[ubuntu-in] Two Interesting news about Indian Govt's Tech dreams

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Two articles regarding some initiatives by the indian govt to promote what?? (can't call this tech) are posted in their entirety below. 1. Govt gives free phones to poor instead of grains and Sachin Pilot says that " "It is a good start made by the BSNL to make people below the poverty line feel

Re: [ubuntu-in] [OT] Two Interesting news about Indian Govt's Tech dreams

2010-09-10 Thread Nitesh Mistry
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Re: [ubuntu-in] [OT] Two Interesting news about Indian Govt's Tech dreams

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > Though OT, good observations. :-) oops thanks it was meant for a different list Dang and very sorry ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

[ubuntu-in] Urgent - What is the Correct Ubuntu for an Atom Desktop

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Can anyone advice on what is the correct Ubuntu version that should / can be installed on an Atom Processor Desktop Thanks ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Urgent - What is the Correct Ubuntu for an Atom Desktop

2010-09-10 Thread Pratul Kalia
On 10/09/10 1:36 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > Hi > > Can anyone advice on what is the correct Ubuntu version that should / > can be installed on an Atom Processor Desktop > The standard version. Atom is x86. -- dum vivimus, vivamus pratul == lut4rp http://pratul.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubun

Re: [ubuntu-in] Urgent - What is the Correct Ubuntu for an Atom Desktop

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Pratul Kalia wrote: > On 10/09/10 1:36 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: >> Hi >> >> Can anyone advice on what is the correct Ubuntu version that should / >> can be installed on an Atom Processor Desktop >> > > The standard version. Atom is x86. > > thanks got it installed

Re: [ubuntu-in] Urgent - What is the Correct Ubuntu for an Atom Desktop

2010-09-10 Thread Ritesh Sinha
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Pratul Kalia wrote: >> On 10/09/10 1:36 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Can anyone advice on what is the correct Ubuntu version that should / >>> can be installed on an Atom Processor Desktop >>> >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-in] [OT] Two Interesting news about Indian Govt's Tech dreams

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Nitesh Mistry > wrote: > > Though OT, good observations. :-) > oops > thanks it was meant for a different list > > Dang and very sorry > Interesting read, nonetheless. -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@l

Re: [ubuntu-in] Urgent - What is the Correct Ubuntu for an Atom Desktop

2010-09-10 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Ritesh Sinha wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Pratul Kalia wrote: >>> On 10/09/10 1:36 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: Hi Can anyone advice on what is the correct Ubuntu version that should /

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Sanjay Bhangar wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Narendra Diwate > wrote: >> >> >> The other 2 are vacant. Ubuntu will stay for >> a while till I get the nerve to move to a Rolling release. Any advice what >> should i be trying considering the past few post

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Onkar Shinde wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Sanjay Bhangar > wrote: > Gentoo and Archlinux are probably the two most popular rolling > distros. While gentoo is 'compile almost everything from source' > (hence based on source packages) archlinux is base

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Hello, Kindly explain the difference between Rolling and non-rolling distros and in what way has advantages, which is best , since I am newbie to linux cheers, -sriranga(77yrsold) On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Onkar Shinde wrote: > >>

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Nitesh Mistry
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:50:46PM +0530, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > Hello, > Kindly explain the difference between Rolling and non-rolling distros and > in what way has advantages, which is best , since I am newbie to linux I am very bad at explaining things, hence try this: http://en.wikipedi

[ubuntu-in] Banners for LoCo teams from Canonical

2010-09-10 Thread Nitesh Mistry
Hello to the admins of Ubuntu LoCo team. For your information, Canonical is going to provide banners and other stuff to all the approved loco teams. Please refer to the link below for further info http://www.reponses.net/blog/2010/09/10/579-free-banners-for-approved-loco-teams Not sure, how to c

[ubuntu-in] [mailer-dae...@googlemail.com: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)]

2010-09-10 Thread Nitesh Mistry
Is there any other way to contact the LoCo team admins? - Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem - From: Mail Delivery Subsystem To: mail...@mistrynitesh.net Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:26:40 + Delivery to the following recipi

Re: [ubuntu-in] [mailer-dae...@googlemail.com: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)]

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > Is there any other way to contact the LoCo team admins? > Gmail put the mail that you sent to LoCo in Spam. May consider that. Dont know why? Never happened before. -- Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: > > > LMDE which came out recently is the one that I will certainly try when they > come out with 64bit. I think i will be most comfortable with that. see http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=141305 and if you want some humour w

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Nitish, Thanks for the valuable information. Which one is best in your experience.So Rolling distros is better Regards, -sriranga(77yrsold) On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:50:46PM +0530, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > > Hello, > > Kindly explain the

[ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi was fiddling around with my Mom's netbook - which ran dual boot windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. It hadn't been updated for ages and well i updated / upgraded it - First good news - Nothing broke and its still functional Then the bad - lots of stuff got changed around and now it was running the va

Re: [ubuntu-in] Banners for LoCo teams from Canonical

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Nitesh as Narendra pointed out, this mail was in spam. Am not sure why must be key words like "Ban"ners or something else ram On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > Hello to the admins of Ubuntu LoCo team. > > For your information, > Canonical is going to provide banners an

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Hi, I like to know whether Netbook-launcher will work on Desktop computer and not netbook ? Regards, -sriranga(77yrsold) On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > Hi > > was fiddling around with my Mom's netbook - which ran dual boot > windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10. > > It hadn't been

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) wrote: > Hi, >  I like to know whether Netbook-launcher will work on Desktop computer and > not  netbook ? Yes it does Its not netbook specific , it was created (i guess) to make it easier to work on small machines. I installed in on an Atom

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Linux Lingam
netbook-remix is what i've been looking for since 6 months. the idea itself is not new. in 1984, apple mac debuted 'easy access' which changed the desktop metaphor into something quite similar to this, without the alpha transparency, for kids and grannies to use with ease. always wanted something

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Linux Lingam
also, once launched, how do i get rid of it without resorting to kill processes? niyam -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] [mailer-dae...@googlemail.com: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)]

2010-09-10 Thread Aanjhan R
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Nitesh Mistry wrote: > Is there any other way to contact the LoCo team admins? I am not sure why, but that email address does receive quite some emails often. Anyway, noted. regards, Aanjhan -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > That was missing and my mom was very very upset and was very clear > that henceforth i should stay away from her machine. > A non Techie (I am assuming) mom asking her Techie son (again assuming) to stay away from her computer. How attached

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Easwar Hariharan
Is there no preferences for this app? It hogs a large amount of my screen space, even with transparency when not in focus. I want to reduce the width and height of the screen this app occupies. I searched the man page but this one doesn't come with any CLI options. Regards Easwar -- ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Easwar Hariharan wrote: > Is there no preferences for this app? It hogs a large amount of my > screen space, even with transparency when not in focus. I want to reduce > the width and height of the screen this app occupies. > > I searched the man page but this one

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Ram, Thanks for the information. With best wishes, -sriranga(77yrsold) On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold) > wrote: > > Hi, > > I like to know whether Netbook-launcher will work on Desktop computer > and > > not netbook ?

Re: [ubuntu-in] Activation of flash tools in Browsers of Ubuntu-10.04(Lucid Lynx)

2010-09-10 Thread tabankg
Thank you all friends!! Thanks for the suggestions. After uninstalling "gnash" ,everything seems to work all right now. -Kaushik Guha On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Narendra Diwate wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Narendra Di

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: > also, once launched, how do i get rid of it without resorting to kill > processes? > My Question too. I am killing it from the System Monitor now. Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote: > > My Question too. I am killing it from the System Monitor now. Sxxxla can't kill it, its persistent. By am liking it a lot. However as pointed out it needs works on being able to maipulate preferences ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ub

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
Hi AntiX installed and typing this from it. Good OS. Very similar to Ubuntu, but without a DE. Has IceWM and Fluxbox, so is quite light. About 1.7GB installed. Dis not need to install anything to use Flash, mp3 etc. All out of the box. Had tested it earlier (more than a month) in live mode. Will

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote: > Hi > > AntiX installed and typing this from it. Good OS. Very similar to Ubuntu, > but without a DE. Has IceWM and Fluxbox, so is quite light. About 1.7GB > installed. Dis not need to install anything to use Flash, mp3 etc. All out > of t

Re: [ubuntu-in] Rolling distributions and rolling away from Ubuntu

2010-09-10 Thread Ritesh Sinha
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Narendra Diwate wrote: > On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 11:57 AM, Narendra Diwate > wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> AntiX installed and typing this from it. Good OS. Very similar to Ubuntu, >> but without a DE. Has IceWM and Fluxbox, so is quite light. About 1.7GB >> installed. D

[ubuntu-in] File systems on windows

2010-09-10 Thread Narendra Diwate
I have not used windows vista or 7 at all, so don't know. Which file systems do vista & 7 support natively other than ntfs and fat without adding any 3rd party programs. Do we also need to install video and audio drivers separately. Also which programs are included in the default install not count