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

2011-05-11 Thread Nikhil Karkare
> > Nikhil, > You seem like the right person to write the article. You understand > technology/linux and you understand the issues from the schools' side too. > If you're to busy to write an article, I can help with arranging a phone > interview after which a content writer will convert the phone c

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

2011-05-10 Thread Nikhil Karkare
> > What kind of help are you looking for to make it in Marathi? Can someone comfortable in writing techie stuff in Marathi write an article? We could then look at people who could publish it. > > Also, I'd say it should be done in both English and Marathi. > Yes, both English and Marathi. Writing

[PLUG] Centos 5.6 x86_64 DVD required

2011-05-10 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Folks, Does anyone have a Centos 5.6 x86_64 DVD which can be shared? I will make a copy and return it immediately. Thanks! Regards, Nikhil. -- Nikhil Karkare Co-Ordinator Millennium National School http://www.myeshala.in http://www.myshala.com

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

2011-05-09 Thread Nikhil Karkare
> Right, as long is it is _talking_. Also fine to write and publicize any > > malpractices seen, so that others don't fall for it. But, put vendor names > somewhere and you are in for an ugly fight. Well, do that, too, if you > have enough time and resources. > Makes sense. I don't have the time o

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

2011-05-07 Thread Nikhil Karkare
No. I did not buy the product. I already have the biggest Linux deployment amongst schools, with GCompris installed. I don't think talking will help much, but worth a try. Should I make a list of companies who do this? Maybe make a blacklist which is publicly available? On May 4, 2011 6:22 AM, "sat

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

2011-05-05 Thread Nikhil Karkare
. I am not talking about even customization of FOSS. They sell software just out of the box. Regards, Nikhil. ---------- Nikhil Karkare Co-Ordinator Millennium National School http://www.myeshala.in http://www.myshala.com -

[PLUG] Question about companies and open source applications

2011-05-03 Thread Nikhil Karkare
this. Linux and GCompris don't get the recognition that they deserve. Please let me know your thoughts on this. Regards, Nikhil. ------ Nikhil Karkare Co-Ordinator Millennium National School http://www

Re: [PLUG] best strategy for backing up small server

2010-10-15 Thread Nikhil Karkare
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: > >I have a small ubuntu server running for our development needs as > > > well as file server. We are now considering to upgrade it with ubuntu > > 10.04 LTS. > > The first tenet of system administration is: if it ain't broken don't fix >

[PLUG] Fwd: Invitation for CSI Monthly lecture meet on 31st May 2010.

2010-05-29 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Dear All, CSI pune chapter invites you all to one more lecture event on 31st May 2010. on the latest hot topic - - HTML 5. YOU CAN REGISTER ON LINE - HTML 5 The Computer Society of India, Pune Chapter is proud to present a seminar on HTML5 by Swarraj Kulkarni, Principal Architect, Cognizant Te

Re: [PLUG] Combining two ISP connections to increase bandwidth?

2009-07-23 Thread Nikhil Karkare
ikhil. -- Nikhil Karkare http://coupleofthoughts.wordpress.com On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > Fed up of downtime of my ISP and having heard the same stories about > another > ISP operating in the area, I am wondering whether it's possible to > subscribe

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Reliable and cheap linux hosting solution

2009-03-18 Thread Nikhil Karkare
I use www.netlynx.com. They don't give shell access though, but their response is quick if you have a query. -Nikhil. -- Nikhil Karkare http://coupleofthoughts.wordpress.com On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Mandar Vaze wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Raseel Bhagat

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

2009-01-18 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Try Netlynx (www.metlynx.org). They are quite good. -Nikhil. -- Nikhil Karkare http://coupleofthoughts.wordpress.com On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Chetan Kumar wrote: > Looking for recommendations. Specific names are expected. > I use bluehost.com for a .com site and they are my

Re: [PLUG] Video editing software

2008-10-28 Thread Nikhil Karkare
http://www.osalt.com/multimedia-and-audio In Windows, have any of you tried Sony Vegas Studio? IMHO, it beats any other video editing software hands down for ease of use and features. -Nikhil. -- Nikhil Karkare Co-Ordinator Millennium National School Karvenagar, Pune http://blogs.myshala.com

Re: [PLUG] Linux flavour recommendation

2008-06-08 Thread Nikhil Karkare
. I will update this thread once I successfully install on some machines. Thanks, Nikhil. On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Aditya Godbole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Nikhil Karkare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I am planning

[PLUG] Linux flavour recommendation

2008-06-08 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hi, I am planning to install Linux on several Pentium-1 and Pentium-2 machines that I have. My basic necessity is that they run Firefox with the Flash plugin (is this realizable?) I have tried various flavours like Vector Linux, Damn Small Linux etc, but the distributions have been difficult to con

Re: [PLUG] Alarm functionality through google calendar?

2007-12-26 Thread Nikhil Karkare
lug.org.in) > List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail > Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. > -- Nikhil Karkare Co-Ordinator Millennium National School Karvenagar, Pune http://blogs.myshala.com http://www.myshala.com --

Re: [PLUG] [OT] : Google Calendar SMS setup for IDEA customers

2007-12-02 Thread Nikhil Karkare
It works on BSNL too. On Dec 3, 2007 9:19 AM, Pradeep Dalvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For me, > On !DEA it doesn't work. > On Airtel it works fine. > > Regards, > pradeep > > On Dec 2, 2007 6:02 PM, Nikhil Karkare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > H

[PLUG] [OT] : Google Calendar SMS setup for IDEA customers

2007-12-02 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hi, I wanted to know if any IDEA subscribers use the Google Calendar SMS facility. It doesn't seem to be working for me. Surprisingly, my earlier BSNL number used to receive regular SMS' from GCal! TIA, Nikhil. -- __ Pune GNU/Linu

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Web hosting..

2006-09-08 Thread Nikhil Karkare
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions. -- Nikhil Karkare Head, Software Operations Millennium National School Karvenagar, Pune http://www.myshala.com -- - vi vi vi -

Re: [PLUG] Playing AVI automatically on startup

2006-01-03 Thread Nikhil Karkare
f AVSEQ01.dat to the startup items and init 6ed. Worked like a charm. EMovix is good - but with this setup I can also use the machine remotely. I guess everyone here reads slashdot, which is where I saw another cool LiveCD for multimedia: http://www.mediainlinux.org Thanks! -- Nikhil Karkare C

[PLUG] Playing AVI automatically on startup

2005-12-28 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hi, The subject might sound senseless, but I was at a loss of words for the subject! :-) 1. I am trying to set up a Linux box (FC3) which will be used just to play a demo AVI that I have made. I need to configure it so that when it starts up, it automatically starts playing the AVI - without loggi

[PLUG] Gateway setup

2005-12-13 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello people I am in the process of setting up a gateway to the internet for my DataOne connection. I want to set up Squid as the caching server, and also want to monitor and filter the traffic (using iptables). I am using Fedora Core 3 for the gateway machine. Now, I could setup a gateway with et

[PLUG] WMA to MP3 converter?

2005-11-10 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Is there a free WMA to "any codec" converter? All Google results end up in some kind of shareware/nagware. Thanks! -- - vi vi vi - The Editor of the Beast --

[PLUG] java or flash or opengl or a combination?

2005-10-17 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello, I was wondering if any of you guys could suggest me a good platform to choose for development! I am planning to write some educational applications which would be good looking as well as would provide good education, and of course, platform endependent. >From the looks of it, Java2D and Jav

[PLUG] Linspire for free!

2005-09-06 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Can someone download this? http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/05/09/02/219238.shtml?tid=106 -- - vi vi vi - The Editor of the Beast - -- ___

[PLUG] Fedora Core 4 DVD and a question

2005-07-30 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello, I want to install Fedora Core 4. Anyone have DVD/CDs of the same? Also does Redhat still ship out their documentation CD? Or was that stopped in Fedora? Another question I had was I have Fedora Core 1 with g++ 3.2. I am trying to compile a simple hello work c++ program using cout. When I tr

[PLUG] Mandrake CD's

2005-05-20 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello Can someone lend me the latest Mandrake CD's? I need them ASAP. I live in the Kothrud/Karvenagar area. If anyone does have them - please reply back off the list and I can come and collect them from you. Thanks, Nikhil. -- ---

[PLUG] Linux expertise needed

2005-05-06 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello, I am member of a non-profit organization called YPRI [groups.yahoo.com/YPRI] We need some help with Linux based development in PHP/MySQL/Zope etc. Here are the requirements. CMS: Zope/Xoops/Midgard Mailing List: Mailman/Ezmlm Language: PHP/Python Database: MySQL Please revert back to Mr. P

[PLUG] Vendor Query

2005-04-04 Thread Nikhil Karkare
How do I find out what is the Flavor of Linux that I am running? uname -a gives me kernel related info. I want the vendor - ex: RedHat 9.0, Suse etc. Thanks in advance. -Nikhil. P.S: Aditya - can you ask your friend about the device driver he made? Thanks! -- ---

Re: [PLUG] To recover deleted partitions

2005-02-22 Thread Nikhil Karkare
how did you manage to delete your partitions from windows? Didnt grub conk off? I want to do this on my office computer... please tell me how you did it!! Thanks Nikhil. On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:33:42 +0530, Aditya Laghate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Today while playing around on win2k i ac

Re: [PLUG] To recover deleted partitions

2005-02-22 Thread Nikhil Karkare
, Nikhil Karkare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how did you manage to delete your partitions from windows? Didnt grub conk > off? > I want to do this on my office computer... please tell me how you did it!! > > Thanks > Nikhil. > > > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:33

[PLUG] RedHat 9 anaconda weirdness

2005-02-03 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello Pluggies I was installing RedHat 9 on a Celeron machine, and it installed fine right upto the post-installation scripts. Anaconda crashed. I don't have the debug log with me. Now when the machine starts up, it throws me to a grub prompt. I used linux rescue, only to figure out that grub.conf

[PLUG] queries

2005-01-19 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello Pluggies I had a couple of questions - 1. I want to install package Y using RPM. Package Y depends on Package Z which depends on Package A and so on. Is there a way to automate this process? Can I download all the required RPM's for package Y with some utlity? 2. I have a Reliance LG-LSP34

[PLUG] Turbo C to gcc

2005-01-04 Thread Nikhil Karkare
Hello I recently tried to access Shridhars site for moving from Turbo C to GCC - but found that he had removed it from there! http://www.hserus.net/~shridhar/C%20Programming%20on%20Linux.html Shridhar - please update the site! I need to teach my brother in law to move to Linux!! Thanks, Nikhil. -

Re: [PLUG] Software patents in India?

2004-12-27 Thread Nikhil Karkare
OT: The Article suggests: "At present, the country only allows process patents, which have played a key role in keeping the prices of drugs low." This has serious ramifications if they can patent the product. Expect Aspirin prices to shoot up and be made only by one company? Hope these guys know

Re: [PLUG] Regarding "always on" internet access.

2004-10-19 Thread Nikhil Karkare
you should check the PLUG mailing list archive... this topic is beaten to death on the list :) look for "ISP options in pune" or "broadband" etc Among the better ones are Hathway and Dishnet. But again, that is my personal opinion. Every other person has a different experience about broadband.

Re: [PLUG] Top command

2004-10-19 Thread Nikhil Karkare
top runs just fine on solaris too On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:33:03 +0530, Vikram Karandikar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do we have any equivalent of 'Linux top command' on Sun Solaris. > > -- > - Vikram Karandikar > -- > __ > P

Re: [PLUG] Conexant HSF Internal modem drivers

2004-10-04 Thread Nikhil Karkare
you can get them at conexant.com. you have to register though. they are free for use. I have some versions for my dell laptop. I can send those to you offline. -Nikhil. On Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:32:32 +0530, Achyut Ghare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I want Conexant HSF Internal modem drivers

Re: [PLUG] Any good replacement debugger against Rational Purify PLUS...

2004-09-23 Thread Nikhil Karkare
you could try gprof. gprof profiles the running of the process. Then there is -Wall compiler switch which warns of some memory leaks. there is also memprof etc (you can find a list of these on freshmeat.net) HTH -Nikhil. On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:43:05 +0530, Yogesh Hublikar. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: [PLUG] Any good replacement debugger against Rational Purify PLUS...

2004-09-23 Thread Nikhil Karkare
you could try gprof. gprof profiles the running of the process. Then there is -Wall compiler switch which warns of some memory leaks. there is also memprof etc (you can find a list of these on freshmeat.net) HTH -Nikhil. On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:55:01 +0200, James Dominy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote