Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Volunteering - ways and means

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:30 AM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I disagree, experience is not just time put in foobar company. A truly > motivated person would keep learning open source on his/her own time > and raise the bar of his/her knowledge. Many open source contributors > have

Re: [Ilugc] invi$ible hand to blame?

Not a good news. That could have been one of the reason for the setc counter to run windows this time.they used suse and firefox for quite sometime., Regards, Srikanth On 7/29/08, Mano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr. Umashankar, ELCOT head, has been transferred. > > http://tinyurl.com/6aueak > >

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:45 PM, 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 / > > Cheers > > Varadarajan > You

Re: [Ilugc] hi

On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 3:27 PM, kesavan tm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi I ma Kannan > I am a new ubuntu user > i have install the gftp in my ubuntu system .but not connecting to sites > pls help me > Which site? Are you behind a network firewall?? -- Regards Srikanth.L [Blog]

Re: [Ilugc] Blue tooth file share bet'n N72 and Fedora / Ubuntu Laptop.

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:18 AM, Dhakshina Moorthy K.M. < moorthy...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Any experience on sharing files between Nokia N72 and Fedora / Ubuntu via > bluetooth. Relavance to photo share. > > There is an opportunity for installing Fed8 / U8.10 on a laptop . > > Dhakshina Moorthy, K.

Re: [Ilugc] collaborative authoring software

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > can anyone suggest collaborative authoring software? A person should be > able > to upload and edit a document, and others may view, give comments inline, > or > edit depending on permissions. > -- Is this what you require -- ope

Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?

> It crashes after its fully up and running..Usually, 2-3 hours+ after > starting up. The system just freezes. My Caps-Lock indicator starts > blinking(and that's when I get the indication :) ), and that's pretty much > it. Try memcheck on boot to test your memory.Faulty RAM can be a reason. --

Re: [Ilugc] Package Installation in UBUNTU

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Kannan wrote: > hi friends. > i am directly download the packages using > apt-get install ... command. > how can i take the back up of the softwares. > > help me. > 1. AptOnCD --> http

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

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: > 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 > > >

[Ilugc] Seeking Resource person for Drupal talk.

Hi, SSNSoMCA is planning to conduct a one day talk/ hands-on workshop on drupal. Seeking help of ILUGC members who can handle the same. Dates are flexible between tuesday - saturday. Please feel free contact me / Bala sir Cc'd in this mail for more information. Thanks a lot in advance. -- Regar

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:20 PM, இராமதாசன் wrote: > > sivaji j.g wrote: > > Does it makes any sense in recruiting peoples who has no FOSS background > for > > FOSS development ? > > Yes. It makes sense when We realize no college opt FOSS as part of their > Curriculam. > > and NRCFOSS isn't rknowsy

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக்கப் பட் டறை

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:53 PM, இராமதாசன் wrote: > On ஞா, 2009-03-01 at 23:40 +0530, Satish Eerpini wrote: > > > > Is this important , ... if so , ... english translation please ?? > > Its about Tamil Books Digitalization Workshop held at NRCFOSS today. > > and start learning Tamil :-) > Anothe

Re: [Ilugc] Geek in Tamil

On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:26 AM, இராமதாசன் wrote: > On பு, 2009-03-04 at 11:03 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > > > menporul vallavan? Restricting to software alone? Geekness is more generic to at least science / technology i guess. கொம்பன் is right. > I do not know which Cinema/ Novel gave

Re: [Ilugc] Best DVD writer

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 4:09 PM, ram kumar wrote: > Tell any good DVD writer for ubuntu8.10 > Guessing the OP might have meant DVD writer software. k3b works well. -- Regards Srikanth.L [Twitter] http://twitter.com/logic [Blog]http://logiconline.wordpress.co

Re: [Ilugc] How to serve a test with multiple choice questions on the intranet?

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Muralidhar Kamidi wrote: > Hi, > My institute is planning to conduct an online exam on our intranet. I > installed an LMS (Moodle) and used the quiz plug-in to create an online > test. I too had a similar requirement and tried http://sourceforge.net/projects/tcex

Re: [Ilugc] OT: FOSS Lab Server - A virtual learning environment in Academia

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM, LinuXpert Academy < supp...@linuxpertacademy.com> wrote: > >Further including a source code browser/indexer like cvsweb/lxr > >will make it trivial for beginners access the source code using a > >familiar web browser. This works even better if it's pre-configured

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi > > 'orthogonalize shape' > > please check wikipedia for meaning of orthogonolize. > வடிவத்தை செங்குத்தாக்குக Vadivaththai Senguththaakkuga? -- Regards Srikanth.L http://www.google.com/profiles/srik.lak ___

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] comments please

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > Please comment on this one: > English: You are using the EPSG:4326 projection which might > leadto > undesirable results when doing rectangular alignments.Change your > projection to get rid of this warning.Do you want to continue? > > Cu

[Ilugc] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] San Francisco Hackathon: Tutorial/showcase videos

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller Date: Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 04:14 Subject: [Wikitech-l] San Francisco Hackathon: Tutorial/showcase videos To: Wikimedia developers Thanks to Victor Grigas and Matthew Roth we've got excellent video and photo documentation of our San

Re: [Ilugc] [Ilugc.tamil] why not much free Tamil fonts?

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 23:25, Shrinivasan T wrote: > is there any document on how to create unicode Tamil fonts and how to fix > any issues on existing fonts? > http://higopi.blogspot.in/2008/08/1.html gives some introduction about font conversion along with FontForge introduction in Tamil. --

Re: [Ilugc] Login Page for Mediawiki --need suggestions

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:43 PM, vijayaraghavan seshan < msvraghavan2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Recently installed mediawiki in GNU/Linux box. We have a requirement > that mediwiki to be accessed through secure login. Purpose is to give > access for particular teams and not for all. Any suggestions w

Re: [Ilugc] Login Page for Mediawiki --need suggestions

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM, vijayaraghavan seshan < msvraghavan2...@gmail.com> wrote: > requirement is simple. > > when users click say abc.com/mediawiki they should be prompted for > authentication after that users will have normal access to mediawiki. > Check config changes for a private

[Ilugc] [OT] Stop the inclusion of proprietary licenses in Creative Commons 4.0

Hello, Thought some of you will be interested http://freeculture.org/blog/2012/08/27/stop-the-inclusion-of-proprietary-licenses-in-creative-commons-4-0/ -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Browser based IME keypad for Indic fonts.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 10:53 AM, selvan wrote: > Hi, > > I am looking for opensource, browser based (JS/HTML) IME keypad for > Indic fonts..Any suggestions? > We are building one[1], will soon be complete (Its not yet fully complete now, though functionally usable) and also support schemes curr

Re: [Ilugc] 3G out of the box

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > I suspect most 3G data providers have a much lower "upload" speeds > > since the services are consumer oriented i.e. upstream packets are > > mostly http url strings. I do not have a 3G USB dongle so no > > personal experience with u

Re: [Ilugc] error on using silpa localy

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > it throws the error "http://localhost:8080/Spellcheck"; > > on the console, getting the error as below > > Loading Module render Failed > localhost - - [04/Oct/2012 12:35:42] "GET /Guess_Language HTTP/1.1" 404 > 3816 > localhost - - [04/Oct/2

Re: [Ilugc] Open source climate research

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > I posted this once before but I didn't see it appear on ilugc. In case it > did appear, please do excuse this duplicate > post. It did. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.li

Re: [Ilugc] Project for MBA(HR) student

On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 1:07 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Gourav Shah > wrote: > > MBA( HR) lemme think they can think of research in > > FOSS and Democracy/Govt : Fuctioning of Govt. > FOSS and Politics : Humans are political in nature does FOSS help in > over

Re: [Ilugc] How to hide port number in apache2 ?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Dinesh Kumar Rajagopal wrote: > Hai ilugc, > > In httpd 2.2.11, we need to hide port number 445 in url. Is it > possible ? > Check out mod_proxy http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_proxy.html -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___

Re: [Ilugc] nokia phones and ubuntu

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > > some friends of mine who have migrated to ubuntu want to know how to back > up > their phones. They say gammu does not work. Anyone has experience in this? > I > do not have access to ubuntu so am unable to help them out. They all

[Ilugc] [OT] CoApp -- The apt-get of windows?

[1] http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/04/microsoft-offers-much-needed-fix-for-windows-oss-development.ars [2] https://edge.launchpad.net/coapp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailma

Re: [Ilugc] A day at SSN Python workshop

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Ravi Jaya wrote: > hello all, > > Just returned from SSN, > > yes your question is correct! > What I am been doing their? > I am been their to delivery a session on Python Scripting. > Kudos! > > Note: Number of participants where more than 200. > Just cant belie

Re: [Ilugc] Projects for students

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Manokaran K wrote: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arun Venkataswamy >wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Manokaran K > wrote: > > > > > Interesting idea. A system that uses an RFID sensor installed in bus > > > shelters can sense the arrival of

Re: [Ilugc] Open Street Maps

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:35 AM, pavithran wrote: > On 11 August 2010 00:11, Kannan wrote: > > Hi Friends > > > > Usually I access the OpenStreetMaps in my computer > webbrowser. > > Is there any application for accessing the OSM maps in Java enabled > > mobile phone. > > Wow nice t

Re: [Ilugc] Open Street Maps

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 7:34 AM, Kannan wrote: > > I am interested in develop such application to access the map using > GPRS or 3g,like Google maps as a final year project. > Is it useful for the people? There are a few that already exist. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/Mobile_phon

Re: [Ilugc] bsnl datacard ICC with ubuntu ?

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 20:32, km wrote: > Hi folks, > > Any idea of the latest bsnl's Internet Connect Card (ICC) datacard working > with ubuntu 10.4 ? > pls let me know. > It works kind of out of the box. Just create a mobile broadband connection with "bsnlnet" and connect to it.For Windows BS

Re: [Ilugc] Unable to find OS in new laptop

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 23:48, Navaneethan wrote: > > He says after installed only once it boots and entering into OS,after > restarting it the problem starts.. > > can you give some suggestion about the problem?your predictions and > advises!! Have you faced any problem like this? > The laptop is

Re: [Ilugc] Bus routes using openstreetmap

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 14:52, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > Openstreetmap is used to find the bus routes in chennai. > Check this site. > > http://busroutes.in/chennai/ > > The code is here > http://github.com/yuvipanda/wtfimb > > For more details and to contribute > http://wiki.openstreet

Re: [Ilugc] Bus routes using openstreetmap

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 15:29, karthick babu wrote: > can i get bus route API/DB for Chennai & Mumbai, in which i could search by > Bus no and source & destintation > > Thanks, > Karthick > Mind Dots Software Systems Pvt Ltd > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Chakravarthy S > wrote: > > > Thats

Re: [Ilugc] [OT][rfc]Data card feedback requested .

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 17:24, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > Only thing is that when there is no 3G (like in > Erode where bsnl only has 2G), I have not been able to get the 3G > datacard to shift to the hybrid mode to fall back on 2G. 2G/3G switch works smoothly for me on Ubuntu mobile broadband,

Re: [Ilugc] [OT][rfc]Data card feedback requested .

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 17:59, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:48 +0530, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > 2G/3G switch works smoothly for me on Ubuntu mobile broadband, it take > > a bit more time to connect in 2G areas though. Have to plug / unplug few >

Re: [Ilugc] dynamic ip woes

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:40, Yoganandam Goteti wrote: > I had used BSNL's broadband while at hyderabad I was "CONNECTED " always > 24/7 most of the time until of course the official /unofficial power > cuts came into force. Once logged the IP NEVER Changed. if the IP > changes Incorrect, BSNL

Re: [Ilugc] India Map by State for Viz

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 18:05, Venkatraman S wrote: > > The maps dont look 'neat'; also looks like there is significant learning in > generating the maps. > I am looking for something as simple as Google's. Any other options? Maperitive may be what you are looking for. You can also custom-style m

Re: [Ilugc] Online Exam, Linux Mint and Moodle Quiz Config

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 23:26, Thiagaraja Pillai wrote: > Dear All > kindly guide me on my following query > > I want to conduct Online Exam [ Objective Type ] for my students. I have a > lab with 60 computers networked. > I prefer LinuxMint. > I used Drupal Quiz[1] around Jan 2010 and Quiz 4 RC

Re: [Ilugc] installing Ubutu in Dell Inspiron 580 MT Base

On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 19:28, Nithin K K wrote: > Dear Sivakumar, > > This is not the first time I'm using Ubuntu. Now days in some HP & Dell > machines, we cant able to install Ubuntu. I'm getting Stuck in the starting > itself. This thread[1] *may* help [1] http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/piperma

Re: [Ilugc] Syllabus for 1 month = 25x5 = 125 Hour Training on Introduction to FOSS and Open Technology

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:06, Narendra Sisodiya < naren...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Narendra Sisodiya > To: IITDLUG > > > Please comment on syllabus.. What should be done for 1 month training of > Engineering students.. > I am thinking to st

[Ilugc] E-governance projects must work on opensource OS's

Something to welcome, though it mandates only hardware to be support Open Source OS's. It does not mandate opensource software must be used. But still a step in positive direction. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-07-06/news/29743620_1_open-source-draft-policy-hardware Regards Sr

[Ilugc] Client Side Search

Hi, Am looking for a client side search tool for searching indexed web pages on a CD. The closest i could get while searching was jssindex[1], but looks like it lacks unicode support and gave me a broken index when i used Tamil text. Please suggest if you know of similar tools which I could try. T

Re: [Ilugc] Client Side Search

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 17:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi, > > Am looking for a client side search tool for searching indexed web pages on > a CD. The closest i could get while searching was jssindex[1], but looks > like it lacks unicode support and gave me a broken index wh

Re: [Ilugc] ITR with LibreOffice [India]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 14:04, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Source : > http://blog.narendrasisodiya.com/2011/07/itr-with-libreoffice-india.html > > Kindly note that the ITR1 form for filing income tax returns is > successfully migrated to LibreOffice / OpenOffice for this year > (Assessment year 2011-2

Re: [Ilugc] Wikipedia not accessible

On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 16:58, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Asokan Pichai wrote: > > For (at least) two days I am not able to connect to wikipedia. ANy one > else > > facing a similar problem? > > http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://status.wikimedia.org/

[Ilugc] Mediawiki Hackathon - Nov 19-20 - Mumbai

Hi all, While a more formal announcement will come shortly after finalizing logistics, this is a early heads up for people who want to block calendars / tickets. Mediawiki & Wikipedia hackathon[1] is being planned[2] on November 19,20 at Mumbai as a parallel event to the WikiConference India[3] .

Re: [Ilugc] Offline Tamil wikipedia

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:49, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Is it possible to get the Tamil wikipedia offline ? > Technically yes, practically its of little use since articles are generally not fully developed and provides little value. Tamil wikipedians have this idea for very long time, however for a

Re: [Ilugc] Offline Tamil wikipedia

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:58, JAGANADH G wrote: > Hi Srini > > Check here > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Other_languages > and here http://static.wikipedia.org/ There are some open issues for sometime now in database dumps and I guess they are not fully supported by

Re: [Ilugc] Mediawiki Hackathon - Nov 19-20 - Mumbai

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:53, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hi all, > > While a more formal announcement will come shortly after finalizing > logistics, > It has come. http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 has most of the details. Please register using the form gi

Re: [Ilugc] desktop dictionary application for Tamil

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 21:05, Shrinivasan T wrote: > this is a request for a open source project. > > we need a desktop dictionary for Tamil. > > contents can be drawn from > http://ta.wiktionary.org/ There is already one, needs more development though https://github.com/tecoholic/tawiktionary

Re: [Ilugc] A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 16:10, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Link: > https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1118_combo10/en/US https://donate.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FundraiserLandingPage?country=IN&template=Lp-layout-default This year INR support is newly added, above link / any ba

Re: [Ilugc] photo upload tool for wikimedia commons

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 14:09, Shrinivasan T wrote: > is there any tool or plug in for bulk upload for wikipedia commons? > Commonist[1] is a Free Software for the same which is widely popular, there are other tools / solutions too. Some amount of search on commons / google might help / you coul

[Ilugc] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Sumana Harihareswara Date: Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 00:57 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012 To: wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org On 12/14/2011 12:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > You are invited to

[Ilugc] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Come help us test the Android app before it goes to market

-- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Finc Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 04:27 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Come help us test the Android app before it goes to market To: Wikimedia developers We've been getting great bug reports from our testers but can always use more. If you have an Andr

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] wikipedia: partial blackout ?

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 14:23, 0 <0...@0throot.com> wrote: > as explained on this Technical FAQ page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/English_Wikipedia_SOPA_blackout/Technical_FAQ for more details. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http:/

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest good tutorial or book for Python

On 13 June 2015 at 16:21, Siva prabu wrote: > Hi friends, > > Please suggest good tutorial or book for Python [Beginner to advanced level > ]. > ​​ > regards, > @gsivaprabu​ > > I have found codecademy[1] very easy to learn as its learning by doing than reading. If you familiar with basics of pro

Re: [Ilugc] [[OFF-TOPIC]] Block pop-ups in browsers on tablets/phones

Hi, On 20 October 2015 at 11:11, sahil साहिल wrote: > I am struggling to block pop-ups while searching on my Tablet on > Chrome/Firefox browsers. Sometimes it is so disturbing and annoying while I > search something along with kids and all of sudden some obscene sites > comes. Do you guys have a