Re: [Ilugc] Pen Tablets

2008-05-03 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Shankar Ganesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just curious, why would you need one? > -- > SHANKAR GANESH The mouse is really uncomfortable for making strokes and lines. I am quite good as an artist with the paint brush and a pen. The closest I can get to it for

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Openmoko FreeRunner sales in India

2008-05-05 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
Wow. A terminal with SSH facility... Now that is what I call a Geek's Mobile! Looks great too. But... I doubt if mom will get it for me :( ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://w

Re: [Ilugc] ext4 file system - a nice aritcle

2008-05-06 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Raman.P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nice article about ext4 file system is here. > > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-ext4/?ca=dgr-lnxw01LinuxFSext4&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR > > Sometime back there was a discussion about 32000 subdirectory limit

Re: [Ilugc] RE: requirement for Open Source Web Designer, Web Developer in "open web group"

2008-05-20 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 19 May 2008, Ravi Jaya wrote: > > > The objective of "open web group " is develop mission critical > > applications like web interface for controlling satellites, > > Interface for controlling Nuclear Reactors. Contr

Re: [Ilugc] re: fedora Core 5 installation media

2008-05-24 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Ravi Jaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Members, > > > I am in need of fedora core 5 Installation media. Please could any help me > in this. > > Why would you need fedora 5 when fedora 9 is out? -- Be yourself everyday, every way

Re: [Ilugc] RE: requirement for Open Source Web Designer, Web Developer in "open web group"

2008-05-24 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
A framework is essential I agree. But it will be better if we actually decide a project. A framework is like the silhouette.. The project breathes life into it! ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of t

Re: [Ilugc] Call for Developers - Chennailug.org

2008-05-24 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Ravi Jaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:40 PM, balachandar muruganantham < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > thanks rohan that you pointed out about the chennailug.org spamming. we > > have > > revamped the our website che

Re: [Ilugc] re: fedora Core 5 installation media

2008-05-24 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Ravi Jaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > :) > Please let me know if u could help in this !!!, other don't raise this sort > of questions my friend. Am sorry! ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

Re: [Ilugc] Mammoth RAMs

2008-05-27 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the topic of "mammoth rams", circa 2003 SGI came out with a system, > which in full config had 384GB RAM. > When you have such huge RAMS, will the cache transfers be efficient since a single miss will mean searching the

Re: [Ilugc] Pledge to download Firefox 3 on the release date and help Firefox to set worldrecord

2008-05-29 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Senthil Murugan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > Please spend half a minute and pledge to download Firefox 3 on the release > date http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ > > Though we know that Firefox will get more downloads on the release date,

Re: [Ilugc] Audio player with lyrics display

2008-06-01 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Deepak Pandian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > I have problems deciphering the lyrics while the song is on. Can you > suggest me a audio player which will display the lyrics while the song > is played. > > Thanks > Deepak > I remember Rhythmbox had a lyri

[Ilugc] Google vs Yahoo, again!

2008-06-11 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
I am kinda confused by the recent posts in this list. One post actually proclaimed that Google could turn Gmail commercial and force you to pay for it. There was even recommendation to turn to yahoo. (If that was sarcasm, I missed it completely). I have been under the impression for years that Goog

Re: [Ilugc] Google vs Yahoo, again!

2008-06-11 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Akarsh Simha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's no rumour that GMail is going to turn into a paid service. I > only foresee such a possibility, but with miniscule probability. The > suspiscion lies in the fact that they call it "GMail Beta". Beta > versions are

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

2008-06-20 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
I have an alias in my .bashrc ... alias rm = "mv -t ~/.Trash/" Of Course, you have to remember a different set of options.. eg. -rf wont work... It moves directories implicitly.. And yeah.. When you feel the size has exceeded a certain limit, you can delete it with /usr/bin/rm -r ~/.Trash/* ___

[Ilugc] [OT] Judges Required

2008-06-27 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
I am studying in Meenakshi Sundararajan Engg. College in Kodambakkam, Chennai. The final year students are organising a bunch of events called Enrichment Enhancement Empowerment for the Second, Third and Final Year students to get them industry ready. There will be events like Paper and Project Pre

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees

2008-06-29 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
Kumar Appiah who is the latest Deb Developer from Chennai is also a EEE. Most legends of the day were EEE grads too. CS and IT are relatively new. It takes passion. Nothing more, nothing less -- Be yourself everyday, every way ___ To unsubscribe, email

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

2008-07-02 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Bharathi Subramanian < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One Day One GNU/Linux Command > = > > wall -- Send a message to everybody's terminal. > > Summary : > > Wall sends a message to everybody logged. The length of the message is > limited to

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-02 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On 7/3/08, benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > the article quotes this guy's theory "On the Web, If You're Not > Growing, You're Dying" > > http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/on-web-if-youre-not-growing-youre-dying.html One linux distribution which is not even in the top 96 of the distro

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-03 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On 7/3/08, Aditya M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Ashok Gautham J. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/3/08, benjamin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Also Red Hat and Fedora are well established. IIT uses RHEL, Fed

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-03 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Masatran, R. Deepak < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IIT appears to be moving towards Debian...The DCF of my department > (computer > science) shifted all desktops from Suse to Debian Etch recently. My lab > (RISE) shifted all desktops from RHEL/Fedora to Debian Lenn

Re: [Ilugc] linux script

2008-07-07 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:06 PM, SUNDAR V.A. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > which book is best for shell script from the basic . > I suggest you try http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "uns

[Ilugc] Ruby

2008-07-18 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
I dont intend a flame. I prefer Ruby's way over Py's way. But it looks like though Ruby was surging forward near 2007, there are many projects in rubyforge et al. that are outdated. Half the bindings seem half done. Some are inexistent. Though I absolutely love the "Ruby Way", is it finally gonna b

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

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora RPM Packaging 101: July 28th 2008

2008-07-23 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Rahul Sundaram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > We are going to host a *public* IRC session in #fedora-india, freenode > coming Monday at 3:00 PM and do a quick walk through on the basics of > RPM packaging in Fedora. More details at > :D Great.. Come

Re: [Ilugc] Women in Free Software Community

2008-08-02 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
Debian Women is one of stand out example. Apart from that, I feel that girls normally prefer not being at the computer. However I feel that girls are equally good at grasping stuff. I was teaching the basics of bash to my classmates. The girls were actually able to write more working code than boy

Re: [Ilugc] Version control for begineers.

2008-08-02 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
can I mention darcs? ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Green Screen While Playing Videos

2008-08-07 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
I have changed the subject because this post was directed with the subject mailing list On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:52 PM, umamagesh sadhasivam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > i have all the players like vlc, totem, movie player > > the codecs i have is > GStreamer extra plugins > GStreamer ffmpeg video

Re: [Ilugc] magesh has a video problem

2008-08-08 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:45 PM, umamagesh sadhasivam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Ashok Gautham J > > > i said as you said to try the mplayer -vo xv and all in the terminal > it only shows the list of available video drivers i dont know how to > proceed > from there >

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora or Red Hat

2008-08-14 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:00 PM, umamagesh sadhasivam <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > Thankyou for your advice > > i have one more question friend... > if i have all the fedora packages can i install those in the RHL > I suppose most rhel rpms will be compatible with fedora. But if you are running a

Re: [Ilugc] how to start with a new linux distro

2008-08-14 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
If you are planning to have YALD (Yet Another Linux Distro), please consider contributing to one of the existing instead. If you have a great idea coming up, there was a discussion here about a community driven distro some time back, let us see if we can revive that. Lastly, if you want the learnin

Re: [Ilugc] Please Help Me ... Its urgent

2008-08-14 Thread Ashok Gautham J.
This was an old solution I posted on this mailing list.. Warning... I used it when fedora 3 and ubuntu 5.04 wree shiny! I have myself found out the solution create a wvdial.conf file in /etc using nano or vi with sudo then copy the following to the file [Dialer Defaults] Modem = /dev/ttyS0 Baud