[Ilugc] [OT]: FLOSS Start-Ups In India?

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi, We are planning a series of stories and interviews of open source start-ups from India (Linus' interview triggered the need). So, if you know any such start-up please let me know. You can contact me at Muktware.com. -- bSwapnil Bhartiya/bbr Editor: Muktware.combr Skype: No Way...its

[Ilugc] Need Advice, Linux/FOSS Gurus from India

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Hi, Linus' interview made me think if there really is lack of Linux gurus? So, I am thinking of a sub-section in Muktware where we profile/feature one Linux/FOSS expert from India every week. What's your opinion? -- bSwapnil Bhartiya/bbr Editor: Muktware.combr Skype: No Way...its non-free.

Re: [Ilugc] A Terminal Chat Application

2011-11-20 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, --- On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: | Here is our page that consists of the source code ( | https://github.com/PrasannaVenkadesh/Whiz-Chat/downloads), and i

Re: [Ilugc] Need Advice, Linux/FOSS Gurus from India

2011-11-20 Thread 0
Linus' interview made me think if there really is lack of Linux gurus? So, I am thinking of a sub-section in Muktware where we profile/feature one Linux/FOSS expert from India every week. What's your opinion? I guess, there might not be just one person or a few persons who we can call

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2011-11-20 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
Dear folks, One of my friend get this error message gcc: internal error: bus error (program cc1) while trying to install a Network Simulator named NCTUNS previously called Estinet Network simulator and Emulator in Virtual Box that runs Fedora 12 as a guest Operating System. Can any one

[Ilugc] Gcc error message in Fedora 12

2011-11-20 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
Dear folks, One of my friend get this error message gcc: internal error: bus error (program cc1) while trying to install a Network Simulator named NCTUNS previously called Estinet Network simulator and Emulator in Virtual Box that runs Fedora 12 as a guest Operating System. Can any one

Re: [Ilugc] Gcc error message in Fedora 12

2011-11-20 Thread ashwin kesavan
On 20 November 2011 17:26, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, One of my friend get this error message gcc: internal error: bus error (program cc1) while trying to install a Network Simulator named NCTUNS previously called Estinet Network simulator and Emulator in

Re: [Ilugc] Gcc error message in Fedora 12

2011-11-20 Thread Guruprasad
Hi, On Sunday 20 November 2011 05:33:59 PM IST, ashwin kesavan wrote: On 20 November 2011 17:26, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any requirement that it should be fedora 12. Since AFAIK, fedora 12 is too old. Most likely you wont face this error in latest fedora where

[Ilugc] [ilugc] How to print unicode charecter in terminal

2011-11-20 Thread Sathia S
Hi, I created a terminal based English to tamil dictionary application with python. This fetches data from http://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/ and displays the output in terminal. Problem is that it does not print tamil font clearly. I cannot read that font. Eventhough I installed tamil font in my

[Ilugc] [OT] [Job] Embedded Linux/Android/Cloud Computing

2011-11-20 Thread Vid Deep
Greetings! One of my friends is looking to startup a company in Chennai and wanted help assembling a team. This will be a subsidiary of a consumer electronics company from the US. The first product that will be worked on is small linux multimedia device (form factor like a SheevaPlug). Skills

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] How to print unicode charecter in terminal

2011-11-20 Thread 0
Problem is that it does not print tamil font clearly. I cannot read that font. Eventhough I installed tamil font in my system. What is way to print unicode character in terminal ? What terminal emulator are you using ? I have tried tamil characters on both xterm (248) and gnome-terminal

Re: [Ilugc] A Terminal Chat Application

2011-11-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi: --- On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: | Can you please show me an example code for this statement alone? \-- @now = `date` puts @now ` is a backtick or a backquote. SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] How to print unicode charecter in terminal

2011-11-20 Thread Sathia S
Hi. Thank you for your reply. What terminal emulator are you using ? I have tried tamil characters on both xterm (248) and gnome-terminal (2.28.1). gnome-terminal echo -e #\0340\0256\0205# If you notice that the tamil character is not between the '#' characters but instead overlaps

Re: [Ilugc] Gcc error message in Fedora 12

2011-11-20 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, ashwin kesavan ashwin@gmail.comwrote: On 20 November 2011 17:26, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, One of my friend get this error message gcc: internal error: bus error (program cc1) while trying to install a Network

Re: [Ilugc] Gcc error message in Fedora 12

2011-11-20 Thread Sanjay Chigurupati
Hi, ask him to try installing it in a fedora 12 system that is natively installed and not in virtual system. I think its the virtual system that is creating problem. Regards Sanjay --- On Sun, 11/20/11, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: From: Prasanna Venkadesh

Re: [Ilugc] A Terminal Chat Application

2011-11-20 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.comwrote: Hi: --- On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: | Can you please show me an example code for this statement alone? \-- @now = `date` puts @now Yeah.. thanks for this, it

Re: [Ilugc] Joomla User Group, Chennai

2011-11-20 Thread ijeyant...@gmail.com
*just curious to know who is the lead for Joomla User Group, Chennai ?* * *contact info please ? * Hi Raj, May I know the reason behind your curiosity? Are you looking for starting one ? Here you go with his details .. http://in.linkedin.com/in/santhoshthepro -- Regards - Jeyanthan

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 17:46 +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote: On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 02:32:25PM +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: snip In this case, stating that Ubuntu gives a 'Human' experience implies that other distros give an animal experience. It is ok if the Canonical gang does this - we

Re: [Ilugc] A Terminal Chat Application

2011-11-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:22 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: | Yeah.. thanks for this, it works but may i know why Backticks are preferred | over system, inspite it increases lines of code. \-- Length or number of lines is not important. With backticks, you can return

[Ilugc] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
Does anyone have any info on what UID/Aadhar is using? They mention Middle-ware is open source, which may imply rest of the stack is proprietary/non-free. Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's company) and MS hub. Can someone provide some concrete info or pointers? -- bSwapnil

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] How to print unicode charecter in terminal

2011-11-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Sathia S sathia2...@gmail.com wrote: | This fetches data from http://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/ and displays the | output in terminal. | | Problem is that it does not print tamil font clearly. I cannot read that | font. \-- One way to debug this is to try to

Re: [Ilugc] Gcc error message in Fedora 12

2011-11-20 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: | One of my friend get this error message | | gcc: internal error: bus error (program cc1) | | while trying to install a Network Simulator named NCTUNS previously called | Estinet Network simulator and

Re: [Ilugc] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-20 Thread Sundaram Ramachandran
Also most contracts have gone to Wipro (Nilekani's company) and MS hub. I don't think Nilekani ever worked for Wipro, only at Infosys. And everyone knows how Infosys and MS are very close to each other. Regarding details, can RTI be applied to get the needed info? ...KRS

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:05, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: I suggest you study the history of Ubuntu propaganda - there is a long thread on this in this list (search for 'african spaceman'). It is unfortunate but true that Ubuntu does not follow the norms for healthy

Re: [Ilugc] Need Advice, Linux/FOSS Gurus from India

2011-11-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Linus' interview made me think if there really is lack of Linux gurus? The guru shishya mode of teaching worked out when the materials to learn were scarce and it was politically volatile to have them spread.

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] HTML client side processing to talk to CGI

2011-11-20 Thread Manokaran K
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: For instance we identify the div tag with id attribute left like this. $('div[#left]'). I think you mean $(div#left). Other options to access the same element are $(#left), $(div[id='left']) and

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 09:36 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: thread on this in this list (search for 'african spaceman'). It is unfortunate but true that Ubuntu does not follow the norms for healthy competition between distros that are followed by *all* the other distros. The only african

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 11:27 +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: The only african spaceman I could find was you asking people to search for it in March of this year. http://search.gmane.org/?query=Mark

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
unfortunate but true that Ubuntu does not follow the norms for healthy competition between distros that are followed by *all* the other distros. When I was interviewing Greg KH at LinuxCon and I asked him he flatly said that Canonical's business model is to not participate. I am working on

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 08:23 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: unfortunate but true that Ubuntu does not follow the norms for healthy competition between distros that are followed by *all* the other distros. When I was interviewing Greg KH at LinuxCon and I asked him he flatly said that

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread Swapnil Bhartiya
On 11/21/2011 08:38 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: not to participate in what? In the Linux kernel development. -- bSwapnil Bhartiya/bbr Editor: Muktware.combr Skype: No Way...its non-free. Looking for alternativesbr Facebook: http://facebook.com/muktwarebr Twitter: http://twitter.com/muktware

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 08:49 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: On 11/21/2011 08:38 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: not to participate in what? In the Linux kernel development. and did he say anything about contributing upstream to other projects like gnome? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves