Re: [PLUG] Why I won't be speaking at FOSSsumMIT 2104

2014-09-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Thin Rhino wrote: > Almost all people install various video codecs, > which are also not open source. > I just wanted to quickly highlight this common misunderstanding. Most if not all multimedia codecs in Linux are available under regular open source licen

Re: [PLUG] cloud storage

2014-03-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Amrut Borgaonkar wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I was thinking of building a cloud storage (like dropbox) system. > What would be a good way to store the files? > Owncloud http://owncloud.org/ Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Gr

Re: [PLUG] Linux Kernel and 8K sector size

2014-03-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Abhijeet Kasurde wrote: > Hi All, > > Can anyone explain, why 8K is not supported in Linux Kernel ? > > Is there any specific reason ? > Refer to https://lwn.net/Articles/150580/ Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mai

Re: [PLUG] Linux Journal Readers' choice awards 2013

2014-01-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > There may not be security updates, but there may not be security > issues in the first place. The only way to ensure this is to lookup > the quality of developers' on that tool - actively maintained, but too > many cooks may not be

Re: [PLUG] Would stopping support for XP backfire on Microsoft?

2013-12-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > > > On the FOSS side of the coin -- RHEL4/CentOS4 (picked as an example) > has been EoL and it's last incarnate most likely will not have drivers > for the new servers in the market today. > Not quite. Red Hat supports RHEL 4 still via the

Re: [PLUG] UNetBootIn Curieawcity...

2013-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/06/2013 02:39 AM, Arun Khan wrote: In the past I have tried unetbootin to create USB install images for CentOS without much success. Does the current version of unetbootin do it? Alternately, does RHEL/CentOS provide a similar tool in the Live CD version? IIRC, LiveUSB creator in Fedora

Re: [PLUG] UNetBootIn Curieawcity...

2013-06-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/05/2013 01:56 AM, Arun Khan wrote: Before the days of hybrid ISOs, unetbootin had it's usefulness. To my knowledge today, Debian, openSUSE, and the *buntu ISOs are hybrid i.e. you can simple dd=ISO_file to a pendrive or a hard disk and it will boot! No need for unetbootin. Sort of. If

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft - Key Linux contributor!

2012-04-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/05/2012 08:14 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > You might patch a thing n times just because it broke n times, does not > make you a better contributor than someone who contributed fewer times > though with better quality and functionality. Just the count is not a > measure of intent. Patching somethin

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

2012-02-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/25/2012 11:51 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > Now, one might say they are doing the right thing by supporting more > widely used platform first. But that's where lies the worry. You are > solely at their mercy if no other OSS initiatives (firefox for instance) > are allowed to develop those features/f

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

2012-02-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/25/2012 11:09 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:41:09AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Really? 5 years of security updates has been committed to. You got >> Chrome and I am sure Gnash will catch up given the static state of Flash >> at this point. I do

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

2012-02-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/25/2012 11:34 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:41:09 AM Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 02/25/2012 10:22 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: >>> On Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:15:09 AM Mayuresh wrote: >>>> Poor users. Do they hav

Re: [PLUG] flash on firerfox to stop?

2012-02-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/25/2012 10:22 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > On Saturday, February 25, 2012 10:15:09 AM Mayuresh wrote: >> Poor users. Do they have a choice? > > Just tried gnash 0.8.10. no luck with those few youtube video that still > needs > flash and some of the other sites I tested briefly. > > no

Re: [PLUG] openSUSE Going On SOPA Strike, Who Else?

2012-01-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 01/18/2012 04:28 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > http://www.muktware.com/news/3224/opensuse-going-sopa-strike > > It's great to see that the openSUSE community (I started using openSUSE > once Novell took its last breath) has taken a stand against SOPA/PIPA. Refer to http://fedoraproject.org/.

Re: [PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/10/2011 09:26 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 09:07:18PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Hi >> >> The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 > > This announcement looks useful as well to share with PLUG! > http://lis

Re: [PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/08/2011 10:20 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> Hi >> >> The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 >> ("Verne"). This release is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, co-i

[PLUG] Announcing Ask Fedora: Community Knowledge Base and Support Forum

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi As part of the release of Fedora 16 (Verne) today, I am proud to announce the launch of Ask Fedora at http://ask.fedoraproject.org. Ask Fedora is a community knowledge base and support forum for the Fedora community. You can ask any questions related to Fedora and you do not need to a separate

[PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 16

2011-11-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora 16 ("Verne"). This release is dedicated to Dennis Ritchie, co-inventer of Unix and the C language. For what's new, refer to https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-November/003011.html Rahul

[PLUG] FUDCon Pune 2011 – Day 1

2011-11-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Yesterday was a lot of fun. FUDCon is running for today and tomorrow as well. Join us! https://mether.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/fudcon-pune-2011-day-1/ Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

[PLUG] Fedora Conference: FUDCon Pune 2011

2011-11-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi When: 4 to 6th of November 2011 Where: College of Engineering Pune FUDCon is the Fedora Users and Developers Conference, a major free software event held in various regions around the world, usually annually per region. FUDCon is a combination of sessions, talks, workshops, and hackfests. M

Re: [PLUG] sendmail

2011-10-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/05/2011 04:08 PM, reena pagare wrote: > Hi , > > Some of the students from our college are interested in working on sendmail > as a part of their BE project. Any suggestions on what are the challenges > related to send mail are welcome. Would you explain why you picked sendmail? Rahul ___

Re: [PLUG] O'Reilly Ultimate Collection

2011-10-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/29/2011 11:45 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Are you sure that you are not violating copyrights? > > Any of the files in the torrent or the torrent itself is Open source > or under any free license? > > We do not accept IPR violations on this forum. You might want to delete this thread th

[PLUG] POSTPONED: Fedora Activity Day

2011-09-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi More info at https://groups.google.com/group/cofsug/browse_thread/thread/f9f6d71446351e01 We will update the wiki page with the dates when it is decided and do a followup announcement. Keep an eye on https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAD_Pune_2011 Regret the inconvenience Rahul

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/19/2011 01:18 PM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: Most companies and Google isn't using OpenBSD. Stop making claims you cannot back up in the name of advocacy. [.. Where did I make a claim? Or are you english-retard? Oh the irony. There is no such term as "english-retard".The practise of

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/15/2011 11:54 AM, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > [...] > > Most companies use OpenBSD on to secure their periphery, especially > with pf. Though there is no direct link, there is something that > suggests it: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=114780959425558 Quiet a > few OpenBSD and OpenSSH deve

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using / can advise on FreeBSD/NetBSD?

2011-07-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/06/2011 08:57 AM, sam oak wrote: > I use Open BSD. The footprint is extremely minimal. One has to install, > almost everything other than the core OS, by hand. > > Open BSD is one of the robust most operating systems in the world. Gients > such as Google uses Open BSD at the server end. One o

Re: [PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

2011-05-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 05/27/2011 11:56 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > > Where can I find sources/packages for "Indic typing booster" ? > This looks very interesting. Any dependencies required if I want to > install on my Mandriva ( or if someone wants to use on Ubuntu) https://fedorahosted.org/indic-typing-booster

[PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 15 (Lovelock)

2011-05-24 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi This is a very feature rich release including GNOME 3, systemd, Indic typing booster, Btrfs support, Boxgrinder appliance creator and many more, Details at http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2011-May/002964.html Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux

Re: [PLUG] Will html 5 adoption end incompatibility woes for Linux users?

2011-03-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 03/12/2011 09:17 AM, Ghodechhap wrote: > To be fair, there is no reference implementation of standard and lot of > incompatibilities we see today are down to different interpretation of > standard. However that does not help the marketplace. Reference implementations never will work for somet

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

2011-02-15 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 02/12/2011 08:03 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > > meego is not dead. Maybe not but certainly has a negative impact. Nokia was planning to use it in smart phones, tablets etc and Nokia is now betting on Windows Phone OS instead. Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of the PLUG meet and a query

2011-01-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
2011/1/10 shirish शिरीष > > Now I don't know anything about C and being a slightly paranoid kind > > of guy wanted to ask you guys to take a look to see if there are any > > inadverant goof-ups or anything before I take the plunge of applying > > the patch. > > Just saw v2 of the patch > http://b

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 12

2010-12-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/25/2010 05:38 PM, chetan patil wrote: > Hey. > > My Wireless network isn't working in Fedora 12. > > It is by default disabled. > > Can anyone suggest basis steps to make it work. > Broadcom adater for wifi. Refer to http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras Also note that Fed

[PLUG] Media replication

2010-12-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Can anyone pass me the contact info offlist for folks doing media replication in Pune? Thanks Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Performance disparity, problem found

2010-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/01/2010 05:17 AM, Devendra Laulkar wrote: Well it is a April Fool's joke for sure. However, I think you can change attributes of proc filesystem - well chmod certainly works. d...@host:(580)~$ sudo chmod a-rw /proc/uptime && ls -l /proc/uptime -- 1 root root 0 2010-11-30 18:36 /pr

Re: [PLUG] Performance disparity, problem found

2010-11-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/30/2010 12:26 PM, Sagar Belure wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Kumar Krishna Hore < > krishna.h...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> Guys, this is funny >> >> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/4/1/128 >> > YMMD! :D > That was really funny. > > But, I hope that was not April Fool. > Notice the date

Re: [PLUG] Whether to choose ext3 or ext4

2010-11-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/20/2010 05:17 PM, Ghodechhap wrote: Well, Btrfs doesn't even have a fsck yet that can repair damage and until then recommending Btrfs is just not right. If you want something that is mature and stable, use Ext4 or XFS. Btrfs will take atleast six months to an year to be ready for wide u

Re: [PLUG] Whether to choose ext3 or ext4

2010-11-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/20/2010 11:57 AM, Ghodechhap wrote: > Use ext4. its faster that ext3 in general and has faster fsck. Mount option > auto_da_alloc takes care of possibility of of data loss. Besides most data > loss cases are reported on config files which are written, closed and renamed > without an fsync.

Re: [PLUG] problem setting fedora13 iso as repository

2010-09-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/20/2010 12:10 AM, Vinayak Kulkarni wrote: > bad id with iso.repo something like this would fix the problem - [isoupdates] name=isoupdates baseurl=file:///path/to/mounted/iso enabled=1 - Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Re: Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-27 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/27/2010 12:46 AM, शंतनू wrote: > On Monday 26 July 2010 10:24 AM, Mithun Shitole wrote: >> Hi, >> Engineering, Diploma etc. admissions processes are online. The >> website for it is dte.org.in . Unfortunately Technical board doesn't >> seems to care about users who don't use IE. When you

[PLUG] Announcing Fedora 13

2010-05-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2010-May/002815.html --- I'm proud to announce the release of Fedora 13, the latest innovative Linux distribution from the Fedora Project, a global, collaborative partnership of free software community members sponsored by Red Hat. If you ca

[PLUG] Fedora Classroom on I18N

2010-04-30 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Naveen Kumar is running the class. Join us in #fedora-classroom infreenode.net at 6:00 PM today https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom Reference: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_do_I18N_through_gettext Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing Li

[PLUG] Announcing the release of Fedora 13 Beta!!

2010-04-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
The countdown is on: Fedora 13, "Goddard," is set to launch in mid-May. Fedora is the leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to users worldwide, with a new release every six months. But wait! What's that? You can't wait a whole month to tr

[PLUG] RPM Packaging Online Workshop : 16th Apr 2010, 7:00 PM

2010-04-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, I am going to running a workshop via #fedora-india IRC channel in freenode coming Friday. You should have a recent Fedora system running and make sure to install fedora-packager before coming up. # yum install fedora-packager Reading material at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/A_Short_RPM_

[PLUG] Fedora Summer Coding 2010

2010-04-12 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Fedora is sponsoring a "summer of code" program for students called Fedora Summer Coding[1], which is looking for student participants. The ideas page[2] has some specific projects and mentors have until April 14th to add to that list. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010 [2]

Re: [PLUG] program for taking a image from webcam

2010-04-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 04/05/2010 02:14 AM, Suraj Swami wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to write a code to take a snap from the webcam and store it in . > But I am not able to do the basic reading of images. I get all zero value. > How about using the libcheese library? $ yum info cheese-libs Loaded plugins: presto,

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Regarding GPL

2009-12-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/24/2009 05:20 PM, Dnyanraj Mali wrote: > Hello All, > > I need some help on GPL licensing, can someone suggest me any group/forum > where i can ask some questions about GPL FSF and Software Freedom Law Centre are good places. Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Us

Re: [PLUG] Pidgin Voice and Video support

2009-12-25 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/25/2009 04:53 AM, Devendra Laulkar wrote: > Hi, > > I dont know if was covered already(Pretty old news) > I recently installed the latest version of Ubuntu which has Pidgin 2.6.2 and > someone called me up. Apparently, linpurple has found its way to production > and support for Voice + Vid

[PLUG] Omega (Boxer) Fedora Remix

2009-12-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Omega is a completely free and open source Linux based operating system and a Fedora remix suitable for desktop and laptop users. It is a installable Live image for regular PC (i686 architecture) systems. It has all the features of Fedora and number of additional software including multimedia

Re: [PLUG] Some sites which simply don't show on my Ubuntu desktop

2009-12-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/09/2009 02:17 PM, Manish wrote: > I am generally happy with my switch to Ubuntu few months ago. But I am > quite annoyed with few issues that I am not able to resolve. > > I am not able to open few sites, typically Wordpress blogs, ICICI > websites, and many https websites. I can open them w

Re: [PLUG] GDM in some of the newer distros (Was Fwd: Re: Mandriva 2010)

2009-12-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/08/2009 10:34 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > Fedora 12 Live after booting and loading up shows a black screen; > keyboard is locked - power off is the only solution to recover. Try booting with "nomodeset" Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2010

2009-12-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/07/2009 05:42 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > Not so easy as it may look... > > One does need to update /etc/fstab after following your hints so next > normal boot will have *less* trouble :-) If you think editing fstab is such a big deal, don't bother changing filesystems. Rahul __

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2010

2009-12-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/07/2009 05:27 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Ext4_in_Fedora_11#How_do_I_migrate_from_Ext3_to_Ext4.3F >> > > How to achieve that for all existing partitions without need for clean > install is going to be interesting with exception of /home. Because i > do not k

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2010

2009-12-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 12/07/2009 02:35 PM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > Couple of things got disabled during upgraded and they are yet to be > back in shape but overall i could defer a clean install for next time > (or till i can learn more of how i can switch to ext-4 without clean > install of some sort..) If you are usi

Re: [PLUG] Torrent question

2009-11-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/18/2009 11:11 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > Just started donwloading Fedora 12 torrent. > > Always wonder when I download a new distro why the peers list that the > torrent > client shows so few peers from India. (I use ktorrent which shows the country > of a connected peer. May be other clients

[PLUG] Announcing Fedora 12

2009-11-17 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi The latest and greatest Fedora release ever is out. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2009-November/msg6.html yum-presto by default, 3D support for ATI cards via a free and open source driver, Moblin, GNOME Shell, hybrid live images, open source Broadcom firmware, Pack

Re: [PLUG] Airtel gprs on kubuntu 9.10

2009-11-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 11/14/2009 04:27 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui wrote: > Hi, > > I ubuntu when I connect my mobile to pc via usb, it automatically > detect and configure the network connection. > > I'm using kubuntu 9.10. It does not work like that. How I can > configure it via network manager or kppp? In

[PLUG] Fedora 12 Beta now available!

2009-10-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi. --- Fedora is a leading edge, free and open source operating system that continues to deliver innovative features to many users, with a new release every six months. We have reached the Fedora 12 Beta, the last important development milestone of Fedora 12. Only critical bug fixes will be push

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu One

2009-10-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/15/2009 12:53 AM, Amit Karpe wrote: > I think one fine day Canonical will open source this service. Yes and that enthusiasm might even be rewarded some day. Meanwhile I make my current decisions on where to put my personal data based on the existing reality rather than sheer hope. If there

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu One

2009-10-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/14/2009 07:51 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: > I had sent a mail sometime back and they had responded saying at that > some point they would make it cross-platform as well. The bit about > proprietary is news to me. Cross platform (Assuming atleast Windows, Linux and OS X) would put them in a com

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu One

2009-10-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/14/2009 02:40 PM, Amit Karpe wrote: > Hello All, > I found ubuntu project called "Ubuntu One". Project is in beta stage. > Which is for sharing files between Ubuntu Desktops. For this user must > have "Ubuntu One" account and Ubuntu Desktop with Ubuntu One Client. ( > Launchpad accou

Re: [PLUG] Add/Remove Software error

2009-10-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/03/2009 02:24 PM, paras wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working on FC-9 with KDE-4.2.4. > I wan't to add some software. So I trying to use Add/Remove Software. > But when I select the package and click on Apply button, the error message > pop-ups, > "*No network connection available*. Please check

[PLUG] Red Hat Files its Bilski Brief: Asks Supreme Ct. to Exclude Software From Patentability

2009-10-01 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091001154227155 "I love Red Hat. They stand alone alone so far among vendors, willing to stand up and express what the FOSS community would really say if it could speak with one voice to the Supreme Court. This is certainly what *I* would say if I had

Re: [PLUG] Minutes of PLUG meet held on 05-0902009

2009-09-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 09/07/2009 08:10 AM, shirish wrote: > in-line :- > > On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 01:43, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: >> A. It is not very clear if you are posting MOM or writing a blog. >> Where MOM ends and where your thoughts start... not very clear. Rather >> it is completely mixed up. What I w

Re: [PLUG] Resources to learn Clutter

2009-08-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/13/2009 03:50 PM, Ameya Rahane wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone tell me how I can go about learning Clutter? I guess there > are some people in PLUG who use clutter. Are there any good references > for it other than the API documentation? If it's possible, it would be > great if the references use

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

2009-08-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/07/2009 08:05 PM, Chetan Kumar wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Rahul > Sundaram< wrote: >> Well, you said it is a desktop scenario earlier so I am now confused. >> What development do you do on a 256 MB system? The only efficient use of >> such system

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

2009-08-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/07/2009 07:26 PM, Chetan Kumar wrote: > On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Rahul >> On 08/07/2009 07:18 PM, Chetan Kumar wrote: >>> Hi >>> Which distribution (from ubuntu stable) are you running on an older >>> configuration (celeron with 256MB RAM)? It is a desktop scenario. >>> What experienc

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

2009-08-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/07/2009 07:18 PM, Chetan Kumar wrote: > Hi > Which distribution (from ubuntu stable) are you running on an older > configuration (celeron with 256MB RAM)? It is a desktop scenario. > What experience you have to share? > Upgrading is not an option for this case. No modern distribution with th

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play .WMV files.

2009-08-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/06/2009 08:53 AM, Ameya Rahane wrote: > Did you playing the file as a non-root user? Some players have issues > with playing WMV2 players. > Try sudo apt-get install -y gstreamer-plugins-ugly-multiverse > gstreamer-plugins-bad-multiverse > > Also add the medibuntu repository on your Linux,

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play WMV files.

2009-08-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/06/2009 01:29 PM, vaibhav wrote: > Hello All, > I'm able to play other media files in xine, problem is > only playing .wmv file. > > Please suggest. Is it all WMV files or one particular file? Might try http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html#binarycodecs

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play WMV files.

2009-08-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/06/2009 12:51 PM, vaibhav wrote: > Hello Vishal, > I tried installing xine using following: > " yum install xine >xine-lib-extras-freeworld >gstreamer-plugins-ugly >gstreamer-plugins-bad >gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras >gstreamer-ffmpe

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play .WMV files.

2009-08-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/04/2009 10:53 AM, vaibhav wrote: > > Hello All, >I installed mplayer using yum. But still i'm getting > following error: > > "cannot find codec matching selected -vo and video format 0x3253534D" > > but it is able to play sound clearly. Could anyone please suggest..

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play .WMV files.

2009-08-03 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/03/2009 01:27 PM, vaibhav wrote: > hello Rahul, > I didn't understand 'RPM Fusion' is? is it > normal .rpm packages which are available for download on the website? It is a repository. http://www.mail-archive.com/plug-mail@plug.org.in/msg09993.html Rahul __

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play .WMV files.

2009-08-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/03/2009 10:46 AM, Hemant Mohan wrote: > On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 23:05, vaibhav wrote: >> indows Media Video Screen, >> which is currently unsupported.)" >> I tried searching google and found 'mplayer' can play it, but was unable to >> get .rpm package for the same. >> (As i'm new to linux, i

Re: [PLUG] Unable to play .WMV files.

2009-08-02 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 08/02/2009 11:05 PM, vaibhav wrote: > Dear All, > I'm using Fedora 10 on my P4 machine. I have 2 queries. > a) I use 'startx' when logged in as root, and then i'm unable to open vlc > player. It works well when logged in by any other user. Can't it be opened > using 'root' ? No

Re: [PLUG] Basic Questions

2009-07-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/24/2009 08:47 AM, Aditya Godbole wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Vishal > Khialani wrote: >> Hi, >> I have just started using linux and wanted to ask a few questions. >> >> 1) I have heard there are no viruses in linux. Is that ture ? if no >> where can I get a good antivirus soft

Re: [PLUG] file locking

2009-07-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/22/2009 10:53 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > > i will humbly accept your accusations (even when they are untrue) only > if any OP ever responded the way you did to my suggestions/replies... > > Rest is mystery/perspective-difference That's just hand waving. Your story had nothing to do with fil

Re: [PLUG] UNIX command

2009-07-22 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/22/2009 02:51 PM, Vinayakk Merwade wrote: > Sir, > I 'm new to UNIX I would like to explore it , Can you send me commands and > how to use them . http://tldp.org/guides.html http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz Rahul __

Re: [PLUG] file locking

2009-07-20 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/20/2009 09:58 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Rahul wrote: >> On 07/17/2009 10:27 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: >> >> >> If you don't have a direct helpful

Re: [PLUG] file locking

2009-07-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/17/2009 10:27 AM, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Manas Alekar wrote: >>> >>> You might be interested in mandatory file locking via setgid. Mount >>> using option mand and then use lockf. There are pitfalls, thou

[PLUG] Mailing list moderation

2009-07-19 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Plug's mailing list moderation is hyper sensitive and unnecessarily blocks mails with random things like "suspicious header" where this is nothing suspicious whatsoever. I suggest whoever is the list owner relax the rules. The cost of having some spam is probably less the risk of pissing off r

Re: [PLUG] Joomla install

2009-07-08 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/06/2009 10:16 PM, abhi wrote: >>> You probably dont have php-mysql package installed. > > > Some questions: > 1.will this installation screw my databases? > 2.will this screw my existing php and apache installation? > 3.how do i install that package becoz it seems when i try to install that

Re: [PLUG] Joomla installation

2009-07-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/05/2009 08:30 PM, abhi wrote: > Hello. > I m trying to install Joomla on my fc10 box. > It says Mysql no support in step2. > But i have mysql installed and dont know why it is saying that. > I also have databases, tables created in mysql v. 5.0. > What is the matter? You probably dont have p

Re: [PLUG] Thank you all - Fedora 11 Release Party, Pune, India

2009-07-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/04/2009 08:46 PM, Atanu Datta wrote: >> Will followup with blog posts on the event shortly. For those who >> attended the event, feel free to write to me if you have more feedback >> and/or questions. > > Can you bug Sankarshan and Kushal to add captions to the images? :-) With time, all

[PLUG] Thank you all - Fedora 11 Release Party, Pune, India

2009-07-04 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, We had about 60 people attend, questions were insightful and the feedback was motivating. Thank you all for participating and thanks to Plug for graciously moving the time to accommodate us. We will try to do this for every release and have intermediate events as well to encourage more parti

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 11 Release Party in Pune on 4th of July

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 06:44 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: > I meant something like Fedora Rain Coats , with the monsoons approaching ;-) .. and Fedora Lotteries to combat the economic conditions? Go play with your Tux mate. Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailin

Re: [PLUG] Fedora 11 Release Party in Pune on 4th of July

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/29/2009 06:32 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Rahul > Sundaram wrote: >> Attendance is free for the public and you can walk anytime during the >> event. The event is fun and casual. Feel free to hang around and ask >> questions. If you

[PLUG] Fedora 11 Release Party in Pune on 4th of July

2009-06-29 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, We are arranging a release party for Fedora 11 release in the Red Hat office in Kalyani Nagar on 11 AM, Saturday - 4th of July 2009. We will have a few presentations including one covering the new features in Fedora 11 and recent advancements in free and open source software and some of the p

Re: [PLUG] Question: NTFS partition recovery through Linux

2009-06-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 06/24/2009 08:11 AM, Ameya Rahane wrote: > Greetings to all! > I have a dual-boot laptop running Windows XP and Intrepid, well I had > it that way until yesterday. I formatted the whole hard drive, and > installed Ubuntu 9.04 on it, and created partitions for root (/), > /home and the remaining

[PLUG] Fedora 11 (Leonidas) Reigns

2009-06-10 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Fedora 11, the latest and greatest version is now available. New features include, * Ext4 as the default filesystem for better performance and scalability * yum-presto plugin for downloading binary deltas reducing download sizes by over 80% typically * Smoother and flicker free graphical boo

[PLUG] Fedora 11 For LUG's

2009-05-21 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi If you are a LUG contact person, Fedora India team can send you copies of Fedora 11 media to be redistributed to LUG members. Drop me a offlist mail if this is desirable. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F11_For_Indian_LUGs Rahul ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Gro

[PLUG] OLPC X0-1.5 and Fedora 11

2009-05-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi http://blog.printf.net/articles/2009/05/16/the-olpc-xo-1-5-and-fedora-11 "Some good news from OLPC: we've decided to base the new XO-1.5 laptop's software release on Fedora 11. Unlike previous releases, we plan to use a full Fedora desktop build, booting into Sugar but giving users the option

[PLUG] What software is missing in the Fedora repository?

2009-05-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, If you are a Fedora user, read on. Otherwise, feel free to skip this mail. I am doing a quick survey for software that you use on a regular basis that is not available via the Fedora repository. Software that you suggest should be free and open source, free of patent and other legal issues (ie

[PLUG] Fedora Classroom: May 2009

2009-05-05 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, Fedora IRC Classroom for May 2009 was completed successfully with 3 different sessions: Fedora Ambassador Tips & Training -- Max Spevack What is SELinux trying to tell me? - The 4 key causes of SELinux errors -- Daniel Walsh, lead SELinux developer at Red Hat Introduction to libvirt - The v

[PLUG] Fedora 11 Preview Release Announced

2009-04-28 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Fedora 11 Preview Release has been announced with a large number of new features, even more so than previous general releases. This includes * Presto (delta RPM updates reducing bandwidth usage over 80% typically). Yum install yum-presto to enable it. * Automatic font and mime installer via P

[PLUG] Announcing Fedora 11 Beta

2009-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Fedora 11 Beta features a large number of new improvements and innovative features including Automatic fonts and mime installer, improved support Fingerprint readers, Ext4 as the default filesystem, Nouveau driver as default for Nvidia systems, Control Groups, Kernel Mode Setting (KMS) for Int

Re: [PLUG] How to configure Evolution for MS Exchange Server 5.5?

2009-03-31 Thread Rahul Sundaram
kapilran...@aol.in wrote: > Hello, > > > I have Ubuntu 8.1 and I want to configure Evolution for MS > Exchange Server 5.5. I read on Evolution FAQ that there is something > called Brutus..but it needs installation on both Server and Client > site. I don't have access to the Server. So only thing

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

2009-03-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Devendra Laulkar wrote: > Hi, > >> 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. > > Any s

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

2009-03-16 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Arindam wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Let me summarise and hopefully close this thread. > > Sorry to drag this. Along with the following summary, it would have > really helped if you had summarized PLUG's contribution to Open Source > Software

[PLUG] Red Hat Enlists Community in Fight Against Patent Trolls

2009-02-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi Essentially the outcome of this lawsuit will decide if mainstream Linux distributions would be able to continue including the ability to switch between different workspaces (virtual desktops). Keep an eye on this. Blog post from Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader http://marilyn.frields.

Re: [PLUG] How to tweak Grub

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
K.V.RAJEEV wrote: > Hello all, > I am a newbie. I have installed Fedora-10 on SATA-2 having Windows XP Prof. > on SATA-1.Everything fine. > But I want the dual boot option from the starting without hitting any key > when grub appears. > grub gives only three seconds to hit the key.That is a short

Re: [PLUG] minutes of today's monthly meet

2009-02-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
shirish wrote: > > The other thing which happened is that Ramky (always forget his full > name, sorry) from Redhat showed us a demo of frets on fire. Ramakrishna Reddy and it is Red Hat. I had > heard of this game but had never run due to its 2 GB RAM system > requirements. http://fretsonfire.

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