the most 4 primary partititons, since I have not done this for the past 6-7 years I had forgotten this. I have got it figured out now. Thanks all - I will try again and revert. > > -- regards Kenneth Gonsalve

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
dev/sda3: UUID="1c6294e2-e738-4282-b666-0a783988dd08" TYPE="swap" > > /dev/sda5: UUID="b81886a1-ffd8-4e1c-a8b2-f9a0599768c5" TYPE="ext4" > > I guess Mint installer is looking for a partition w/o any filesystem > on it. Your /dev/sda5 ha

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
esystem status. [root@xlquest lawgon]# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="00de097a-9323-433f-83a9-1858f44602d0" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda2: UUID="b86bef0e-3402-41b2-b814-3e9f870fb2f7" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda3: UUID="1c6294e2-e738-4282-b666-0a783988dd08" TYPE="sw

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
-side-on-an-lvm-partitioning-scheme/ > > will try this when I am free. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
e partition which has the free space. > Make > it un allocated disk space. Then mint might recognize this. this is my current partition - when I tried the dual boot, I had 40 GB of free space also. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:03 +0530, ஆமாச்சு wrote: > On Thursday 12 July 2012 04:39 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > I have fedora on my system with the following > partitions: /, /home, /var > > and swap. Also some free space. I wanted to install another distro > in > &

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
50420473584 83 Linux /dev/sda3 215042048 223234047 4096000 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 223234048 312581807446738805 Extended /dev/sda5 223236096 31258009544672000 83 Linux -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ceeded in doing this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] setting up dual boot

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
Mandriva - this recognised the existing partitions, but I could not find any option to make it install in the free space. Any one has some experience in this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Python and Perl Workshop based training

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 16:16 +0530, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > > Don't reply to list for the mails with Commercial tag. Please > contact > > the OP directly. > > > > > I understand Commercial Tag, However what is OP ? Original P

Re: [Ilugc] Mail server implementation

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
in general when some one asks & the other replies to search > before ask, it appears rude. - That was my opinion. > > It is very often intended to be rude. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Mail server implementation

2012-07-12 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ued to be rude. Rude is when we call the > person names, attach negative connotation objectives etc. or insult > the person by being sarcastic. being brief is in some cultures interpreted as rude - n00bs will just have to get used to it. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] Mail server implementation

2012-07-10 Thread kenneth gonsalves
; -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] programming languages

2012-07-10 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ple should move on to 'better' things, and am continually disappointed to see talented youngsters getting afraid of the learning curve of the 'better' things and reverting. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: h

[Ilugc] programming languages

2012-07-10 Thread kenneth gonsalves
this may be of interest to some: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Check you DNS

2012-07-07 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ork to use the nameserver on 127.0.0.1. Done. Goodbye to your ISP's nameserver. Even simpler is to set your nameserver to the opendns IPs - 208.67.220.220 and 208.67.222.222. I have been using vsnl/bsnl since 1995 and I can assure you their dns sucks bigtime. I used my local

Re: [Ilugc] Check you DNS

2012-07-07 Thread kenneth gonsalves
n local host -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] best practices for backup and restore on upgrading

2012-07-07 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2012-07-07 at 15:37 +0530, 0 wrote: > On 07/07/2012 01:12 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > my reinstallation went well - did not lose any data or valuable > > information. One hiccup - firefox sync did not work as I had omitted > to > > pair my old installation so

Re: [Ilugc] best practices for backup and restore on upgrading

2012-07-07 Thread kenneth gonsalves
and bookmarks. So now I am on Fedora 17 - as usual everything worked out of the box except mobile broadband which has never worked since fedora 12. I have decided to give up on that and make my laptop dual boot - and I am going to try this out: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/104581-linux-

Re: [Ilugc] Check you DNS

2012-07-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
m which they have not noticed yet. I > heard that there are still around 50K PC around the world infected > with > this malware. 208.67.220.220 - opendns -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Check you DNS

2012-07-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
e bottom of the site referred to. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Blog on Apple Products

2012-07-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
d-blizzard-using-wine works, and so does the other link after putting in opendns. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Blog on Apple Products

2012-07-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
would be relevant to most of us > > http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/07/03/updated-diablo-iii-linux-users-banned-blizzard-using-wine this link seems to be going to some soft porn site for me -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Blog on Apple Products

2012-07-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 13:43 +0530, Sundaram KR wrote: > lawgon said: "I would say that the post under consideration falls > fairly under points > 2 and 6 above and is not OT." > > Objection sustained. does this mean it is OT or it is not? --

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Blog on Apple Products

2012-07-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
unix flavours. 5. As a consequence of the above, discussion of any open source language, toolkit and framework is also ok. 6. And advocacy of all the above also implies that criticism of companies and ideas that are contrary to the above is also on topic. I would say that the post under considera

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Blog on Apple Products

2012-07-05 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2012-07-06 at 07:38 +0530, 0 wrote: > On 07/05/2012 11:00 PM, A. Mani wrote: > > http://www.berkeleylug.com/?p=1045 > > Informative. > > > > [OT] tag please. what is OT about it? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Software Survey -Reg

2012-07-04 Thread kenneth gonsalves
; > > Oops.. They came in the first page and I think I gave them!! a lot of these so-called phd/research surveys are by spammers who want to harvest personal details and email addresses. One has to be careful. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ IL

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Software Survey -Reg

2012-07-04 Thread kenneth gonsalves
y and you were right in only filling it in partially. I hope you did not give your name and email address in the survey. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-04 Thread kenneth gonsalves
was plus one for Srini's post - no top poster would agree with me. > > Btw, I'm not sure if this reply of mine is at the right place. When > one top > posts, where do you place your reply to that? correct place -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-04 Thread kenneth gonsalves
e than reading well crafted, precisely formatted replies to queries on mailing lists is managing to write such replies. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
f experience of lakhs of people worldwide in the open source community is insufficient for you? > > as for as they reply in a style which any one can read and understand > the > information, it is ok in my opinion. and the only such style is interleaved posting -- regards Kenneth Gons

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-07-04 at 11:43 +0530, Niam Computech wrote: > On 07/04/2012 11:22 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > well, it has come as a top post. You need to configure thunderbird > to > > set the cursor at the bottom of the quoted text. > > @Kenneth - Is it good now? Th

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
es that it > is > in reply to your original text. actually this is not bottom posting - it is interleaved posting, which is the correct way of doing things. In bottom posting, there is no trimming of text, and the post is usually under the sig. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
nneth's post from my thunderbird and hit reply to post, am I doing > right? Or am I still doing top posting? Please guide. well, it has come as a top post. You need to configure thunderbird to set the cursor at the bottom of the quoted text. -

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ion or provide answer, However > just > to provide that if there are rules that is when it becomes really > difficult > :-( especially new people to the group find it very difficult :-( as of now we still have the rule, so please avoid top posting

[Ilugc] best practices for backup and restore on upgrading

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
uidelines which is also supposed to be posted to the members once a month. The said guidelines are available here: http://www.ilugc.in/content/mailinglist-guidelines -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 17:14 +0530, Niam Computech wrote: > @Bala - To jobin whom else. Check thread line and then comment. Why > is > everyone ready to fight on this mailing list?!! avoid top posting -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUG

[Ilugc] on the lighter side

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/13/kogan-hates-ie7-so-much-its-imposing-a-tax-on-all-shoppers-that-use-the-browser/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Software Survey -Reg

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
a lot of stuff not really relevant to me - tried my best, and wish you all the best. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 12:42 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: > I hope there wont be any end for this thread, if we keep on replying > for the comments. > > Shall we stop here and discuss on other threads? why? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-03 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hes humans from animals is the ability to talk (and generally communicate using the spoken and written word.) It is only donkeys, buffaloes and other beasts of burden that go around doing productive work without talking. For us, work done without talking about it is not productive or profitable.

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
; that > > they are beer. When someone goes to wineshop and asks for haywards, > the > > guy on counter knows he is asking for beer. > > > > Its not the matter of beer, it is like Dalda and Xerox . > Most people donot know that it is Vanaspathi and P

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 18:35 +0530, 0 wrote: > > whatever this means > > > > What that means is, the word "Linux" is not important. Promote the > features, softwares, and the freedom that GNU/Linux offers. this is precisely what I am saying

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ed - these factors are adequately explained in the pdf and in the comments on the article itself. 1% of the total contributed code - where the contribution is completely self serving ... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu powered Laptops and Desktops

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
fedora over Ubuntu. I have used it for years, and still spend a lot of time using it in helping my students to debug their problems (many of them have ubuntu). Most people who rave about ubuntu have no experience of other distros and are not qualified to compare

Re: [Ilugc] 3 days FDP program at AMS college

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
en I heard from some faculty's they used to bunk these workshops , > skip > one or two day in between, they would be prompt on the last day to > collect > their certifications. > > they usually stay until the free lunch before bunking -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
;s one more which you can add to your collection of useless statistics: site:microsoft.com linux322,000 -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
at subject feel free to start your own. [...] > Even though, I support RMS on GNU/Linux name, to fully represent the > end > product, the name should be totally random or a representation of the > community as a whole. unfortunately the train left the station 20 years back. >

Re: [Ilugc] 3 days FDP program at AMS college

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
something? ;-) it is the nature of staff members in our colleges to be terrified of appearing foolish in front of students, so they avoid any forums where there is a possibility of this happening. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] 3 days FDP program at AMS college

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
cal, since they have direct contact > with > the students. I don't expect them to be super active but just > emailing > once in a while should be no harm. I have been doing FDPs countrwide for the past 6-7 years, and the total number of staff members who have actively or passively

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
p://www.suse.com/|13 | > | Ubuntu | http://www.ubuntu.com/ | 0 | > |--+-+---| > > *2 for Fedora, not counting a customer quote which mentions it > three times. > > I said 'site' not 'page'. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ersuaded to use terms like 'we ship with ubuntu' or 'we ship with android' rather than say 'we ship with linux'. I will not go into how the distros that disown Linux also fail to contribute back to the community ... this is too well known. So let us promote - and encour

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu powered Laptops and Desktops

2012-06-28 Thread kenneth gonsalves
u PCs. If you dont use it or like it, dont buy. I did not get antagonised by him offing ubuntu - dell is doing it, I am not bothered (I wont buy of course). What antagonises me is the tone used by ubuntu fanbhois - that ubuntu is the best greatest etc etc. -

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu powered Laptops and Desktops

2012-06-28 Thread kenneth gonsalves
e. Wife and kids also like it as the distro treats them well (all of us had our honeymoon with ubuntu and got fed up). -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Thunderbird mail client work behind the proxy or not

2012-06-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
all, you need to open the smtp and pop/imap ports in your firewall. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu powered Laptops and Desktops

2012-06-27 Thread kenneth gonsalves
a, debian, mint ... you just antagonised a good part of the LUG community -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] C coding tricks on UNIX

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ace does not count. Make up your mind. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] python workshop

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
most of them were able to complete the assignments. Organisation was solely by students, and the model deserves to be emulated. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Ilugc] Learning C coding

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 17:47 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 5:23 PM, kenneth gonsalves > wrote: > > > > afaik human memory power is only useful to pass exams (and maybe to > > conduct religious ceremonies - what does it have to do with &

Re: [Ilugc] Learning C coding

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 18:45 +0800, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 6:35 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > >> It also requires memory power as is the case with UNIX and perl in > >> general. > > > > strange, I thought C was indicated when one wa

Re: [Ilugc] Learning C coding

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-06-26 at 15:48 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > It also requires memory power as is the case with UNIX and perl in > general. strange, I thought C was indicated when one wants to cut memory usage. -- regards Kenneth Gon

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
t IT. From the feedback I get from the people I know in various countries, the people in the 'mainstream' behave a lot like our own people. As for core engineering, I do not know much, but our guys seem reasonably competent. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves _

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
qcad handles my (albeit limited) needs. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
country :) > Wonder > when car drivers are going to demand a BMW to get employed. do you mean to say this different in foreign? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] How to setup an E-Mail Relay Host with Sendmail ?

2012-06-26 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 20:54 +0530, Yuvaraj wrote: > I need help on How to setup an E-Mail Relay Host with Sendmail ? Is sendmail a requirement? If not use postfix. The default installation should work. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mail

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Comments - new website for ILUGC

2012-06-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 23:53 +0530, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > This is just my opinion that Wordpress websites have been often > compromised > to serve malware :-( that is the downside of using something easy to set up -- regards Kenneth

Re: [Ilugc] the vi editor

2012-06-21 Thread kenneth gonsalves
e this I suggest you go join a UUG. And if Indian ways of doing things do not suit you, you are always free to migrate. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] the vi editor

2012-06-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
that you are joking and that > intent > > was lost over the interwebs. > > It seems you have not worked on servers which boot up to init 3 > only... joe is there - so is nano -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Pros and Cons representing Software

2012-06-16 Thread kenneth gonsalves
ather a software which I > could use > > on Ubuntu to represent them :-( > > > > > I know many are going to laugh at this post. Why am I ending up in > this > sort of trouble mostly ? I am laughing -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves __

Re: [Ilugc] Older PC's [OT]

2012-06-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
or 'as big as a handful of earth' and ocean for 'as big as the planet/world' sorry - could not help the nitpick -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [X]On stupid comments of Torvalds

2012-06-14 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 20:15 +0530, A. Mani wrote: > http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/168555/ in my opinion this is rubbish. People who contribute for selfless reasons rarely last long. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: h

Re: [Ilugc] Why these emails, Girish? (Was Re: the vi editor)

2012-06-13 Thread kenneth gonsalves
> beginners would be clueless of what is right and what is wrong among > his > statements. > > Can this be considered trolling? he is not a troll - he is very talented, but is unable to distinguish between opinion and fact. A troll has the main purpose to create flames - since he

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