Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> It is not very clear from their wiki/home page what exactly they have > changed. (I admit that I have not researched this extensively!) Easy Peasy (formerly Ubuntu Eee) is an Ubuntu-based distribution for netbooks. It uses Ubuntu Netbook Remix graphical user interface and includes open source as

[Ilugc] Customizing validation errors in Django form

2009-09-12 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, I'm a newbie to django. I'm developing a site. In d reg page all d validation errors are displaed wit bullets, above the field. can anyone tell me how to make them displayed beside the input box? (I dont know if this is too silly to ask in such a mailing list. If so plz tell me). thanks in

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 12 Sep 2009 12:24:00 pm Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: > > In consolation, you might at least have a good light-weight os to > > install: http://bit.ly/rZX2q. easy peasy looks cool, and I love > > their homepage :) > > This looks very much like

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 11 Sep 2009 3:41:10 pm Raja Subramanian wrote: >> Let me know if you need any help in sourcing one. > > yes please Sorry. I just check with my vendor, they don't offer Linux based netbooks any more. You get WinXP Home by defaul

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread Sivasankar Chander
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > Sorry. I just check with my vendor, they don't offer Linux based > netbooks any more. You get WinXP Home by default. > > Acer Aspire One models: 10.1" Rs 20,750 and 11.1" Rs 23,350. > Both come with 1GB RAM, 160GB HDD, blue tooth, wifi.

[Ilugc] Changed my Email ID

2009-09-12 Thread Ranjith Kumar
Hai Folks! I`m Ranjith Kumar user of "ranjiths...@live.com" i have changed my Email ID. Sorry for the inconvenience. Cheers Ranjith ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] (no subject) Plone.

2009-09-12 Thread Dhakshina Moorthy K.M.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 08:36:22 +0530 From: Kenneth Gonsalves Subject: Re: [Ilugc] (no subject) > if you want to customise, forget plone. But it is good for quick and dirty sites where you can leave the hard work for the user. Not exactly true. I as a lay user could install plone with multi inst

[Ilugc] Multimedia tools

2009-09-12 Thread parkavi
Hi , I want to know, what are the Emerging MULTIMEDIA TOOLS present in FOSS. If anyone know rply PLZ.. Regards, Parkavi.N ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread pavithran
2009/9/12 Vamsee Kanakala : > True, but it's not because they lack initiative. There are several reports > on the net from good sources that Microsoft is putting tremendous pressure > on Netbook manufacturers not to use Linux (apart from giving heavy discounts > on XP) because they're really scare

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> > If we demand more refunds then I guess those companies will realise > the demand for GNU/Linux machine Hi ! May be you should go to Hp or Dell outlet and demand a Netbook without XP ( or vista or win7) and ask for a refund or discount . We will be grateful if you post your experience or the

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread Bhargav Prasanna
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:28 PM, pavithran wrote: > 2009/9/12 Vamsee Kanakala : > > If we demand more refunds then I guess those companies will realise > the demand for GNU/Linux machines . I guess the Windows EULA states clearly that you can get a refund if you refuse the agreement.. Not sure ab

Re: [Ilugc] (no subject)

2009-09-12 Thread Selvakumar Rajeswaran
- Original Message From: Kenneth Gonsalves To: ILUG-C Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 4:54:37 AM Subject: Re: [Ilugc] (no subject) >we are waiting for you to suggest a suitable subject - or maybe we are just >talking about nothing? The best place to talk about nothing is to creat

Re:[Ilugc] Multimedia tools

2009-09-12 Thread Ranjith Kumar
Hai Openshot and Gimp are the emerging multimedia tools present in FOSS... Cheers, Ranjith, http://ranjith10z.wordpress.com/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://w

Re: [Ilugc] Multimedia tools

2009-09-12 Thread Arun SAG
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM, parkavi wrote: > Hi , > > > I want to know, what are the Emerging MULTIMEDIA TOOLS present in > >FOSS > what are you trying to do? -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows. <-Fighting 4 Freedom-> ___

Re: [Ilugc] Multimedia tools

2009-09-12 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
> I want to know, what are the Emerging MULTIMEDIA TOOLS present in > FOSS. http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Multimedia/ And take look at Ubuntu Multimedia Center and Linux Mint Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.i

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread aditya
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM, sankar.k wrote: > hi friends > >                   i installed ubuntu 9.04 how to find when i was installed > my os date? > Try a uname -a ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the

[Ilugc] Suggest a MS Exchange alternate

2009-09-12 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. Need your suggestions on setup a mail server. It should include pop/imap/web interface shared calender, tasks, reminders etc. Want to migrate a company from MS exchange. The users use MS outlook and they should feel comfortable with the new mail server. Zimbra and openexchange are too

[Ilugc] KEC stall for sfd

2009-09-12 Thread NavTux
-Hai luggies, KEC guys have planned to do 1.LAMP: Explanation about the power of LAMP ,and demonstration how to setup lamp in linuxbox environment,and how to work with it,etc. 2.Desktop Environment and Desktop Effects: How can the pupils work with various linux environm

[Ilugc] wanna being with lxde

2009-09-12 Thread NavTux
Hai luggies, I have installed ubuntu gnome and lxde,i love lxde,now i want to remove my gnome,only i want to work with my lxde only how to remove my gnome to work with lxde only? is it possible to remove my gnome? thanks, -- regards, NavTux It blogs @ http://navaspot.wordpress.c

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM, aditya wrote: > Try a > uname -a > > :) -- ┌─┐ │Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─┘ ___

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread Mehul Ved
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:15 PM, aditya wrote: > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 11:56 PM, sankar.k wrote: >> hi friends >> >>                   i installed ubuntu 9.04 how to find when i was installed >> my os date? >> > > Try a > uname -a What if he has upgraded to a newer kernel from the updates? ___

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread Roshan George
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 22:15 +0530, aditya wrote: > Try a > uname -a For everyone who has been up-to-date, this will merely say Aug 18 since that's the version of the latest kernel in Ubuntu. -- Regards, Roshan George ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-r

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a MS Exchange alternate

2009-09-12 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> > Is there any free alternate to exchange/outlook pair? > > Hi ! Yes ! There are free ,open source packages for example like open exchange. We can do it ourselves by choosing various packages. It is also possible to get a pre-configured appliance. Since you are talking about commercial instal

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> > I guess the Windows EULA states clearly that you can get a refund if > you refuse the agreement.. Not sure about it. > Wanted to get a netbook for my dad not long ago, and the computer > showroom guy was totally helpless.. =( hi ! Yes ! http://www.geek.com/articles/news/freebsd-developer-sue

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread Rajesh Pandian M
Roshan George wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 22:15 +0530, aditya wrote: >> Try a >> uname -a > > For everyone who has been up-to-date, this will merely say Aug 18 since > that's the version of the latest kernel in Ubuntu. > ya! it shows similar thing for me too.. Linux localhost 2.6.24-19-generic

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread pavithran
2009/9/12 varadarajan narayanan : > Yes ! >http://www.geek.com/articles/news/freebsd-developer-sues-lenovo-over-windows-license-refund-refusal-20090817/ >http://www.geek.com/articles/news/amazon-customer-returns-windows-gets-11-asus-netbook-discount-20090724/ Great news , still can't believe that

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread pavithran
2009/9/12 varadarajan narayanan : > May be you should go to Hp or Dell outlet and demand a Netbook > without XP ( or vista or win7) and ask for a refund or discount . > We will be grateful if you post your experience or the replies you got > from the vendors. > Then collectively we may be able to

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a MS Exchange alternate

2009-09-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > Need your suggestions on setup a mail server. > > It should include pop/imap/web interface > shared calender, tasks, reminders etc. > > Want to migrate a company from MS exchange. > The users use MS outlook and they should feel

Re: [Ilugc] Multimedia tools

2009-09-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 8:06 PM, parkavi wrote: >  I want to know, what are the Emerging  MULTIMEDIA TOOLS  present in > FOSS. > What do you mean by multimedia? It stands for a lot of things. There are several audio/music liveCDs that come with complete audio studio tools for audio engineeri

Re: [Ilugc] How to find the OS installed date?

2009-09-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Rajesh Pandian M wrote: > p.s:there would be a cleaner way than this definitely :-) If you used the Debian installer while installing the system (which is the usual way of installing a fresh system) then you would have log files in /var/log/installer/ that provide det

Re: [Ilugc] wanna being with lxde

2009-09-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, NavTux wrote: > how to remove my gnome to work with lxde only? > is it possible to remove my gnome? On "ubuntu" this is not easy to do. Many "standard" system services are tied to gnome. So the basic "ubuntu-desktop" pseudo-package depends on a number of gnome/gtk pack

Re: [Ilugc] KEC stall for sfd

2009-09-12 Thread bala chandar
> These two are confirmed by KEC pupils,preparation is going on >Please make it sure,we have started our work. Dear luggies, Please conform our stalls as a SFD activity in ilugc website and someone(SFD co ordinators) reply for this thread.We are interested in it and we need your

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a MS Exchange alternate

2009-09-12 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Shrinivasan T > wrote: > > Solutions like Zimbra and Scalix involve installing MAPI connectors on the > Outlook side. People don't like that solution. Between these two, I'd recommend Scalix as it h

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a MS Exchange alternate

2009-09-12 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Girish Venkatachalam > wrote: >> Solutions like Zimbra and Scalix involve installing MAPI connectors on the >> Outlook side. People don't like that solution. > > Between these two, I'd recommend Scalix as it

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a MS Exchange alternate

2009-09-12 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 16:55 +, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > Need your suggestions on setup a mail server. > I am looking at volunteers to develop a webmail for IndiMail (Squirrelmail works with Indimail. But I don't like the interface) Why don't you try IndiMail or at least test it. I

[Ilugc] Re: Multimedia Tools

2009-09-12 Thread aishwarya .
Hi , >I want to know, what are the Emerging MULTIMEDIA TOOLS present in >FOSS. >If anyone know rply PLZ.. >Regards, >Parkavi.N Hope you are asking for the multimedia stall. You can try with Blender. Its an animation tool. -- Thanks, Aishwarya.M.B _

Re: [Ilugc] KEC stall for sfd

2009-09-12 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
> Please conform our stalls as a SFD activity in ilugc website and > someone(SFD co ordinators) reply for this thread.We are > interested in it and we need your acknowledgment and appreciation > for our stalls Conformed :) Stall 1: Desktop Envs and IM Stall 2: LAMP Bye :) -- Bharathi S ___

[Ilugc] SFD 2009 celebrations at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai - FStival'09

2009-09-12 Thread Guruprasad
Hi all, FStival is a Free Software Festival conducted annually, since 2004, by GNU/Linux User Group of Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and GLUG-Madurai in commemoration of Software Freedom Day. The objective of FStival is to create awareness of Free Open Source Software (FOSS) among th

[Ilugc] Configuring Apache for Jython

2009-09-12 Thread ilayaraja
Hi all, I am new to this list.I want to know how to configure apache for handling code written in Jython Thanks In Advance Regards, M.Ilayaraja - This email was sent using TCEMail Service. Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai - 625

[Ilugc] Re:Multimedia tools

2009-09-12 Thread naga raja
For Multimedia tools, You can explain list of all tools and can demo the widely used tools..   for more mulitmedia tools , http://www.linuxlinks.com/Java/Multimedia/Tools/ Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos, video highlights and more. Click here http://cricket.yahoo.com __

Re: [Ilugc] wanna being with lxde

2009-09-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/13/2009 07:11 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, NavTux wrote: >> how to remove my gnome to work with lxde only? >> is it possible to remove my gnome? > > On "ubuntu" this is not easy to do. Many "standard" system services are > tied to gnome. So the basic "ub

Re: [Ilugc] wanna being with lxde

2009-09-12 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 09/13/2009 07:11 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > On "ubuntu" this is not easy to do. Many "standard" system services are > > tied to gnome. So the basic "ubuntu-desktop" pseudo-package depends > > on a number of gnome/gtk packages. > > So

Re: [Ilugc] total failure to find a netbook with linux

2009-09-12 Thread Arun SAG
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > >I give up - probably will have to pay for doze. (or dos) > Take a look at http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-12?c=in&l=en&s=dhs&cs=indhs1 -- A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes use