[Ilugc] 26th Inauguration of computer society of MIT

2009-08-29 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
We inaugurated the activities of the computer society of MIT for the current academic yr. We are proud to tell that Dr. P.Sriram, the founder of ILUGC was the chief guest. We are fortunate to have had his invaluable speech ___ To unsubscribe, email il

[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 63, Issue 119

2009-08-29 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
enkatachalam) > 5. Re: Shocking news for IT professionals (pavithran) > 6. Re: Re: [SFD09] Volunteers Meet (arulappan shanmugam) > 7. Stall for SFD (NavTux) > 8. 26th Inauguration of computer society of MIT > (Vignesh Nandha kumar) > 9. Re: Re: [SFD09] Volunteers Meet (R

[Ilugc] (no subject)

2009-08-29 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
It is so glad to knw abt the kerala govt's plan to give ubuntu preloaded laptops to MLA's If i am right I think TN govt also supplied govt schools wit systems having open suse... ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe

[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 63, Issue 121

2009-08-30 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Ya... Madras Institute of Technology:-) ___ 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] SFD new demo from MIT

2009-08-30 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
We, students from Madras Institute of Technology, would like to do a demo on "Utilities such as cd burning, printing etc" (one of the topics mentioned as "must have" in the volunteers meet) on SFD.. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.

[Ilugc] T-shirts for SFD

2009-09-08 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, I want 5 SFD t-shirts. 3 'M' size wit collar, 1 'M' size without collar, 1 'S' size wit collar. Can u plz tell how to make the payment? when n where shall i get those tshirts? ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe "

[Ilugc] Customizing validation errors in Django form

2009-09-12 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, I'm a newbie to django. I'm developing a site. In d reg page all d validation errors are displaed wit bullets, above the field. can anyone tell me how to make them displayed beside the input box? (I dont know if this is too silly to ask in such a mailing list. If so plz tell me). thanks in

[Ilugc] Re: Carte Blanche - Computer Society of MIT

2009-11-13 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, IMHO, one of the hurdles in switching to GNU/linux, that most of my friends feel, is the mindset that the softwares for linux are hard to find and install, mostly for those who don't have internet access. Won't it be nice if there is a stall at Carte Blanche where the most commonly used sof

Re: [Ilugc] RMS meet at Chennai - training for organizers

2012-01-25 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
losophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] RMS meet at Chennai - training for organizers

2012-01-26 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Bharathi Subramanian < bharathi.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > 4. He likes Indian music. Last 2 times, MIT students organized short > music session for him. > Classical music, to be more specific. Not Indian film music :P -- Vigne

Re: [Ilugc] RMS meet at Chennai - training for organizers

2012-01-26 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
e dictionary. The attempt is not to clarify, but to > purposely and mischievously mislead to misinterpret. > Ok, let it be. You have a better term to replace "free"? If you have one, we can at least ask him why he didn't choose that. Btw, puns and figures of speech are com

Re: [Ilugc] RMS meet at Chennai - training for organizers

2012-01-26 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
o just Linux kernel . > > and say free software and not open source. > Not even FOSS. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] alternate to skype

2012-02-09 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Raja Subramanian wrote: > On Feb 10, 2012 5:38 AM, "Shrinivasan T" wrote: > > > > is there any free open alternate to make toll free calls? > > Google Voice. Is that Free Software? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar __

Re: [Ilugc] Image Compressor.

2012-02-20 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Hi, [1] http://trimage.org/ On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Saravanan Selvamani < saravananselvam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi , > > I need of a image compreser for the jpeg and also for the png format . I > searched through google and found some option . [imgopt, jpegtran,optipng, > advpng, and

Re: [Ilugc] Need Volunteers for ILUGC Website - enhancements

2012-02-26 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
27;t support that. - Vignesh Nandha Kumar ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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

2012-02-27 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Feb 27, 2012 7:18 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. :) In git you can get changes in every commit for the given file as: git log -p path/to/file -

[Ilugc] Clean URLs in drupal

2012-03-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
27;m using drupal 7.12 with LAMP stack in Ubuntu. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Clean URLs in drupal

2012-03-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
le/default fixed it. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] managing a mailing list

2012-03-05 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ibe / unsubscribe option > . archiving > > I suppose I can install mailman on our site. > Any other options ? > Mailman is more than enough for your needs. Try it out, will be pretty easy to use. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in _

Re: [Ilugc] Google Chrome browser blocks Kaniyam

2012-03-06 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Venkadesh > > > PuduvaiLUG Mailing List: > http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/mailing-list-guidelines/ > FOSS Jobs all over India: http://fossjobs.in > ____

Re: [Ilugc] css lost in kaniyam

2012-03-12 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
://www.kaniyam.com/download/kaniyam-03.pdf -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Call for articles - Kaniyam E-Magazine for FOSS in Tamil

2012-03-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Hi, On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > > Please send any content related to Free Open Source software as > article, translation, cartoon, fun images etc. > > send to edi...@kaniyam.com I'll write part-2 of the emacs tutorial and try to send ASAP. --

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
govt. textbooks for classes 11 and 12 in .pdf format. I had to > update 8 packages after connecting to the internet. They have just > shifted the top panel to the bottom to make it more "windows-like". > Overall, BOSS works fine and fast.. It ha

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
..@ae.iitm.ac.in [mailto:ilugc-boun...@ae.iitm.ac.in] On > Behalf Of Kumaran R > Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 5:55 PM > To: ILUG-C > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review > Kindly avoid top-posting. Interleaved replies is the preferred style of posting. -- Vign

Re: [Ilugc] opera tamil unicodesupport

2012-05-11 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
icode. Tried setting specific font for Tamil, as in this: http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/opera.html in addition to setting the encoding to UTF-8 but no use. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] OpenVPN's greatness

2012-05-13 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
rs. Not a single soul has learnt it. May be because it's a LINUX user group? :) -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Summer camp

2012-05-14 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
eeded to conduct this. Also, unlike weekends, people other than students will have to take leave from office. If you are interested in organising this, please go ahead. People who are interested will join you. Btw, which workshop 2 years back are you talking about? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar h

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]ILUGC member in TOI

2012-05-29 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
umaran. > +1 Hats off Kumaran! All the best. :) -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Career Building Program – 1

2012-06-03 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
him. > > Please don't post these type of ad mails, it may affect the genuinity of > the ILUGC mailing list. Thank you so much for your concern. But, don't make such personal attacks and avoid stating your personal views as facts. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhaku

Re: [Ilugc] the browser VM

2012-06-07 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Btw, JSON has replaced XML in the web in the recent years, thanks to its much simpler yet much more powerful representation. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] the browser VM

2012-06-07 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > > A web programming language , particularly web 2.0 like Ajax or jQuery > > or JSON/XML requires a > > thorough knowledge of the context; ie, web components. > > Those except XML are not languages. > Eve

Re: [Ilugc] synaptic manager for linux in windows

2012-06-09 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
either i need linux 10.0 or i want an application similiar to > synaptic manager which will list applicatons as i type in windows for > linux.please help me. > > umar > ___ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo

Re: [Ilugc] duckduckgo

2012-06-11 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
___ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] the vi editor

2012-06-13 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
macs by selecting region and pressing C-M-\ . Again I'm not saying emacs is superior (though it may be), but asking you to stop making such arbitrary statements. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Why these emails, Girish? (Was Re: the vi editor)

2012-06-13 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
is wrong among his statements. Can this be considered trolling? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Why these emails, Girish? (Was Re: the vi editor)

2012-06-13 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] What will be the future of WordProcessing and Spread Sheet

2012-06-14 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ow Google drive) is replacing MS office slowly, thanks to the "love" for cloud in the recent past. But sadly it doesn't support odt files fully. IIRC, it supports only viewing and not editing of odt files. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Comments - new website for ILUGC

2012-06-21 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
s flash. I feel using flash in a LUG website is counterproductive. Found a widget that uses javascript, from a quick search. http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2006/picasa-web-wordpress-widget/ Haven't used it. Will try it and post the feedback. -- Vignesh Nandha Ku

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Comments - new website for ILUGC

2012-06-21 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:57 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN < arunpalaniappan@gmail.com> wrote: > It is not opening!! Pls check > What is not opening? Use interleaved replies, so that people can get the context. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshna

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Comments - new website for ILUGC

2012-06-21 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
a very broad term that includes a lot of new features and I don't know which part you are talking about. The term is often loosely used and even CSS3 is said to come under the umbrella term. Did you mean HTML5 canvas? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in __

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Comments - new website for ILUGC

2012-06-21 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
hich in turn in dependent on boilerplate . > Interesting combination - bootstrap and html5boilerplate. Will try this out. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Are we planning SFD for 2012.

2012-06-23 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
MIT (It was my first year of college at MIT and that's where I got introduced to FOSS, by working as a *non-tech* volunteer ;)), it was more like an SFD - demo stalls and some talks. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___

Re: [Ilugc] 3 days FDP program at AMS college

2012-07-02 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
shocking. There were very few staff who attended with genuine interest. But making that interest sustain requires lot more effort than such 2-3 day programmes, IMHO. P.S: I'm not generalising things. I'm just saying what I observed. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar h

Re: [Ilugc] best practices for backup and restore on upgrading

2012-07-03 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
inspite of all this, I invariably lose data - any other tips? Installing /home in a different partition than the root is helpful to some extent. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-03 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ould be below the previous reply. Like this :) -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] new website - http://ilugc.in

2012-07-03 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
nt to be better visible for search engines, use appropriate tags. For example, as far as I could see, most of the sub-headings in the posts are simply bold text, rather than . In wordpress, you can use Ctrl+2 to make the selected text as , Ctrl+3 for , etc. -- Vi

Re: [Ilugc] Mailing List Etiquette

2012-07-03 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
linglist-guidelines/. I understand the pdf was prepared long back. However, we can get the odp file from http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/mailing-list-etiquette.odpand update the link, as it is under GNU FDL. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vi

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
med posting" in the guidelines. I think "trimmed" covers your point. May be it's too subtle. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
p-posted replies, many of us would feel like "Who asked this guy to reply? He should have better kept quiet". Exact same thing here. When you create something to be consumed by a community, either make it as best as possible or don't do it at all. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://v

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ng. > > If you cannot, do everyone a favour by going and doing something else. > > Formulating a reply on a mailing list - or contributing code to a > > project, or filing a bug report or anything else worth doing is worth > > doing well. > -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Software Survey -Reg

2012-07-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
me from the list. > Come on dude, get rid of this complaining attitude. This is a community. If you feel something is not right, just say so. Don't humiliate yourself. If you say something wrong, you would learn it from the replies to it. But *learning* f

Re: [Ilugc] Mailing List Etiquette

2012-07-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar > wrote: > | Good one. The link labelled "ILUG-C guidelines" in References (last > slide) > | is broken. I guess it should be http://ilugc.

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Techtalk on RT-Linux in Ilugc...

2012-07-06 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Just thought you may be interested. Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in On Jul 7, 2012 11:17 AM, "Shrinivasan T" wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: "Anil Rajesh" > Date: Jul 7, 2012 10:47 AM > Subject: Techtalk on RT-Linux

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: Techtalk on RT-Linux in Ilugc...

2012-07-06 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Sorry for the wrong mail. Intended to forward to my friend. Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in On Jul 7, 2012 11:35 AM, "Vignesh Nandha Kumar" wrote: > Just thought you may be interested. > > Vignesh Nandha Kumar > http://vigneshnandhakumar.in >

Re: [Ilugc] best practices for backup and restore on upgrading

2012-07-07 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
op right of my screen with the mouse to do that ... > I'm used to Alt+Tab even before Unity and Gnome3 came and I find it much easier. I was thinking that most of the programmers or anyone who uses keyboard more use Alt+Tab rather than clicking. -- Vignesh Nandha

Re: [Ilugc] dual boot success

2012-07-15 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Jul 15, 2012 6:54 PM, "kenneth gonsalves" wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:12 +0530, Arun Khan wrote: > > FreeBSD? > > been there, done that - I want some sexy distro that no one else in the > LUG uses. BOSS? ;-) -- Vignesh Nandha Kum

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

2012-07-23 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
both pastebin and vimeo. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Grep two lines from text file with different A and B switch

2012-07-26 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
twork Activity" -e "MD5 " But I'm not sure if it's possible to say -A5 to only one of the patterns. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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

2012-08-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
g to have an article about this great man in Kaniyam this month. People who have valuable information about him (other than what has been already shared in this thread), please share it here. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUG

Re: [Ilugc] What is the easy way to collect data using wordpress?

2012-08-09 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
t us" form plugin, you can add any custom fields to it. But once a form is submitted, the visitor cannot go back and edit it. I think the other contact forms suggested here are similar in this aspect. We need something like custom content type in drupal, if I understood the requirements cor

Re: [Ilugc] Not in Office

2012-08-18 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ive ILUGC messages. > > We could put in guidelines to request members to put their accounts on > hold when they turn on their vacation auto responders. > +1. We learn from mistakes ;) -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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

2012-08-18 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ing the document. Rather you write markups and styles, (think of HTML and CSS) and then you export it to PDF or other formats to view it. What are the advantages of using LaTex or what difference does it make? > With LaTeX, you can do much complex things, like complex mathematical equations,

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

2012-08-18 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
f superscripts, absolute positioning of individual characters (like in the way how LaTeX is usually written) are possible in Libre Office? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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

2012-08-18 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar > wrote: > > > > Really? Things like multiple levels of superscripts, absolute positioning > > o

[Ilugc] Kaniyam August issue released

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
/kaniyam-08.pdf -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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}}

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

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
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 > That's nice. Thanks for clarifying. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://v

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

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 a

Re: [Ilugc] Kaniyam August issue released

2012-08-20 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
by a simple css change. Will try to fix it soon. Thanks for the feedback. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [FSFTN] Software Freedom Day discussion - PuduvaiLUG

2012-08-26 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
g list, you are feeding spam bots. If you really want to share them, use munged form. And, please do not cross-post. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Acceptable behaviour? was (Re: Foss based solutions providing Organizations in TamilNadu)

2012-08-30 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ediately. > +1 -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Posters for Software Freedom Day 2012

2012-09-06 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arambakkam -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil Translation

2012-11-17 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Nov 18, 2012 3:36 AM, "Arun Pandian" wrote: > > Hi, > Is it possible to have a competition like this? and we > would like to have the list of free softwares that can be translated to > tamil. Have a look at translatewiki.net -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar htt

Re: [Ilugc] Foss.in started and see it live now

2012-11-28 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
ce - my desktop is the only system active on the LAN. > The hasgeek tv was launched just a few days back and is in beta. Probably it is too buggy. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu for Phone

2013-01-03 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
. This was actually released in Ubuntu 12.10 itself. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Interactive session with RMS at Carte Blanche, MIT

2010-02-27 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hello, I feel proud to say that we had a tele talk with Richard Matthew Stallman as a part of the Carte Blanche celebrations at MIT, Chennai. It included questions from multifarious areas like GNU HURD to 'asking him to sing'. It started at 7.30 pm and lasted for about 45 mins. He was firm i

[Ilugc] Re: Wanted Coordinator!!

2010-05-28 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
On Friday 28 May 2010 20:03:06 ஆமாச்சு wrote: > Having mingled will all of us, for such a long time, Barathi can nominate > one as his successor, based on who stood with time when it mattered most, > during the tough times of ILUGC. > >அது கூட உழைச்சவங்களாவும் இருக்கலாம் இல்ல பார்த்த மாத்திர

[Ilugc] Re: Our New Office Boy - T Srinivasan

2010-05-30 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hearty congratulations to Mr.Shrinivasan T. All the best for the future activities. -- Cheers, Vignesh Computer Society of MIT. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Promotion of FOSS

2010-06-11 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
> I am belongs to Kovilpatti,a part of tuticorin district.here no such > awareness on FOSS and even the usage of computers to many peoples.To > eradicate such issues and increase the e-literate peoples in our area,we > start working with a foundation called Sakthi FOSS Foundation. Hats off to you!

[Ilugc] Powerful and extensible PHP framework

2010-06-20 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, I'm trying hard to identify a good web framework in PHP - which has more features and extensibility as well. Plenty of frameworks are available, but which one to choose? According to the comparision in http://www.phpframeworks.com , Akelos has more features than others. But, those who ha

Re: [Ilugc] Powerful and extensible PHP framework

2010-06-22 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
>> >> Try Codeigniter! http://codeigniter.com/ >> > > i heard this is good. other considersations are symphony, cakePHP etc. > > one opinion i have related to framework. > Almost every framework available, have some limitations or the other. rather > than asking people, its better you try and use

Re: [Ilugc] Request for non-native language speakers in any LUG's mailing list

2010-07-16 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
>It can be called ilugt (t stands for Tamil Nadu) or ilugct (ilug chennai >tamil). Will iitm host this list? If community decides to start such a new mailing list, Computer Society of MIT would like to host it. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar, Chairman, Computer Society

Re: [Ilugc] Request for non-native language speakers in any LUG's mailing list

2010-07-16 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
>Is there a web interface for MIT computer society mailing lists? If you set >up a ilug-tamil list, all those who want to communicate in Tamil will >subscribe. Please set up the list and let us know. > >Best regards > >Ma Sivakumar Yes we have the interface at http://lists.csmit.org As I said alre

Re: [Ilugc] [TAM] ????? ??????? ?????????? ???????

2010-07-16 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
>> வணக்கம், > >Hello. > >> >> நாளைய கட்டற்ற மென்பொருள் தொடர்பான கூட்டம் அறிவித்தபடி மூன்று மணிக்கு >> நடைபெறும். >> >> ஆயினும் நாளைய கூட்டத்தின் விவாதப்பொருளாக வைத்திருந்த உபுண்டு கையேடு - >> பெடோரா கையேடு - கேடியீ தமிழாக்கம் உள்ளிட்ட விஷயங்களை தவிர்க்க இயலாக >> சூழ்நிலைகள் ஏற்பட்டதால் அடுத்த மாதத்

[Ilugc] Re: Humble request to revise the mailing list guidelines..

2010-07-18 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
>this list >has been set a guideline that is suppessive & biased. > >If you feel the same way, I request you to all to suport us in this thread so >that it is realised and amended accordingly. Requesting to add Tamil tag is fine. But commanding to give the English translation is suppressive & bias

[Ilugc] PHPLIVE - monthly PHP meet

2010-07-29 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, We (Computer Society of MIT and KanchiLUG) have planned to conduct a monthly meet for PHP, named PHPLIVE on every first Saturday. PHP, being one of the most widely used languages for web applications, has attracted a lot of people towards it. To make it more familiar to begin

[Ilugc] Mailing List for PHPLIVE

2010-08-01 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Hi, A mailing list has been created for PHPLIVE, which would be a discussion forum for PHP LEARNERS. I would like to make it clear that it's not to fork PHP discussions from this list (or any other list). It's just to encourage beginners in PHP and to help them learn from basics. To subscribe to th

[Ilugc] Conference on Free Tamil Computing

2010-08-07 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Greetings, Yaavarkumana Menporul Arakkattalai and Computer Society of MIT are conducting a conference on Tamil Computing on 28th of August, 2010 at MIT. The key purpose of this conference is to initiate new projects in Tamil computing, by bringing together those who are interested in contributing

[Ilugc] PHPLIVE first meet held on Aug 07

2010-08-07 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Greetings, The first meet of the PHPLIVE monthly meet was held yesterday at MIT at 3.00 pm with a total strength of 12 students. Akilan presented a talk on basics of PHP and web scripting. Sorry for posting it too late guys. Was held up with some urgent works. Those who are interested in presenting

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Introduction session at MIT,Chennai

2010-08-09 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Raman.P wrote: > Dear luggies, > On behalf of ILUGC, today (9 Aug 2010), I gave a presentation on > Introduction to FOSS in MIT, Chromepet,Chennai on the occasion inauguration > of their Computer Society. About 250 students mostly first year, attended > the session

Re: [Ilugc] Re: want to know about LAMP

2010-08-10 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Ranjith Kumar wrote: > For installing LAMP, follow this link > http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_lamp_for_newbies > or > execute this command, > sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 mysql-client-5.0 mysql-server-5.0 > phpmyadmin libapache2-mod-php5 libapache2-mod-auth-

Re: [Ilugc] Call for Volunteers for Software Freedom Day 2010

2010-08-12 Thread Vignesh Nandha kumar
Please count 10 members (approx) from Computer Society of MIT. As Internet connection is not available to all I am posting here on their behalf. I'll give their details soon. -- நன்றிகளுடன், விக்னேஷ். ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mai

Re: [Ilugc] [Lengthy reply] Making a Career in FOSS [New Business]

2011-03-01 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Chandrashekar Babu wrote: > Hi, > > Late reply - I hope you must be convinced by many replies. > Here are my thoughts hoping that they might help you: > > **Warning: Its a lengthy reply** > Though lengthy, it's a very clear reply that will give a vivid picture of

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

2011-03-02 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > Shall we meet there on coming saturday March 4 at MIT? > A small correction - It's March 5 (saturday). Thanks. -- விக்னேஷ். http://krvignesh.wordpress.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: htt

Re: [Ilugc] Request for Volunteers - Preparing LAB Manual for Anna University Syllabus

2011-03-02 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: > > The Lab is facilitated with linux machines and internet connection. > > > > The Linux distribution is Fedora-14 with 6400+ packages installed in each > machine (i better suggest creating video screencast for some of the topics > in the sy

Re: [Ilugc] Need help regarding Umbrello

2011-03-02 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > Hi friends, > > I tried to install Umbrello, A UML modeller in Ubuntu 10.04 using the > following command: > > *apt-get install umbrello-kde4 > > *but it says:* > " E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with >

Re: [Ilugc] Can't able to create a folder

2011-03-06 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Thoufi Tiger wrote: > Hi > I tried PHP as specified in lab manual of FOSS Lab but > Which lab manual are you talking about? The one started at MIT yesterday is not completed and I think this we shall discuss the corrections off-the-list, as it will be making no s

Re: [Ilugc] FIRST WEB SITE!

2011-03-06 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Hi, On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Suraj C.R. wrote: > Hey all at iLUGc. I have some good news. I have made my first web site for > my college department. IT is up and running, so please visit us at > http://comspec11.in > > Please feel free to suggest any change. It may ha

Re: [Ilugc] Guidelines for the FOSS Lab Manual Project

2011-03-07 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Vijay Kumar B. wrote: > A set of guidelines for the FOSS Lab Manual Project is available at > http://foss-lab-manual.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/guidelines.txt > The last paragraph says: > Please do not commit generated files to SVN. Only the AsciiDoc text file > s

Re: [Ilugc] Guidelines for the FOSS Lab Manual Project

2011-03-08 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 15:27 +0530, Arun SAG wrote: > > In GIT there is a file you can add to your project named > > ".gitignore", > > where you can add the list of file extensions that git should ignore. > > In SVN > > there must be somet

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