Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu 9.10 Released !!!

2009-10-31 Thread Mithun Shitole
s painless. I loved the new login style at the beginning of 9.10 . There are lots of new features including Integrated Ubuntu One client. For me, first impression of Karmic Koala is very good. -- Mithun Shitole http://www.technoyaari.com Pune. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Tool for image editing

2010-02-09 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Vivek Khurana wrote: > 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

Re: [PLUG] ping problem

2010-03-07 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Saturday 06 March 2010 01:56 PM, vaibhav khatavkar wrote: Hello, I have an internet connection shared through a Ubuntu 9.10 machine(server). I have other two machines (one with ubuntu 9.10 and other with windows xp) connected to it via switch. The machine with ubuntu can be pinged fro

Re: [PLUG] accounting and excise billing on Linux

2010-03-26 Thread Mithun Shitole
thing like GnuCash or restricting ourselves to something more of a inventory management thing, as your screen shot suggest? I am trying to learn some basic accounting concepts, for which i think help file of a GnuCash is a very good resource. here is link http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.0/C/gnucash-

[PLUG] Apt-Cacher-NG installation

2010-03-28 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, I have a Ubuntu server (jaunty) and some Ubuntu desktop installs ( karmic) . I am planning to install apt-get-ng so that I can save bandwidth and fast updates. Is it possible to install it on jaunty servers and use it from others? What can be consequences of doing it? -- Mithun www.epariv

Re: [PLUG] Apt-Cacher-NG installation

2010-03-29 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Mehul Ved wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:03 PM, Mithun Shitole > wrote: > > Hi, > >I have a Ubuntu server (jaunty) and some Ubuntu desktop installs ( > > karmic) . I am planning to install apt-get-ng so that I can save > ban

[PLUG] Suggest a webhost for database centric webpage

2010-04-05 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, I want to host a website in which its database can grow over years to GBs ( 2-3 GB). I don't require bigger file storage capacity (100 MB is enough) and yes I need php - mysql :). Can you suggest some good linux webhost (US based) for the purpose upon your personal experience Or at lease po

Re: [PLUG] Suggest a webhost for database centric webpage

2010-04-06 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Shridhar Daithankar < ghodech...@ghodechhap.net> wrote: > On Tuesday 06 April 2010 17:36:18 Tarun Dua wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Mithun Shitole > wrote: > > > Hi, > > >I want to host a website in which i

Re: [PLUG] ubuntu 9.04 Initramfs

2010-04-22 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Wednesday 21 April 2010 01:38 PM, Kapil Agrawal wrote: Hi all, When I boot my ubuntu 9.04, I get a initramfs prompt. It was working perfetct till yesterday, and this morning I started facing this issue, any clue ? Also I am able to boot through live cd, and able to mount my home partition to

Re: [PLUG] [OT] EVM Security

2010-05-02 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Mayuresh wrote: > This is OT though could be of concern. > > A video showing "Indian" EVM's vulnerabilities: > http://indiaevm.org/ > > An article on this: > http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7667 > > While the points raised in the video may be

[PLUG] Found a laptop which is Linux friendly

2010-06-19 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, This is just to share my experience with the laptop purchase. I have purchased two Lenovo G550 Laptops. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it. And to my surprise, everything worked out of box. Wifi, Bluetooth, Graphics, Sound. It was like a breeze. Its a core 2 duo, 3gb ram, 320gb har

Re: [PLUG] Found a laptop which is Linux friendly

2010-07-01 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Sunday 20 June 2010 12:55 PM, Prashant Shah wrote: Hi Mithun, I hope this will help someone who wants to buy a laptop and run Linux onto it. What is the cost of the laptop ? Regards. ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List Hi

[PLUG] Government Sponsored Vendor lock

2010-07-26 Thread Mithun Shitole
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 go to http://www.dte.org.in/FE2010/StaticPages/Default.aspx , this is what it says: "Sorry, this Appl

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

2010-07-27 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Tuesday 27 July 2010 12:46 AM, शंतनू wrote: Did you try to send feedback/email using above links? If no, the first step would be sending email and sending feedback as well. I also stumbled upon http://dte.org.in/rdte/index.asp regards, shantanoo Yes I did tried. Their feedback system isn

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

2010-07-28 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 11:42 AM, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: While everything that helps should be tried, the real ownership of the apps is not with the software vendor but with their customer - Govt. Besides PIL (which I agree is long drawn), don't know whether other means such as RTI, media

Re: [PLUG] Open source desktop sharing tool

2010-08-04 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 10:36 PM, Nikhil Kala wrote: Hello All, I am looking for a open source desktop sharing tool, which can work on linux and windows platform. Something like Team Viewer in Windows. Team Viewer works with low band width and does not required any additional settings / conf

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting confirmation - 7th August 2010

2010-08-05 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Thursday 05 August 2010 01:04 PM, Aditya Godbole wrote: Hi all, The PLUG meeting for this month has been scheduled on Saturday, 7th Aug, 2010. Please note that the time and venue for this month's meeting is different than usual. Venue: College of Engineering, Pune (COEP). Seminar Hall 2 (also

Re: [PLUG] Unable to Access Internet on Newly Installed Ubuntu 10.04

2010-08-09 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Monday 09 August 2010 03:40 PM, Akshay N. Manke wrote: Hello, I have installed Ubuntu 10.04 and trying to configure Static IP to use internet through BSNL Broadband, but i am not able to configure Gateway. I am able to ping any other machine in our network because static IP and Subnet it h

[PLUG] Blackberry row, what about gpg encryption

2010-08-13 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, Looking at current blackberry vs Indian government row, I am bit confused and curious. What if so called terrorist used a gpg public-private key encryption known only to them (Sender and receiver) ? Is it possible government to crack it? And if it can't , whats the point in blocking Blackb

Re: [PLUG] FOSS Activity and Non-Technical People

2010-09-30 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Thursday 30 September 2010 07:34 PM, Dnyanraj Mali wrote: > But i would like to say that colleges follow university rules, if linux is > in your syllabus they'll have to install it..(this is problem in our > education system) As far as I know, Pune University don't make a rule for any p

[PLUG] best strategy for backing up small server

2010-10-14 Thread Mithun Shitole
Hi, 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. We do not have any automatic backup system for now. I want to add something like RAID 1 for backing up data. Can anyone suggest best practices? S

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

2010-10-16 Thread Mithun Shitole
On Friday 15 October 2010 08:43 AM, Pranav Peshwe wrote: > 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 t