Re: [Ilugc] PDF generation with gif and tiff

2008-07-21 Thread Arnold Noronha
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Usha Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > Can anyone suggest me how to do PDF generation with gif and tiff > images . I can't achieve this using the method add_image_from_file , > and it works for jpeg and png images. > you can use convert to make ea

[Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread senthilraja P
Hi All, Last sunday, i gave a seminar to 3 engg students on Web server, MySQL server, PHP, and some basics of web programming, like sending form variables procesing it in server using PHP, updating mysql and retrieving from it. The students were very encouraged at this, and in the evening they ca

Re: [Ilugc] ERP software

2008-07-21 Thread senthilraja P
/** I have to use an Enterprise Resource Planning software for one of my friend`s textile factory **/ I came across a software called ERP5 , that's specially designed for Apparell industry. I havent tried it out, but i feel it could be a good choice. WebERP: I think, its not that much usable in

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread santosh
senthilraja P wrote: Some suggestions: 1. What i have done is very basic thing, that need not require any expertise or great skills. However, to actually get a momentum, we need to establish knowledge pockets, on advanced technicalities like Building a Linux Distro from source, knowledge on com

Re: [Ilugc] Debian Lenny Installation Problem

2008-07-21 Thread Sivaram Kannan
Hi all, Thanks for the reply. I tried generic.all_generic_ide=1, that also did not workout. On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Raja Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have a sata dvd drive on a very new chipset, you'll need a > newer kernel with the correct drivers enabled. I had simil

Re: [Ilugc] PDF generation with gif and tiff

2008-07-21 Thread Harish S
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Usha Subramanian wrote: > hi, > > Can anyone suggest me how to do PDF generation with gif and tiff > images . I can't achieve this using the method add_image_from_file , > and it works for jpeg and png images. > Have a look at PDFlib. I'm not sure if it will m

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread senthilraja P
> > >> >> I am sorry if i am too impractical. But i just shared some of my vision >> with you all. >> >> Regards, >> Senthil >> >> > This is not impractical, it just needs coordinated effort from us. We can > organise a set of teams, each of which handles a different domain like > kernel developme

[Ilugc] Compatibiltiy issue of Seagate External Hard drive with Linux.

2008-07-21 Thread balaji chellappan
Dear Friends We are planning to buy 1TB external hard drive (check the link below). http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=st310005fda1e1-rk-freeagent-desktop-1tb-usb2.0-external-hd&vgnextoid=2eac2112747e9110VgnVCM10f5ee0a0aRCRD&vgnextchannel=8d3f26bbdae90110VgnVCM10f5ee0a

Re: [Ilugc] Compatibiltiy issue of Seagate External Hard drive with Linux.

2008-07-21 Thread Arun Khan
On Monday 21 Jul 2008, balaji chellappan wrote: >ntioned anything about linux. It seems the disk is preformatted in > NTFS. If we reformat to ext3, can we use it in systems with Linux OS. Should not be a problem. How long has this size been in the market? Hearsay, the first gen of the mega size

Re: [Ilugc] Compatibiltiy issue of Seagate External Hard drive with Linux.

2008-07-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, balaji chellappan wrote: > In the list of OS supported, they have not mentioned anything about > linux. This seems to be a standard USB external storage device and should be usable as such. > It seems the disk is preformatted in NTFS. If we reformat to ext3, > can we

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread Ravi Jaya
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 5:22 AM, santosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > senthilraja P wrote: > >> Some suggestions: >> >> 1. What i have done is very basic thing, that need not require any >> expertise >> or great skills. However, to actually get a momentum, we need to >> establish >> knowledge poc

[Ilugc] 2.6 SMP kernel -- dual core opteron processor -- irqbalance(?) - only one CPU busy always

2008-07-21 Thread Balu manyam
hey gurus -- i have a HP server with 4*dual core AMD opteron processors running 2.6.9-42 SMP kernel -- one of my DBAs complained of poor performance while running an SQL query -- now when I check the 'mpstat -P ALL 5 ' o/p - I see that CPU 0 is completely busy (idle 0%) most of the time --

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM, senthilraja P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some suggestions: > > 1. What i have done is very basic thing, that need not require any > expertise > or great skills. However, to actually get a momentum, we need to establish > knowledge pockets, on advanced technicali

[Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (UNIQ)

2008-07-21 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html One Day One GNU/Linux Command = uniq -- Remove duplicate lines from a SORTED file. Summary : It prints the unique lines in a sorted file. If input is NOT in sorted order then, only adjacent duplicate lines are d

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread senthilraja P
> > LFS was one of the most interesting things I did :D. And yeah. I believe > ABS > must be a part of every Linux curriculum. http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ > ++1 :) > > I am wondering if we need customized distros. It would actually work better > if we had a StudentForce GNU/Linux or something

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (UNIQ)

2008-07-21 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 22 Jul 2008, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > Read: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html > > One Day One GNU/Linux Command > = > > uniq -- Remove duplicate lines from a SORTED file. "sort <-u|--unique> ..." to remove duplicate lines. Indeed, uniq h

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Some thoughts on this discussion. On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Ashok Gautham J. wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 2:33 PM, senthilraja P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Some suggestions: > > 1. What i have done is very basic thing, that need not require any > > expertise > > or great skills. H

Re: [Ilugc] My First Session for Engineering students

2008-07-21 Thread Aditya M
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am wondering if we need customized distros. > > I don't think we need yet-another-distribution. Learning to improve > and develop the tools used to build, develop, maintain the existing > distributions is far mo