Hi all,
You can add the skype repository in Ubuntu:
System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Third party software
Click on 'Add'
in URI add 'http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/
Distribution: stable
components: non-free
This will ensure that you always get the latest updates to
I would recommend not to go for any cable at all. I have tried 2-3 cable
vendors and all of them suck big time. Hathway, Sify included.
In my experience - DSL is much more reliable. Airtel and BSNL are pretty good.
I have been using Airtel ADSL for more than 3 yrs in my office (10 employees)
an
Hi,
We have 2 Dell Vostro 1510 (bought a few weeks back) running Ubuntu. Everything
works out of the box except wifi for which I was too lazy to configure
ndiswrapper.
I have configured wifi with ndiswrapper in quite a few machines and it works
perfectly.
Based on your description "noapm, noap
Hi all,
As you know, we are a pure FLOSS firm based in Hyd. We are looking for a
competent Liferay developer. Min 2 yrs in J2EE and min 1yr in liferay.
Experience on Hibernate required. Please apply with detailed resume with
academic details too including % from 10th onwards.
Salary/perks will
Hi,
You will find the rpms at www.rpmfind.net
If you need to be up to date - install the latest from source but in most
cases, rpm should work fine.
kc
K. C. Ramakrishna
rKnowsys Technologies
www.rknowsys.com
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I am in a senior position in a IT firm. The posting was definitely nothing
related to this list. If this posting is valid, I don't see anything preventing
other training firms across India posting similar offers on this list. We will
have to create another list called '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
While
>Hi All,
>I need to set an environment variable. Following is what I did.
>TMPDIRECTORY=/usr/local/tmp_directory
I am not sure putting it in /etc/bashrc is a good idea. It might give rise to
security issues as well as if some other admin changes it, everything will get
affected.
I would recomm
Hi all,
I finally got round to writing down howtos for hosting on AWS. The tutorials
are released under FDL.
The latest tutorial is hosting with Ruby Enterprise Edition and Phusion
passenger. There is another link which is a tutorial for hosting with mongrel.
http://rknowsys-ror.blogspot.com/2
I am part of a FOSS based consultancy. We work only with FOSS technologies.
Even our development environments are Fedora and Ubuntu. We only have one
laptop with Windows (bundled when bought). We use that laptop for IE
compatibility.
We do have agreements where employees assign all copyright to
>PS. The study does not deal about data privacy which is against OSS
>fundamentals.
Data privacy is actually encouraged. RMS actually called the SaaS model flawed
(though I don't fully agree) as we are giving control of our data to 3rd party
service providers and hence implies that we do not
Hi Arulalan,
TCP/IP is the underlying architecture of the whole Internet. The power of these
protocols is surpassed only by their simplicity and elegance.
I have worked on various Internet protocols for Lucent and Conexant and I think
TCP/IP are the most elegant, simple and powerful protocols o
>> have an excellent understanding of the Internet, joy in life in addition to
>> high paying jobs waiting for you :-)
>>
> எல்லாம் சூப்பர்.. ஆனா இவ்ளோ தெரிஞ்சுகிட்டு கடைசியா சம்பளத்திக்குத் தான் வேலை
>பார்க்கணுமா? ம்ம்ம்...
Translation please!! I am from AP and can't read Tamil.
Thanks,
kc
K.
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Ravi Jaya
wrote:
> > Dear Luggies,
> >
> > I am interested to know form you, does any IT service company in
> > India who provides F/OSS Support for Enterprise, Education and
> > Domestic users in their
> > day to day operations. To migrate from Copyright softw
We definitely need more activity here. I don't know how many of you read this:
http://boycottnovell.com/2009/01/04/microsoft-edgi-secrets/
Recently we have volunteered to contribute to IT systems for Lok Satta Party.
We are trying to provide all solutions using FOSS technologies. We have
plans to
Apologies for changing the subject but I though this makes more sense.
On Friday 16 Jan 2009 12:00:55 pm K.C. Ramakrishna wrote:
>> Of course all software developed will be under GPL.
>why 'of course'? why not BSD license?
I understand the GPL well and am comfortable with it
Hi there,
If you are not particular on using OpenOffice, you can try 'pdfedit' available
on sourceforge. It works pretty well for me barring an occasional crash while
handling large documents - no data loss ever though.
If you are specifically interested in OO 3.0, ignore this.
Thanks,
kc
K.
Hi all,
We are working on a Liferay based project and require a full-time contractor
for 2-3 months.
Required:
At least 1.5 yrs experience in J2EE. Liferay exposure will be a big bonus.
Reasonably good acads expected. Preferably B.Tech, MCA.
May lead to permanent position if candidate is excel
Hi Mano,
I seemed to have missed your original email. We have a good xhtml/css person
in-house. He is currently involved with spread.kde.org
Please do get back to me if this is still open and we can figure out if we can
help you.
Thanks,
kc
K. C. Ramakrishna
www.rknowsys.com
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wrote:
> I wanna make my team interactions, coordinating day-to-day activities,
> scheduling etc. through web.
> Can anyone pls point me to some effective web service for this.
I think you are looking for basecamp - http://www.basecamphq.com/
Hi,
There are 2 solutions apart from iptables:
1. Hardware solution: Buy a hub (~ Rs. 600 for 8 port I think - dont remember
exactly but very cheap) and connect both machines to this. You will have to set
them to DHCP and they will get LAN IPs from hub. This way you can add more
machines and a
Please find correction below.
Hi,
There are 2 solutions apart from iptables:
1. Hardware solution: Buy a hub (~ Rs. 600 for 8 port I think - dont remember
exactly but very cheap) and connect both machines to this. You will have to set
them to DHCP and they will get LAN IPs from hub. This
Hi all,
I was planning to get my firm registered with the STPI and noticed a very
curious pattern.
Most downloads from STPI are in MS formats (doc, xls...)-
http://www.hyd.stpi.in/downloads/download.html
Also STPI is asking exclusively for power-point presentations.
I was wondering if there i
We are looking for Liferay and Alfresco developers - either full time or
contract basis.
At least 1 year of experience in Liferay/Alfresco.
Employee will have to relocate to Hyderabad. We can be flexible on location of
Contract developers.
Compensation will be above industry average.
Regard
Hi all,
I recently installed ubuntu 9.04 and reformatted my hard drive. I had taken a
backup before I attempted this but the restore failed after the installation.
I had re-allocated partitions of my harddrive and know for a fact that the
previous sectors were not overwritten. In fact with a co
> Please try http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
> and post the details.
Thank you. I did download Testdisk but was not sure whether I should use it. I
did use it after you recommended it and it worked like a charm. Its absolutely
fantastic. It showed me all previously deleted partitions, th
Hi all,
I have successfully recovered quite a bit of data using testdisk. There is one
important folder that I am not able to recover. I can see the folder but when I
try to navigate into it, it is saying that the file system may have an issue.
The folder contains images and a DB backup. I thin
Updates:
While trying to recover, I had another idea, if you remember, I theorised that
"Simple backup and restore" created a directory in /media.
Following up on that theory, I used testdisk to go to /media/KC in the old
partition of my laptop harddisk and lo behold, the directory did exist and
I searched to see if I have any old acl lists but couldn't find them. I did
this a long time back but remember enough to give you a start.
For the actual syntax, there are a *lot* of articles on the net.
1. You will have to define groups of computers(IP addresses) or users(people).
1.1 Lets look
Hi all,
We have released a Free application on rubyforge quite sometime back.
In addition to the source code, we are planning to host it for free for the
Free Software Community.
The tool is basically a filtering mechanism of community ideas based on 'widsom
of the crowds'.
1. Any registered u
Hi all,
I have been searching for a domain name for a new service we were planning to
launch. I shortlisted a few good ones which were available and went back to
register them the next week. To my surprise, I found them not available. These
are not common names - they are very specific to a ni
One of our clients is trying to implement Single-Sign-On (considering OpenSSO)
for Liferay for a mildly complex scenario.
We need to talk to somebody good with LDAP/OpenDS on Linux/Unix. We need to
discuss on which is the best approach with somebody who has worked with
single-sign-on in large
Hi all,
Has anybody used wireless broadband services in India? I was looking to
subscribe to one but not sure which one to buy. Google hasn't really helped.
I (and many people I know) have had very bad experiences with Tata Indicom in
general (telecom as well as internet/broadband, billing etc
Hi all,
1. Is there a good web conferencing tool for conferencing between Linux and
Windows? Our clients use gotomeeting or gomeetnow. Both of these force us to
use Windows (XP) on our laptops.
Is there any way that we can use Ubuntu (our default desktop OS) for web
conferencing?
I heard abo
I need some help in configuring certificates and https
Here is the scenario:
1. Application is Liferay (running in tomcat without Apache) which also has Web
Services.
2. There are clients (.NET, ruby..) which access these services after logging
is as a special user.
3. Currently both authentic
You can even suggest an MS Outlook alternative. The latest KDE email client
runs on QT4 and hence on windows.
Whichever solution you choose, try and do this the incremental way.
- migrate them slowly - first only 10% of users, then 15%(of total users),
then 25%, 25%, 25%. This will mitigate th
Redmine with plugins
http://www.redmine.org/
http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/Plugins
We use it commercially in our firm:
http://rknowsys.com/projmgmt/
We liked it so much that we have donated cash and also are in the process of
writing a couple of plugins - for backup and a couple of other
Hi all,
I am actually in Hyderabad but am also a member in this list due to the
activity and quality.
Recently there was an email regarding a petition to get the Supreme Court to
choose FOSS over Apple.
http://www.swecha.org/wiki/index.php?title=Petition
Can a LUG be considered a suitable foru
Hi all,
This is my first time ever that I am configuring a cert. I have read various
tutorials but am unable to figure out which variables are associated to which
files.
Some contextual explanation of each file will also help.
I have these files from Thawte. Which variables should I associate
Hi all,
We are trying to look into monitoring servers in Beta and Prod environments.
The stack:
a. 2(more in future) Front End apache httpd/tomcat/Liferay Servers
b. Independent CAS-SSO and SOLR servers.
c. standalone server running webservices (written in Java)
d. 2MySQL (Percona) servers 1 WRIT
Hi all,
Slightly off topic depending on how we perceive this.
Posting this here as I assume most Free Software people will be opposed to
surveillance as a matter of principle. I am sure most people on this forum are
familiar with Dr. Stallman's views on surveillance, facebook and mobile phones.
Geeky FOSS company is looking for the following skills on priority. Opportunity
to be associated with a HOT startup.
We are seeking a university educated, highly motivated Linux admins. (Minimum
of 3 yrs experience. Max of 8 yrs.)
Good experience on tomcat is mandatory. Some experience with Amaz
Hi all,
We have an enquiry for building a custom distro based on Ubuntu. We are looking
for python and C skills for the work.
We are looking for open to full-time or contract basis but will confirm based
on signing on the project.
Please do send me an email if you have the skills and are willi
This is going to be so much fun !!!
1. The comparison itself is not really fair. php and Java are languages while
RoR is a language+framework combo. The correct comparison will be php vs. Java
vs. Ruby. My order of preference here is 1st Ruby, then Java and then php.
2. php and Java have MVC f
Hi all,
I am planning to get a Digital Cert and was going through the TCS site -
http://www.tcs-ca.tcs.co.in/index.jsp
The problem is that they insist on WinXP and IE. Is there any place where I can
complete this process using Firefox/Linux (Ubuntu)?
Thanks,
kc
--
K. C. Ramakrishna
www.rknowsy
--- From Arun
> To the best of my knowledge, the Indian tax authorities accept
> personal Dig. Certs. only from selected CAs.
--- From Suresh (ilughyd)
> Of course nic.in provides it only for govt agencies, IDRBT for banks, but
> you can try ncode, safescrypt, e-mudhra etc. TCS is rather expensiv
> I have tried overwriting the exe files using the dd command (find -name *\
> .exe ./ -exec dd -if=/dev/zero or some text file of={} bs=512 count=some
> count enough to override the file size \;) to get rid of whatever code is >
> in the virus.
Now this is an interesting problem. It does not see
> Seems like if you want to do software business in united states, you
> have to commit the sin.
We are a free software consulting firm. I am a paying member of the FSF. I
subscribe to the patent related views of FSF. I also subscribe to the
'pragmatic idealism' view point.
Morality and Legali
Hi all,
We have been using svn for a long time now but want to improve our usage in
terms of config mgmt. and release mgmt.
Do any of you manage a production svn server for a product co? I want to
explore usage of svn in different release/production scenarios.
Basically I want to explore "Best
> The OP is querying specific brand/model that are *known* to work from
> Linux user experience.
I recently did quite some research and ended up buying samsung CLP 300 series -
specifically Samsung CLP 315. This is a pure printer i.e. no
scanning/fax/telephone.
Most Samsung devices have Linux d
Hi all,
I wanted to maintain accounts of our small FOSS firm. Currently the accounts
are being maintained by an external accountant in Tally.
I want to start maintaining them in-house (hopefully myself) and in my research
I found Kalculate as a promising alternative. But looks like you are bett
Hi all,
Am posting this on both ilugc and ilughyd.
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> 2a. Re: Kalculate, Tally, GNUCash
> http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/avsapdjango
>
1. Gave up on Kalculate - no response from the co. and no community edition
either. Will str
We too are making quite a healthy living with Free software. There are a lot of
cos. who do so too.
You can charge USD/hr kind of rates even for Indian clients and most of them
end up with solutions which are lesser than 50% of MS/Proprietary solutions.
Most small IT service companies make tons
Hi all,
I am trying to set up a svn with access via https.
System is some Ubuntu system. I have ssh/root access and am unfamiliar with
Ubuntu servers. I have better experience with Redhat and hence you might have
to tell me how to find out info.
I need to have a svn server which I can access a
Hi all,
We are looking for a senior Java expert for short assignment. He/She can work
from anywhere. They need to be pretty good.
Preferably someone with > 7 yrs experience for a short assignment for code
review and writing high performance web services.
Good compensation.
Thanks,
kc
K. C. Ra
I am usually just a lurker but I HAD to reply to this.
1. For ANY business, cash flow is the critical. Be stingy while spending. You
could rent comps rather than buy. You need not have a fancy office in the
beginning. Always have cash equivalent to 2-3 months of expenses in the bank.
2. Get go
Hi all,
One word of caution. I would recommend people sticking to facts rather than
anecdotes. The golden image of college dropouts starting successful companies
if the exception and not the rule.
For every successful college dropout, there will be 200 failures. Do not
compare yourselves to B
Hi all,
We are looking for help us with the requirements mentioned below.
We are open to dealing with multiple vendors or individuals for specific areas.
We are open to any of contracting to organisations or independent contractors.
We are open to hiring the right individual(s) full time too. We
We run a *very* restricted website where people register with their email ids.
We need to send confirmatory emails when they register.
We were using google-apps till now but traffic has increased and we are looking
for a reliable email provider to send approx ~ 100 emails per day and
occasiona
>
> > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian
>
> > If you want outbound relay solely for your
> registration emails there are
> > sites like smtp.com and authsmtp.com that you might
> look at.
>
> Thanks for the ref. I registered with smtp.com
> They sent me something called SPF record -
> SPF reco
Hi all,
Important: This can easily become a flame war - request all to please avoid
making this personal and keep this limited to the distros instead of the distro
users. (Hate the sin not the sinner.) :-)
Am setting up a new public server. This will have our default website as well
as all too
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