Re: [Ilugc] help:suggest off line blog publishing software

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM, aadhil wrote: > i need off line blog publishing for ubuntu 9.4 it wold full futures compare > to windows live writer and the software want to support blogger platform I don't really know what Windows Live Writer provides as features (and, it would help if you point

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora 11 Leonidas Release Party @ Chennai

2009-05-20 Thread sankarshan
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Aanjhan R wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Rahul Sundaram > wrote: >> If there is interest in organizing a activity day, there are a bunch of >> things that can be done to encourage contributions including organizing >> a packaging workshop/ documentatio

Re: [Ilugc] accounting software

2009-06-07 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:42 AM, wrote: > Is there a open source software available with respect to tally. There has been a recent thread on the LUG-Bombay list about GNUKhata -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Wh

Re: [Ilugc] Brainstorm for OpenOffice

2009-07-01 Thread sankarshan
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Friends. > > Today, had a discussion with MS Office Lovers to test OpenOffice. > > They had deep love over the UI and the fancy functions. > > They tried writer and spreadsheet. > > We compared with Word and excel 2007. > > Really, OO lacks in

Re: [Ilugc] NASSCOM trying to ruin Open standards adoption?

2009-07-07 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Arun SAG wrote: > It seems to be, one of the  microsoft's puppet is trying to ruin the open > standards (ODF) adoption in india, by trying to *adjust* the draft in last > minute. > For those who believes in open standards, freedom are urged  < > http://techfandu.blog

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] discussions on tamil translation

2009-10-22 Thread sankarshan
ding suggestions) fairly accurately. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> Sent from Brisbane, CA, United States ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] discussions on tamil translation

2009-10-22 Thread sankarshan
f does not happen is something I don't have an idea about. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> Sent from Brisbane, CA, United States ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe &qu

Re: [Ilugc] LaTeX

2009-12-21 Thread sankarshan
somewhere ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] LaTeX

2009-12-21 Thread sankarshan
elpful. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [ANN] tamil fonts

2009-12-23 Thread sankarshan
hensive test case suite for fonts is required at this stage. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> Sent from Brisbane, Qld, Australia ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [ANN] tamil fonts

2009-12-24 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 1:08 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Thursday 24 Dec 2009 11:50:53 am sankarshan wrote: >> > http://bitbucket.org/malathisuji/nrcfoss-au-tamil-computing-activities/ >> > >> > all are welcome to contribute >> >> An aspect of font

Re: [Ilugc] gnome and projectors.

2010-03-22 Thread sankarshan
fedora 11. Can you check if you have gnome-display-properties available as a command to run which pops up the multiple screen configuration GUI ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Query on CentOS

2010-03-22 Thread sankarshan
t connection.(Same problem i had faced > while i installed RedHat) > Please give me suggestions to overcome this problem. > Waiting for your valuable reply. Does the installed Operating System see your network card ? What does a lspci -vv say ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http:/

Re: [Ilugc] SchoolOS beta1 - Available for Download

2010-04-21 Thread sankarshan
o have. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] (Shankari.ttf) Tamil Unicode Font with Tamil Numerals

2010-05-13 Thread sankarshan
License", "glyphCount":"281", "characterCount":"164", "orthographies":[ { "commonName":"Basic Latin", "nativeName":"Basic Latin", "supportLevel":

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

2010-07-15 Thread sankarshan
2010/7/16 ஆமாச்சு : > We swear to do that, in case of Marati in ILUG Mumbai's list, Hindi in ILUGC > Delhi's list, Telugu in case a Hyderabad list, Kannada in case of Bangalore > list. Marathi ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankars

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Blog release from OLPC-India

2010-08-07 Thread sankarshan
on behalf of OLPC-India) just want to give another proof where the current system of Governance in India is NOT supporting OLPC. : and that is somewhat orthogonal to point #3 above. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> __

Re: [Ilugc] a note on BOSS

2010-08-16 Thread sankarshan
ol, apart > from a suitable version of grub installer. Thanks for the note, would it be possible for you to provide the specific URLs to the source code for the above 3 items - the Bulk Document Converter, Presentation Tool and, the grub ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.ran

Re: [Ilugc] remington keyboard for ubuntu

2010-09-14 Thread sankarshan
ed, an additional keyboard layout could perhaps be created. There is indeed a proliferation of typewriter keyboard(s) which is what I think is meant by "there are many remington keyboard types". -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> _

Re: [Ilugc] alternative to poedit

2010-09-14 Thread sankarshan
he team that develops Pootle also develop virtaal among other translation tools and widgets. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] alternative to poedit

2010-09-14 Thread sankarshan
a year back on the various tools I tried before settling down. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora 9 (Sulphur) Released

2008-05-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Gowthaman Basuvaraj wrote: the mirror list returned by http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?path=pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os/ gives ftp://mirror.wbut.ac.in/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/i386/os as first mirror and is dead jigdo fails repeatedly... Putting the admin o

Re: [Ilugc] resize / (ext3) with no LVM(2) - using fdisk and ext2online - possible?

2008-05-28 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Balu manyam wrote: | heh - good one on the parted - I havent tried that - and about the resizing | partitions on the fly http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin-guide/s1-parted-resize-part.html (URL might wrap around) -

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-03 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aditya M wrote: | 2) Ubuntu now manages all its own packages. If debian shuts down (and | I agree thats its rather unlikely), Ubuntu will manage. In any case, | Ubuntu now contributes quite a lot back to the debian project. When you use the term 'ma

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-03 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aditya M wrote: | On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:14 PM, "Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- |> Hash: SHA1 |> |> Aditya M wrote: |> |> | 2) Ubuntu now manages all its

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-03 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: | IIT appears to be moving towards Debian...The DCF of my department (computer | science) shifted all desktops from Suse to Debian Etch recently. My lab | (RISE) shifted all desktops from RHEL/Fedora to Debian Lenny recentl

Re: [Ilugc] which Linux distros are dying?

2008-07-04 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > WHY I RECOMMEND DEBIAN: > > 1. It is not controlled by any company > 2. Superior design (Ex: /usr/sbin/update-alternatives) > 3. Stability (Ex: Used on the space shuttle mission STS-83) > 4. APT > 5. FAI (Fully Automatic Installation) > Santhosh Kumar J wrote: Firs

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

2008-07-06 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
-M server in place, it does make a significant difference to the mirror coverage in India. ~sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhwg6YACgkQXQZpNTcrCzN6QACgu2VGUn2YBbe0H3aZMQimvewR

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox 3 performance

2008-07-14 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Arun Khan wrote: Desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 (32bit) Firefox: v3.0 (ubuntu package) I have 10 tabs open in FF, in top it comes out with the highest CPU (avg. 29%) and mem (avg. 8.0%) usage. This is not much different from what I was seeing in FF 2.0. Others getting better numbers? Someone on pla

Re: [Ilugc] Acer server problem

2008-07-19 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 indianathan n wrote: | In my office, Acer altos G540 Server was purchased. specification is, | processor: Intel Dual-Core Xeon 5110 / 1.6 GHz, Dual-Core, 64 bit computing, | RAM: 1 GB, DDR II SDRAM, 1 x Serial Attached SCSI - integrated HHD. | |

Re: [Ilugc] Tool for analyzing SVN Log

2008-10-29 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
Thanigairajan murugan wrote: > Is there any tool for analyzing SVN Log through Apache? > (Like SARG which generates report of squidlog through Apache) http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/avuori/projects/svnloganal/ worked for whatever limited requirements i had ___

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
Atanu Datta wrote: > What about the mail merge feature in OOo? Not the same thing, he is looking at something like http://mailtweak.mozdev.org/ but for KMail. ___ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of t

Re: [Ilugc] kmail and mail merge

2008-11-12 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Atanu Datta wrote: > >> What about the mail merge feature in OOo? > > Not the same thing, he is looking at something like > http://mailtweak.mozdev.org/ but for KMail. Just to clarify - you can use OO.o Writer MailMerge to compose the messages for a list of addresses a

Re: [Ilugc] multilingual terminals?

2008-11-17 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
varadarajan narayanan wrote: > I use Ubuntu with SCIM (Smart Common Input Method package). SCIM supports > many Indian languages and with a patch from CDAC you can use it for Open > Office also. Of course you need to know the key mappings and there are > phonetic system also (when you type > angr

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd : Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero?

2008-11-25 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
sivaji j.g wrote: > forward message from my friend . > > > Is Open Source Software a Race To Zero? > > gozunda writes "My company is an open source software > vendor/developer. We maintain a popular open source project and keep > ourselves afloat by producing commercial products derived from or

Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-08 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
ம. ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M wrote: > How would an Employee Agreement of a FOSS company differ from a > Proprietary Company? While its total surrender of everything at > Proprietary Companies for a monthly salary how are FOSS comapanies > different in this regard? Since it is a 'Company' it wou

Re: [Ilugc] Employee Agreement of a FOSS company

2008-12-08 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
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 c

Re: [Ilugc] NRC-FOSS Wiki Page Vandalized

2008-12-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it was vandalised and fixed also thanks to Koushik Narayanan - and I will > disable anonymous editing when wikipedia does. A small request is to periodically review the speaker list so as to keep in updated. -- Yo

Re: [Ilugc] is FOSS methodology structured ?

2008-12-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran wrote: > 2) As in any SDLC workflow (carried out in formal Software Engineering > practices), > a) is there any well-defined documentation available at each stage of > project progress, so that > those documentation would

Re: [Ilugc] is FOSS methodology structured ?

2008-12-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran wrote: > Fundamentally is FOSS development methodolgy analytically structured ? > As we see, almost any FOSS s/w development activity is caried out in an adhoc > manner and most of the decisions are made out of human instincts. http://opens

Re: [Ilugc] RE: Axis Bank webpage

2009-01-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Parthan SR wrote: [snip] > If the web designers keep KISS in mind and create web sites which are simple > and clean, they can very well create things which work fairly well on most > browsers (at least Firefox, Opera and Safari in addition to IE). Not to mention

Re: [Ilugc] VPN in FC10

2009-03-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Ashish Verma wrote: >> Can you install NetworkManager-vpnc and check if you can add this VPN >> connection using the .pcf file and the wizard within NetworkManager ? >> > NetworkManager-vpnc has been installed, however how do I load the .pcf file > to it. There is

Re: [Ilugc] VPN in FC10

2009-03-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Ashish Verma wrote: > I want to make a connection from a FC10 machine to a vpn box. I currently > connect to the box from a Windows Machine using "VPN Client" (this is the > name of the software). However now since I want to do the same from FC > machine, I instal

Re: [Ilugc] VPN in FC10

2009-03-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Ashish Verma wrote: > I was able to load the pcf file. However, how do I start the communication > to the vpn server. I mean in Windows, there is another device created for > the VPN connection. How does it work here. How do I route traffic for the > specific IP

Re: [Ilugc] Fate of MySQL, the fate of Open Source?

2009-04-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: [snip] > Also OpenOffice, JBoss, Java, Virtualbox, Glassfish and Netbeans are safe. JBoss ? -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw Sent from Pune, MH, India _

[Ilugc] [Cross-Posted] [Commercial] Quality Assurance Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune

2009-06-04 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
The following Quality Assurance Engineer roles are in the process of being hired at Red Hat (Pune). Interested candidates may send in their resumes to careers-in at redhat dot com. Please mention the role in the subject line of the mail. *Quality Assurance Engineer* As a Quality Assurance Eng

Re: [Ilugc] About GPL Licensing on a plugin

2012-02-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
gt; We feel we can add more improvements to that product. My question is can we > use that plugin for our own SaaS service? Would that be legally fine? Would you like to ask the question at <http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss> ? More information at <http://ww

Re: [Ilugc] Need Source code for "Leave"

2012-02-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
to point you towards how to get it packaged, reviewed and available from the repos. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Lecture capture software in Linux...

2012-02-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
ions, and > of course my own audio and if possible, a small video of my face as well. Would <http://www.kaltura.org/> meet your requirements ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] Lecture capture software in Linux...

2012-02-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Sundaram Ramachandran > wrote: >> Is there any decent lecture capture software in Linux? I am teaching some >> subjects - Microprocessors, Open Source Tools and Compone

Re: [Ilugc] Lecture capture software in Linux...

2012-02-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
with the Pune LUG folks or, <http://www.sudhanwa.com/>. <http://bprim.org/> have used bigbluebutton for a while. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Help with GUI for project work required!

2012-03-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
o suggest > suitable solution. A bit tangential to your query but if a non-GUI/CLI version is available for use and functional, it would be a nice idea to package it and make available via the repositories. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.ran

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt. Free Laptop Review

2012-04-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
s (2:58) while doing light web-browsing and playing music > (max. brightness and max. volume). Overall, the design is good with a > good textured feel. It feels solid to hold, and doesn't have lots of > flex. Do use powertop to see if you can configure some of the tunables. -- san

Re: [Ilugc] Open source and business

2012-07-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
s driven. And, in either case you are helping to increase the share of the product. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Two very interesting links

2012-07-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
x27;t make for much of activity. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] headphones in fedora 17

2012-07-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:59 PM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > update - the headphones work out of the box on my wife's much newer > laptop running Fedora 16 If you play music/sound on the F17 box, do you get a sound output ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com

Re: [Ilugc] headphones in fedora 17

2012-07-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:54 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 20:17 +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: >> If you play music/sound on the F17 box, do you get a sound output ? > > yes - but only on the internal laptop speakers - the headphones are mute Can

Re: [Ilugc] Viewing tables of Sybase Database on linux

2012-08-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
tp://www.dbvis.com/features/feature-list/> is something you could take a look at. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ 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 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Karthikeyan A.K wrote: > But one thing is sure, I just know that this group consists of people who > do more talking about FOSS than any credible thing. How did you arrive at this certain conclusion ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://tw

Re: [Ilugc] What Killed the Linux Desktop, by Miguel de Icaza

2012-08-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
cation development in. What are the shortcomings that you see ? Could you provide an example ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] What Killed the Linux Desktop, by Miguel de Icaza

2012-08-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 8:06 AM, A. Mani wrote: > Crap article based on FUD about GNU/Linux adoption and incompetence of > the author. incompetence ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailin

Re: [Ilugc] What Killed the Linux Desktop, by Miguel de Icaza

2012-08-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
architecture (and, Miguel/Nat along with other re-jigged the desktop environment with enough horsepower to make it relevant). > I think Linux Desktop is alive and ready for BigTime. Its future will be > decided not by the DE projects, but by the distros. The distributions are the car

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Job opening: Executive Manager for the Wikimedia India Chapter

2012-09-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
le number of frequently updated developer opportunities. As an aside, it is probably a good idea to take time to spell out the names correctly (I notice that you have mangled Jimmy Wales and Bill Gates). -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.co

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil computing and open source

2012-09-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > >> we need more computer professionals to learn linguistic skills. Tamil needs >> lot of tools like corpus, spell checkers, grammar checker, morphol

Re: [Ilugc] how irctc works

2012-10-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
s-successful-transactions-on-irctc-payment-gateway/> provides a somewhat dated (till September 2011) breakout of the transactions on IRCTC. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.a

Re: [Ilugc] Review W8

2012-10-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
link as of 2012/10/28 21:35 IST. In addition to the above it is not clear whether the OP wanted to initiate a discussion themed around aspects of the OS or, merely wanted to pass across a collection of reviews. The latter is easily done via <http://www.techmeme.com/search/query?q=Windows+8&w

Re: [Ilugc] freedom toaster

2012-11-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
untu-in, a few years ago, when it > was first launched. Not sure if it was setup anywhere in India though. <http://www.zyxware.com/articles/2008/09/01/zyxware-announces-launch-of-indias-first-freedom-toaster> -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

Re: [Ilugc] test driving fossacademy.org

2013-01-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
omething by design or, is it something that will evolve ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] test driving fossacademy.org

2013-01-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > yes i did put up a small course on the front page, My apologies, I didn't realize at first that <http://fossacademy.org/en/courses/4/web-is-my-school/> is a course ! -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.

Re: [Ilugc] Inputs solicited for a story

2013-03-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
s on this. So the story idea goes like: How > important are FOSS certifications when it comes to the job market? When you say "FOSS Certifications" what do you mean? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan>

Re: [Ilugc] Inputs solicited for a story

2013-03-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
lumns/rasheeda-bhagat/decoding-zohos-success/article4379158.ece I am tempted to say "One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy." But then again, you do have the chance to posit Z

Re: [Ilugc] File sync between two locations

2013-03-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 6:44 PM, ashwin kesavan wrote: > Simple rsync tool should be sufficent. It can operate over ssh and sync > only the differences. The advantage unison would provide over rsync is bi-directional mirroring. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/s

Re: [Ilugc] Git web interface

2013-03-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
.php/Gitweb> suit your purpose? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Linus Torvalds To Join Microsoft To Head Windows 9 Project

2013-04-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Dhastha wrote: > http://itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-to-join-microsoft/ > > Is this correct? dated APRIL 1, 2013 ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mai

Re: [Ilugc] Akash Tablet 60$

2013-04-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
who proposed providing it at a subsidized price to students." [...] -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source: A Security Imperative!

2013-04-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
ionals in the Bangalore and Delhi software development centres to accomplish the task." -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Why India Should Use Open-Source Software

2013-04-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
o want to read <http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html> -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Why India Should Use Open-Source Software

2013-04-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
ou conclude as you did, then I have totally failed in my explanation. I'd like to understand more as to why you think creating a distribution is imperative when contrasted to creating policies, frameworks and, being able to provide incentive for adoption of those. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay &

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Suggestion

2013-04-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
share their webex recordings to lug members ... G+ Hangouts on air (on YouTube!) are another option. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Why India Should Use Open-Source Software

2013-04-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
e a bureaucratic mess of things. > Having an unambiguous standard, codified in the form of the national > distribution, may be the more efficient way. A standard/guide/policy is not equivalent to a national distribution. > Hence, I conclude: "One distribution t

Re: [Ilugc] Opinion solicited for a story idea

2013-04-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
miliar with should one try to begin to contribute to open source software. A beginner should pick a project/tool/application/service (s)he loves and, if the selection has an open source community, get involved by asking smart questions about where one can begin to contribute. -- sankarshan mukhopadh

Re: [Ilugc] [Link] Code quality - Open source vs. Proprietary software

2013-05-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
do things the right way or, at least tell people that you have a piece that is currently ugly but will be revised. So, the evolution from "passable" to beautiful is transparent and collaborative. Now, the question remains around which model of software development would you default your trus

Re: [Ilugc] Need help

2013-05-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Saravanan Devasagayam wrote: > Dont work "crontap" job but thats work on terminal in ubuntu anybody help > please You will have to provide more detail than above. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitte

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Why Our Country Lacking Enterprenuers Like Mark Zuckerburg ?

2013-05-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
sagree is that it tends to conclude that education is a means to an end. Education is, and mostly has been a guide - a pointer to further ways of development. Unfortunately, like all other things, it has morphed into an entity which is measured by marks on the score-card. -- sankarshan mukhopa

Re: [Ilugc] Open Weekends | Day 2 Hackathon

2013-05-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
hat reads like a competition, it would nice to link to T&C [1] why is the word "perks" used? It usually means "Money, goods, or other benefit to which one is entitled as an employee or as a shareholder of a company" -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay &

Re: [Ilugc] poroposal of adding mailing list guidelines to the end of each mail

2013-05-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
ut the utility of turning the guidelines of mailing lists into a translation ready piece and then linking to a page with the guidelines in the various languages. I don't really know if that would be useful to do. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://

Re: [Ilugc] GPL Licensing terms -

2013-06-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
om_patches) then you'd want to read the FAQ I've linked to. > 3) Writing documentation for the usage of opensource software and share it > with customers? > > Making money out of those items (1,2,3) , is it legal? Yes. Again this is a services agreem

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSFTN] Fwd: [மொசில்லா தமிழ்] First update for Firefox in Tamil since Firefox 5

2013-06-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
ce. During the regular meetings of the LUG and, at other places where it can be pitched, would you consider insisting that users give the build a try? Feedback is essential to keep the process going. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.

Re: [Ilugc] update is not working

2013-07-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:58 AM, anwar latiff wrote: > dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting: > syntax error: unknown group 'root' in statoverride file ^^^ have you looked at that file? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitte

Re: [Ilugc] RHEL on render farms

2013-08-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
duction pipeline." More specifically, the grid middleware had to find the best resources for a job, and dispatch that job, all while maintaining very high utilization. "Between servers and workstations we have more than 4,000 systems, each of which has to operate at peak utilization 24x7x

Re: [Ilugc] shows how popular ilug is

2010-09-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > please see the footer on this page > > http://www.linux.ie/index.php Do you mean the link to <http://www.ilug-cal.org/> ? Indranil (cc: ed) can perhaps clarify. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] general advice

2010-09-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
s this specific LUG (because of your experience) :) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] IDEs for PHP

2010-09-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Vinodh Rajan wrote: > Currently, I am using Eclipse as the IDE for PHP. Its Works good AFAIK > > Are there any other good IDEs for PHP, which I can give a try ? Although not specifically aimed for PHP, you could give geany a try. -- sankarshan muk

Re: [Ilugc] PG Diploma in Language Technology and Localization [Commercial][OT][X]

2010-09-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Trivandrum - 33 > PH - +91 471 272 6531 Are there more details about the course viz. eligibility, fees structure, course content that are available online ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing

[OFF-TOPIC] Re: [Ilugc] [Final Year Project Idea] Creating a STL like library for C

2010-10-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: [snip] > Then of course you need to consider the fact that there is a cultural > issue here. At some point I'd like to understand what you meant by the above sentence. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

2010-11-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > I have BSNL broadband and use 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 as DNS servers. Face > no problems as you describe. You may not want to use 4.2.2.2 as your primary DNS -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink

Re: [Ilugc] blocked websites - BSNL DNS

2010-11-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
l user. My network access points are fairly well defined and, are in most cases configured by me. By which I mean that I don't need to face the name resolution issues Kenneth mentions related to using computers when on the move. -- sankarshan mukhopadh

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Lab Setup in Dr. N.G.P. Institute of Technology, Coimbatore district

2010-12-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
eing set up at various colleges and, I've wanted to know about what happens next ? Does there exist a system by which the colleges keep track of how the labs are being used or, report issues with the setup ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankars

Re: [Ilugc] resolution in extra monitor sometimes goes down

2010-12-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
solution and sometimes is at 800X600 - any ideas about the cause and > remedy? Fedora 12. If you are using GNOME, would it be possible for you to use gnome-display-properties to define the resolutions of the monitors/display devices attached to your laptop ? -- sankarshan muk

Re: [Ilugc] resolution in extra monitor sometimes goes down

2010-12-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
hat I can reproduce the issue infrequently with my set up. So far I haven't found the cause and I end up using the g-d-p to reconfigure. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/> ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac

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