[Ilugc] Hindustan Linux

Hello All! I was previously on this list from the mail ID [EMAIL PROTECTED] I had a huge backlog of mails to be read. Also, I needed that ID for my resume and stuff like that. So I just archived all my mail and jumped to this new ID. I saw a poster at my college(Meenakshi Sundararajan Engg Colleg

[Ilugc] FAT patents

Recently Microsoft won the case over patents for FAT http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-fat-patents-declared-valid-trouble-for-linux/ Well. Now what? Should we start using some other file system on our pen drives. If so, how do we communicate with Windows machines? Also is doing

Re: [Ilugc] FAT patents

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Atanu Datta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, October 8, 2008 10:40 am, Ashok Gautham said: > > Recently Microsoft won the case over patents for FAT > > > http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/microsoft-fat-patents-declared

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

On 10/10/08, varadarajan narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi ! > > I have seen posts about ISP not supporting Linux. > Is this true ? Can we make a list of ISP who support Linux ? > Or list of ISP where Linux does not work or supported / AFAIK, Airtel supports GNU/Linux __

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

I would any day go in for an Airtel connection. I personally love their unlimited at 256kbps plan. I was one of the few who upgraded in a window where they actually gave their 128 kbps plan at 256kbps for the same rate. (~Rs. 800 including modem and taxes). I think there might be a similar plan op

Re: [Ilugc] Why gmail account gets more spam that any other account?

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Sri Ramadoss M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi, > > Why gmail account comparatively gets more spam and they too getting > perfectly caught and put into the spam section compared to any other > e-mail service provider? > > -- The reason can be that you are using you

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Compiling Problem...

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: rawhide09 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:55 AM > Subject: Compiling Problem... > > > > hi , > I download *.tar.gz of every package for my fedora9 box. > I do use

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

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Bharathi Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One Day One GNU/Linux Command > = > > tar -- Create/Add/Extract Tape ARchives files. > A worthy addition is tar -xjvf file.tar.bz2 This is used for extracting bziped tarred files ___

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: A very Hilarious email conversation

ROTFL! I just wish he went to the FBI... [Tamil] Vada Pochae! [/Tamil] :P --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listin

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Clarification on Distros

What is UNIX? SCO's UNIXWare? :P UNIX is not a single OS is it? SCO might certify even Vista as a UNIX. Just pay them some green ;) and bend some rules to get the UNIX 2008 specification. Anyway, GNU/Linux IMHO is as good if not better than any "UNIX". Plan9 is a different story. But like the tu

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Clarification on Distros

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Open Kernel Labs: > http://www.ok-labs.com/ > > Market solutions: > http://www.ok-labs.com/markets/market-solutions > > SK Thanks for that Shakthi. I am following the l4 mailing list too. I am trying to find time

Re: [Ilugc] a good editor

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > a nice editor - fast and cool - geany. Rocks bigtime. > -- > regards > KG This came in at just about the right time. I was getting sick of all the failed jedit plugin installs. Thanks, Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gau

Re: [Ilugc] SuperTUX Help

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:06 PM, Wasim Akram S.N. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe , LUGies will not interpret this negatively. > For supertux2, the following directory holds the status of each level > (whether completed or not) Hehe.. Cheat Code! Well.. Is there a way of getting my stupi

Re: [Ilugc] Help on SugarCRM

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2008 03:16:47 pm Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> > it is not opensource - tell him to go for something else >> >> http://www.sugarforge.org/content/open-source/. It is under GPLv3. > > yes - a bogus open s

Re: [Ilugc] Video editors

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Deepak Pandian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Dear Luggies, > > I want to make some clips from lengthy ones and I will also be adding audio > to it. When I have just looked for options there were plenty like > cinelerra,avidmux ... > > Can you suggest a basic video ed

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

Which package is adjtimex available in? It does not come along with my ArchLinux --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman

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

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Ashok Gautham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Which package is adjtimex available in? It does not come along with my > > Arch

Re: [Ilugc] Scientific REsearch Areas using free Softwares

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Mohan L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well a flat answer "computer science is required EVERYWHERE" > > but i promising scope will be in bioinfomatics , core physics, medical > > and pharma > > > > Hi, > physics: please visit: http://www.physics-live.org/i

Re: [Ilugc] hi

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:17 PM, kesavan tm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In my company there is no firewall. > the folders are transfered but files are not transfered > > Do they transfer when you use some other application? If not, then the problem is at the end of the site you are transferring t

Re: Re: [Ilugc] Scientific REsearch Areas using free Softwares

On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:41 PM, swamynathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > We are a unique civilization, we should not look for validation methods > > devised by the West. > > > > > word !! Yeah agreed, we are unique. But I will not accept vaasthu or astrology as scientific. A scientific

Re: [Ilugc] Mukta software and the scientific method (Was Re: Scientific REsearch ...)

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > he is asking for proof that 'astrology is very similar to proprietary > software > in its dependence on similar validation techniques' Proof by counter-example: There are hundreds of cases where "Vaasthu" did not wo

Re: [Ilugc] RE: gftp installation in ubuntu

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:06 AM, kesavan tm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have already download & install in my ubuntu > but > how to connect to http& how to configurre the ftp? > > What type of net connection do you use? ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMA

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Ubuntu extra packages

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:02 PM, mohan34u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Medibuntu repo is crucial for multimedia. Here is a link to add > medibuntu repository, > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu > > then install non-free-codecs package, > > $ sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs > > T

Re: [Ilugc] Reply :How to configure Samsung ML-2240 Solution

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Ramkumarr 27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Hi Friends. This is ramkumar.Ten days back i query abt how to configure > Samsung ML 2240 Printer in Ubuntu. > Now I got answer .Very Simple.Just Connect Samsung ML 2240 printer in USB > port.Go to Printer configu

Re: [Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 53, Issue 84

Where is the message? Please do not top post! --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Reg:: Yelp Yelp !! with KDE 3.5 on Intrepid

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Swati Longia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Hi All > > > All excited with the release of ubuntu 8.10 I installed it the next day it > was released. And since then I have been > trying to install KDE3.5 on it. And I am going nowhere, I have googled and > googled with n

Re: [Ilugc] mail configuration

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:54 PM, veera dv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all > > i used redhat 5, please can u tell me how to configure mail ( like outlook > express - windows) explain me step by step. > Well, As others said, you can do some groundwork. But yeah, let me get to the answer. I see

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial -- well, not really] An Invitation to tuxcompatible.com

Good idea! On 11/12/08, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Being involved with linux now for a long time, I have always researched the > level of linux compatibility before buying any new hardware. I recently > needed to buy a cheap wireless USB adapter (cheap because, i think i'd > probab

Re: [Ilugc] BOSS leaves me and any layman in chaos

On 11/14/08, Ashok Gautham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Red hat 9.0? That is old too. Try debian lenny or Fedora 10 Fedora 10 is coming out in 10 days. So it is worth the wait. Downloading a recent fedora 9 respin from fedora unity will also be good for the impatient -- Ashok `Sc

Re: [Ilugc] BOSS leaves me and any layman in chaos

On 11/12/08, Selvakumar Rajeswaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To be honest I have not got a single chance to successfully use BOSS till > now. Iam much worried how a layman can do it. > > One happy news is Iam already running Red Hat 9.0 in my above said laptop. > Red hat 9.0? That is old too.

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The organisers called up Kochi police and man handled the Anivar > Aravind a former student of the Cochin University and a well known > free software activist. I have been saying NONO to Mono projects for ages now :

[Ilugc] Serialization Format

Prologue: * I am hacking together an application. I need to store a list of some files in one program. * Another program must read this list and perform some actions. * The files can be of three different categories. I use separate lists while computing these. I need to recover th

Re: [Ilugc] Serialization Format

Well.. Ok. I will try XML for it. Thanks all @Girish: I did not mean File IO. The program must just be able to read a list of files into it. This will be a configuration file that helps it decide which file to keep, delete or add. The files by themselves will be available in a tarball. It is a sem

Re: [Ilugc] problem using HP printer in Ubuntu 7.10

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:03 AM, சுதன் | suthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i am using a HP LaserJet 1020 printer with my UBuntu Desktop system. > I have installed the HPLIP package. the printer gets automatically > detected with its identity and everything goes fine untill that. but > if i giv

Re: [Ilugc] upgrading Mandriva 2009

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Mehul Ved <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably you could give some distro with rolling release a try? > Yeah Right.. Somehow rolling releases always feel best for a personal desktop. I dont need all those debian security patches and it somehow gives me a happy fe

Re: [Ilugc] Forget about MS , work towards a better GNU/Linux( was [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at National Conference on Free Software 2008)

I am not trying my hand at policing. But it is good netiqutte to not use the enter key as a punctuation marker in IRC chats eg: Good: : I need help to get my etherent card configured, Fedora 9, Realtek 8139. Bad : I need help : Need to get my card configured : Fedora 9 : Realtek : 8139 chipset

Re: [Ilugc] upgrading Mandriva 2009

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:43 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > there are two types of people - those that use computers to do something > they > consider useful, and those that just use computers - for the second type, > the > concept of time does not exist. I dont agree that tha

Re: [Ilugc] upgrading Mandriva 2009

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I am talking about the guys who spend their time installing new distros - > 50 > distros in one machine > > I take back my word. :) I used to max at 5 distros during my 2nd year of Linux. I knew more than I did before

Re: [Ilugc] how to toggle between shell prompt and GUI desktop in Ubuntu?

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 4:30 PM, S.Mahalingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Could anyone suggest the shortcut key by which one can toggle between shell > prompt(CLI) and GUI Desktop in Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS Server Edition? > I am not sure if this will help. But here goes. Use tilda. It is very

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: How to become a Hacker in "Three Days" - HackSprints at Hackerdom ' 09

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Hackerdom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Hackerdom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:06 AM > Subject: Fwd: How to become a Hacker in "Three Days" - HackSprints at I couldnt resist letting my mind think

[Ilugc] CD distribution at College Event

The EEE department of MSEC, Kodambakkam, Chennai have a sympo coming up in Feb. Say the first or second week. There is an idea of distributing GNU/Linux Live CDs to the participants. They expect around 500 participants. Now, is it possible to obtain such a bulk order. I noticed that we can get bul

Re: [Ilugc] CD distribution at College Event

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:15 AM, Gowthaman Basuvaraj wrote: > > > > > After our first bad experience with free as in bear, > > > agreed... let them buy CDs (make sure they can) , and burn it for them > Gowthaman > I have spoken to them about it. It is in their hands now. Thanks :D --- Ashok `Scr

Re: [Ilugc] INTERNET EXPLORER IN UBUNTU

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008, kesavan tm wrote: > How to install internet explorer in ubuntu 7.10 & 8.04? > Pls help me > pls briefly explain to me > > Unless the html code is really bad (read non-standard), I do not see why firefox cannot render it. In that case, please write to the company or if it is

Re: [Ilugc] Dec Month ILUGC Meet

I am intrigued as to why the LUG meet is on Saturdays. I have college on all Saturdays and so find it impossible to come to the LUG meets. (I mean it. EVERY saturday. We even have a regular 7 hour timetable for that day!) Unless there is a specific reason, can I take the privelege of requesting th

Re: [Ilugc] vfat partition auto mounting in ubuntu 8.10

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:39 PM, பத்மநாதன் wrote: > Dear experts, > I am using Mandriva 2009 and Ubuntu 8.10 in my PC. I > created single vfat partition to use files between both OS. > Just asking. But if both are GNU/Linux distributions, why do you use vfat? --- Ashok `Sc

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest a Wireless Internet Provider for Laptop

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Hi, > > Had an enquiry in BSNL shop in anna nagar. > They told that EVDO device is still not available in chennai. > It may be available after January 2009. > > Have to ask in BSNL Office. > > Will ask on monday and tell the status. > Err.. Ca

Re: [Ilugc] Dec Month ILUGC Meet

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sunday 14 Dec 2008 1:44:05 pm benedict nicholas wrote: > > Todays self financing colleges are run like schools. Keep students > occupied > > all 7 hours. No choice to bunk any period in between as some of us used > to > > do. > > just

Re: [Ilugc] Resolution problem with Arch Linux and Xfce

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > > After a lot of speculation, i went for Xfce.. As i had used it before > (in Xubuntu), i thought i'd feel comfortable.. > Dint work.. so i edited the second line of the .xinitrc file.. then > gave 'startxfce4' at the prompt.. > It worked

Re: [Ilugc] Dec Month ILUGC Meet

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sunday 14 Dec 2008 2:37:00 pm Ashok Gautham wrote: > > I would miss out on a chance to bunk during critical times like my > > upcoming GATE in Feb > > GATE is for going to foreign? Then we do not need you. I

Re: [Ilugc] Dec Month ILUGC Meet

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Parthan SR wrote: > > For students communities there are few alternative solutions to this, > [1] Convince your college and get the Saturdays when LUG meets are there as half working days. Hmmm.. Am not too optimistic about this. [2] Convince your college and o

Re: [Ilugc] Quasar - Accounting Package

2008/12/16 varadarajan narayanan > 2008/12/16 ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M : > > இங்கே யாராச்சும் Quasar பயன்படுத்திப் பாரத்திருக்கீங்களா? > > > > http://www.linuxcanada.com/quasar.shtml > > Yes . It is not open source in true sense . But if you buy the > commercial license then you can see the

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

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Sivakumar Gopalan wrote: > > Is there a way to start a job in background in one > > terminal and bring it back to foreground in a different > > Terminal ? > > Use "dtach" or "detachtty". For more genera

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [Fsf-friends] Ogg album in the Month of Music

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 11:17 AM, swamynathan wrote: > hey we got a music band ! > ogg album sounds good ill ask my band mates and woek on that > www.wattabottles.com And I have a request. Please tune the website. Blinking text is a big eyesore. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham

Re: [Ilugc] IE flaws and switch to other browsers

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Ashish Verma wrote: > I don't know how that is happening. All I am doing is clicking on reply and > typing thats it. And thats what I have been doing earlier too. I am not > sure > why it is coming as top post. Even this message I clicked on reply and am > typing.

Re: [Ilugc] IE flaws and switch to other browsers

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008 9:58:16 pm varadarajan narayanan wrote: > > and someone wanted to install IE in Linux ! > > nobody *wants* to install IE on linux - any webdeveloper (apart from me) > has > to make sure that his site 'works' with IE

Re: [Ilugc] Learn Embedded Technology From Industry Experts

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Rajiv Batra wrote: > Dear All, > > visit http://www.e-nalanda.com to learn RTOS Fundamentals & Programming > using µCos, Embedded Linux, 32 Bit ARM Architecture & Programming, WinCE, > Linux Device Driver (LDD), Embedded C, Operating Systems Fundamentals > (using

Re: [Ilugc] is FOSS methodology structured ?

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran wrote: > > So now, the Q'n is does FOSS adhere to formal Engineering > practices ? Case Study: The Hungarian notation It is considered good etiquette by Microsoft programmers(They claim it eliminatesbugs caused by typing). But the

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

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 4:51 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:15 AM, Girish Venkatachalam > wrote: > > On 10:00:05 Dec 17, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > >> $ fg 2 -- Move the 2nd active job to foreground. > >> > > > > Shouldn't this be $ fg %2? > zsh has a slight advantage in th

Re: [Ilugc] whats the best audio recording hw to have

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:05 PM, Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) < sensu...@cisco.com> wrote: > hi, > > whats the best audio recoding hardware / software to have on gnu > linux...i intend to record songs of the slum computer children... > based on suggestions from ramadoss..how much does it cost..i i

[Ilugc] [OT] A future in quantum computing???

I have been wondering over a long course of time what I must specialize in during my MS (and possible PhD). I most certainly am not planning to work in a traditional IT company. I need a workplace that will be challenging and I most certainly dont mind a lil' risk. This news items provided one of

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] A future in quantum computing???

Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Ashok Gautham wrote: >> I have provided you with with one person to contact in each of the >> theoretical aspects Mathematics, Physics and CS in that order. I >> don't know who works on

Re: [Ilugc] Invitation to conduct python workshop to a python expert in a college

On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 12:16 PM, moham ilias wrote: > We are planning to conduct a workshop on python in our college (THE NEW > COLLEGE) this january can i expect any expert in python accepting our > invitation.pls respond me.. I am not an expert, but would like to attend the workshop. Is t

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] BSNL EVDO?

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 4:12 PM, Saura Ramachandran wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Venkatesh Nandakumar > wrote: > > > According to the website, Its a broadband connection, > > with 2.4Mbps, Unlimited data transfer, at Rs 250/month!.. I think its > > too good to be true. :) > It sounds

Re: [Ilugc] Progressbar on shell

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:03 PM, kish wrote: > rpm does it: > > http://fpaste.org/paste/237 > http://fpaste.org/paste/236 That seems to be very specific. I feel progress or some general purpose library is better suited. Of course. Every distro's CLI installer will have some notion of a progress

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] need of libraries for exploring websites (Python/PERL)

On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:34 PM, kish wrote: > hi > > I wish to download a bunch of files from a site which allows directory > listing > with links like > > http://38.106.111.111/folder/sub%20folder/sub%20folderl%201/ > zYWIxNDQ2ODliZDhhMTc4NzRjMGQwMzY/ > file%201.zip

Re: [Ilugc] how to play .avi and .rm files

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:24 PM, swamynathan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 12:25 PM, moham ilias wrote: > > > Thanks a lot im able to play audio files but how to play .avi and .rm > > files i tried mplayer and vlc with which i can here the audio but > > instead of the video i get different sha

Re: [Ilugc] Making 32-bit Linux Operating Systems recognize more than 4GB RAM..

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > Hi, > > I just solved this really irritating problem on my Laptop with fedora > 10 installed. > The 'free -m' command displayed that only 3GB of RAM was being > recognized even though i had 4GB installed (which the BIOS confirmed) > I went

Re: [Ilugc] Would like to More about Gnome appl development

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 8:27 AM, narendra babu wrote: > Hi Lugies! > > I am interested to develop application using GTK+ , > Learn gtk+ first. If you prefer C++, try gtkmm. I personally find gtkmm very elegant. > please advice which is the best place to start for Gnome appl development. > Probabl

Re: [Ilugc] This is really funny

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Arun Kumar Khan wrote: > On Monday 19 Jan 2009, Arun SAG wrote: > > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver/compare/default.mspx > > This is why i hate M$ > > Agree, but the target audience for these studies are people who don't > bother to find out for thems

Re: [Ilugc] This is really funny

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Ashok Gautham > wrote: > > M$ blah, blah > > MS haters are just as annoying as Linux haters. > Linux fanboys are just as annoying as MS fanboys. > I do not hate Microsoft. I am

Re: [Ilugc] Make Anna University Syllabus Vendor Neutral

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:15 PM, G FS wrote: > Hi, > > Read this interesting post about Anna > University First of all, forget the software. We have a paper called "Visual Programming". The paper is brill

Re: [OT] Rudeness (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > why not? I personally am tired of people ditching FOSS and going back to > windoze because ubuntu barfs. > I have to disagree. I cannot think of a better distro than Ubuntu/Mint to give to some noob friend of mine. Fedora was on my list

Re: [OT] Rudeness (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:43 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Ashok Gautham wrote: > Fedora was on my list because of aesthetics. But it looks > >> like Fedora does >> not, unlike ubuntu, give you a 1 click way of adding mp3 codecs etc. >> > > More like Fedora is

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Wget behind proxy

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:31 PM, p. sriram wrote: > narendran krishnan writes: > > > I am trying to make wget work from behind a proxy. > > wget --proxy-user="myname" --proxy-passwd="passwd" > > http://www.iitm.ac.in/downloads/newsupdates/GJ%20&%20Research%20Park.ppt > > > > i face similar probl

Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Arun Kumar Khan wrote: > On Monday 26 Jan 2009, Sujith wrote: > > Wow, 30 seconds ? My Arch machine boots in about half of that. :) > > Are the above numbers from power ON to [GKX]DM login prompt? > > Both Venkatraman and Sujith, can you please share your hardwar

Re: [Ilugc] Reverse Debugging tool

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:37 AM, ini iniyan wrote: > Hi all, > Is there any tool in open source to support Reverse Debugging? > gdb's reversible debugging feature is put as a high priority project. But it appears to be dead. The page(http://sourceware.org/gdb/news/reversible.html) was l

Re: [Ilugc] Recording a sermon translation.

On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Muralidhar Kamidi wrote: > Hi luggies, > > I have several English sermons in MP3 format; each one approximately 3 > hours > long. I need to append Telugu translation at the end of each English > sentence for all of the sermons. This is the best solution I could thi

Re: [Ilugc] Recording a sermon translation.

On 2/1/09, Arun Kumar Khan wrote: > > On Saturday 31 Jan 2009, Ashok Gautham wrote: > > > > > > > I do not know about mp3s. But if you convert them to ogg files, you > > > can > > > > just concatenate > > both and the output is just another og

Re: [Ilugc] Recording a sermon translation.

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Krishna wrote: > > > > For the sake of freedom. > > Provided if the content has creative common license or something similar**. > ripping a newly released album and converting it to ogg doesnt mean the > real > freedom. I dint mean the OP's case just an example fo

Re: [Ilugc] orkut - Invitation to join from swamynator oyoyoy for life

Here we go again! ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Need CentOS 4.5 for DimDim setup

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > I want to test DimDim, a web conference tool. > > For this, it rewuires CentOS 4.5 > > Anybody has this DVD? > > I can get from Guindy, Anna Nagar, Mount Road. > or anywhere from chennai. > > Thanks. > I don't see how a web con

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Reminder: Please Respond to Balakrishnan's Invitation

Another possible option is to request the users to create a separate id for all their mailing lists and keep it for that alone. I have even seen on person have ids like this foo+a...@gmail.com foo+il...@gmail.com foo+perso...@gmail.com foo+for...@gmail.com etc --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham _

Re: [Ilugc] can anybody come to the meet

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:01 PM, moham ilias wrote: > Hi , > I am interested in Django .Can I come to the meet. The meet is open to anyone. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe "

[Ilugc] FOSS effort at MSEC

I am in my Prefinal year at Meenakshi Sundararajan Engineering College. Recently, I obtained the permission to install free Oses in 3 systems in my Lab. I am planning to go ahead with a Fedora 10. in 2 systems and possibly OpenSolaris 08-11 on 1. (I also gave Lenny, Scientific Linux and CentOS a th

Re: [Ilugc] feedback needed

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi > what happens when you click on 'play' in this: > > http://arichuvadi.nrcfosshelpline.in/web/displaylesson/1/21/ > > doesnt work in fff3/fedora10 Doesnt change on mouse-over. But it does play the audio on clicking. Fedora 10. Firefo

Re: [Ilugc] feedback needed

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > how does it work? sound plays from the web page or does mplayer load and > play > the sound? Sound plays from the webpage. But it looks like I have a new problem. All sounds start up all at once! Cacophony! --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gaut

Re: [Ilugc] Problem playing video in Fedora 10 and Debian Lenny

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Sivaram Kannan wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed Flash plugin in my systems Fedora 10 and Debian Lenny. > Whenever I try to play a video in my browser(Firefox), my system seems > to be rebooting without any indication. I am not sure how to find any > information af

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > RMS released the booklet describing the all the wonderful 'foss' projects > of > the government of Kerala. The booklet was financed by FSFI. It describes 5 > or 6 > 'foss' projects of govt of kerala - no links to the code. I am sure that i

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

Mr. Kenneth, I would appreciate it if you called it Microsoft Windows and not MicroShaft or Microshit WINDOZE or WINBLOWS I am a F/OSS enthusiast. But I most certainly prefer referring to products by their right name. After all, Micorsoft is not Lord Voldemort (Pardon the old love for Harry Potter

Re: [Ilugc] Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > What's the last slide about? Is that the halwa? :-) That is Thank You in Ascii (Hex representation) Great work Shakti! ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Krishna wrote: > On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Ashok Gautham >wrote: > > > Mr. Kenneth, I would appreciate it if you called it > > > > right name. After all, Micorsoft is not Lord Voldemort (Pardon the old > love > &g

Re: [Ilugc] Grub Booting Problem

Well.. You can try mapping hard disks. So it appears to Windows like it is on a primary! http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Grub#Dual_booting_with_Windows_on_another_hard_disk --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.i

Re: [Ilugc] Re:new user in quest of linux coding

> > I want to start linux from scratch ... You could have meant 1) The distro(or absence of it) Linux from Scratch which is what Mr Bharathi pointed you to. 2) The Linux kernel from scratch: For this, have a look at: - http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map to help you learn basic dependencies - htt

Re: [Ilugc] Re:new user in quest of linux coding

I had that on an old subdomain at hostrator. Their subdomains started to really suck. However links on shakti's site http://www.shakthimaan.com/ and on http://www.makelinux.net/resources are some of the links I am frequenting of late. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham

Re: [Ilugc] Yum Repos

Use the SIGs. Most common apps can be found on the official Fedora repos. rpmfusion can be used for non-free and at times, rarely used rpms... http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SIGs is used for special needs --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham Fedora Ambassador ___

Re: [Ilugc] sort

ls -Shrs -S Sort by size(descending) -r Reverse (makes it ascending) -h Human readable size (kb, mb) -s Print sizes too Of course. You could do it using awk too. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with

Re: [Ilugc] Installing KDE alone from a Fedora 10-kde-x86 Live CD

Bhargav, rpmunpack does exist as a package in AUR. That extracts rpms. But I would advise you not do do it. --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] unable to update kernel to latest version fedora9 using yum

With any release-oriented distro(Fedora/Ubuntu/(Debian?)...), there is feature freeze. AFAIK, 2.6.25 might be the final kernel release for Fedora 9. You cannot install any newer version unless you build the kernel yourself. Similarly 2.6.27 is the latest for F10. 2.6.28/29 may find its way into F11

Re: [Ilugc] Installing KDE alone from a Fedora 10-kde-x86 Live CD

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Balaji G wrote: > You could use the yum package manager to install new packages and fedora 10 > KDE has got kpackagekit which automatically gets updates for existing > packages installed. For more information on yum and packagekit you could > read through the yum

Re: [Ilugc] unable to update kernel to latest version fedora9 using yum

I found this. Probably Rahul would be able to explain this newkey repo better http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/updates/9/x86_64.newkey/ It seems to have kernel 2.6.27 --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ.

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