Re: [ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
faint of heart, or technically challenged. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > >> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments > >> (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
using PDFEdit to manually navigate the tree > and extract the comments but it is *very* inefficient and time > consuming. Evince has the ability to read/edit comments in its > roadmap but I need a solution now. See if kword will show you the comments. Not exactly a PDF reader, though.

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Fwd: DLUG

2009-05-04 Thread Raj Mathur
the integrity of e-mails across the internet cannot be guaranteed, MEEZA does not accept any liability for any e-mails and attachments which may violate the relevant applicable laws. ----------- -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

Re: [ilugd] need help!!!

2009-05-03 Thread Raj Mathur
shave, drink or print on Tuesdays! http://www.nabble.com/Weirdest-Printing-bug-yet...-Won't-Print-on-Tuesdays-td23327495.html Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F Ps

Re: [ilugd] need help!!!

2009-05-03 Thread Raj Mathur
On Sunday 03 May 2009, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 2009 11:29:52 +0530 > Raj Mathur wrote: > [...] > > > Nope, that host doesn't respond to pings anymore. I guess > > VSNL/Tata got tired of having every Internet user in India use > > their server a

Re: [ilugd] need help!!!

2009-05-02 Thread Raj Mathur
net session doesn't statrted..any > > soln. > > ping 202.54.15.1 Nope, that host doesn't respond to pings anymore. I guess VSNL/Tata got tired of having every Internet user in India use their server as a test case :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Raj Mathur
ary product in the foreseeable future. The trade mark OpenOffice.org probably vests with Oracle today, so if they desire they can force the community to call OOo something else. No particular reason why they'd want to do that, though. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kand

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] 2 days work for experienced Tomcat admin

2009-04-22 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi, Need an experienced Tomcat admin to help clean up a Tomcat installation of a FOSS package. About 2 days part-time work, but need to get this done in a hurry. You will be paid. Please contact me OFF-LIST or on 9811066460 if you can help. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > Since as of today MySQL is GPL, you cannot force a single user of > > MySQL in a FOSS application to pay you a single paisa.  Sorry to > > bust your dreams, but Oracle can

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Raj Mathur
single paisa. Sorry to bust your dreams, but Oracle can only make people pay from the next release of MySQL (if they switch it to a proprietary licence), and those people can still continue to use the current release and forks thereof with no problems and no payment. Regards, -- Raju -

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-18 Thread Raj Mathur
ee me at the Nehru Place crossing :) Regards, - -- Raju - -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves

Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?

2009-04-17 Thread Raj Mathur
t. If it doesn't, don't buy it. Even simpler solution for the G**gle-challenged: if it's from Ale, don't buy it because they go out of their way to prevent FOSS from interoperating with their products. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.

Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh

2009-04-15 Thread Raj Mathur
set to an address that is presumably subscribed to this list. If the originating address were a standard orkut/twitter/... kind of thing it would be possible to block it, but how do you block a message from a subscriber? :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-12 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 13 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > On Friday 10 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur > > > > wrote: > >> > The characters ar

Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-09 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 10 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF > > text (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the > > complete Urdu text be

[ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-09 Thread Raj Mathur
(97K) is available at: http://images.kandalaya.org/urdu.pdf Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind t

[ilugd] [HUMOUR] Major Vendors and FSF Announce Instigation of Cloud Alliance and New Open Source License

2009-03-31 Thread Raj Mathur
ree™ software movement, and being able to play a key role in the creation of a new license is very important to me. This should be a great way to level the playing field -- even small players like retail booksellers can get involved." More at: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dxr5cbn_03ghsr8

Re: [ilugd] Wireless on Dell Inspiron 15 (CentOS 5.2)

2009-03-28 Thread Raj Mathur
d seems to work after compiling and installing with only minor problems for me so far. OTOH, I haven't done anything with it yet apart from a few SSH and web sessions, not even any major file transfers on WiFi. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://

Re: [ilugd] apple FUD on freeware vs foss

2009-03-26 Thread Raj Mathur
ant proof, have a look at the thread starting at: http://www.crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:msp:16158:coflfmakccaocebphkip That thread is probably going to go on for another couple of weeks with no resolution. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.or

[ilugd] Fwd: [FSF] Wietse Venema and Creative Commons winners of the annual free software awards

2009-03-24 Thread Raj Mathur
* 2000 Brian Paul * 1999 Miguel de Icaza * 1998 Larry Wall This year's award committee was composed of Suresh Ramasubramanian (Chair), Peter H. Salus, Raj Mathur, Hong Feng, Andrew Tridgell, Jonas Oberg, Verner Vinge, Richard Stallman, and Fernanda G. Weiden. About the FSF

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur
d ...fraudulence of BJP's election promises is well known. I vote we take this discussion of politics to some other forum, preferably the one locate at file:///dev/null. Once again, this is /not/ a list for discussing politics except as far as it applies to Linux or FOSS. Regards, -- Raju -

Re: [ilugd] CPI(M) manifesto calls for promotion of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

2009-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur
because of proprietary software. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-16 Thread Raj Mathur
et? No!!???! I am! Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Raj Mathur
en pointed out enough times earlier. -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves __

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Raj Mathur
ilable for ranting and flaming about your favourites and against your sworn enemies. And who doesn't have strong feelings one way or the other about Indian politics? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Raj Mathur
initely sway my vote towards the BJP. Being the cynic that I am, I'm not sure how much of this would actually see the light of day if the BJP does come into power, but given the the choice between 2 (or n) evils, I'd rather choose the evil that at least promises to support FOS

[ilugd] [OT] SMS provider

2009-03-13 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi, Anyone know a good SMS gateway provider for India? Should be reliable and preferably not a spammer. The more API options the better. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-05 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 05 Mar 2009, shirish wrote: > [snip] > @ Raj Mathur . Its your prerogative to do whatever suing you want to > for as you my 'persistent combative, militant licensing' > > If it was an attempt to intimidate me or an attempt at humor then > both are unfortun

[ilugd] Fwd: SliTaz GNU/Linux distribution - help of translating info on indian-hindu wikipedia

2009-03-04 Thread Raj Mathur
ulica 20, Lj. 041 384441 ------- -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-04 Thread Raj Mathur
ness bind them. [with apologies to J R R Tolkien] Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-01 Thread Raj Mathur
your mails with any licence -- all mails to this list are posted under a licence determined by the list owner, and if you don't like that licence just don't post. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC6

Re: [ilugd] Warren Buffet`s advice for 2009

2009-02-17 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 17 Feb 2009, Vijay Kakkar wrote: > Hi All, >Sorry this mail is not related to Linux or any Technology Precisely, so kindly refrain from sending generic chain mails to this mailing list. Thank you, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

Re: [ilugd] Hall of Shame : http://dit.mp.gov.in//incentive11.htm

2009-01-23 Thread Raj Mathur
policy of licensing each mail. Ref: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux...@mm.ilug-bom.org.in/msg17590.html Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http:

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Mathur
hasn't moved their proprietary extensions to another point by then ;) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill:

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 17 Jan 2009, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > Is it possible to completely replace the active directory and > > primary and secondary domain controllers in a Winduhs network with > > one or more Linux boxes? &

[ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-16 Thread Raj Mathur
? And integration with OpenLDAP? Pointers, references welcome. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that m

Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products

2009-01-16 Thread Raj Mathur
s for distributions, with KDE and Gnome there's very little to choose between them. I personally prefer Debian on both desktops (with KDE) and servers because of its stability, but the choice is open. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya

Re: [ilugd] Syncing Servers

2009-01-10 Thread Raj Mathur
es and dual redundant RAID and disk controllers. Apart from the shared storage you need a heartbeat and address and process migration infrastructure. The Linux HA project provides these facilities IIRC. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/

Re: [ilugd] Demolition of Chennai Conspiracy Theory (Was : Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Comrades’ new-found love with IT)

2009-01-04 Thread Raj Mathur
ds mailing list. Thank you, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves ___

Re: [ilugd] Cheap Web hosting from FOO.com

2009-01-02 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 03 Jan 2009, Shrinivasan T wrote: > FOO.com is giving upto 95% discount on webhosting. Now this is just blatant spam (note the number of lists copied in the original message). What do we do with Mr Shrinivasan? Treat him like we would any other spammer? Regards, -- Raju --

[ilugd] Oracle-PostgreSQL migration -- HOWTO

2008-12-25 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi, Was doing some Oracle-PostgreSQL migration in a Xen VM for a client, and decided to put my experiences down for posterity. Document available at: http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/MigratingOracleToPostgreSQL Feedback welcome. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

[ilugd] Fwd: [Freed-managers] Talk by RMS: Copyright v/s community in the age of computer networks

2008-12-18 Thread Raj Mathur
m Date; Friday, 19th December, 2008 R.S. Mani, a Senior Technical Director with the National Informatics Center would introduce the National Knowledge Network prior to the talk. Regards, Andrew -- Freed.in : Freedom in technology and software -------

Re: [ilugd] [OT] MS leads the way -- again!

2008-12-10 Thread Raj Mathur
t, at least. Now you owe me :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _

[ilugd] [OT] MS leads the way -- again!

2008-12-10 Thread Raj Mathur
w about, uh, an HTTP server next? ;-) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is

Re: [ilugd] Fedora 10 Subnet mask changes

2008-12-09 Thread Raj Mathur
ce and the report just becomes a ``Will do when I have some time'' item somewhere low down in the list. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5

[ilugd] Fwd: NIIT and Adobe

2008-12-02 Thread Raj Mathur
CTED] This kind of nexus should be campaigned against. what strategy should we follow. http://www.digitallearning.in/news/news-details.asp?News=NIIT-ties-with-Adobe-for-eGuru&NewsID=15840 ------- -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTE

[ilugd] Wrong disk size when partitioning

2008-12-01 Thread Raj Mathur
x27; to view a list of commands. (parted) mklabel gpt (parted) print Disk /dev/sdc: 50.0GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags Any idea why this could be happening? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAI

Re: [ilugd] Defending the threat to the public-ness and the egalitarian nature of the Internet

2008-11-29 Thread Raj Mathur
ations > 4. Huge democratic deficit in global Internet governance Some hard facts reinforcing these statements and specific targets would be welcome. Otherwise it's too broad and too vague an agenda to be taken seriously. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-25 Thread Raj Mathur
m quick. He even understands Linux and dual boots Kubuntu on his desktop ;) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/

Re: [ilugd] OT - Any Mozilla Hackers here ?

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 22 Nov 2008, Nalin Savara wrote: > When I press Ctrl + F -- and type a phrase-- many times, it says "no > matches" even if the phrase is there on the page. Maybe it's only searching in the summary? -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-08 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 08 Nov 2008, Arindam Ghosh wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > AFAIR newer versions of RPM permit commands of the form: > > > > rpm -qa fileutil\* > > > > to display all rpms whose name

[ilugd] Who's making moneny in Open Source?

2008-11-07 Thread Raj Mathur
Interesting blog article that talks about the strategies and corresponding revenues from Open Source for various companies: http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/10/31/this-is-the-money-being-made-today-in-open-source/ Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-07 Thread Raj Mathur
ter after that. AFAIR newer versions of RPM permit commands of the form: rpm -qa fileutil\* to display all rpms whose name begins with ``fileutil''. I could be wrong though, since I haven't used rpm in ages. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] rpm -qa not working

2008-11-04 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 04 Nov 2008, Subhanjan Ghosh wrote: > One of my Linux box(RHEL4u6) is not showing any output of the command > *rpm –qa.* What's the exact command you are giving? rpm -qa. without any space between the qa and the . ? -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Need AB+ blood for platelets

2008-11-02 Thread Raj Mathur
Please call 9971609964 directly. I'm not in Delhi. Regards, -- Raju On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/11/2 Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> [Please call if you can donate, and spread the word. Thanks -- Raj] >>

[ilugd] Fwd: Need AB+ blood for platelets

2008-11-02 Thread Raj Mathur
[Please call if you can donate, and spread the word. Thanks -- Raj] -- Forwarded message -- Name: Achal Sharma Currently in Hospital near/in Patparganj (Probably MAX). Needs platlets from AB+ blood. Some bacterial infection on day before Diwali. Resulted in drop in platlet count

Re: [ilugd] apple iphone versus android

2008-10-24 Thread Raj Mathur
from Apple. If you write a FOSS application you may be be able to use all the features of the Android. And G reserves the right to remotely, unilaterally disable applications on your phone if they (G) don't like them: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/ Regards, -- Ra

Re: [ilugd] Apple a bigger threat than Microsoft (was) Re: apple iphone versus android

2008-10-24 Thread Raj Mathur
imilar case of Winduhs heavily borrowing its network stack from BSD, which didn't bring any benefit to the rest of Winduhs or the Winduhs user experience as a whole. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E

Re: [ilugd] Important : In support of Raj Thackeray...

2008-10-23 Thread Raj Mathur
mails today!!! * Very interesting, and totally relevant to a mailing list devoted to the discussion of Linux and FOSS in and around Delhi. What are we going to get next, a list of your favourite daal-makhani recipes? In other words, if you don't have anything to say, please don't say i

Re: [ilugd] {OT} YESSS - (Young Entrepreneurs' Start ups in SoaringSpirits)

2008-10-19 Thread Raj Mathur
eneral is? Are their going to be tracks on FOSS? Is someone from ILUGD speaking there, trying to show people how FOSS can help them? If not, are you doing anything to make these things happen? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ G

Re: [ilugd] Samba + anti-virus

2008-10-18 Thread Raj Mathur
On Sunday 19 Oct 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Raj Mathur wrote: > > A client is running a few hundred Winduhs PCs in his office, with 3 > > Linux FC Samba servers. Facing tons of problems with viruses on > > the shares, so we're looking for a Samba+Anti-virus soluti

Re: [ilugd] Samba + anti-virus

2008-10-18 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 18 Oct 2008, Sharninder wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A client is running a few hundred Winduhs PCs in his office, with 3 > > Linux FC Samba servers. Facing tons of problems with viruses on > > the sha

[ilugd] Samba + anti-virus

2008-10-18 Thread Raj Mathur
ch is currently not feasible)? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind t

Re: [ilugd] Russia's Open Source Revolution

2008-10-18 Thread Raj Mathur
ortunately that only works if you consider ``communist'' a pejorative word, as they do in .us (thank you. McCarthy!). For the ``rest of the world'' it's mostly just another political party. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.

Re: [ilugd] Project.net

2008-10-16 Thread Raj Mathur
se it only runs on Oracle. Doesn't support any of the FOSS database engines. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || I

Re: [ilugd] Understanding the GNU GPL definition of free software. Is The classification of free and commercial Linux Distribution is incorrect.?

2008-10-15 Thread Raj Mathur
ble. And before > people start unsubscribing because of the lowering of S/N, moderator > should take some action. Seconded. O moderator where are you? Wait, we don't have a moderator, just a list admin. o/~ Mujhe Yanyatti se bachaao Likhta hai Nahin padhta hai Hamesha spam karta hai o

Re: [ilugd] Understanding the GNU GPL definition of free software. Is The classification of free and commercial Linux Distribution is incorrect.?

2008-10-15 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 15 Oct 2008, narendra sisodiya wrote: > [snip] > PS: waiting for Raj's opinion, Sorry, I stopped feeding this particular troll some weeks back. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [LUG IITD:1921] [OT] (p ossibly) Most user friendly Distro for non-techies

2008-10-13 Thread Raj Mathur
romoter's future, and if the promoter has closed doors to their continual evolution it'd be a bad idea to adopt their product, no? Of course, if you're only looking at adopting a distribution for six months then what you say may well be valid. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [LUG IITD:1921] [O T] (possibly) Most user friendly Distro for non-techies

2008-10-13 Thread Raj Mathur
tributing any GPLv3 software. While the base of software licensed under GPLv3 is pretty small right now, it will keep growing and eventually you will find that Xandros doesn't include some of your favourite packages due to their (Xandros') agreement with MS. Regards, --

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1921] [OT] (possibly) Most user friendly Distro for non-techies

2008-10-12 Thread Raj Mathur
bilities you can > offer to non-techie friends which one doesn't get with other distros > to this extent. Try it yourself to see if it suits you/them. > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- gro

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Contest To Encourage Students

2008-10-11 Thread Raj Mathur
organizes a FOSS India Award. In > fact, a few of the awards could be made exclusive for the students > category. Umm, do you really want to club an amateur effort aimed at raising FOSS awareness in schools with some corporate awards? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] which mailing list sending/management/archiving software used for ilugd ?

2008-10-08 Thread Raj Mathur
9-9ubuntu1 Powerful, web-based mailing list manager -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that mo

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Looking for a laptop

2008-10-06 Thread Raj Mathur
d put your computer at risk for years, then nV definitely plays better with Linux. On the other hand, if you want to show support for and reward companies who make their card APIs available to the FOSS community to develop drivers with, ATI is the right choice. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-10-05 Thread Raj Mathur
sing facts out of sheer bloody-mindedness. Anyway, I wish you folks luck in your endeavour to determine the outcome of the juxtaposition of the immovable object and the irresistible force :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG:

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-10-03 Thread Raj Mathur
lenny has worked much better on this machine > than ubuntu 8.04 did. There are a few minor issues with the debian > installation but it recognised all the hardware so much better than > ubuntu did. Glad to hear that :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:

Re: [ilugd] (Fw) FOSS.IN agenda for this year

2008-10-02 Thread Raj Mathur
nly to the country it targets. So while, for example, Linux in Hindi > or Kannada or Bengali is very important to us, and gets wide > visibility, it means virtually NOTHING to people outside India, and > therefore doesn't easily appear on their radar. So fsck you India, FOSS.in is n

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Raj Mathur
ing and I've learned quite a bit from it, but it seems to be stagnating a bit now. Of course, that's just my opinion, but if everyone agrees it could be time to move on. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Raj Mathur
My guess is that FOO would end up a bit like Winduhs -- poor quality shredded code all over the place, and users will get disgusted and walk away in any case. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Raj Mathur
only the Debian developers paid by Mark (another MS) have been impressed by Ubuntu's patch feed. Other Debian developers (known to MS but not paid by MS and probably not working for MS) are not impressed. Damn, that's confusing! Seen any good movies lately? ;) Regards, --

Re: [ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-29 Thread Raj Mathur
otos at each prompt and put them into an OOo presentation with notes. Then I just hand the OOo doc over to my client as part of the consulting process so that s/he is independent of my skills. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GP

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-29 Thread Raj Mathur
articipate in a sane, /informed/ discussion on these issues in the list; OTOH if all you want to do is troll please include me out. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance &a

[ilugd] Please don't feed the trolls

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Mathur
2500 in course fees to ``The Registrar, Troll Course, c/o /dev/null''. Looking forward to seeing you there. [For those who didn't get the pointers, this mail is meant to be a joke.] Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-23 Thread Raj Mathur
doubt if there's a one definition fits all solution, and I'd rather explore the relative merits and demerits of a licence with respect to a specific objective than have a black-and-white approach to the question of which is better (or even ask that question). There's a reason both

Re: [ilugd] hi ballu bhai kya hal hai

2008-09-22 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 23 Sep 2008, rajnish kumar wrote: > [snip] > I think as per as i concern Hindi is not a language of aliens if some > one think that it is, then obviously all Indian's are aliens. s/all Indians/all Hindi-speaking Indians/ We /do/ have 14+ official languages, you know? -

[ilugd] Fwd: Serious e1000e driver issue in SLE 11 Beta 1

2008-09-22 Thread Raj Mathur
r SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Team -- Thorsten Kukuk, Project Manager/Release Manager SLES SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) ------- -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://k

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-21 Thread Raj Mathur
with this choice of OS, and I'll mock people who willingly enter into slavery while being aware of the consequences of their choices (as Ravikant is). However from mild ribbing to banning a participant from booting Winduhs in a Free Software event is a long step and one that I, personal

[ilugd] Sun CEO on FOSS and software patents

2008-09-20 Thread Raj Mathur
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Interview/J_Schwartz_CEO_Sun/articleshow/3504557.cms [URL may wrap] We are pushing for a world where all software is both free and open source. Good stuff from J Schwartz. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ilugd] { Project Idea } Power Saving Scheme for Electronic Devices in Industrial and Software firms using RFID

2008-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 20 Sep 2008, narendra sisodiya wrote: > [snip] > All are free to implement it. Nobody is allowed to derive patents on > it. The ideas are good, but I doubt if the second statement (not deriving patents) has any validity. OTOH IANAL, TINLA :) -- Raju -- R

Re: [ilugd] Licence schemes for the Ideas !!!

2008-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur
rating it she can use the same laws to protect her document too. The legal system currently doesn't (and probably never will) protect bare ideas themselves. The closest thing you can do today is to implement your idea and try to get a patent on it (which I personally believe is a bad mo

Re: [ilugd] Open Source MIDI Editor/ Sequencer

2008-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur
) system LiVES installs and runs with no issues at all. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is t

Re: [ilugd] Come join me on Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University OSUM on Open Source University Meetup...

2008-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur
t malicious, then at the very least extremely stupid. > Take Care... and Look fwd to hearing/learning more abt your Who all want to contribute to the ``ILUGD Buy NS A Spelling Dictionary'' Fund? I'm putting in Rs 500 for starters ;) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

Re: [ilugd] Secure SMTP over Transport Layer Security

2008-09-17 Thread Raj Mathur
to Let us know if you face problems, since using TLS with sendmail is not tough yet still not trivial. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid

Re: [ilugd] Audio capture in browser !! need suggestion ??

2008-09-13 Thread Raj Mathur
ee Java implementation to run the applet. The applet will remain FOSS, and as and when the free Java achieves multimedia compatibility with Sun Java his users can make a choice on whether to continue using Sun Java or to use a free JRE. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PR

Re: [ilugd] repenting; Nice Net Book (Acer vs. Asus)

2008-09-12 Thread Raj Mathur
27; me on > next--->to--->next time (if I still continue). I can't speak for the list administrator, but I doubt if there's any chance of that happening in the foreseeable future :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ka

Re: [ilugd] Audio capture in browser !! need suggestion ??

2008-09-12 Thread Raj Mathur
ost browser- and platform-independent way to achieve voice recording in a browser. There are tons of existing Java libraries and applets available on the 'net for audio capture, though locating a FOSS one may take some work. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [ilugd] Mail authentication

2008-09-10 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 11 Sep 2008, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let's pray to whatever Gods or Chaos or Probability we believe in > > that they never do. GPG/PGP on a web-mail service is an oxymoron > >

Re: [ilugd] Mail authentication

2008-09-10 Thread Raj Mathur
verification to some III-party. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves __

Re: [ilugd] Mail authentication

2008-09-10 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 11 Sep 2008, Sudev Barar wrote: > 2008/9/11 Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If your mail program supports GPG/PGP (as most modern MUAs do), it > > will verify the hashes and signatures automatically. You don't > > need to start doing the hash

Re: [ilugd] Mail authentication

2008-09-10 Thread Raj Mathur
? If your mail program supports GPG/PGP (as most modern MUAs do), it will verify the hashes and signatures automatically. You don't need to start doing the hashing and verifying the signatures manually. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.o

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