Re: [Ilugc] free music : what happened - whats happening - why its happening

2008-06-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Senthil Sundaram (sensunda) wrote: WHY ITS HAPPENING --- there are lots of other things going on in the Net about ownership. Music and movies and various other forms of culture are being distributed better by children than by people that are being paid to

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees

2008-06-30 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: the biggest hindrance to Tamil medium students is that they are afraid of people making fun of them for trying to learn english. An atmosphere created by politicians who keep insisting that Tamil be medium of instruction (while making sure that their children/grandchil

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees

2008-06-30 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Senthil Mohan Murugaiyan wrote: Do you really think bus stop names are written in "English" in Bangalore (or) Hyderabad (or) for that matter in the NCR? I dont think so. I know it's not the point, but just to be sure, please check the next time you visit Hyderabad, all the bus stop names will

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] self taught programmers vs programmers with degrees

2008-07-01 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
benjamin wrote: I've not seen any bus stop names painted in English. You are not insinuating that "English" is written in Kannada...;) if you insists, try these pictures :-) Lol. Reminds me of this: http://xkcd.com/386 V. ___ To unsu

Re: [Ilugc] Re: which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-06 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
sriram wrote: ubuntu, debian and fedora all have the same update schedule on the ftp.iitm server. fedora generates more traffic on the server than anything else. Just curious, what is the up-link bandwidth like? V. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMA

Re: [Ilugc] Ruby

2008-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Ashok Gautham J. wrote: I dont intend a flame. I prefer Ruby's way over Py's way. But it looks like though Ruby was surging forward near 2007, there are many projects in rubyforge et al. that are outdated. Half the bindings seem half done. Some are inexistent. That is pretty strange. Can you g

Re: [Ilugc] Ruby

2008-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Venkatraman S wrote: Forgive my ignorance, but why would one require PyGTK in Ruby? If you want to write GTK apps in Ruby? (you can already do this with ruby-gnome and Shoes , I meant they might not be as polished/comprehensive as PyGTK). V. _

Re: [Ilugc] Ruby

2008-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: agreed: 1 case of beer python and ruby webdev libraries and resources to be put up in a wiki Raman (a perl guy) to be the judge. If you accept the bet I will set up the wiki page and we can go ahead Sorry Kenneth, I don't drink and I have better things to do. Just lik

Re: [Ilugc] Ruby

2008-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Venkatraman S wrote: and hence the problem with product development. We have forgotten the latency times. *Every* context switch(read 'microsecond') consumes time. We talk about scalability issues , but we notice latency times only when GOOG replies back with the hit-list after 'n' seconds. (i di

Re: [Ilugc] Ruby

2008-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: this is not about which is the best language - i agree with you there - each to his own choice. This is about a specific statement you made that ruby has more and better web resources than python has. This is not a question of opinion - which would lead to a flame, but

Re: [Ilugc] Ruby

2008-08-16 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Anthoni Shogan wrote: What happened to this thread? did the OP come up with his problem? Nope. V. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/il

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

2008-08-28 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Rahul Sundaram wrote: The merit of implementing this social norm using a technical barrier is of course debatable. Precisely Uh, I know we are deviating from the topic, but why would that be debatable? DVCS aren't made just for making gatekeeping easier; they are made so that maintaining

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

2008-08-28 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Social norms are different from technical barriers. Traditionally it has been tied together because systems like CVS and others that mimic it haven't offered a better model. Refer to the earlier links I have given to understand this better. I still don't get it. Why is b

Re: [Ilugc] memory problems with server

2008-09-02 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: hi, for the past 2 weeks I am having memory problems with a server. I restart apache, and within a few minutes top shows all RAM and all swap used. The server becomes almost unresponsive until apache is restarted. Can you give some tips on how to find out which particu

Re: [Ilugc] memory problems with server

2008-09-02 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: which log files? and what do I check for? Apache. And whatever apps you are using, if they have their own log files. Disable all the sites and bring them up one by one. You should be able to isolate what's gumming up the works. From whatever little information you

Re: [Ilugc] which one is the best CMS

2008-09-09 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: you would have made it in 2 minutes with plone KG, please refrain from doing this. Such generalized, sweeping statements defeat the purpose of having informed discussion. How do you know what kind of site he did and how much functionality he added? Do you know hi

Re: [Ilugc] which one is the best CMS

2008-09-09 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Raja Subramanian wrote: Perhaps the whole point KG is trying to make is that it's meaningless to make claims such as "you can create a website in X mins using foo". Well, if he's attempting humor, then a smiley would help. It's not the first time we've read such one-line answers. Just l

Re: [Ilugc] which one is the best CMS

2008-09-11 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I did not reply to your original post because I do not think this list is a place for preaching and lecturing people on how and what to post. Talking about breach of rules is one thing, this kind of sermonising is another. Well, there's not much I can do if you co

Re: [Ilugc] Error while installing rubygems-0.9.4 in fedora core 6

2008-10-01 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Dinesh Kumar wrote: i sorry to say !! i am admin for that server . i will to do the source compile and install rubygems As a rule, you don't really have to depend on your OS' version of rubygems. Plus, you're using a very old version of RubyGems. Please consider upgrading to a ne

Re: [Ilugc] Error while installing rubygems-0.9.4 in fedora core 6

2008-10-02 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Dinesh Kumar wrote: Good News i have installed the rubygems 1.3.0 but the problem rdoc is not installed !!! rdoc is part of the standard ruby distribution, so you'll have to depend on your OS' way of installing it. I haven't touched Fedora in ages, so I'm not sure how you would g

Re: [Ilugc] Giovanni Maruzzelli's Asterisk speech at ILUG-C Oct 11th

2008-10-08 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Giovanni Maruzzelli wrote: Dear all: if you agree, I would like this kind of topic for my speech at ILUG-C Oct 11th: chan_celliax and chan_skypiax, how to add gsm and skype channels to Asterisk Agenda: Very cool, did I miss the announcment for this month's meet? Time, etc? I don't see an

Re: [Ilugc] RMS and Cloud Computing

2008-10-09 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Mano wrote: In fact, in a discussion in this list long ago it was generally accepted that freedom is only an issue if s/w is being distributed without source code. If there was no distribution involved and only 'use' as by a cloud computing service provider, there was no problem!!! Well, yo

Re: [Ilugc] Linux and ISPs

2008-10-13 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
benjamin wrote: Why didn't your friend ask for an Ethernet Modem? I have their Ethernet Modem which rocks :-) for three years now. +1 for Airtel. Close to 3 years for me too. I've heard good things about BSNL, but I probably cannot expect a BSNL engineer to visit me within 4 hours of givin

Re: [Ilugc] [JOB][OT][Commericial] Job opening for fresher 2008 passed out

2008-10-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Ravi Jaya wrote: Dear All, Assured Placement Training Program Does marking it OT make it any more tolerable to post such 'offers' on this list? Pardon me, but the whole thing sounds exploitative, and I call it spam. -1. V. ___ To unsubscrib

Re: [Ilugc] [Cross Post] Ubuntu Getting Strong On Servers?

2008-10-17 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: I trust most of the friends are aware of this. There has been a lot of doubts over using Ubuntu on servers. But recently Wikimedia and Internet Achieve have started to migrate to Ubuntu servers. I guess this will build confidence in those who want to use Ubuntu on servers.

Re: [Ilugc] [JOB][OT][Commericial] Job opening for fresher 2008 passed out

2008-10-18 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Karanbir Singh wrote: Finally, nothing there about how people might handle Job, Commercial, semi-OT subjects. Also, there is no guideline that says what sort of content is welcome and whats not. Emphasis seems to be only on howto post and what sort of formating to use etc. Nothing about content

Re: [Ilugc] a good editor

2008-10-21 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] wrote: It's really nice and fast, but doesn't support smarty ".tpl" files. :( Shouldn't be too hard to write a plugin? :) V. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of t

Re: [Ilugc] Mukta software and the scientific method (Was Re: Scientific REsearch ...)

2008-10-26 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2008 04:22:18 am Rahul Sundaram wrote: தியாகராஜன் wrote: In all counts , Astrology is a science. Nope. http://www.americanhumanist.org/about/astrology.html what does this prove? The only consistent thing about science is that

Re: [Ilugc] Mukta software and the scientific method (Was Re: Scientific REsearch ...)

2008-10-26 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Rahul Sundaram wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2008 06:02:00 am Rahul Sundaram wrote: how about belief in God? Are scientists allowed to believe in something that is not proven to exist? Only as a hypothesis with a very low to non existent probability. +1. Also, wher

Re: [Ilugc] Mukta software and the scientific method (Was Re: Scientific REsearch ...)

2008-10-26 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Roshan Mathews wrote: When you heathens burn in hell, the rest of us will laugh our way to the promised land, will point fingers at you all too. Ha! Heh. Probably this totally does not belong here, but I tell my religious female friends - if I'm going to hell, I'm totally looking forward

Re: [Ilugc] Mukta software and the scientific method (Was Re: Scientific REsearch ...)

2008-10-26 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Heh. Probably this totally does not belong here, but I tell my religious female friends - if I'm going to hell, I'm totally looking forward to it, coz I can finally meet some bad girls :p How can you be so sure that bad girls in hell will fall for you? Are you bad

Re: [Ilugc] Starting a new software company

2008-11-09 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
siva moorthy wrote: - where i hav to register the company first First you might want to consider if you want to register it as a 'company' in the first place. Normally, 1 or 2 member concerns, being a proprietorship will do. Being a 'company' has it's own set of formalities. If you're sma

Re: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (APT-GET)

2008-12-01 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Bharathi Subramanian wrote: Is there any free blog site, where I can blog thru email?? http://posterous.com/. Simple, and totally rocks. V. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message

Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-02 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: Hi, While the sum of money is accumulated with the investor, the sum of knowledge in the form individuals is extremely difficult to unite for wide range of reasons, which the investors exploit (for individuals involved seldom come together against investors'

Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-03 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: Agreeable. But that's not what I asked for. I would like to now "Are Employee - Employer agreement different in a FOSS company compared to that of a Proprietary Company?, If so How? and on What aspects?" It's not like I worked at a ton of companies, but

Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-03 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: What would you say on talks and sessions organised by people around at various Conferences on "FOSS business models"? I was thinking those invited to talk at those sessions are such people who run business with FOSS. Shouldn't theirs be called a FOSS company?

Re: [Ilugc][OT] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-04 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Dhakshina Moorthy K.M. wrote: 4. Emp - Emp relations, is like a Man seeking a woman to produce babies. What the Man does with the babies is upto him. Whether he puts him in the Army - open source ,(or) put him in the family business - closed source (or) put him in the top 10 mnc and make mone

Re: [Ilugc] Doubt on 3gp video conversion

2008-12-06 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Shrinivasan T wrote: He has a problem with the h263 codecs. Which package is to be installed to get these codecs? I think ubuntu-restricted-extras. Am I right? Normally ffmpeg with w32codecs/w64codecs should handle pretty much any format under the sun. Did he try that? V. __

Re: [Ilugc] not comfortable with intrepid ibex

2008-12-08 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Mon, 08 Dec 2008, Zico wrote: It has been two days, upgraded myself ( means, my laptop) into Intrepid ibex from Hardy. But, actually i am not feeling too much ok with this Intrepid. This is a bit late perhaps but do you know why you upgraded from

Re: [Ilugc] Need contributors for a open source project.

2008-12-10 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Prakash A S wrote: Dear All, I am searching some enthusiast students for one of my open source project called "Accelerometer based Wireless joystick". The students should have basic knowledge in embedded systems, Linux and C programming language. The project duration is 3 months. For furt

Re: [Ilugc] way to grow the indian FOSS Movement

2008-12-10 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
india nathan wrote: Dear LUGs, Mr. Kennath was exposed his thought about the ways to grow the Indian FOSS Movement in current month LFY guest column. I don't know about KG, but I would be slightly miffed if somebody misspells my name. Please, when you refer to somebody in public take some

Re: [Ilugc] Dec Month ILUGC Meet

2008-12-13 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Saturday 13 Dec 2008 9:22:52 pm Ashok Gautham wrote: I am intrigued as to why the LUG meet is on Saturdays. I have college on all Saturdays and so find it impossible to come to the LUG meets. (I mean it. EVERY saturday. We even have a regular 7 hour timetable for t

Re: [Ilugc][OT] Dec Month ILUGC Meet

2008-12-15 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Venkatraman S wrote: -V- Ahem. C'mon man. Now I have to think of a new sig? :) V. ___ 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] beginner in python needing help

2008-12-25 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Raja Subramanian wrote: My personal gripe with PHP is that support for namespaces was added very late. And let me add mine. I'm not very familiar with PHP and how it's coded elsewhere, but I once had to integrate a rather popular open source PHP blogging/forums engine into an existing RoR

Re: [Ilugc] beginner in python needing help

2008-12-25 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Rahul Sundaram wrote: That's right. It isn't fair to blame the language for poorly written code either. I'm not so sure. PHP is not exactly a general purpose language. It's meant for writing web apps. And db-driven ones at that. They are bound to get big sooner or later. Not providing for

Re: [Ilugc] Demolition of Chennai Conspir acy Theory (Was: Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Comrades’ new-found love with IT)

2009-01-04 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Vikram Vincent wrote: the "Chennai conspiracy theory" stands demolished. What the heck is that, and why should we care? V. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http:/

Re: [Ilugc] Re: This is T.Arulalan, doing M.C.A in Saveetha Engg College(Mohan R)

2009-01-12 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
K.C. Ramakrishna wrote: எல்லாம் சூப்பர்.. ஆனா இவ்ளோ தெரிஞ்சுகிட்டு கடைசியா சம்பளத்திக்குத் தான் வேலை பார்க்கணுமா? ம்ம்ம்... Translation please!! I am from AP and can't read Tamil. Ah. Old chestnut. Unfortunately we have our own share of language fundamentalists here, so you're be

Re: [Ilugc] beginner in python needing help

2009-01-12 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
technocraze wrote: The list of good languages in my own unusually partial opinion are C, perl, python, lua and javascript. -Giris The latest ROR seems to be overtaking python.. one of my friend ordered it as ruby,python and PHP Oh, so they're conducting a popularity contest between gene

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

2009-01-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: given the present salary structure, the governent cannot afford to employ competent programmers. Max that NIC or CDAC pay is between 14-25K a month. The moment a person gets some experience, he leaves for the private sector. The max that NRC-FOSS pays for an engineering

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

2009-01-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: What we need are experienced people who want to take a sabbatical. Perhaps that's where the answer lies for both Shuveb's question and yours. Perhaps an organization like NRC-FOSS can have tie-ups with companies wherein employees can take an year's sabbatical and w

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

2009-01-15 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Venkatraman S wrote: The the larger question is the Indian Societal Structure and the distance-factor that good-programmers(geeks) have from it. Sabbaticals are still a dream (according to me) for many Indians Well, don't get me started on the 'Indian Societal Structure' - from what I've seen

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

2009-01-15 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Sujith wrote: 'rat's behind' ? See, that is hypocritical too. 'Rat's ass' rolls of the tongue nice and easy. :-) Heh. Just being considerate towards spam filters, but you might have a point there :) V. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae

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

2009-01-25 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: ubuntu has a habit of releasing untested stuff - and winds up giving a bad name for linux After close to 3 years of using it on desktops & servers, I find it rather hard to believe. Care to back it up? V. ___ To unsubsc

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

2009-01-26 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Monday 26 Jan 2009 11:32:41 am Vamsee Kanakala wrote: After close to 3 years of using it on desktops & servers, I find it rather hard to believe. Care to back it up? no You're just making it difficult for people to take you seriously. Unless

Re: [Ilugc] Reverse Debugging tool

2009-01-30 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
ini iniyan wrote: Hi all, Is there any tool in open source to support Reverse Debugging? Ages ago I had loads of fun with DDD: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/. See if that works for you. V. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae

Re: [Ilugc] to learn web development.

2009-02-09 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
sivaji j.g wrote: Start with joomla then move on to drupal, moodle etc. Uh-huh. From my perspective, that's a very bad place to start. Sure they're popular, but I've seen programmers permanently scarred by the 'php mindset'. They can't grok good app design if it hits them on their head. P

Re: [Ilugc] [OT][COMMERCIAL] need a web designer

2009-02-17 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Anand wrote: Or YAML (http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html) or 960(http://960.gs/ ). I believe the former is better documented. There are plenty, actually - when it comes to well-documented, I'd nominate this: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/ There's a nice grid builder too, though not m

Re: [Ilugc] which one is best? firefox or opera

2009-02-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Shrinivasan T wrote: Hi, Will you please tell me, which one is best in linux and then why? Firefox is an open source applicatipn Opera is a closed one. The best is up to you. We could add a few more - try the acid2 test on each browser. And decide for yourself. http://www.we

Re: [Ilugc] FossConf 2009 Prize

2009-02-25 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Bharathi Subramanian wrote: now 8K Fine. Tmrow night, Myself, Raman and Amachu are going to Mdu. I am not sure about the possibility of the collecting the money before Friday. So I decided to give the money on behalf of all. KG and Baskar, I will collect from you in FossConf. Others Plz se

Re: [Ilugc] feedback needed

2009-02-27 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Roshan George wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 20:47 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: hi what happens when you click on 'play' in this: http://arichuvadi.nrcfosshelpline.in/web/displaylesson/1/21/ Works in Firefox 3, Ubuntu 8.04 x86_64. No window popup, no mention of what plugin is used.

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பா ஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக் கப் பட்டறை

2009-03-04 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: please go and start a Tamil linux group +1. Not because I care whether this list will be full of Tamil or because I won't be able to read it (the pragmatic people will just move to other lists), but just for the reason that I distrust fanatics of all persuasions

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பா ஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக் கப் பட்டறை

2009-03-05 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Translated: 2009/3/4 இராமதாசன் : "Imposing restrictions like you must frame your mails like this, subjects like this etc. seem to impose a unneeded challenge on those who find it difficult to express themselves clearly in English, and it is hurtful to them. That is what

[Ilugc] [JOB][COMMERCIAL] MySQL Tuning Expert in Chennai

2009-03-16 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Hey guys, A friend/ex-client of mine is looking for a MySQL tuning expert in Chennai. Their DB just hit 1TB, and they need some help with managing/trimming that. If you have experience doing this and can help them, please send me your profiles with a short blurb. Thanks, -- Vamsee. ___

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Recommend a web based PRoject Management Tool

2009-03-20 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Shrinivasan T wrote: My friend told that www.redmine.org gives a ROR application in the same category. Redmine indeed is a good project management tool. We've stopped using it in favor of a web-based product maybe an year back (after the sysadmin overhead on maintaining so many apps got to m

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Recommend a web based PRoject Management Tool

2009-03-20 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Shrinivasan T wrote: Got some new links. http://simplegroupware.de/cms/ http://www.kimai.de/ http://bambooinvoice.org/ http://collabtive.o-dyn.de/ ActiveCollab was a fairly popular open source rip-off of Basecamp (the big-daddy of project management web products, which I don't like all that

Re: [Ilugc] XSL 2.0 Editors

2009-03-24 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Venkatraman S wrote: Hi, Am hunting for some good XSL 2.0 editors/IDE , as none of the modern browsers are xsl 2.0 compliant. Oxygen happens to be good, but is not 'free' - suggestions? I presume you've seen this already? http://treebeard.sourceforge.net/. There are a few alternatives list

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org is not functioning properly.

2009-03-30 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
balachandar muruganantham wrote: few reasons why we should not use trac for chennailug.org 1. trac cannot be used because trac is meant for Project management and bug/issue tracking. whereas mediawiki is meant for creating collaborative content websites. earlier ilugc members used our mediawiki f

Re: [Ilugc] chennai lug hosting

2009-04-01 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 1. try shared hosting -- it's very cheap (Rs 5000 per year), or what kind of shared hosting? We need shell access as a minimum and even webfaction is about 20 USD a month Slicehost offers a pretty good package at $20 pm. Linode offers an even better deal:

Re: [Ilugc] mercurial

2009-04-02 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: but since python is shifting to mercurial, it tipped the balance for me. Makes sense, since the Ruby world is overwhelmingly git-based :p -- Vamsee. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] mercurial

2009-04-02 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: the main reason they gave for not going for git is the perceived unfriendly attitude of the git community ;-) I guess Hg being written in Python has also got something to do with it :). I've never had to deal with the so called 'unfriendly git community', as there'

Re: [Ilugc] Need Perl Developer !!!

2009-04-03 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
anbu mani wrote: Hi friends, There is an immediate Opening at Scintel Technoligies Chennai !! Please put a [JOB] tag when you post next time and try not to make it sound like a sale announcement. Also please post the relevant mail id next time - no matter how desperate they are, I don

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
pavithran wrote: On Wednesday 22 April 2009 14:04:04 Arun Khan wrote: no - it should come to the list. We are building morale and community here. We want a lot more members to get involved next year and this is one way of motivating them. Everyone likes to be publicly praised and congratulated.

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Rahul Sundaram wrote: On 04/24/2009 06:18 AM, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: +1. And it will also shut up those forever moaning about India not having enough FOSS contributors. Let a thousand flowers bloom :) I hope it doesn't shut up some of the valid criticisms of the general

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
satyaakam goswami wrote: good to know about your observations , so what's your take should they be recognised publicly or not ? I already answered that with a +1 :) -- Vamsee. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscri

Re: Please congratulate GSoC'ers directly (was Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009)

2009-04-24 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 24 April 2009 11:24:00 Rahul Sundaram wrote: Sure but assuming that SoC considers "stickiness" as a major measure of their success, it is only fair to evaluate it on that regard. I forget the exact figure, but google's statistics show that the 'sticki

Re: [Ilugc] Asterisk VoIP Workshop

2009-04-27 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: Dear All, I'm offering Two Days Workshop on VoIP using Asterisk on chargeable basis at Chennai location. The workshop will be conducted on Saturday and Sunday for 6 Hours each days. If anyone is interested can mail at npkash...@gmail.comfor course details and fees.

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Request to Digest Mode Subscribers

2009-06-22 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
p.sriram wrote: well, there is a web front end through the news gateway at gmane. this can be used to reply to list postings (like i am doing right now). the gmane web front end is at http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc I'd also like to add a read-on

Re: [Ilugc] Recommendation needed to select Linux VPS hosting service

2009-07-04 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: 1. slicehost 2. gandi I would also add Linode to the list. Though Slicehost in itself is pretty excellent, Linode offers more bang for the buck with more RAM and disk space for pretty much the same money. Also, Slicehost offers Xen-based VPSes on a x64 architectu

Re: [ilugc] chennailug.org went down or hacked?

2009-07-10 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 10 Jul 2009 12:31:13 pm sivaji j.g wrote: No the site has nothing to with Jaya Engineering college folks. It is maintained by some freelance who pretend to be using drupal since 4.x. I even spoke with him to get the site credential and help him but he seems

Re: [ilugc] chennailug.org went down or hacked?

2009-07-10 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
balachandar muruganantham wrote: I have been maintaining the chennailug.org site and ilugc.in (which started few days ago) I am listening to all the discussion going on here and i am curious to see lots of people eager to help make the chennailug website up and running. Thanks for all your inter

Re: [ilugc] chennailug.org went down or hacked?

2009-07-13 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 5:45 PM, balachandar muruganantham < mbchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Are you ready to donate/transfer ilugc.in to somebody who can maintain > > this on a more regular basis? As far as I know, you're no longer in > Chennai, > > and obviously you will be that much more

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

2009-07-13 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Shakthi Kannan > > > A domain owned by someone who takes responsibility for renewal every > year, and who can be contacted via e-mail, or phone, or in person when > needed by any member in this mailing list. +1. > > > --- > | leave the technology / wiki / stat

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

2009-07-13 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Vamsee Kanakala > wrote: > > And so on so forth. Any problem with that? > > > If this is a call for votes, then Aye, Sounds Good. Also a call for action ;). I just registered

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

2009-07-13 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Vamsee Kanakala wrote: > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Roshan Mathews wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Vamsee Kanakala >> wrote: >> > And so on so forth. Any problem with that? >> > >> If this is a call fo

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

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > > Why is a static site considered a good idea in this time and age? If your > concern is that a CMS-managed site can be hacked while a static site can't > be - well, yes, it is more difficult to attack a pure static site. I believe sta

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

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > > To state what you will already know - there are some very capable CMSs out > there - from large "enterprise-class" ones such as Liferay, Plone etc to > the smaller ones such as Joomla. Some of these products content > versioning, separ

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

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Sorry, I'm replying from the cumbersome gmail interface than my regular thunderbird one, so the formatting and headers might be off. >PK wrote: > What exactly is the workflow you have in mind for how the static website > is going to be updated? Whether you use an SCM or not you are going to > have

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

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:43 PM, balachandar muruganantham wrote: > > discussion is being deviated from the subject. Its not the discussion about > static or dynamic website. > We need to decide that first. All the rest of the features that people requested can be added as subdomains/vhosts to the

[Ilugc] ILUGC.ORG is up, request for comments

2009-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Hi all, I've had some free time yesterday, and was able to setup a basic structure for ilugc.org. Right now, all the other domains, ilugc.com, ilugc.net and ilugc.info should redirect to www.ilugc.org. I'm not sure about the status of ilugc.in, because Balachander seems to have put a static

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC.ORG is up, request for comments

2009-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Bharathi Subramanian wrote: ilugc.in is a community site. Bala is registered it for ILUGC and he assured that it will remain as community site. Plz don't make parallel sites for ilugc. Hmm. I don't understand. So why are we even having these long discussions about the site? What's the way forw

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC.ORG is up, request for comments

2009-07-19 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Shrinivasan T wrote: As there are too many opinions about the site, I think he is trying some of them and will give us a better one. I'm sorry if I'm coming across as pushy on this one - I wasn't shy to admit that I was on vacation, and the updates to a discussion thread might come slow. M

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC.ORG is up, request for comments

2009-07-20 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Bharathi Subramanian wrote: I requested bala to implement this before releasing it to public. Thats main reason behind the delay. Okay, but I find that strange, given that we were still debating static pages or wiki. Last I know, some of us continued to make arguments in favor of the stati

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC.ORG is up, request for comments

2009-07-20 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Roshan George wrote: Looks great. A minor niggle, though. Why is the content license CC-BY-SA but the license displayed on the page CC-BY-NC-ND? Reading through the licenses, I thought CC-BY-NC-ND would be appropriate too (along with Bala) since some of the content will only apply to ilug

Re: [Ilugc] Project idea: "Integrating a compiler as a plugin for browser".

2009-07-22 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: this time, i posted in the group -- since i am also trying to ask and answer questions : what purpose and what is being attempted? If there is some quick positive response, we can get them going. otherwise, we can guide them differently. I think it indeed is a

Re: [Ilugc] Project idea: "Integrating a compiler as a plugin for browser".

2009-07-22 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: hi all: a group of students from PSG Tech (guided internally by one of their lecturers) are interested in working on an open source project on "Integrating a compiler as a plugin for an open source browser". Also on second thoughts - if they're planning towards

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Linux VPS and Reseller @ Indian Datacenter

2009-07-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Tanya wrote: Hello, For Linux fans we have launched our most saught Linux VPS Plans at Indian Datacenter. We utilize worldclass Parallels' virtuozzo technology. You're definitely not winning any fans by hijacking threads, that too with a bad timestamp. Vamsee.

Re: [Ilugc] final year project

2009-07-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Santosh wrote: Do a little more research and pick up something more challenging to the *final* year standards (I had seen people doing AI or cloud computing). I'm not so sure. She'll probably learn more useful stuff re-inventing the wheel rather than doing some fancypants topics that she'll pr

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Linux VPS and Reseller @ Indian Datacenter

2009-07-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Tanya wrote: Vamsee, I thinnk the thread has been marked with appropriate tag. If you don't like it I can hardly help you with that. No thread or email can win any fans unless they are convinced by themeselves after trying out something. Heh. It's not about me liking it or not - I've expr

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Linux VPS and Reseller @ Indian Datacenter

2009-07-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Tanya wrote: Thanks for pointing out the timestamp . I will take care of that in future for sure. I am a new member so it will take time to know everything. Rome was not definitely built in a day. Most international vps providers give the basic plan you're providing (guaranteed 256MB RAM, vir

Re: [Ilugc] final year project

2009-07-23 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Santosh wrote: Plugins are small time not really worthy of becoming projects. Just my thoughts. I have to disagree again. I've seen my share of fresher CVs, and if there's anything remotely related to something "wrote an xyz plugin for gedit", trust me, it would get my attention. Unfortuna

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