Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 8.04+Sound problem

2008-05-20 Thread Sujith
te some documentation! I think the recent version of alsa don't require mucking around with asoundrc to enable dmix and software mixing. It works out of the box. Right now, I don't have a custom asoundrc and I can open up as many instances of mplayer I want. Maybe he is using a sound s

[Ilugc] Talk

2008-05-23 Thread Sujith
Can the organizers of the next meeting confirm if this is possible ? Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/m

[Ilugc] Speakers

2008-06-06 Thread Sujith
tro: Luis R. Rodriguez. One of the hackers behind ath5k - the reverse engineered Atheros WLAN driver [1]. And the current maintainer of compat-wireless package. [1] http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath5k Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To

[Ilugc] Best version control mangement systems in LInux

2008-06-06 Thread Sujith
SVN would be your best option. Or if you prefer a decentralized/distributed system, I would say, go for git. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of

Re: [Ilugc] Intruders cracked my Server

2008-06-19 Thread Sujith
her brute force attacks. Sujith ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Talk by Luis Rodriguez

2008-06-20 Thread Sujith
The slides are here: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/presentations/ Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the messa

Re: Google vs MS (Was Re: [Ilugc] Google vs Yahoo, again!)

2008-07-02 Thread Sujith
uch as releasing "really cool" FOSS tool. The motive is the > same. The approach, different. > [snip] That was one awesome, unholy rant. :) Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECT

Trend mongering (Was Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?)

2008-07-03 Thread Sujith
y software is written. Emacs for example. It might be a kitchen sink, but when you get a complete desktop environment that fits within a few megabytes, I am more than willing to accommodate it. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, em

[Ilugc] New wireless driver in town

2008-07-19 Thread Sujith
Hi, A brand new driver has been released for 11n Atheros chipsets. More information can be found at: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: [Ilugc] network driver

2008-08-10 Thread Sujith
s not needed. Checkout the 'iwlwifi' driver, it supports both 3945 and 4965 chipsets. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] re: key mapping

2008-08-25 Thread Sujith
appreciate any sort of help or > > pointers to fix this. > man xmodmap Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] 2nd Indian SVN Full-Committer

2008-08-26 Thread Sujith
cal and not remote, which makes it almost instantaneous, merging becomes a really trivial affair. I have the entire history locally, so tracing/bisecting a bad commit is possible. Yes, you are right that there a few final gatekeepers who manage the releases, but it encourages a model where your

Re: [Ilugc] 2nd Indian SVN Full-Committer

2008-08-27 Thread Sujith
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > On 26-Aug-08, at 11:15 PM, Sujith wrote: > > > Yes, you are right that there a few final gatekeepers who manage > > the releases, but > > it encourages a model where your code will be reviewed by many > > people b

Re: [Ilugc] multilingual terminals?

2008-11-18 Thread Sujith
vt though, which lacks UTF-8, but hey, I check my mail in Emacs anyway. :) Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.

Re: [Ilugc] multilingual terminals?

2008-11-18 Thread Sujith
n't have a complete fontset that supports all Indic languages. But I am using intlfonts that bundles a wide range of fonts for Emacs. And sadly, Tamil is missing in that package. :( Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email

[Ilugc] Conrolling screen brightness globally.

2008-12-03 Thread Sujith
x27;xbacklight -set ' to my login manager's Xsetup file did the trick. I have a xdm theme, so the location is /etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/Xsetup. You just have to find out your login manager's X init scripts location and add all that you want to Xsetup. Sujith -- http://sujith-

Re: [Ilugc] Wireless cards available locally that work on Debian

2009-01-05 Thread Sujith
Roshan George wrote: > Thanks for the tip, if you use it with a desktop, what is the PCI card > that you have installed in a PCI slot there. > This should help: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/PCI Also, pretty much anything by Atheros would work out of the box

Re: [Ilugc] Anyone at MIT, GOI listening?

2009-01-15 Thread Sujith
behind about it. If the Indian society can learn how a global > recession feels like, sure enough, they can learn to live with > sabbaticals too :). > 'rat's behind' ? See, that is hypocritical too. 'Rat's ass' rolls of the tongue nice and easy. :-) Sujith --

Re: [Ilugc] why does apt-get not always ask for confirmation

2009-01-16 Thread Sujith
mation. > This is borked. Installing packages silently without the user's permission is certainly bad. What difference does it make if the package size is small ? Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@a

Re: [Ilugc] why does apt-get not always ask for confirmation

2009-01-16 Thread Sujith
to eliminate > surprise all together, then use the "--download-only" switch to > download the relevant packages before installing them. If you feel > that the surprise level is too high then set "Trivial-Only" to > "True". Does the same behaviour exist i

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

2009-01-26 Thread Sujith
Venkatraman S wrote: > btw, finally got my Hardy boot times<30 sec...and shutdown is lighting fast. Wow, 30 seconds ? My Arch machine boots in about half of that. :) Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilug

Re: system bootup time (Was Re: [Ilugc] What logs to check for a system crash?)

2009-01-27 Thread Sujith
Ashok Gautham wrote: > > Both Venkatraman and Sujith, can you please share your hardware setup > > and what did you do to shorten the bootup time. > > > Well. I run arch too. I am not exaggerating, but my Arch boot time is 9 > seconds. > I backgrounded all the daemo

Re: [Ilugc] Help on Tight VNC, x11vnc

2009-02-05 Thread Sujith
n > ssh -L :localhost: -f -q -N a.b.c.d >This starts a tunnel which connects from the client machine port > to the port on the server machine. Hm, shouldn't that be NNNN:remotehost:MMMM ? Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com

Re: [Ilugc] Help on Tight VNC, x11vnc

2009-02-05 Thread Sujith
about this: A machine with a private IP running a server ( say IRC on 6667 ), and another machine with a public IP which can access the private machine. In this case, a tunnel can be created from a third machine (my home machine, for example) as: ssh -L ::6667 Sujith -- http:/

Re: [Ilugc] Help on Tight VNC, x11vnc

2009-02-06 Thread Sujith
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > This is indeed possible and an idea which is probably a good > alternative for the querent. Never heard of the word 'querent' until now. :) And the querent is conspicuously silent on whether the replies answered his queries. :) Sujith -

[Ilugc] Webcam and Wifi in DELL laptop working with ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron

2009-02-11 Thread Sujith
Bruce Mathew wrote: > My laptop loaded with ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron has problems with its webcam > and wifi. > It seems ubuntu doesnt support dell webcam and wifi for inspiron 1525 > models... What wireless card ? Can you post the output of sudo lspci -v here ? Sujith -- h

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
ree desktop environment, the point is moot. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
de 'FOSS' as part of the organization's name and use a non-free OS internally. :) Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
#x27;windoze'. And IMO, we have achieved feature parity with Windows - meaning there is really no need to cling on to it. So maybe, all that is needed here is a little education and imparting of some hardcore GNU theory to the 'doze' users. :) Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
lications one of the excuses to use Windows ? My point was - that is no longer true since Linux has pretty much a complete application stack. I don't think we are even arguing here. You do acknowledge that Linux is far superior to 'doze', bu

[Ilugc] Installing KDE alone from a Fedora 10-kde-x86 Live CD

2009-03-12 Thread Sujith
; to know if there is any way to install just KDE 4.1 from fedora onto > my arch system. If there is no way, I'll download it any way. The RPMs can be extracted, but I doubt it would work without a lot of mucking around. And even if it does work, your upgrade path is screwed. I would sugges

Re: [Ilugc] mercurial

2009-04-03 Thread Sujith
he Church of St.IGNUcius - http://www.stallman.org/saint.html Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Where to look for the definitions of functions like printf, scanf, sine etc.

2009-04-10 Thread Sujith
Muralidhar Kamidi wrote: > Hi, > > I want to look at the source of functions in the library. Where would I find > them. http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@a

[Ilugc] Re: Where to look for the definitions of functions like printf, scanf, sine etc.

2009-04-12 Thread Sujith
Mohan R wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Sujith wrote: > > > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/ > > Also this, > > http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/pdf/libc.pdf > > If you need source, download the tarball. &

[Ilugc] Making NetworkManager retry a connection at specific intervals

2009-04-15 Thread Sujith
cant is started in the background, and if the AP drops out for some reason, wpa_s periodically issues a scan request to the driver and automatically reconnects if the AP comes back online again. No 'human intervention' is required. :) Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com ___