[PLUG] Programming HowTo's - Python HowTo's

2009-04-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
I found this very useful, interesting. Sharing with you. HowTo find the port on a switch that a host belongs to, the easy way, http://www.linuxdynasty.org/howto-find-the-port-on-a-switch-that-a-host-belongs-to-the-easy-way-part-1.html -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!

[PLUG] new distros

2009-04-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, We now have Ubuntu 9.04 (i386, amd64) and Centos 5.3 (i386) available with PLUG. You can book them and collect at the next PLUG meeting this Saturday. Regards -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! Have you tr

[PLUG] May 09 meeting postponed

2009-04-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for May 2009 is postponed. It was supposed to be held on 2nd May (by default-first saturday every month). It is likely to be rescheduled on 9th May. This is because of some exams in SICSR and also considering the long weekend people are having :-) I will send a confirmation mai

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for May 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 9th May 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-05-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for May 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 9th May 2009, 4pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Not yet decided. We can have a review of Joomla Day conducted recently. Amit Kar

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for May 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 9th May 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-05-07 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi, > > PLUG meeting for May 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 9th May 2009, 4pm @ SICSR > > These are the details: > Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. > Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) &g

[PLUG] Fwd: [ilugd] Fwd: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco

2009-05-21 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Raj Mathur Date: Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:14 AM Subject: [ilugd] Fwd: [FSF] FSF Settles Suit Against Cisco To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list [Good news: Cisco has agreed to comply with the licences of FOSS they use in their Linksys products, and no

[PLUG] Confirmation: Fuel & Marathi L10n meeting on 6th June 6pm @ SICSR

2009-06-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, After FUEL ( http://fedorahosted.org/fuel) Marathi meeting in Gnunify09 and IndLinux meetings ( and ), we had decided to have another meeting to discuss Marathi L10N activ

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for June 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 6th June 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-06-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for June 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 6th June 2009, 4pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: We will have some talks and discussions.

Re: [PLUG] Need ubuntu dvd

2009-06-05 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, We have got the DVDs. Will get one for you tomorrow. -sudhanwa On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > Hi! > >  Anyone got ubuntu 9.04 cd/dvd ? Please bring me a copy during > tomorrow's plug meet. > > regards > Vivek > > -- > The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! >

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for July 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 4th July 2009, 5 pm @ SICSR

2009-07-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for July 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 4th July 2009, 5 pm @ SICSR (Please note the change in timing.) These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 5 pm Agenda: Not decided yet. Feel free to suggest and

[PLUG] Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode

2009-07-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, FYI. People using mibbit for irc on freenode will have to use some other site like http://webchat.freenode.net . Here is a notice from freenode: *** Notice -- Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode. You may wish to consider using http://webchat.freenode.net instead. Fur

[PLUG] FUEL Marathi Evaluation Meet

2009-07-20 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
, authors, press/media people, book editors, etc etc. That will give some better mix and variety of views to decide the right words to be used. Please confirm your participation to me or to the people mentioned in the mail. Best regards, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar -- Forwarded message -- From

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for August 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 1st August 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-07-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for August 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 1st August 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Not decided yet. Feel free to suggest and/or give a talk/demo. We can ha

Re: [PLUG] FUEL Marathi Evaluation Meet

2009-07-31 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
the people mentioned in the mail. Best regards, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar -- Forwarded message -- From: Rajesh Ranjan Date: 2009/7/17 Subject: FUEL Marathi Evaluation Meet To: fuel-disc...@lists.fedorahosted.org Hi All, A workshop on standardizing frequently used terminology for

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

2009-08-07 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 9:48 AM, 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. > Cheers > You can try

[PLUG] (OT).. Microsoft patents XML word processing documents

2009-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Discussions, brainstorming welcome!! The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an application that understands XML, or to enable another applicatio

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for September 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 5th September 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-09-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for September 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 5th September 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Talk by Manjusha Joshi on Beamer. Discussions about Software Freed

[PLUG] New Distros released

2009-09-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, There are new distro released !! Slackware 13 is released. Read more here: http://www.slackware.com/ Redhat 5.4 is released. Read more here: http://www.redhat.com/ -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! Have

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

2009-09-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:42 PM, shirish wrote: > Hi all, > Saving people from my long, boring one-person speeches hence compiled > the minutes with comments at > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/minutes-of-plug/ . > > People are encouraged to poke holes in my understanding of h

Re: [PLUG] SFD Celebration Programs

2009-09-16 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
2009/9/16 Rishikesh ऋषिकेश : > Dear All,We( Pune Linux Users Group and Lokayat Free Software Initiative) > had meeting College of Engg Pune on Saturday. We could not have meeting on > last Thursday due to some unavoidable reasons. We chalked out following > program. Due to "Ghatasthapana Divas" on

[PLUG] (OT) MIT students snap near-space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470

2009-09-24 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Wondering what to do with that old clunker of a digital camera you’ve got in your drawer? Try taking photos of space with it. Three enterprising MIT students have successfully launched and retrieved a digital camera in order to snap photos of the earth from the upper atmosphere — and they did it a

[PLUG] Announcement: Drupal Sprint India on October 30-31 2009

2009-09-25 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FREE. So, what are you waiting for? Mark your calendar for the event dates!! Best regards, --Sudhanwa Jogalekar ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com Offer projects. Get your work done. Groom your

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for October 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 3rd October 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-10-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for October 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 3rd October 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Discussions about the upcoming event: Drupal Sprint India, October 30-3

[PLUG] Reminder: Drupal Sprint India on October 30-31 2009

2009-10-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear friends, This is a kind reminder for the Drupal Sprint 2009 event on 30-31 Oct. 2009. Please visit the website http://drupalindia2009.plug.org.in and register yourself. You can also check out the program schedule and the list of attendees on the website. So, do join in and "Contribute to

[PLUG] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] SciPy Conference 2009 CFP is out

2009-11-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Kaustubh Naik Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:51 AM Subject: [ILUG-GOA] SciPy Conference 2009 CFP is out To: ilug-...@yahoogroups.com The SciPy Conference is just around which begins from 12th Dec. 2009 till 17th Dec. 2009 at Technopark in Triva

Re: [PLUG] ZEM 500 for MIPS

2009-11-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Devendra Laulkar wrote: > Hi, > >> I bought a Fnger print scanner with Time attandance system >> for my factory. >> The defacult s/w this sytem runs on is Windoz. > > Is it supported on Linux ? You can try contacting the manufacturer. > Maybe if enough people star

[PLUG] Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source

2009-12-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source Why Microsoft could become one of the "biggest friends of open source" and why Oracle getting its hands on MySQL could be "one of the biggest open source coups ever". Read more here: http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39643702,00

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for December 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 5th December 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-12-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for December 2009 is scheduled on Saturday 5th December 2009, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Discussions about the upcoming CMDA expo(11-14 Dec @ COEP ground) . W

[PLUG] PLUG participation in CMDA IT expo.

2009-12-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG is participating in the CMDA IT Expo starting from tomorrow.. The expo is from 11 to 14th and like last year, the venue is Engineering college ground, Shivajinagar. Our stall no is G-12. Also, like every year, we have 2 seminars in the expo. Both are on the first day i.e. Friday 11th A

[PLUG] Announcing GNUnify'10......scheduled on 19th & 20th Feb 2009

2009-12-18 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear friends, We are happy to announce GNUnify 2010 !! GNUnify 2010 is scheduled on 19th & 20th Feb 2010 (Friday, Saturday) Please checkout the event website http://gnunify.in and post your suggestions or contact us. The website currently gives basic information about the event and will be upda

Re: [PLUG] Need Help Regarding GPL

2009-12-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Dnyanraj Mali wrote: > Hello All, > > Thanks to all that you want me to ask the question on the same mailing list. > > My questions are: > >   1. Can i change logo and/or softwarename of a Open Source software (of >   course after customization)? Depending o

Re: [PLUG] Proprietary

2009-12-31 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:38 PM, Vipul Amler wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been set with a question from an organization,who intends to turn > their  CBT's(Computer Based Tutorials), into Linux versions for > Linus OS's in general. The ask for ways for safeguarding the Software,in > regards to "As

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for January 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 2nd January 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR

2009-12-31 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for January 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 2nd January 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Discussions about the upcoming GNUnify 2010 event. Review/report about

[PLUG] Fwd: [Indlinux-group] Announcement: Free Software Media

2010-01-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
fyi. -- Forwarded message -- From: ஆமாச்சு|amachu Date: 2010/1/1 Subject: [Indlinux-group] Announcement: Free Software Media To: indlinux-group Free Software Media is an initiative to publish, promote & distribute, Free Software related text, audio and video contents across Ind

Re: [PLUG] Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases to Avoid (or Use with Care)

2010-01-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Gaurav Pant wrote: > > Nice read > > good for newbies > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html > That is some good reading. However, it does not give equivalent/better terms that can give absolute clarity/meaning of the terms mentioned. If someone is ag

[PLUG] GNUnify 2010: Call For Papers

2010-01-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This is a kind reminder about GNUnify 2010.. If you have not noticed it yet, CFP is already open!! Do register as a speaker and submit your talks/workshops etc. GNUnify'10 Tracks * Software Development * System Administration * Embedded Systems * FOSS in Education * Sci

[PLUG] Nice reading about FOSS licenses

2010-01-20 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Some nice reading about FOSS licenses for your reference. 1.Top 20 Most Commonly Used Licenses in Open Source Projects. (and some more useful info) Read more here: http://www.blackducksoftware.com/oss/licenses#top20 2. An idea that is suggested every now and then is to look at software lic

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for February 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 6th February 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR

2010-02-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for February 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 6th February 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: 1. Discussions about the GNUnify 2010 event. The event is free for a

Re: [PLUG] Tool for image editing

2010-02-09 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Nikhil Kala wrote: > Hello All, > > Is there any tool available under linux platform for image editing? > I know GIMP and Inkscape tools but I am looking for little bit easy to use > tools for image editing on linux. For raw files, use rfraw for conversion. Krita s

[PLUG] Reminder: GNUnify 2010 !!!

2010-02-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear all, This is a kind reminder about our very own FOSS conference GNUnify 2010. The event is sponsored by Mozilla!! Just one day left for the event now. The schedule is already posted on the website http://gnunify.in We have a nice combination of various talks and workshops of different trac

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for March 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 6th March 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR

2010-03-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for March 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 6th March 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: 1. Reviews/comments/discussions about the GNUnify 2010 event. 2. Any other

[PLUG] (OT) Computer system from Pune launched in CEBIT !! Runs FOSS!!

2010-03-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, DSK Digital (part of the DSK group from Pune) has launched this Texas Instruments OMAP3 600mhz ARM based full Linux computer system for a whole bunch of low power, even solar powered computing for on the field healthcare, e-governm...etc. etc. And it runs FOSS !!! Interested to know more

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

2010-03-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Raseel Bhagat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> DSK Digital (part of the DSK group from Pune) has launched this Texas >> Instruments OMAP3 600mhz ARM based full Linux computer s

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

2010-03-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Navin Kabra wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] accounting and excise billing on Linux

2010-03-24 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On 3/24/10, म.हा.सा.ग.र wrote: > a user is thinking of switching to Linux for usual reasons. > > He asked, can I use tally on Linux.. undersigned replied affirmative... As I remember, tally is available on Linux. But most of the vendors do not know about it. Also, support is poor. If you are loo

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for April 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 3rd April 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR

2010-04-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for April 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 3rd April 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: No agenda decided. Feel free to suggest and/or give a talk/demo. @Gnunify

[PLUG] Postponed: PLUG meeting for May 2010

2010-04-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Considering the public holiday on 1st May, PLUG meeting is postponed. It is likely to be held on 8th May. We are planning to have a common meeting with DSK,, PLUG, PuneTech, POCC to interact/discuss about the new device DSK is launching. Will confirm the meeting in due course of time. Best

[PLUG] (JOBS) Required system/network administrators

2010-05-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
/Domino, AS400 and other generic system administration tasks).etc. Interested people can also apply for the same. Regards, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.sudhanwa.com ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

[PLUG] Confirmation: Combined meeting of PLUG, POCC, PuneTech for May 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 8th May 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR

2010-05-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Combined meeting of PLUG, POCC, PuneTech for May 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 8th May 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 407. 4th floor ( Please note the change in room no.) Time: 4 pm This is a joint meeting of PLUG, POCC, Pune Te

[PLUG] Coverage about PLUG on Indian Express- Pune Newsline

2010-05-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, There is an article in today's Indian Express- Pune Newsline about PLUG. The title is "Plug n' Serve" and it is on page no. 3 of Pune Newsline. I could not see any mention on their website yet. Will update you whenever I get it from them. Regards, -Sudhanwa ps: there was some coverage on 8

[PLUG] linux compatible tv tuner card

2010-06-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, I am trying to record some videos from a camcorder to a linux box. ( Next phase will be live streaming !! ) I need a tv tuner card or some other similar device so that I can get the input to the PC from the camera. I have tried many TV tuner cards available in the market. Most of them are su

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for June 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 5th June 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR

2010-06-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for June 2010 is scheduled on Saturday 5th June 2010, 4 pm @ SICSR These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704. 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 4 pm Agenda: Talk by G. Karunakar about Unicode. This will be about 1 hour followed by QA

Re: [PLUG] linux compatible tv tuner card

2010-06-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 4:32 PM, aniruddh katkar wrote: > i've got an old pinnacle pctv stereo internal tvtuner which works flawlessly > on debian 4.0,5.0 and kdetv because it uses a philips chip which is > supported on linux you can try new version of it... > Aniruddh Most of the currently avail

Re: [PLUG] OT: BSNL DataOne modem

2010-06-24 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Makarand Mhaiskar wrote: > Hi, > > I've an old SmartAX MT882 broadband modem but got a new telephone line. I'm > not getting the LINK light on. Normally, if the phone line is good and modem > is turned on, the LINK light should blink and then stay on. Have yo

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux Spring 2010.1

2010-07-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
2010/7/13 म.हा.सा.ग.र : > I was ktorrenting MandrivaOne... for a reason and gateway firewall > started screaming of "Agent2.LFX (Trojan)" from multiple seed(?)s... > so abandoned the idead of downloading Mandriva One... towards 99.96% > completion of the download. > > Posting this here as a caution

Re: [PLUG] What are the most viable backup options for linux

2010-07-20 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Chaitannya Mahatme wrote: > > Dear all, > > I wanted to install an automatic backup and restore for my laptop. I wanted > a solution which would take incremental backup of my primary partition every > week or so. > In case of disk failure I should be able to use a

[PLUG] (OT) Nice comic strip on most of the FOSS top people

2010-07-23 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Nice comic strip here: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eric-buys-an-ipod Rather old but still enjoyable!! -Sudhanwa ps: nothing personal.. just fun!! ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

[PLUG] Firefox's next big innovation: A new OS-like interface

2010-07-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Firefox's next big innovation: A new OS-like interface Check out more here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/firefoxs-next-big-innovation-a-new-os-like-interface/37277?tag=nl.e539 --Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.sudhanwa.com ___ Pune

Re: [PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
> > Please contact Shantanu Oak who gave a session on shell scripting for > mysql sometime in May at some seminar or thw uch in Pune. > > I know for certain that the printed tickets from an ST bus and its > backend and the MSRTC online reservation is based on Centos. > > Various Departments of Gov

[PLUG] Fwd: Qimo in Marathi

2010-08-18 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Last week I downloaded Qimo 2.0 (http://www.qimo4kids.com ) distro. It is a distro for kids. Based on Ubuntu, it has the lightweight XFCE interface. I just wanted to check the contents and how the packages are in the new version. Old one was nice and the current release is excellent and looks

[PLUG] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

2010-09-09 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Kaustubh Naik Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM Subject: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets To: ilug-goa As someone has already said, better late than never! http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/ -- Kaus

[PLUG] Mifos, the microfinancing application of the Grameen foundation

2010-10-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This FOSS application requires people for translations/localisation. Hope you will contribute. -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Gerard Meijssen Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:08 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mifos, the microfinancing application of the Grameen foundati

Re: [PLUG] Meeting confirmation Saturday 09 October 2010

2010-10-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote: > Hi all, > > The PLUG meeting for October will take place this Saturday. Details as > follows: > > Venue: 7th floor, Symbiosis Institute of Computer Science and Research > (SICSR), Model Colony > Time: 4 pm, 9th October, 2010 > > There is no f

[PLUG] Zoyd, we will miss you. R I P

2010-10-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear friends, One of our senior members, Vinay Pawar (usually known as ZOYD), expired on Saturday (9th) evening. While he was coming to the PLUG meeting, he met with a traffic accident near RTO. He was taken to Sasoon hospital immediately, but treatment was not of much use. Zoyd was an active mem

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro

2010-10-14 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:44 PM, madhu khodave wrote: > Hi Friends > > I want to discuss about " which Linux distro is best suited for SAP Client & > Office appllications Any linux distro is fine. I have worked on Ubuntu, Fedora and some others running the SAP client. User is concerned with the

[PLUG] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

2010-12-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 13th December, 2010 at Pune. This is third wikimeetup in Pune. Erik Möller,Deputy Director,Wikimedia Foundation, Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attend

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

2010-12-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Continuing with the wikipedia meetup announcement Please check out this mail posted by Erik on the wikipedia India mailing list to understand the purpose of thier visit to India. You can join the meeting with your thoughts on this. Best regards -Sudhanwa ~~~

[PLUG] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

2010-12-12 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This is kind reminder for the Wikipedia meetup on 13th December at 6:30pm at SICSR. Do join in. Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune3 You can also join the technology centric meetup on 14th at Redhat. Details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meet

[PLUG] Fwd: [ilugd] Fwd: [KDE-India] conf.kde.in 2011 announced

2010-12-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Pradeepto Bhattacharya Date: Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:20 PM Subject: [ilugd] Fwd: [KDE-India] conf.kde.in 2011 announced To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list -- Forwarded message -- From: Shantanu Tushar Jha Date: 2010/12/28 Subjec

[PLUG] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration in Pune

2011-01-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
the details of the event here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W10_Pune Do join the celebrations!! Best regards -Sudhanwa Jogalekar ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration in Pune

2011-01-14 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This is a gentle reminder for the Wikipedia 10th Anniversary celebrations on 15th Jan, 6:30 pm at SICSR. Details in the rearlier mail below. Do join in. -Sudhanwa On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi, > > On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia will turn 10.  

Re: [PLUG] GNUnify '11

2011-01-21 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:17 PM, wrote: > GNUnify '11 excellence exemplified > > An Open convergence of Open minds, for an Open World. > > Organised by the students of the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies > and Research (SICSR) in association with the Pune GNU/Linux Users Group >

[PLUG] Reminder. GNUnify 2011

2011-02-09 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This is a kind reminder about GNUnify 2011 happening on 11,12 Feb. at SICSR, Pune. Just 2 days left for the event now. We are going to have some International speakers from Mozilla and Wikimedia Foundation!! Lots of talks, hands on workshops on interesting topics will be there in GNUnify.

[PLUG] PLUG stall at GNUnify

2011-02-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear Pluggies, Gnunify 2011, our own FOSS event, jointly organized by PLUG and SICSR is starting from tomorrow 11th Feb and will go till 12th Feb. in SICSR, Model Colony, Pune. This is ninth successive  year of Gnunify.  Find more information on the website www.gnunify.in This year we are arran

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

2011-02-18 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > http://www.businessworld.in/bw/2011_02_11_Nokia_MS_Join_Forces_Against_Google_Apple.html > > MeeGo which was a merge of moblin (Intel's Fedora like distro) and Nokia > Maemo (Debian like distro which runs on Nokia N900 and some of its > predecesso

[PLUG] Fwd: [ilugd] Symbian not open-source anymore

2011-04-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) Date: 2011/4/4 Subject: [ilugd] Symbian not open-source anymore To: il...@frodo.hserus.net Now Nokia has come out with a different spin on their licensing for Symbian, which removes it completely from the FOSS domain.  An

[PLUG] Fwd: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune12 on Saturday 9 April 2011, 6:00 pm @ SICSR

2011-04-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Forwarded -- Forwarded message -- From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar Date: Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:02 AM Subject: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune12 on Saturday 9 April 2011, 6:00 pm @ SICSR To: mr-wiki , "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." Hi, This is a confi

Re: [PLUG] Airtel router issue

2011-04-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
[snip] > We've worked almost all the major ISP's in the city, and this has been our > experience: > airtel => for home users, generally don't give public ip on the router. on > top of it, they cut down the speed to 256 kbps if your bandwidth crosses > certain limit which is pathetic. > reliance =

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

2011-05-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:07 PM, Nikhil Karkare wrote: > Hi, > I am part of a school, and keep meeting people who want to sell me software. > Here is a situation that I come across regularly. > I find people selling products based on Linux. I see them writing a > few lines of code, customizing Gno

[PLUG] [Inpycon] [CFP] Pycon India 2011, Pune

2011-05-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Forwarding FYI === Pycon India 2011 :: 16 - 18 September, Pune, India. === The third edition of PyCon India is being held in Pune,India from 16th September 2011 to 18th September 2011. The organisers

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

2011-05-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Nikhil Karkare wrote: >> >> 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 >>

[PLUG] Fwd: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Latest update - Pune meetup

2011-05-12 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Forwarded FYI with some additions of URLs for the benefit of readers. For the details, meetup page is available here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune13 -- Forwarded message -- From: Ashwin Baindur Date: Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:31 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-

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

2011-05-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > 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.

[PLUG] (OT) Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS

2011-05-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS. Many Indic websites & applications will now be affected Read more here: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html Looks like this is the right time for FOSS community to create their own APIs --Sudhanwa

[PLUG] Fwd: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Important : WikiPuneri Meetup No 14 - Date changed to 04 Jun 2011 and a special invite to the community

2011-06-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Forwarded FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ashwin Baindur Date: Sat, May 28, 2011 at 11:23 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Important : WikiPuneri Meetup No 14 - Date changed to 04 Jun 2011 and a special invite to the community To: mr-w...@yahoogroups.com, "Mailing list for Wikim

Re: [PLUG] Acer laptop MoBo crash; rtcwake?

2011-07-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > Recently my laptop (Acer) crashed. > > It boots fine though no USB device on it works (that includes > internal/external kbd/mouse etc), network doesn't work. > > The power button interrupt triggers a clean shutdown. > Have you tried booting

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

2011-07-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 8:57 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 e

[PLUG] Fwd: Confirmation: Wikipedia monthly meetup on 9th July 2011 in SICSR at 6pm

2011-07-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Sudhanwa Jogalekar Date: Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 1:10 AM Subject: Confirmation: Wikipedia monthly meetup on 9th July 2011 in SICSR at 6pm To: mr-wiki , "Mailing list for Wikimedians in Pune, India" , "Discussion list on Indian langu

[PLUG] Reminder: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Pune Meetup on 29 August 2011

2011-08-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Forwarding mail for Wikimedia- Pune meetup. Regards -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Ashwin Baindur Date: Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 12:39 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Pune Meetup on 29 August 2011 To: "Mailing list for Wikimedians in Pune, India" , wikimediaindia-l Cc

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva 2011

2011-09-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
2011/9/2 म.हा.सा.ग.र : > Perhaps a stale news... > > http://blog.mandriva.com/en/2011/08/28/mandriva-2011-hydrogen-is-out/ H I had not monitored the release after the delay in schedule. Lets download it so that we can give it a try. Meanwhile, Thanks to Jayant Ogale, who has given us Mageia

[PLUG] FYI : eBooks, Project Gutenberg, founder obituary

2011-09-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart A fine tribute to a great achiever and source of inspiration for the progress of open knowledge. --sudhanwa ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] O'Reilly Ultimate Collection

2011-09-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
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. Regards -Sudhanwa On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Prateek Hck wrote: > thepiratebay.org/torrent/6

[PLUG] Fwd: [ilugd] Dries is visiting India!

2011-10-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Ishan Mahajan Date: Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:56 AM Subject: [ilugd] Dries is visiting India! To: il...@lists.linux-delhi.org Hello Drupalers, Dries Buytaert, the creator of Drupal and the CTO of Acquia

[PLUG] Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and Unix dead

2011-10-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dennis Ritchie, inventor of C and Unix dead Read more here: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/10/13/dennis-ritchie-father-c-and-unix-dies/ -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com  blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more.

[PLUG] Open Source: You Know, For Kids!

2011-10-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Open Source: You Know, For Kids! Nice reading here: http://www.networkworld.com/community/open-source-for-kids -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com  blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. __

[PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for November 2011 is scheduled on Saturday 5th November, 5:30 pm @ SICSR

2011-11-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, PLUG meeting for November 2011 is scheduled on Saturday 5th November, 5:30 pm @ SICSR (Note the change in timing. It is 5:30 pm instead of usual 4pm) These are the details: Location: SICSR, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 704 7th floor ( room no. may change ) Time: 5:30 pm Agenda: 1. We

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for November 2011 is scheduled on Saturday 5th November, 5:30 pm @ SICSR

2011-11-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, 2011/11/3 म.हा.सा.ग.र : > On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> PLUG meeting for November 2011 is scheduled on Saturday 5th  November, >> 5:30 pm @ SICSR >> (Note the change in timing. It is 5:30 pm instead of usual 4pm)

Re: [PLUG] Google Releases Honeycomb Code!

2011-11-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > While everyone is talking about Android 4.0 code, what is worth mentioning > is that Google has also released source code of Honeycomb as well. > > Despite Google's repeated clarification that holding back Honeycomb code was > not intended

[PLUG] Translation sprint on 26th November in Pune

2011-11-22 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, We are happy to announce a Translation sprint on 26th November 2011 at SICSR between 10 am to 5 pm. These are the activities in the sprint: To work on the translation of MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia for a few hours. (and have some nice chats while doing that :-) ) Th

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Unlocking satellitve TV set top box

2011-12-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Mayuresh wrote: > I have a spare Kaon STB which has firmware provided by Dish TV. > > After stopping subscription, the STB has got locked. (Don't know whether > they have right to do that as you have paid for the hardware. But that's a > different discussion altoge

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