Re: [Ilugc] USB Port Disable

2009-07-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:57 PM, prabakaran wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, kesavan (K7) wrote: > >> 1)disable the usb ports except keyboard and mouse There is a registry entry concerning USB storage HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\UsbStor\Start to 4 (Disable) Re

Re: [Ilugc] Postgres 8.1 connectivity on RHEL 5.3

2009-07-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:50 PM, baskar wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 07:58 -0700, lat...@au-kbc.org wrote: Following applies if you are not able to connect from outside the box in which PostgreSQL is installed. PostgreSQL by default disable listening to the network. You need to make

[Ilugc] Re: Centos 5.2 64 install media required

2009-07-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings Gentle reminder I am located in Chennai and I need 64 bit Centos 5.2 (_not_ 5.3) installation CDs/DVD. If somebody has image, I can arrange to send the media. Can somebody point to any sources in Chennai please Thanks and regards Rajagopal

[Ilugc] CentOS 5.3 CD/DVD?

2009-07-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Would you by any chance have 64 bit Centos 5.2 cd/dvd I would be grateful if you can give me your phone number. I am not able to get through advertised number *65694720 *in http://linuxbaskar.googlepages.com/ Thanks and Regards Rajagopal _

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:03 PM, balachandar muruganantham wrote: > Hi, > > > Please tell us what you are expecting in our site? > A Shared Calender where community members can offer their time for helping out other users Announcement of various conferences lectures (vendor driven or

Re: [Ilugc] Need Help To Learn FOSS

2009-07-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 9:48 AM, kish wrote: >> You are grossly under estimating your own potential. In the present internet >> era, You don't need a big foss organisation to learn/develop foss. What you >> need is a community in your college, > >> Apart from promition of FOSS, please

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Centos 5.2 64 install media required

2009-07-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > wrote: >> I need 64 bit Centos 5.2 (_not_ 5.3) installation CDs/DVD. > > IITM has a CentOS mirror: >    http://ftp.iitm.ac.in/centos/5.2/isos/x86_64/ > I

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Prem Kurian > Philip wrote: > --- > | And at the end of the day you will have a website which does not even > | support searches? > \-- or apache Lucene/Solr. I have used it within apps

[Ilugc] Looking for an opening

2009-07-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Dear friends, I have around 5 years experience including RHCS HA Cluser, LTSP etc. I have overall 25 years exp. in IT field I am looking for an job I will privately mail my cv to those who request Thanks and Regards Rajagopal ___ To unsubscribe, ema

Re: [Ilugc] Gyaan on Partitions

2009-07-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Friday 24 Jul 2009 4:02:14 pm Venkatraman S wrote: >> What i am looking for: >> - How partitions work (the technical angle and insights) >> - Understanding Partitions (user's perspective) >> - Effective partitioning techniques or method

Re: [Ilugc] AUTO Mounting particular partition by normal user on Fedora9

2009-07-30 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Ram Kumar.K wrote: > how i mount the ntfs drives in my fedora 9...As a normal user without asking > passwords ... not for all drives only some drives another only if i want to > open the another drive means it should ask passwords... > any command for do

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Backup Software

2009-08-12 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Ravi Kumar Tenneti wrote: > Dear All, > > I am pretty confident of Openfiler but would like to know Backup > Software which is open source / Free software > > Have you tried bacula or amanda as the backup management software? The media could be vtapes

[Ilugc] Samba Question

2009-08-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, There is a requirement of Samba server with the following specification: There are two groups: Designers, Draftsmen The share folder hierarchy is Project-->Final Now the Designers groups should have rw rights for Projects and subfolders The draghtsmen should be able to upload only f

Re: [Ilugc] Samba Question

2009-08-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Rajagopal > Swaminathan wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> There is a requirement of Samba server with the following specification: >> >> There are two groups: Designe

Re: [Ilugc] (no subject)

2009-09-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
What exactly is the subject of this thread??? I have lost track of this discussion. I find it strange that in a list where every newcomer is sermoned to read a thousand words before posting to list and a whole thread goes on without a subject line! Regards Rajagopal ___

Re: [Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 64, Issue 74

2009-09-17 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Firstoff, you have replied to the entire digest which imnho gives clear indication of mailing list ettiquette awareness (or lack thereof) On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: > > there are some follwers ( i mean beggers) ,... thay just follow...  afterall >

Re: [Ilugc] On World Software Freedom Day today, here is a byte of reality

2009-09-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:06 AM, varadarajan narayanan wrote: > On World Software Freedom Day today, here is a byte of reality > > Now, after going through a Free Software training camp, she is not > only computer literate but also declares proudly that she is quite > comfortable usin

Re: [Ilugc] Tally on Linux

2009-09-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Dhakshina Moorthy K.M. wrote: > Today's Hindu (20/12/09) page 12 - has quoted Bharathi Subramaniam - for > running tally on linux. Could you elaborate on this. We could have a wave of > people switching to linux. Tally and some other proprietory soft

Re: [Ilugc] ext4 vs ext3

2009-09-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Raja Subramanian > wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya >> wrote: >> > I bought a new 1.5TB hard-drive. I am still not sure at risking my huge >> data >> > with ext4

Re: [Ilugc] GIS FOSS Tools

2009-10-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Gopalasivam Palaniappan wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I need some equivalent *FOSS Tools* for this > > *Arch GIS, Arch View* - for Spatial Data Handling in which vector and > spatial data is to be analyze and processed. > > *ERDAS IMAGINE 9.3* - for remote

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day (xmessage - display a vanilla message on a X dialog box)

2009-10-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:29 PM, sivaji j.g wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < > girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > am absolutely surprised at the absence of commands like pgrep and pkill.. Regards, Rajagopal __

[Ilugc] chkconfig equivalent in Jaunty

2009-10-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Does Jaunty have equivalents of following (Redhat/CEntOS) commands: chkconfig service Regards Rajagopal ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.

Re: [Ilugc] chkconfig equivalent in Jaunty

2009-10-10 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, >> Does Jaunty have equivalents of following (Redhat/CEntOS) commands: >> >> chkconfig >> service > > update-rc.d Thanks! Regards, Rajagopal ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or bod

[Ilugc] Frustratation

2009-10-15 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Wish you alll a happy Diwali!!! and very happy new year to North Indian Luggers I am flabbergasted at the ignorance of th group about the pgrep and pkill. commands, but then that is FLOSS. Here in Mumbai which produces 45% of India's income, the scene is not healthy and I am very hap

Re: [Ilugc] Stardict dictionary

2009-10-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Varrun Ramani wrote: > Hi > > I have came across this software Stardict http://stardict.sourceforge.net . Princeton's Wordnet http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ is also a similar utility. Regards Rajagopal ___

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (grep - find lines matching pattern)

2009-11-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > $ grep girish /etc/passwd > > is known. grep stands for "global regular expression print" > AAAH., isn't grep (and its derivatives) a nice can of worms (nicer ones with regexps...) ;-) ok, That being said, i would

[Ilugc] [only slightly OT but FUNDAMENTAL] Nobel Laurate Dr. S. Chndarshekar's 100th birth anniversary

2009-11-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Most of oldtimers in CS field knows the progression of Physics-->Electrical-->[electronics|computerscience]. QED, we wouldn.t be writing and receiving out e-mail, CD/DVD et al without the progress in the theoratical physics ergo [astrophysics|electronics|CS]. Nobel Luarate Dr. S. Chan

Re: [Ilugc] [only slightly OT but FUNDAMENTAL] Nobel Laurate Dr. S. Chndarshekar's 100th birth anniversary

2009-11-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, 2009/11/9 சிவகுமார் மா : > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > wrote: > >> Let us do *something* > > What do you have in mind? > A nationwide seminar perhaps? Thanks and regards, Rajagopal _

Re: [Ilugc] Lecture capture software in Linux...

2012-02-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Sundaram Ramachandran wrote: > Is there any decent lecture capture software in Linux? I am teaching some > subjects - Microprocessors, Open Source Tools and Components etc. I want to > prepare video lectures incorporating ppt slides, class notes, quest

Re: [Ilugc] [ILUGC]-wifi-connectivity problem in samsung notebook.

2012-02-15 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Guruprasad wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Velmurugan Moorthy > wrote: >> notebooks.Even in samsung's official website also they have given drivers >> for windows only. >> >> Manufacturer: samsung >> Model no       : NP RC 500 VA >>

Re: [Ilugc] Regarding the Training for Windows Users

2012-02-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > Hi Kenneth, > > You can start by taking a look at the videos which I created,  Though they > were done using CentOS, the basics can be applied any where. > > http://www.lug-iitd.org/RHEL_Videos > Kudos for you and Cen

Re: [Ilugc] shell-find command

2012-02-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:19 PM, rmariya sagaya asirvatham wrote: > Hi > I want to write a Shell script for take backup off today's modified files > only. > Have you investigated inotify (and related userland tools)? -- Regards, Rajagopal ___

Re: [Ilugc] Get latest edited line/lines from a file

2012-02-27 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Zico wrote: >> > Unfortunately I checked out the latest version lately. So, I don't have any > other file to diff with this new one. :) > Perhaps you should install Trac too. I had done it couple of years back. It gives ticketing, wiki and all those go

Re: [Ilugc] Needed: Training on Asterisk and related software

2012-02-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Sundaram Ramachandran wrote: > > I need training on Asterisk and related software for my team - about 8 > engineers. > > Those with necessary expertise may please contact me off-list. > I am not an expert in Asterix. But there is a company located in

Re: [Ilugc] Video Conference Setup

2012-02-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > Hi, > > I planning to setup video conference infra with-in office, which > spread across few floors. The following features are in my wish list: > 1. 2 way voice call > 2. 2 way video call > 3. Local Server (don't want to

Re: [Ilugc] Please suggest Linux server

2012-03-07 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, freeos wrote: > Hi, > >    We have a plan to replace windows 2003 server by CentOS. This CentOS > will authenticate all other windows desktops using Samba PDC. Total users > are 30. Great! > >    As of now we have thinclients with Windows 2003 server.

Re: [Ilugc] Please suggest Linux server

2012-03-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:42 PM, freeos wrote: > IBM x3400 has configuration as below, > >       Quad core intel xeon 2.33 GHZ, 2*6 MB L2 Cache (5410), 13336 MHZ > FSB, 4* 1GB PC2-5300 667 MHZ memory, 2*146 GB 15k rpm SAS HDD, RAID 1. > If it has Linux installed, What does 'top' say (d

Re: [Ilugc] Please suggest Linux server

2012-03-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:05 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 5:42 PM, freeos wrote: >> IBM x3400 has configuration as below, >> >>       Quad core intel xeon 2.33 GHZ, 2*6 MB L2 Cache (5410), 13336 MHZ >> FSB,

Re: [Ilugc] How to edit a file in a web interface?

2012-05-21 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > In this tutorial I am talking about file editing in the backend as > that is what gets things going when you >  write a web interface. Good exposition. For advanced edits, perhaps one should consider openoffice running in

Re: [Ilugc] How does load balancing work?

2012-06-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:43 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Girish Venkatachalam > wrote: >> Load balancing involves promising a 100% uptime for a server application. > > Load balancing only eliminates downtime due to server/application > being a single

Re: [Ilugc] Hello All

2012-06-05 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM, R.I.P-7 wrote: >> -As we are using RHEL 5 in your company.default firefox version is >> firefox 1.5,i tried to update firefox version yum update is the route for RHEL. In fact any distro which uses Package management system Please confirm the

Re: [Ilugc] Cluster Configuration

2012-06-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Manivel Rajendran wrote: > Hi, > > Cluster for Webserver? > Configuring Clusters -- be it HA or HPC -- is inherently complex. There are many decisions to be made. The information you have supplied so far is, at best, scanty. I have configured and ad

Re: [Ilugc] the vi editor

2012-06-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Tushar Rishabadas wrote: > On 13 Jun 2012 17:17, "Girish Venkatachalam" > wrote: >> > > IIRC ubuntu's default editor is gedit and it is one of the more popular > gnu/linux distros. In any case why would knowledge of usage of text editor > = to knowledg

Re: [Ilugc] Different UNIX variants

2012-06-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Then Sun released Solaris. I have worked a lot in Solaris. Solaris minimal install does not usually include ssh. > > Then you also have other commercial UNIX products - IBM AIX and HP UX. > Perhaps you could have pointed

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > I liked blender better than librecad. > > If I recall correctly, it has better > documentation, and a more helpful IRC channel. > > I hope that helps, > Kingsley > For drafting alone, IMHO, Autocad is an ove

Re: [Ilugc] Image processing in 16 bit color depth?

2012-06-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > Gimp is limited to handling 8 bit color depth only. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP [quote] GEGL The Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) was first introduced as part of GIMP on the 2.6 release of GIMP. This init

Re: [Ilugc] Query: Tools for monitoring servers

2012-06-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, K.C. Ramakrishna wrote: > 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. stand

Re: [Ilugc] Remote Desktop problem from 10.04 to 10.04

2012-07-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > Hi > I have found great success with freenx-server and the respective client working great even on an ADSL link. -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.

Re: [Ilugc] How to display hello in a PC without bootstraploader and OS???!!!

2012-07-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Karishma Balan wrote: > Please answer my doubt.. > Suppose your PC do not have any OS installed.(It has bootstrap loader). > Then, > 1. What will happen as an when you turn ON the system? Will it display > anything? > 2. How to print a hello on monito

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] sfd event suggestion

2012-07-09 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Madan U Sreenivasan wrote: > > One event that comes to my mind... > > Am thinking we should encourage businesses to bring their boxes, install > linux for them on their boxes. This can be coordinated by companies that > provide open-source tools support

Re: [Ilugc] Linux BMR - Getting Volume Group name and LV Names in C++ code - [OT]

2012-07-11 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:23 PM, selvaraj v s wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing Linux BMR . I need to handle the LVMs for that case. While > backing up i need to backup the "Volume group names" using pvscan in system > command and "Logical Volume names" using lvscan and keep it in a file..

[Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-07-12 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Scenario: I have scanned a book in a4 size (set-1 of files) I have scanned separately other sizes -- say a3 and a1 (typical foldouts in a book) (set-2 of files) Now I want to make a single file containing all the pages in set-1 and set-2 Is there software to do that. I know Acrobat d

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-07-12 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: >> Scenario: >> I have scanned a book in a4 size (set-1 of files) >> I have scanned separately other sizes -- say a3 and a1 (typical >> foldouts in a book) (set-2 of files) >> >> > How many pages that book has? > > For example, if

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-07-12 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:58 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > > Oh. yes, indeed I will post by findings. If I am successful. > Stumbled on gscan2pdf..Need to test drive it. https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/gscan2pdf/ http://gscan2pdf.sourcefo

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-07-12 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > So you need to convert all the images in a folder into a single pdf file. > > the utility 'convert' from the package imagemagick can do this. > > convert *.jpg images.pdf > > for further info, see here. > http://dancingpenguinsof

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-07-13 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan > wrote: > > YMMV with both of the above. > > Please do write back about whichever solution works out for you. > > HTH, > -- Arun Khan > Thank y

[Ilugc] Batch image processor

2012-07-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I just stumbled across this: http://photobatch.stani.be/index.html http://photobatch.stani.be/download/index.html# Interesting! -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Wanted suggestions for using netbook for mobile phone functions

2012-07-22 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I am aware that we can use the SIM card of say Vodaphone/Airtel using a generic Data card with a laptop/netbook. My question is (of course it is silly): there an application for laptop/Netbook as the mobile instrument for making voice calls/sending SMS? Can skype or something like tha

Re: [Ilugc] URL you requested has been blocked as per DOT guidelines

2012-07-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 9:48 PM, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > >> >> URL = pastebin.com/vjpbm8XH" >> > Works here with mtnl dsl. -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Two very interesting links

2012-07-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On UI (and more): http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html and the source is here: http://code.google.com/p/sixthsense/ are any such things showcased in India? On copyrights (and the spam/bloat/FUDTalk associated with it): h

Re: [Ilugc] Two very interesting links +1

2012-07-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, And this one for students looking for "projects": http://www.ted.com/talks/vinay_venkatraman_technology_crafts_for_the_digitally_underserved.html -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilug

Re: [Ilugc] Two very interesting links +1

2012-07-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Guruprasad wrote: >> And this one for students looking for "projects": >> http://www.ted.com/talks/vinay_venkatraman_technology_crafts_for_the_digitally_underserved.html > > Imho, this should have been tagged OT. > Hope you have watched the above vide

Re: [Ilugc] MySql data vanishes when tomcat is restarted

2012-07-27 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Raju s wrote: > Hi, > > Due to some reason if Tomcat is restarted the data entered previously say 2 > hrs before the restart > vanished from MySql. > What can be the reason? > Check your application whether it commits the data. Give some more details

Re: [Ilugc] MySql data vanishes when tomcat is restarted

2012-07-27 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Raju s wrote: > We don't use transaction /rollback. > The default is commit > Tomcat or MySql log we could not find any error Perhaps turning up the verbosity level of mysql may help? -- Regards, Rajagopal __

[Ilugc] Ubuntu - alfresco query

2012-07-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I installed alfresco on ubuntu precise yesternight (the bitnami stuff). I was able to login and all that. Today, when i tried after a reboot the http://127.0.0.1:8080/share, no reply. I am guess that tomcat is not running. I am not uncomfortable twisting a centos box's ear using chkc

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu - alfresco query

2012-07-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > #chkconfig list all | grep -i tomcat > > This command should show you all the runlevels on which Tomcat would be > running on. However you network should be up before that. > Thanks! It did not strike me at that poi

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu - alfresco query

2012-07-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: >> > > Good old sudo /etc/init.d/tomcat start will definitely work, for one time. > to start the service at boot time\, > sudo update-rc.d tomcat defaults > more info here > http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-manage-services-with-update-rc.

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu - alfresco query

2012-07-30 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > chkconfig is available in Debian, *ubuntu, and openSUSE. > > *ubuntu also provides service. > > With these two utils, enabling services in Debian and *ubuntu is no > different than in RHEL/CentOS/Fedora/openSUSE. > Thanks a lot! T

Re: [Ilugc] Best way to Partition free space to Some File systems like NTFS

2012-07-30 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:07 PM, Krishnan M wrote: > > Either using "gparted" to partition it once i done with installing Ubuntu > 12.04 > or Is there some other best approaches are there? > > gparted is safe bet. Confirm if it supports NTFS though. -- Regards, Rajagopal

Re: [Ilugc] Sad demise of our dear KG (Keneth Gonsalvas)

2012-08-03 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Alagunambi Welkin wrote: > A great loss indeed, my condolences to his family, friend and communities. > Indeed a loss of father figure whose meticulousness is very hard to replicate My condolences to the bereaved. -- Regards, Rajagopal _

Re: [Ilugc] Need Centos 5.5

2012-08-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
try vault.centos.org On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Manivel Rajendran wrote: > Hi, > I want Centos 5.5(final). I am using internet via my mobile.i am not able > to download that. Please help me with the stuff where i can collect it > directly. I am staying near velachery. >

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 1204 issues

2012-08-08 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Jesse Francis wrote: > 1. One of my friends were gifted Matlab for linux by his prof. Its > setup was in the user's home, and I tried to access "install" with > sudo, but terminal returns that it doesn't have permission to access > the files. Perhaps y

Re: [Ilugc] System administration via web interface

2012-08-16 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > Besides webmin, is there any other package that allows system admin. > from a web ui? > It should support CentOS/Debian and Ubuntu server. > Will ClearOS help? http://www.clearfoundation.com/Software/overview.html -- Regards, Raj

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Using Libre Office as a DTP Tool

2012-08-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 1:33 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > Hi all, > Is it possible to use Libre Office as a Desktop Publishing tool? > Can we do some DTP using Libre Draw? > Depends. I did this in OOO 2.x http://vpmthane.org/pub%20-%20research%20vol%202005-6/VNBMem-Vilas.pdf Except

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > Hi, > >> What is the difference between LaTex and a normal Office Document? >> > > Unlike Office suites, LaTex is not a WYSIWYG way of creating the document. > Rather you write markups and styles, (think of HTML and CSS) a

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > > Really? Things like multiple levels of superscripts, absolute positioning > of individual characters (like in the way how LaTeX is usually written) are > possible in Libre Office? > If you can show me a visual example,

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > Equation 2 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LaTeX_Output.svg ? m = {{m_0} over sqrt{1-{v^2 over c^2}}} As a bad/lazy/ToughLove teacher, I leave the howto within libreoffice to the interested people. ;) -- Regards, Rajagopal _

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Using Libre Office as a DTP Tool

2012-08-18 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > I tried a similar thing with OOwriter back in 1Q/2009 (don't recall > the version number).However, the book had a *lot* of screenshots; > as it was end use oriented. > > OOwriter could not handle it; it would take ages to load an

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > > But I'm not an expert with either of them to be so sure. Neither am I. I have just done things. > Well, probably the equation is pretty simple. I believe there are complex > equations that cannot be represented in Lib

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > LibreOffice supports importing of MathML. > You could create the most complex formulas with MathML too. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML > > An instance of ODF dicument such as .odt, .ods etc _is_ an XML document. Jus

Re: [Ilugc] Is MySQL Turning into Closed Source ?

2012-08-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > I recently came across this post from Slashdot which suspects the nature of > MySQL Database server being turned into Closed source from Open Source. > Here is the link:- > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/015223

Re: [Ilugc] Is MySQL Turning into Closed Source ?

2012-08-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > How about MariaDB ? > > I am aware of it. But being somewhat a purist, and having led an Oracle team (back in 5.x and 7.x days), I found postgres nearest hit. SAP DB, sqlite etc were in my mind. At the time the Geo-locatio

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >> One main advantage of LaTeX is the visual output. >> http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/05/latex-vs-word-vs-writer/ Huh? >> >> Apps like OO, Word etc are good for documents. I've found DocBook and > Latex useful when one does

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:00 AM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > Thank you. > I am much concerned about the alignment of words and paragraphs in a > document , which may end within a page or run to 150 pages. > Can LaTex Help me in this regard? > It is refreshing here to see responses from

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-08-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:52 AM, sivakumar bharadhwaj wrote: > I use PDF shuffler. > > If your file format is .pdf, you can try this, this is very easy. > > (if they are not .pdf, then, this is not the answer). > I tried it. seems good on Centos6. Now time to target the unsuspecting

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-08-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > > Besides what you have found and others have suggested, there is > PDFedit > > It is in Debian repos and I suspect it is available for *ubuntu > flavors, not sure about CentOS. > > I have used it

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Multi-page image editing FLOSS

2012-08-20 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Did I mention I faced (yet unresolved) issues with the TIFF files generated by MODI (Microsoft Office Document Imaging)? -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] n00b query

2012-08-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Disclaimer: This is a query from an ignorant/muddled myself I am trying to accomplish the following: Write a small application which will allow data verification/data entry with sources from scanned images. My requirements: This application should be portable across platforms This ap

Re: [Ilugc] I Love Ruby - Reply

2012-08-25 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Arun Khan wrote: >> >> Its funny if taken in a funny way, Will the same fun continue for OP If the >> author name is ripped off and put someone's >> name, and sold in some market as a ruby guide?. > > +1 Totally agree. ++1 > > My 12.0 paise. > Incre

Re: [Ilugc] n00b query

2012-08-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Manokaran K wrote: > > If sqlite is not mandatory, give Couchapps a shot. Looks like it will be > close to your requirements. > Thanks for the reply. Looks nice But links returned by google and download page (http://couch.io/get) seems to be down. Is

Re: [Ilugc] n00b query

2012-08-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Manokaran K wrote: >> But links returned by google and download page (http://couch.io/get) >> seems to be down. >> >> Is it one of those abandonware? >> >> > Try this link: couchapp.org That link was from the page: "Here are installers for OSX, Window

Re: [Ilugc] I love ruby - copyright

2012-08-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Karthikeyan A.K wrote: > Who cares, if one does successful work, there are ten to bark. If I keep > throwing stones on every dog that barks, I may never reach destination. > Watch your attitude and words. you are lucky I am in a good mood today. I do

Re: [Ilugc] n00b query

2012-08-26 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > > When you build from source, a well designed 'make install' will put > everything under the > /usr/local/ dir. structure. > > A similar philosophy could be adopted for your scenario. Thanks a lot for weighing in. More or less, th

[Ilugc] Ajaxplorer

2012-08-27 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, I just stumbled across this: http://ajaxplorer.info/ looks interesting. I do not have access to webserver for next few days, If someone can try this out and share their experiences say on a ADSL link, I think it would benefit the community -- Regards, Rajagopal

Re: [Ilugc] Ajaxplorer

2012-08-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Karthikeyan Venkatraman wrote: > > Very good application for file management to the entry level. The following > are the features listed. > > > 3.You can create roles, users and assign rights according to the > requirement. Not sure how this users are

Re: [Ilugc] printer problem

2012-08-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:55 PM, mohan s wrote: > hi friends, > > > i m using ubuntu 10.4 in my office i connected with hp deskjet 1050 printer > .its working fine but dont print text edit and black color ...it ll print > only color i change the setting also but it ll not work ..pleas

[Ilugc] Single namespace deployment

2012-08-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Has anybody done some kind of single namespace deployment for small orgs having organically evolved heterogenous IT environment-- LDAP/389/ApacheDS? (NOT AD) I was interested in hearing the experiences. I can give scenarios. I had done an NDS implementation lng back during Netwar

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Printing PDF files- Problem

2012-08-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:01 AM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > Hi all, > I am using Ubuntu 10.10 . The system is connected to a printer. > The problem is the PDF files do not get printed automatically (on clicking > the Print button). Everytime, I have to open the Printer queue and relea

[Ilugc] Wavemaker

2012-08-28 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, Has anybody tried this? http://www.wavemaker.com/ It got installed with PostgreSQL Any comments? -- Regards, Rajagopal ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Foss based solutions providing Organizations in TamilNadu

2012-08-29 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 6:27 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > @Srinivas have a simple form in google doc or some place then put the > info wherever or what ever form you want , i have seen people being > very uncomfortable with wiki style :P > +1 -- Regards, Rajagopal

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