Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Are hackers? passwords stronger than regular passwords...?

2014-06-17 Thread Bobinson K B
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Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Are hackers? passwords stronger than regular passwords...?

2014-06-15 Thread Bobinson K B
"70,000 billion operations " in 22k +1 years ? - nowhere in the article its written how much time it takes for the "super computers" to break anything & there is no mention of time/space complexity or mention of the types of passwords :-/ ___ Indian Libr

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite Introduces Ubuntu Unity-Style Search Feature

2014-06-03 Thread Bobinson K B
Lets not forget the fact that Ubuntu is a distribution based on the GNU/Linux distribution and Debian and its the real force behind the screens. ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.or

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Reg.PST Converter ?

2014-05-30 Thread Bobinson K B
Dear Rajesh, I don't have a ready made answer but in such cases generally I start searching by searching in the apt repositories. apt-cache search pst apt-cache search outlook apt-cache search pst | grep thunderbird The above commands will give the details of the packages available in the repos

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fwd: A Chartered Accountant in Mumbai switches over to Linux.

2014-05-28 Thread Bobinson K B
Hari, Just like in the case of the accounting company, you can attempt to run the software on GNU/Linux versions. Sometime back there was a discussion in this community about porting Win libraries to GNU/Linux so that software which are not supported Wine ( http://www.winehq.org/ ) can be supporte

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fwd: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-21 Thread Bobinson K B
​oh ok. My bad. Thanks. ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fwd: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-20 Thread Bobinson K B
RESOLVED INVALID ! - now thats something absurd. On 19 May 2014 14:55, Sunjith P S wrote: > On 19/05/14 2:46 pm, Pirate Praveen wrote: > >> २०१४-०५-१९ १२:१७ [GMT]+०५:३०, Sunjith P S : >> >>> Being ethical or not is the user's freedom. I don't think ethical people >>> developing and promoting

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fwd: FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support Digital Restrictions Management

2014-05-16 Thread Bobinson K B
​What is an alternative for Mozilla to fight the battle of browsers which is now purely with Chrome vs all others now :-( ? For Adobe, since it has lost Flash, HTML5 is the sole solution to remain in the market. We have seen that the OS or solutions which are backed by profit oriented companies o

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] History of GNU/Linux classes at Broadway

2014-05-07 Thread Bobinson K B
IMHO the issue with this group is too much of a "RTFM" attitude which scares away normal people and secondly lack of transparency. I know from someone involved about the facts & thus I am stand corrected about my opinion regarding "using the list as a means to promote commercial activity" but that'

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Publication of mailing list policies

2014-04-29 Thread Bobinson K B
So the 'head office' runs a paid training & the mailing list and the meetings are a way to market it ? ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Meeting on March 23rd

2014-03-19 Thread Bobinson K B
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Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Open source -Remote administration tool?

2014-03-07 Thread Bobinson K B
If you are looking for automation and configuration management, capistrano, puppet etc can be used.

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Inviting volunteers to provide venue for Free GNU/Linux training program in Cochin.

2014-02-27 Thread Bobinson K B
. - Bobinson K B ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cohin Meeting

2014-01-24 Thread Bobinson K B
To add to Thomas's points, the idea is not about venue. When we are doing something, if a few more people are getting interested or if we are able to create interest is that bad ? In the budget announcement FM minister talks about giving out laptops to students. What computing platform is about t

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cohin Meeting

2014-01-24 Thread Bobinson K B
Well, Why same venue for 15 years ? By having the meetup in more than one place, say in all the colleges in and around the city, we could reach out & help more people ? Polytechnics & with the current announcement of giving rasberry-pi to schools, even schools will be greatly benefited by we inter

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cohin Meeting

2014-01-23 Thread Bobinson K B
Sorry for the trouble. The portal was down as we are migrating our infrastructure. Its back online. http://hackerspace.aisat.ac.in/ ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/li

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cohin Meeting

2014-01-21 Thread Bobinson K B
Hello, If you are looking for a venue, Hackerspace.aisat.in can be arranged. On a related note, we are also looking for a logo for the place. Its a venue for community events, technical sessions, hackathons etc & I was thinking of asking the list to help with a logo using Inkscape or similar tools

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] [smc-discuss] [ILUG-Cochim.org] ഐസാറ്റിലെ മീറ്റിങ്ങും ഭാവി പരിപാടികളും

2013-09-07 Thread Bobinson K B
ഇന്നലത്തെ ക്ലസിനേക്കുരിച്ചുള്ള വിവരങ്ങള് ആരെങ്കിലും പങ്കുവയ്ക്കമോ ?​​ ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugko...@irc.freenode.ne

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fwd: [smc-discuss] സ്വതന്ത്രമലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ വാര്‍ഷികം: പ്രചരണം: smc camp

2013-08-28 Thread Bobinson K B
Dear All, For the Kochi SMC brainstorming session we can huddle together @ http://AISAT.ac.in at 3 PM. AISAT location: get down @ HMT junction & travel towards Kakkanad on Sea-Port Air port road. You will be able to see the AISAT Board on the Right hand side. Click here

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fwd: [smc-discuss] സ്വതന്ത്രമലയാളം കമ്പ്യൂട്ടിങ്ങിന്റെ വാര്‍ഷികം: പ്രചരണം: smc camp

2013-08-28 Thread Bobinson K B
ISAT Board on the Right hand side. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K.BChief Executive Officer www.linkedin.com/in/bobinson <http://www.agileblaze.com/><http://http//www.migrate2cloud.com> On 27 August 2013 20:45, Anivar Aravind wrote: > On 8/27/13, u

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Hacking and Activism

2012-07-19 Thread Bobinson K B
The URL still says ethical. That's also need the cross mark IMHO ! - Bobinson K B ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #i

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Aadhaar: A Testimony to Success of FOSS in India!

2012-07-03 Thread Bobinson K B
+ ( 1/0 ) The article is stupid, no, probably paid for. A clear insult to freedom. IMHO we need to react in clear voice against this. Even if we forget the Freedom aspect the project is without any legal validity and looting taxpayers money. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B http

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] About Tomcat Server..

2012-03-31 Thread Bobinson K B
performance will be. For an app based on the results that you get out of the performance / load / stress tests decide on the KPI and start from there. Rule of thumb is have a reasonable heap size and have the garbage collection parameters set properly. hope this helps. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] R.I.P. Dennies Ritchie - C & Unix Wiz

2011-10-13 Thread Bobinson K B
+1 -- Bobinson K B (sent from a handheld device) -Original Message- From: Mahesh Aravind Sender: mailinglist-boun...@ilug-cochin.org Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:06:28 To: mailinglist@ilug-cochin.org Reply-To: "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software "

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] RMS and Jobs

2011-10-12 Thread Bobinson K B
e & freedom enables one to choose. - Bobinson K B On 11 October 2011 23:07, Dibu Philip wrote: > "Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to > sever fools from their freedom, has died." > > Is this how someone announces death of someone who

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Real World DragonFlyBSD Hammer DeDup figures - Reclaiming more than 1/4th ( 30% ) Disk Space from an Almost Full Drive

2011-07-19 Thread Bobinson K B
Thank you Siju. Very very informative. - Bobinson K B On 7/19/11, Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > > One of the DragonFlyBSD Backup Server has around 10 years of Company >  Archives. > This is the result of de-dup feature > > Short Sumary before dedup of firtst

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Reset password..

2011-07-01 Thread Bobinson K B
Perhaps encryption can help. Another peculiar scenario we came across was a self destruct mechanism, in addition to the normal precautions a self destruct routine was implemented which was invoked automagically destructing all useful information in the system. - Bobinson K B On 1 July 2011 21

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Regarding web app development

2010-10-27 Thread Bobinson K B
domains checkout JSP (say tomcat/jboss combinations) it will be a good idea. hope this helps Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B On 27 October 2010 12:50, Saju M wrote: > > Try Django http://www.djangoproject.com/ or http://turbogears.org/ > Mail to me , If you any help in Djan

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Need volunteers to team up for an open source project

2010-10-21 Thread Bobinson K B
assistance / architecture or any other for the project within my limited capabilities. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B On 21 October 2010 14:02, Abrachan Pudussery wrote: > I bounced on to ilug-kochi as a desperate attempt to sort the wireless > connectivity issues with ubuntu 10.10, an

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Hardware endorsement program by FSF

2010-10-17 Thread Bobinson K B
Sometimes its to enforce good things. And yes, you always have the freedom to not to obey what FSF says. On 17 October 2010 18:59, Praseed Pai wrote: > Hi all , > >I see dangers of institutionalism coming into the Free software world as > well. The FSF was pitching to us that they stand for

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] A small request on "Libre"

2010-09-27 Thread Bobinson K B
+1 On 27 September 2010 17:04, Anish A wrote: > I have suggestion... > > I could not read the debate, because of the large mails. > > It would be nice, if we conclude the debate by noting the points > raised, in a brief and neutral way, like digest. A wiki of that debate > will be nice. > > Oth

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] MTS Blaze - Support for GNU/Linux on the device!!!

2010-09-23 Thread Bobinson K B
FYI - Tata Indicom's device also works well on Ubuntu -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B* * On 23 September 2010 22:40, Fayaz useful wrote: > Sweet! > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 20:49, Althaf wrote: > >> Hey great news, cheers for sharing this info. >> >&g

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] LaTeX

2010-08-26 Thread Bobinson K B
The quickest way to learn LaTeX IMHO will be to look at papers / project reports / seminar reports etc written in LaTeX and start trying examples & then look for more information. ~ bobinson -- http://freebird.in On 26 August 2010 19:28, Mahesh Aravind wrote: > Praseed, > >

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] supported usb wireless net modems ?

2010-08-01 Thread Bobinson K B
Madhu, Tata photon works well on Debian based distros. Also note that these days I think the photon is giving connectivity issues and packet loss (atleast for me). -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B * * On 2 August 2010 07:37, Madhu Kannan wrote: > how about tata photon and reliance >

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Graphics/Multimedia course enquiry

2010-07-06 Thread Bobinson K B
g engine is extensible. But these two will be tremendous value to human kind. ~ bobinson ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Mailinglist Digest, Vol 84, Issue 28

2010-06-26 Thread Bobinson K B
ument sounds like we should not talk about surgical knifes because they can be used to kill people. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B On 26 June 2010 21:32, Fayaz useful wrote: > That would be just like ignoring the elephant in the room... > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 15:46, Sameer w

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Windows SDK Programming under Linux

2010-06-26 Thread Bobinson K B
one more post, I feel really sorry to see all this. We just need to me more open, free and practical folks. Or free software initiative which is not commercial in nature will die. How many people are using phones with GPLed OSes ? What about the BIOS & FirmWare in various hardware that we use ?

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Windows SDK Programming under Linux

2010-06-26 Thread Bobinson K B
Ok Egos win. FOSS loses. Mea Culpa. I thought this list is for discussion about Free softwares like Wine, Linux etc. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B On 26 June 2010 06:07, Sameer wrote: > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 12:11:38AM +0530, Bobinson K B wrote: >> I second you Hari ! This

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Windows SDK Programming under Linux

2010-06-25 Thread Bobinson K B
I second you Hari ! This attitude will eventually kill FOSS and prevent anyone adopting it & spreading it. Really sad ! ~ bobinson -- http://freebird.in On 25 June 2010 23:10, Hari KT wrote: > Hi guys , > > I was going through your mails . I don't know why you

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] [info needed] Is there a FOSS tool to create network diagrams

2010-06-24 Thread Bobinson K B
@John & Geo - Thanks. Inkscape Seems to be a good idea. Need to checkout Inkscape. @Siju - Dia is what I use now. Wanted add some more colour and spice to the diagrams :-) Dia -> Gimp way is taking too much time as I used to tweak with Gimp. Thank you so much folks ! ~ b

[ILUG-Cochin.org] [info needed] Is there a FOSS tool to create network diagrams

2010-06-24 Thread Bobinson K B
Dear All, Is there any FOSS tools other than Dia to create network diagrams ? -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Windows SDK Programming under Linux

2010-06-24 Thread Bobinson K B
n of mass destruction etc ? ~ bobinson -- http://freebird.in ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net

[ILUG-Cochin.org] [commercial] any GNU/Linux installation - support providers in Kochi ?

2010-06-08 Thread Bobinson K B
Dear All, A friend of mine is looking for GNU/Linux support for his office. He wants to setup a GNU/Linux based office with 5 - 6 machines. Is there anyone in cochin who provides this type of service ? -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B ___ Indian

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Shell Special Characters Doubt

2010-05-28 Thread Bobinson K B
Learn about regular expressions and that's way to go about. ~ bobinson On 28 May 2010 21:35, Joe Joseph wrote: > hello > > anyone can help in clarifying in simple and detailed manner the meaning > shell special characters for example > > # ps auwwx | grep "[i]nit&

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Change home directory

2010-05-26 Thread Bobinson K B
It will be a good idea to use options to preserve user permissions while doing rsync / cp to avoid chown at a later stage. -- Thanks and Regards, Bobinson K B On 26 May 2010 09:32, Siju George wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Faisal Fiza > wrote: >> Hi, >>  Im

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] imagemagick

2010-03-18 Thread bobinson
in Gimp, go to Image > scale image & resize to the desired x, y size, select the DPI/Pixels to 300 & Interpolation to Sinc and finally saving choose the best quality (whatever format is selected). Hope this helps. Bobinson K B -- http://

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Fengoffice - Free Software for Online Collaboration

2010-02-27 Thread bobinson
interesting. thank you for sharing. ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Cluster file system

2009-12-14 Thread bobinson
just loved this discussion. Free knowledge sharing can bring in great changes. Now we have a "free" doctor in here. :-) ~ bobinson -- http://freebird.in ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] user authentication server

2009-10-27 Thread bobinson
RADIUS with PAM modules is an option. ___ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #ilugko...@irc.freenode.net

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Malayalam in Firefox on a mac

2009-08-04 Thread bobinson
e met once. Few years back and I am still using the Debian distro you gave me :-) though not sure. 2009/8/4 Devadas VM > Bobinson, > I have replied to Dinkar's query since I'm not a Lin-fanatic > > rest is the duty of group admin... > > Dinkar, > If the group have a

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] Malayalam in Firefox on a mac

2009-08-03 Thread bobinson
Attention List Admin: Libre, Freedom, Firefox, Mac, Safari the next is installing ml fonts on win32 ? ___ ILUG Cochin Mailing List http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/ Mailinglist@ilug-cochin.org http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cochin Stall - Information Security Day - CyberSafe 2009 by Kochi City Police

2009-08-03 Thread bobinson
:-) ~ bobinson -- http://freebird.in 2009/8/3 Anoop Alias > Yeah ; install fest would be outta theme i guess? > > something like pgp/gpg .How we can publish our key on a key-server .how we > can configure thunderbird/gmail to send and read encrypted/signed emails . > > Importan

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] ILUG Cochin Stall - Information Security Day - CyberSafe 2009 by Kochi City Police

2009-08-03 Thread bobinson
why not a demonstration how security policies in organization can be implemented using GNU platform ? 2009/8/3 hari krishnan > Hello all, > > ILUG Cochin has been invited to put a stall in the Cyber Safe 2009, > an annual event conducted by the Kochi City Police as part of the > Information S

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] About Open Source Streaming Server

2009-07-17 Thread bobinson
Red5 or ffmpeg based Apache servers can be used. ~ bobinson 2009/7/17 gireesh thenayil rajappan nair > > > Dear friends, > > This is gireesh from bangalore, > If u have any valuable information about stream server or if you know some > one who can help me,pls let me

Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] chrome is coming ....

2009-07-10 Thread bobinson
for those interested to know about possibly the first web based OS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouOS Chrome could be using Firefox engine and Gears. ___ ILUG Cochin Mailing List http://ilug-cochin.org/mailman/ Mailinglist@ilug-cochin.org http://ilug-c