Re: [Ilugc] MatchStick.tv - streaming with opensource

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:28 PM, kanthan wrote: > > http://www.matchstick.tv/ > Open software and hardware HDMI streaming stick based on Firefox OS. > its a $24 open alternative to walled gardens like google chromecast. > > It has a kickstarter project and it already at 320% with 23 days to go. If

Re: [Ilugc] [[Good read]] Open-Source Cancer Research

​O​ n Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 7:33 PM, sahil साहिल wrote: > > Greetings All, > > Something good and innovative is brewing up... > > http://www.wired.com/2014/09/man-quest-open-source-cancer-research > > Hope to see it a successful research. > > Good Luck! ​Interesting! ​ There was something on the

Re: [Ilugc] Github Student Developer pack

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 3:09 AM, YOGESHWAR DAN CHARAN < charanyogesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you please provide some suggestions as to how to effectively utilize > this student pack. Looking at the list, these are the things I see: * Github gives you 5 free private repositories for your "top-

Re: [Ilugc] SOA - Webservice from Query

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there any framework or application which can expose my sql queries into > webservice. > > I need a requirement where i need expose my data in database into > webservices. > > Everytime i need to code in php or python to expose my

Re: [Ilugc] [IIugc]REG: MySQL Error

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:16 PM, kavin raj wrote: > > $str="UPDATE kncet SET('$name','$email','$password','$mobile' WHERE > id='$id')"; > $res=@mysql_query($str)or die(mysql_error()); ​On a side note, it is recommended to not put your query in a string and execute it. It is a security concern. Pe

Re: [Ilugc] Github Student Developer pack

​ On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:50 PM, sahil साहिल wrote: > Thank you for enlighten us on such broad options. All looks promising. > > Thank you. > On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 7:09 PM, YOGESHWAR DAN CHARAN < charanyogesh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for explaining . I was overwhelmed with so many thin

Re: [Ilugc] MatchStick.tv - streaming with opensource

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > > On Oct 18, 2014 6:10 PM, "Shrayas rajagopal" wrote: > > > > The day I got to know about this, I bought one of it. > > > > Though the delivery is in Feb 2015, I'm really excited :) > >

[Ilugc] Question | Workflow while replying to emails on a mailing list

Hi all, While i've read and understand all the required guidelines for replying in a mailing list (no top posting, not replying to digests, and basically the whole thing here[1]), I am curious to know your workflow. For eg. I subscribed using my gmail, and the reply button on gmail is pretty darn

Re: [Ilugc] Question | Workflow while replying to emails on a mailing list

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 10:14 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > > Hi, > > --- On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Shrayas rajagopal > wrote: > | and have > | followed this in all my mails but now i'm getting really bored of it. > \-- > > It is called discipline. It is

Re: [Ilugc] MatchStick.tv - streaming with opensource

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 1:05 PM, viswaprasath wrote: > > HI Shrayas, > > What types of apps we can develop for this. Should it be only Video streaming apps or it can be anything in general. > ​[...] Hey Vishwa, I'm haven't looked into it at all. Just jumped on the idea of it running firefox OS

Re: [Ilugc] [[Doubt]] Technical aspects on Flipkart BigBillionDay sale

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:54 AM, sahil साहिल wrote: ​[...]​ > What are the factors which one should concern or pay attention while > focusing on such event regarding scalability or technical glitches? How can > we bring consistency to our web application like Google, FB, Twitter does > (they ar

Re: [Ilugc] Workflow while replying to emails on a mailing list

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Ganesh Ranganathan < ganesh.ranganathan...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is also a labs feature in the Gmail web client itself. You can > enable it from the settings page. > ​Just tried it out. This is awesome :) Thanks! Although, What if I want to quote multiple rep

Re: [Ilugc] Question | Workflow while replying to emails on a mailing list

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 8:09 AM, MohanR wrote: > setting "Reply-Style" as "Quoted" in evolution will make it easier to do > inter-leaved posts. I don't think trimming (by selecting unwanted text > and delete them) will take more time. > ​I found the select-and-quote feature in Gmail labs to be s

Re: [Ilugc] [[Doubt]] Technical aspects on Flipkart BigBillionDay sale

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: > AWS + Chef Scripting for autoscaling > Redhat Openshift > Ubuntu Juju > > Any of these cloud technologies actually make it pretty easy to achieve > a time limited 4500 web servers with storage, load balancing, database > layer etc. > ​Personal

Re: [Ilugc] [[Doubt]] Technical aspects on Flipkart BigBillionDay sale

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: > Perhaps they mean 4500 small instances? > ​Doesn't it make more sense to use lesser no. but bigger boxes? > > I concur though - maybe mentioning "4500 servers" is just really good > marketing? > ​Totally agree. Thats what I feel too. To a l

Re: [Ilugc] SOA - Webservice from Query

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Every time when i am creating a feed for webservice, i need to use any of > the wrapper using programming language. I need a framework/application > where i can feed the sql query and create a webservice for that query, so > that when ever i

Re: [Ilugc] [[Doubt]] Technical aspects on Flipkart BigBillionDay sale

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: ​[...]​ but if your using cloud provisioning then you need to > work with the size of boxes that > they give you at a given price point? > ​If i remember right, FK uses a combination of​ homegrown servers and aws. AWS provides pretty huge serve

Re: [Ilugc] [[Doubt]] Technical aspects on Flipkart BigBillionDay sale

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: ​[...]​ See the amazing technical solutions we can produce to satisfy > erm, shopping. Now if only > we could do that for say Universal Healthcare or Education > ​So true. Even I was wondering the same thing a few days ago.

Re: [Ilugc] Bad publicity on FOSS security

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:33 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > We at least know they are fixed, unlike proprietary systems. > ​+1. Very important point, this. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelin

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Gowtham wrote: > Hi all, > > In linux, the init system is made of sysvinit to boot the os sysvinit is > so simple and clean so that we can learn what it does. But now some > people come with new init system called systemd which is huge, bulk, > tough to learn deb

Re: [Ilugc] Jolla...My Thoughts

On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Anand.R.Kris wrote: > tl;dr - Jolla is a smart phone in very sense, it expects it users to > be really smart! ;-) :-D > ​very nice review :) Short and to the point. A person I know also has the Jolla smartphone and he claims it to be great as well. Let me see

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -November Month Meet

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > > Reply here if you are interested in giving a talk. Topic ​:​ Workflows with Tmux Description ​:​ Tmux, or Terminal MUltipleXer is a really sleek way to make your terminal do a LOT more things that you thought it could. It manages

Re: [Ilugc] [[HELP]] Alternate to Compiz and Xorg

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:49 AM, sahil साहिल wrote: > > Is there anyway to improve my CPU usage so that I can work efficiently? I > know, my laptop is quite old but for now I don't have nay other > alternative. Please guide me. > Compiz, unity and the like just slow the system down a lot. The p

Re: [Ilugc] solar powered hamara pi

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Vikas Tara wrote: > What do you guys think about > https://twitter.com/hamaralinux/status/527811768643751938 > ​That looks really nice :) All the best guys! You should demo this if possible at the meetup this time? ​ _

Re: [Ilugc] solar powered hamara pi

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Karthikeyan A K <77mi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Android must end, and it will. Interesting. Care to expand please? ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://

[Ilugc] [HELP] Vim on the terminal showing weird charcters

Hey guys, I seem to be having a problem with a newly installed ubuntu on my netbook. When I go into the terminal, open up vim and hit `J` when it is at the top or `K` when it is at the bottom, it seems to be spitting out some box characters[1] Any ideas on how I can tackle this? The installation

Re: [Ilugc] [HELP] Vim on the terminal showing weird charcters

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 12:40 PM, sahil साहिल wrote: > Vim is working fine on my system with same OS version. Remove it and > install it again. Tried doing it to no avail :( ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC M

Re: [Ilugc] [HELP] Vim on the terminal showing weird charcters

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Vysakh Sreenivasan wrote: > *K *should get the man pages, think something is messing between your > terminal and vim. I'm sorry I didn't mean "K" i meant k. My bad. [...] > *1) * > > *export TERM=xterm-256color*# in your .bashrc or .zshrc > *set t_Co=256

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet – November 8 2014

On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > @shrayasr > The recommended Clojure book by BG was "Programming Clojure": > > https://pragprog.com/book/shcloj2/programming-clojure Hi Shakthi, Will check it out. Thank you. Also, great session :) _

Re: [Ilugc] Read USB Data from Ubuntu

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Hari Bala Kumaran wrote: > Hi, > This is hari , we found the details > > /bin/dmesg : > > [16739.059562] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 4 > [20711.452030] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd > [20711.587250] usb 1-3: New USB

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSFTN] Groupon trying to rob GNOME's trademark

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Please raise your concern, voice against this and SAVE GNOME. This is crazy :/ I donated though. Spreading the news also ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILU

Re: [Ilugc] Microsoft to open source dot net and bring it to linux.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:09 PM, Narendiran wrote: > http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform-adds-new-development-capabilities-with-visual-studio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/ > > https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet This sounds *really* e

Re: [Ilugc] Minutes of ILUGC Monthly Meet (08–11-2014)

On 14 Nov 2014 07:39, "Gowtham Sundaar" wrote: > > Hi, > Where does the meet take place? You can find these details on the ILUGC website[1] but usually at IIT M [1] http://ilugc.in > On Nov 11, 2014 2:44 PM, "Gowtham Raam" wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > We had our ILUGC monthly meet this Satur

Re: [Ilugc] Need information about how to install linux on remote system

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:25 PM, RK RK wrote: > Why don't you try the same before asking here? AKA http://whathaveyoutried.com/ > First try yourself, learn something and when your struck up come here and > ask specific questions with details. This is important because when you go through the pr

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:00 AM, MohanR wrote: [...] > So, this looks like Red Hat is playing nasty games to dominate Linux's > Desktop market which got busted when debian decision to switch to > systemd and people started writing hate articles. [...] Finally got around to reading this. Thanks

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:59 AM, Narendiran wrote: > Four people in Debian resigned over the last two weeks from various > duties. Including Ian jackson, the man leading the case against > systemd. Yes I read this too. And his email to the list as well. [...] > A lot of distros switched to deb

Re: [Ilugc] Forking of Debian

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:46 PM, MohanR wrote: > > It seems you are on the road to became a Project Manager (If you are not > already!!). Asking someone else to do what you want to do. My wishes. Hahaha. Not at all. Just a struggling developer. I'm new to these things. I don't mean for others to

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -December Month Meet

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > We can have our monthly meet on Decmeber 13(Saturday), Travelling during that time, will catch y'all in the next meet. Have fun! ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/il

Re: [Ilugc] [HELP] Extracting directory names using sed

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: [...] > Now, I want only the previous directory, leaving out the last directory. The NF variable in Awk represents the Number of fields that you have got in your current record line. So when you say `print $(NF - 1), $NF` you are printing

Re: [Ilugc] Need suggestions to buy laptop.

On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 3:49 PM, cool dharma06 wrote: > i am thinking to buy one good laptop for my personal,gaming and development > purpose. My budget is 50k-70k. this is my first laptop so little bit > confused to select the brand. Guide me to buy a good one. > > My expectation: i7 processor, 5

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet – December 14 2014

On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:59 AM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > We have our Meet on December 14, 2014 Can't make it this time. I'm travelling. Some really great talks lined up! We should really figure out how best to record these talks :( ___ ILUGC Mailing Lis

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet – December 14 2014

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 12:15 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > The links that I mentioned during the talk, and in our discussions are > listed below: > > * NixOS > http://nixos.org/ > > * NixOS contributors > https://www.openhub.net/p/nixos/contributors/summary > > * Haskell > https://www.haskell

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -January Month Meet

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > Reply here if you are interested in giving a talk. Topic: The why's and what's of dotfiles Description: dotfiles, or dot-files are the files that start with a "." in your home directory. As a standard, they are where your configuration is mai

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Events for the year 2015

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:52 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > As we are in this great year what are the FOSS events we can conduct. > Please share the events we can conduct with a description so that we can > make plans accordingly. Sprints are something we should definitely try! The idea is something

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet –January 10 2014

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 9:25 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > @shrayasr > The NixOps tool is a Cloud Deployment Tool. As mentioned in their web site: Will look into it, thanks :) ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC M

[Ilugc] A day with clojure [blog post]

Hi everyone, I spent yesterday learning some clojure and wrote a blog post about it[1]. This is my first tech blog post and I'd love to get some feedback. Hope to write many more in due time :) Footnotes: [1]: http://www.shrayas.com/a-day-with-clojure.html

Re: [Ilugc] Jolla Tablet up on igg again

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Jacob G Podipara wrote: > Has anybody used it? Who delivers it, Jolla tablet that is. Considering the previous engagement was with snapdeal, wouldn't be surprised if they tie up again ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -February Month Meet

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: [...] > I feel that we can have INSTALLFEST scheduled on this day. But we need > the make the arrangements made for this day. Please give your > suggestions for conducting Install fest My only concern with this is that it probably is too late

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -February Month Meet

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Why do you think so? The only concern is obtaining permission. We are just a week away from the event, Maybe it isn't enough time to create publicity around it? > Not necessarily true. People may want to try a different setup on > their d

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -February Month Meet

On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 9:19 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > We should neither be interested in numbers nor expect a perfect event. > The objective is for people to meet, do hands-on work, and learn from > each other. > > Whoever is interested is welcome to join in, and we can always have > more inst

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers -February Month Meet

On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > It will be good to focus on one thing, and do it well, rather, than > try to cramp everything on the same day. +1 ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mail

Re: [Ilugc] Improvement of our site

On Feb 9, 2015 4:51 PM, "Gowtham Raam" wrote: > > Hi all, > > Please share your ideas with regard to improve the site. A great place for inspiration is the durgapur Linux users group[1]. [...] --- Footnotes: [1]: http://dgplug.org/ ___ ILUGC Mailing L

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet – February 14 2014

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Gowtham Raam wrote: > We have our Meet on February 14, 2014 Will be out this time as i'm travelling. Have fun y'all! ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines:

[Ilugc] [OT] Git workshop in the city

Hi All, A friend of mine, Noufal[1] as part of the Pipal Academy[2] is planning to conduct a paid Git workshop in the city and he wanted to know if there would be enough takers for it. Noufal has conducted a few of them before as well and they have all been very well received. Here is a bit abou

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Git workshop in the city

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 10:35 PM, Ganesh Ranganathan wrote: > Did he give a approximate cost range for the workshop? Approximately Rs. 5000 to Rs. 6000. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Git workshop in the city

On Mar 7, 2015 1:54 PM, "shamlik t" wrote: > > i know Noufal sir personally...he is a genius in this area.. +1 from me.. So can I assume you'll attend it then? :) Also He's really good in this area. Ive heard many people saying the same thing. If the money is the issue, consider getting it spon

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Git workshop in the city

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:07 PM, Ganesh Ranganathan wrote: > I'm interested. Will check with my company for sponsorship. Sounds great. I'll pass on the message. It'll help him plan. > But I cannot approach them till the event is actually confirmed and > published. Fair enough. He's sure about do

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Git workshop in the city

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:06 PM, Senthil Kumar wrote: > City means is it in Chennai? If so and the dates are not colluding with > Academia Activity, I am willing to Sponsor a College Student for this > Workshop and for any workshop on Python. Yes I mean Chennai only. Wow thats really nice of you

[Ilugc] [OT] Speaker wanted for MetaRefresh run-up event in Chennai on March 21st

Hi All, Tony from HasGeek[1] reached out to me looking for people to speak at their upcoming run-up event[2] for their MetaRefresh[3] conference. Here is an excerpt from the run-up event page: "Now a days we are faced with the challenge of developing and maintaining websites handling data that c

[Ilugc] LSQ - A system to manage simple adhoc-ly written SQL queries within an organization

Hi all, We at Logic Soft[1] open sourced one of our internal tools[2] just a few days ago. We use it to manage those one off temporary SQL queries that are written to do something quickly on the system. Usually they are on individual developer systems or they are deleted. But sometimes it is requ

Re: [Ilugc] Support for Internet Neutrality in India

On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote: > What is your take on this ? A bunch of really great people made http://www.netneutrality.in/ and http://savetheinternet.in for spreading awarness and sending mails to the TRAI. The questions that TRAI has laid out in its 100+ pa