Re: [PLUG] Proposal for change from the current state of the list.

2013-01-25 Thread Navin Kabra
Sudhanwa Jogalekar writes: > Any new member joining the list will not get a moderation > flag set. -1. This does not make sense. New users should have moderation flag set until the first post gets approved or 1st month or something like that. Otherwise this list will get buried in spam. > 2.

Re: [PLUG] Proposal for change from the current state of the list.

2013-01-25 Thread Navin Kabra
Sudhanwa Jogalekar writes: > Any new member joining the list will not get a moderation > flag set. -1. This does not make sense. New users should have moderation flag set until the first post gets approved or 1st month or something like that. Otherwise this list will get buried in spam.

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list issues

2013-01-06 Thread Navin Kabra
Thin Rhino writes: > Let us not "open - up" the entire list, let us just relax a few filters, > eg: top posting, suspicious headers, etc. Yes please. +1 on this. I would love to be more active on PLUG, but have been bitten by the "suspicious headers" bug often enough that I don't bother any mor

Re: [PLUG] [Event report] Introduction to Python: Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India

2011-08-12 Thread Navin Kabra
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > --- On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Navin Kabra > wrote: > | Very nice. How many students attended this session, and what was, in your > | opinion, their overall reaction to Python? > \-- > > There were about 50 stu

Re: [PLUG] [Event report] Introduction to Python: Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India

2011-08-09 Thread Navin Kabra
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > The participants were engineering students who had some programming > experience but were new to Python. I wanted to do a hands-on session > so I could help them along the way. Shakthi, Very nice. How many students attended this session, a

Re: [PLUG] Question about companies and open source applications

2011-05-11 Thread Navin Kabra
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:47 AM, Nikhil Karkare wrote: > An article sounds like a great idea. Can any of you write one in > Marathi? We could try to get that published. Nikhil, You seem like the right person to write the article. You understand technology/linux and you understand the issues from

Re: [PLUG] PHP timestamp difference on Linux and Windows systems

2011-03-19 Thread Navin Kabra
19800 seconds = 5 hours and 30 minutes. sounds like a timezone issue. (UTC vs IST) On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:40 PM, wrote: > Hi, > When I am executing a php code like below: > > $timestamp=mktime(0,0,0,3,1,2011); > echo $timestamp; > ?> > > on Linux and Windows system then there is always a

Re: [PLUG] Nokia to adopt Windows, What's the fate of MeeGo?

2011-02-20 Thread Navin Kabra
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > This is a good opportunity for Nokia to understand and compare FOSS > with a bad platform. I am sure after some initial pushing to Windows > by the new CEO, technical aspects and licensing issues/costs will take > Nokia back to FOSS pl

Re: [PLUG] Localisation Camp followup - Payyans Workout session on Sunday 22 August 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Navin Kabra
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Praveen A wrote: > http://wiki.smc.org.in/Localisation_Camp/Pune/Payyans_Workout > > What exactly is payyans? I tried looking at the wiki, but it is in Malayalam; and google gives irrelevant information. I found this: > Payyans is a Language independent encoding

Re: [PLUG] Which Forum exits in Drupal

2010-07-05 Thread Navin Kabra
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:54 AM, mayur pimple wrote: > Hi > I'm Drupal Developer , when I develop a site using drupal i hade been > faceing many problem. > > Which Forum exits in Drupal to get a help. > Try PhpCamp: http://groups.google.com/group/phpcamp I know a bunch of drupal experts who h

Re: [PLUG] accounting and excise billing on Linux

2010-03-26 Thread Navin Kabra
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Chetan Kumar wrote: > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Navin Kabra > wrote: > > > > About a month back, I had posted information about a Pune-based business > who > > was interested in experimenting with open-source Tally replace

Re: [PLUG] accounting and excise billing on Linux

2010-03-26 Thread Navin Kabra
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Prashant Shah wrote: > You are right. How do we take this forward ? > > I had made prototype long back in QT :) > > http://freeacc.blogspot.com/ > Is there a specific reason why you're planning on starting from scratch, as opposed to simply using GnuKhata as a s

Re: [PLUG] How to execute a shell script from an html web page

2010-03-13 Thread Navin Kabra
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: >      Firstly, there is no attachment to your mail!... Hmmm... Looks like the PLUG mail system removed the attachment. Here is the code. Let's see if this makes it past the filters. Please acknowledge this mail if it reaches you (beca

Re: [PLUG] How to execute a shell script from an html web page

2010-03-11 Thread Navin Kabra
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Shreerang Patwardhan wrote: > Hey all, >      I wish to execute a shell script from a simple html page. When I click > on a submit button on the html page the script should execute. How do I do > this? Any help is appriciated... Should the script run on the client

Re: [PLUG] [fsug-goa] (OT) Computer system from Pune launched in CEBIT !! Runs FOSS!!

2010-03-07 Thread Navin Kabra
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:26 AM, steve wrote: > Why do I say that ? Well, what else can you expect when people send some > clueless PHBs to tech expos to present a system which is basically a > freaking impressive piece of hardware ! Here is what was wrong: If the device is indeed impressive, the

Re: [PLUG] About GSoC

2010-02-17 Thread Navin Kabra
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Ratnadeep wrote: > I am final year engineering student and this year i want to participate for > Google Summer of Code.  Regarding this I need help for things like - > > - Selection of organization and project. > - Regarding application form such that there will b

[PLUG] Mozilla for your Business: A meeting with members of the Mozilla Foundation - 21st Feb

2010-02-17 Thread Navin Kabra
Hi All, As you're no doubt aware, GNUnify is this weekend, and as a result, a number of members of the Mozilla Foundation (the organization behind such technologies as Firefox, JQuery, the Fennec mobile browser) are in Pune. We are taking this opportunity to allow Pune’s startups, and web develope

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Came across another PLUG mailing list

2010-02-13 Thread Navin Kabra
I would guess that every linux users group in city whose name starts with 'P' calls itself PLUG. Google "PLUG linux users group" to get a whole lot of them. Perth. Portland. Philly. Peterborough. Phoenix. Pretoria. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > While Googling for solution

Re: [PLUG] data types for unicode

2009-12-28 Thread Navin Kabra
Regular text and character fields should be good enough to store unicode Marathi data in MySQL. Just make sure that the database encoding is utf8 (and not latin1 which is the default). Also note that if your database already exists, then just changing the database encoding to utf8 is not good enoug

Re: [PLUG] high cpu utilization

2009-11-10 Thread Navin Kabra
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Kapil Agrawal wrote: > have to wait in thd_w again and again in a while loop polling for the data > to be pushed queue from thd_r. Because of this polling using while, huge > CPU > is getting consumed. > I've forgotten my multi-threaded programming, but isn't the

Re: [PLUG] [Commercial]: Get into the World of Linux System and Kernel

2009-09-23 Thread Navin Kabra
> >Linux System and Kernel Programming are an intensive hands-on > course designed by Concepts Systems to provide a detailed examination of > each topic. > What is the cost of the course? ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Optionally using google calendar to also mark PLUG events?

2009-09-07 Thread Navin Kabra
Shirish, I'm not sure I've understood what you are really looking for, hence asking for some clarifications inline: On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 10:27 PM, shirish wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 16:56, Navin Kabra wrote: > > > > Hi Navin, > > > There's alread

[PLUG] Fwd: [BangPypers] Python Doc or Examples in Hindi

2009-09-07 Thread Navin Kabra
FYI. This was posted on the BangPypers (bangalore python users group) and indlinux-hindi mailing list. Sounded like something PLUG, and PythonPune users might be able to contribute to. -- Forwarded message -- From: Carl Trachte Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:27 AM Subject: [BangPype

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Optionally using google calendar to also mark PLUG events?

2009-09-03 Thread Navin Kabra
> What do people think of using google calendar to mark PLUG events ? > or some other such web service so notifications are automated to an > extent. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_calendar > > Feedback would be appreciated. :) > Shirish, There's already a calendar for tech events in Pu

Re: [PLUG] ubuntu version on celeron with 256MB

2009-08-07 Thread Navin Kabra
> I should have mentioned that the primary use would be development. Chetan, I use slicehost virtual private server to host some of my websites, and it has a similar configuration (256MB RAM). This might not be an apples-to-apples comparison because CPU that I'm guaranteed is likely to be better t

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Copyrights and open source licensing in India?

2009-07-27 Thread Navin Kabra
> Thank you, looks like an interesting event, sadly I won't be able to attend > it, I wish > I'd found out sooner. Do you know of other similar events to be held > locally > in the future? > Nothing that I am aware of currently. But, in general, we try to keep http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/5007/

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Copyrights and open source licensing in India?

2009-07-26 Thread Navin Kabra
> > I'm looking for opinions about the email subject, especially from people > with legal skills and knowledge about the situation in India, because IANAL > :) > Vishal, You should consider attending this event tomorrow: http://punetech.com/key-legal-issues-in-infotech-seminar-july-28/ Should be

Re: [PLUG] partition/folder lock

2009-07-25 Thread Navin Kabra
> Is there a secure way of locking/password protecting a partition/folder > which even root cant access ? > So basically if two people are using same machine, and both have sudo > access > to install stuff, how can one user achieve making his data protected from > other ? > Possibly ignorant answe

Re: [PLUG] Need help in installation

2009-07-20 Thread Navin Kabra
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Vishal Khialani wrote: > Hi, > I have just installed the linux ubuntu distro. > > The touch pad and the relaince netconnect usb modem does not work. > There is alot of material on the net on how to get this working but I > am a newbie and I am unable to get this wo

[PLUG] IndLinux in Pune this weekend (16, 17 March)

2009-05-14 Thread Navin Kabra
I did not see info about this weekend's IndLinux conference posted on the PLUG mailing list, so posting it in case somebody is interested... http://punetech.com/indlinux-2-day-meet-for-developers-of-indian-versions-of-linux-may-16-17/ navin. ___ Pune GNU/Linux U

Re: [PLUG] bsnl evdo

2009-05-04 Thread Navin Kabra
> Is EVDO still being offered? I had heard that there is a break in its > availability from BSNL. It was to resume some time later. As far as I know, BSNL is no longer giving out new EVDO connections. However, Reliance is giving EVDO connections, and at least one person I know is happy with Relian

Re: [PLUG] Talk on CodeIgniter a PHP framework @ plug meet.

2009-04-02 Thread Navin Kabra
> We will be having a Talk/Demo on Code Igniter  http://codeigniter.com/ > by Aman Jain  @ the PLUG meet this time (5th April 2009) Is it Saturday 4th April, or Sunday 5th April? navin. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

[PLUG] Atul Chitnis, founder of foss.in, in Pune this weekend

2009-03-27 Thread Navin Kabra
Sorry for the late notice. Atul Chitnis, Linux/FOSS evangelist, a founder of foss.in, (amongst many other things) is in Pune this weekend. I believe he will have some free time tomorrow afternoon (Sunday, 29th March, around 3pm). So if there is enough interest in PLUG for a discussion and/or talk

[PLUG] Presentation on strengths and weaknesses of programming languages

2009-03-24 Thread Navin Kabra
Dhananjay Nene (http://punetech.com/wiki/Dhananjay_Nene) will give a talk on the strengths and weaknesses of various programming languages, and how to choose one for your application, on Saturday, 28th March, at 4pm, at SICSR, room 707. See http://punetech.com/seminar-strengths-and-weaknesses-of-

Re: [PLUG] How to make a window executable software from linux

2009-03-22 Thread Navin Kabra
> I was wondering how to code something in linux (a simple daily expense > manager) that runs on linux and also be able to be executed in windows? > > The doubts are : How to aprroach it without the use of C, C++, Java or any > web based application. > Use a scripting language like python or perl.

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Navin Kabra
> Another one would be how to make the choice of the right programming > language for your application. Like do I use Perl or PHP or Java for > writing > a web application? Or what to choose when I want to write systems based > scripts - Perl or Python, and why? > Dhananjay Nene (see http://blog.d

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-13 Thread Navin Kabra
> > I would urge the technology community in Pune to work together and > focus on leveraging all platforms as applicable and not descend into > bickering about what could be Agreed. Just to clarify, I was not suggesting that this should happen under the PuneTech banner. PuneTech's charter is to

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Navin Kabra
Sorry if what I was misleading. What I really meant was this: 1. There are definitely people in Pune who are not interested in GNU/Linux, but would be interested in JavaScript, other programming languages, and computer sciences in general. Hence, it would make sense to have a separate programming

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Navin Kabra
> > I'm not sure how successful such a group would be; would it be a useful > idea > to start out within another group(like PLUG) and then form a separate forum > if there seem to be enough attendees? > I don't think getting attendees will be a problem. >From PLUG, phpcamp mailing list, punetech.c

Re: [PLUG] OT: How many of you are programmers?

2009-03-12 Thread Navin Kabra
> I was thinking of doing a series of presentations on Javascript - and later > on, perhaps other interesting languages, at the monthly meetings of PLUG; I > was wondering how many attendees are programmers, and/or how many would be > interested in such presentations? > Kapil, I am sure there will

Re: [PLUG] PLUG mailing list and copyright

2009-02-12 Thread Navin Kabra
> So, quoting for the purpose of establishing context, without keeping > the license notice intact (something that is very common on mailing > lists), comes under fair use? If yes, then I was mistaken about that > point and I have no issues. That is my understanding, but I am not a lawyer. Maybe s

[PLUG] PLUG mailing list and copyright

2009-02-11 Thread Navin Kabra
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote: > One cannot impose a license on > something that you put on public property. Can you cite some reference for this? My understanding was that the author retains copyright irrespective of where the work is posted. (Public disclosure affects p

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Options for hosting .in sites

2009-01-19 Thread Navin Kabra
I use rochen.com. It allows .in hosting. Allows ssh. Generally very happy with them. navin. http://punetech.com/tag/linux - info about linux in Pune -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Options for hosting .in sites

2009-01-18 Thread Navin Kabra
> What are your recommendations for hosting of .in sites? 1. You can host them anywhere you want. 2. If you host in the US, it will be cheaper, but latency will be higher for Indian visitors. 3. Hosting in India is more expensive. 4. I would ignore the undersea cable issue - that happens rarely e

[PLUG] Call for participation in a survey of open source product development companies

2008-11-03 Thread Navin Kabra
Browne and Mohan, a global consulting firm is attempting a maiden research study on Open Source Product Development companies from India. So if you are aware of a company that develops some open source product (or offering open-source based productized offerings like SaaS) please get in touch with