Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, krish wrote: > > Mail sent to r...@foo.com reflects immediately in the user's > > webmail, Outlook, couple of other mail clients, but NOT his BB. > > It may take anything from 15 seconds (acceptable) up to an hour > > (definitely not acceptable) to reach his BB. > > Sent fr

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: > On a different note, what kind of issues are your users facing on > Blackberry? > > From what I've experienced, usually the users prefer the Blackberry > services provided by the service providers such as Vodafone & Airtel. > This means going on airtel

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-27 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, krish wrote: > > On the other hand, if there's some internal blackberry server, then > > I'm not too sure about that. But ideally the procedure should be > > the same. > > If its an internal BB server, then you'll need to reset the user > profiles (using BB PIN of users) or

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 27 May 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: > Do not have access to a Blackberry, nor an idea of what it would > cost. However, depending on what issues you are facing, it might > not be enough to have the handset, as it is difficult to debug on > one. > > You could start with trying the applicati

Re: [ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 26 May 2011, Smruti wrote: > 2011/5/26 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) > > > If not, how much would (a) a cheap Blackberry cost and (b) someone > > be willing to buy it for after I've done with it? :) > > I am sure you must have looked, still just in case yo

[ilugd] [OFF-TOPIC] Looking to loan/rent Blackberry

2011-05-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Someone have a Blackberry that they're not using and which they're willing to loan/rent out for a week or so? Clients are complaining about Blackberry issues on a mail server I've setup, and I need one to replicate and test. If not, how much would (a) a cheap Blackberry cost and (b) someo

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > Yeah, I was also looking around for a command-line tool that will > allow me to test authentication against PAM. Neither of the two > tools I could find on the 'net (pamck and pamauth) seem to be easily > available, keeping

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the > > following characteristics: > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and > > "bar.com". > > > > - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.com; ma

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 22 May 2011, Abhishek Kumar wrote: > why do you want to use /etc/password. use some enterprise directory > to authenticate against. > > For an enterprise if it is large (or grows to lare enterprise ) > having /etc/password replicated everywhere and in sync would be > calling for trouble.

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > Pls see => > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.imap.courier.general/27589 > > You can replace the SQL statements with grep/awk on /etc/passwd > > These and other similar lines will need to be replaced => > > SQL=($(dosql "SELECT uid,pw,mpath,mquo

Re: [ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 21 May 2011, Varad Gupta wrote: > > I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the > > following characteristics: > > > > - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and > > "bar.com". > > > > - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.co

[ilugd] Virtual users mapped to system users

2011-05-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, I'm trying to set up an IMAP server for virtual users with the following characteristics: - Server is handling multiple mail domains, say "foo.com" and "bar.com". - Mail for x...@foo.com gets delivered to system user x.foo.com; mail for x...@bar.com gets delivered to system user x.bar.com.

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-05-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 17 May 2011, Bharat Verma via LinkedIn wrote: > Bharat Verma requested to add you as a connection on Added: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi- bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData (http://preview.tinyurl.com/2b4m3yv) -- Raj Mathurr...@kandal

Re: [ilugd] Seek information regarding Linux Bangalore chapter

2011-05-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 16 May 2011, neeraj kumar wrote: > I am In Bangalore and want to know that any group like Linux Delhi is > active over here which I can join and contribute. There's ILUG Bengaluru, with a mailing list at: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru?hl=en and sporadic meetings. Reg

Re: [ilugd] When customers own the brand...

2011-04-26 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Request list admin to block this address from spamming the list. Regards, -- Raj On Wednesday 27 Apr 2011, Blogworks wrote: > When customers own the brand... -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17

[ilugd] Symbian not open-source anymore

2011-04-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Now Nokia has come out with a different spin on their licensing for Symbian, which removes it completely from the FOSS domain. And I had so happily bought myself a Nokia/Symbian phone thinking, "Chalo, at least the core OS is FOSS!" Very disappointing. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story

Re: [ilugd] Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 03 Apr 2011, gurteshwar singh wrote: > 1) Regarding support and access: Setting up telephony systems is not > such an easy job and messing them up seems to be even easier. So my > question is how much of access do you give the organisation's > in-house support team on your servers. Do you

Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 03 Apr 2011, Andrew Lynn wrote: > [snip] > Please - at least - write up this aspect of the project as a white > paper that we can circulate to govt. funded intstitutions. If you > need help with the non-technical documentation and research, I can > see if some students from our university

Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 03 Apr 2011, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Raju Mathur said on Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 08:35:08AM +0530,: > > installed is from the standard Debian repositories -- Testing on > > the servers, and Stable on the clients. As far as I know, > > there's nothing > > I find this choice rather strange

Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 03 Apr 2011, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Raju Mathur said on Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 10:22:09PM +0530,: > > Once again, sorry to dash cold water on expectations > > I fully agree and concur with the need to protect the client's > privacy / terms of contract. Thank you for understanding. > 1.

Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 01 Apr 2011, Yashpal Nagar wrote: > On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Manish wrote: > > This is great. Congratulations! Are you also planning to document > > the experience and approach as a case study suitable for PHBs? > > Looking forward to see it in the likes of DQ, PCQ, LFYs, Profit

Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 01 Apr 2011, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > L1 and hopefully L2 support will be handled within the > > organisation. T and I have been working on documenting standard > > procedures, and in the past 2 months or so most of them have been > > handed over to the client's support team, along with so

[ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-03-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Background: The client is a large call-out business headquartered in NOIDA with call centres in 5 other cities in India, including New Delhi. At the time we started, they had no IT or automation on the call floor at all. Before you see the words "call centre" and freak out, let me assure you

Re: [ilugd] Request for suggestion for setting up Asterisk based call-center

2011-03-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 22 Mar 2011, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > 2011/3/21 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) : > >> On Monday 21 Mar 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: > >>> > In other words, you need an "air gap" (the words

Re: [ilugd] Request for suggestion for setting up Asterisk based call-center

2011-03-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 21 Mar 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > In other words, you need an "air gap" (the words from the document > > that defined this restriction) between your network and the rest > > of the world. As you say, connecting your own network to your > > PSTN is perfectly legal. > > I have always b

Re: [ilugd] Request for suggestion for setting up Asterisk based call-center

2011-03-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 21 Mar 2011, gurteshwar singh wrote: > Basically what is illegal to do in terms of VoIP is to say have a > PSTN/ISDN line plugged into your voip server and then lease that out > to somebody over IP. In effect selling it as a DID number over IP. > Most other cases are perfectly legal. Ther

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2011-03-19 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Pankaj Swami via LinkedIn wrote: > LinkedIn > Pankaj Swami requested to add you as a connection on > LinkedIn: -- Added to: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData -- Raj --

Re: [ilugd] Nokia xpressmusic 5800 as Bluetooth modem

2011-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > sdptool shows the "Dialup Networking" group having channel 22. With > the necessary change in rfcomm.conf I can use cu to connect fine to > the phone and get AT commands OKed back from it. wvdial is > dialling, now

Re: [ilugd] Nokia xpressmusic 5800 as Bluetooth modem

2011-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2011 10:50:57 +0530, "Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)" > > wrote: > > That doesn't work, unfortunately. Just an ATX3 in cu also closes > > the connection with an error. As you would expect, wvdial wh

Re: [ilugd] Nokia xpressmusic 5800 as Bluetooth modem

2011-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > Trying to use my Nokia XpressMusic as a Bluetooth modem under > > Debian GNU/Linux with no luck. > > I have, in the past, used blueman with network-manager, to connect > Nokia 5800 to my debian laptop. > > Bluetooth setup on my laptop is currently b

Re: [ilugd] Nokia xpressmusic 5800 as Bluetooth modem

2011-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 19 Mar 2011, Vivek Kapoor wrote: > Cannot say for sure about 5800, but used the following in E61 & E70 > and worked flawlessly. > For using 3G (and even EDGE/GPRS), the following works in the init > string > > AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","pps3g","",0,0 > > via wvdial. The 'pps3g' is the APN (fo

[ilugd] Nokia xpressmusic 5800 as Bluetooth modem

2011-03-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Trying to use my Nokia XpressMusic as a Bluetooth modem under Debian GNU/Linux with no luck. The computer and the phone are paired. Rfcomm (configured through /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf) works: ~# rfcomm show rfcomm0 rfcomm0: th:is:ph:on:em:ac channel 1 clean /dev/rfcomm0 exists fine:

Re: [ilugd] Have not been getting mails from the list for few weeks

2011-03-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 17 Mar 2011, Alok Sinha wrote: > I do get them - but, i suspect the traffic has significantly > reduced. BTW: Long time :) > > Raj: Your views ?? List is working fine, message density can be seen in graphical form at: http://gmane.org/details.php?group=gmane.user-groups.linux.delh

Re: [ilugd] [LUG@IITD:12456] What competition can do !!!

2011-03-05 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 06 Mar 2011, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Raju Mathur said on Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 08:19:41AM +0530,: > > On Sunday 06 Mar 2011, A. Mani wrote: > > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/ > > > > > > It is a GPL violation. > > > > Maybe I'm short-sighted, but I don't really see how it is

Re: [ilugd] [LUG@IITD:12456] What competition can do !!!

2011-03-05 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 06 Mar 2011, A. Mani wrote: > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:53 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > > The following has been an interesting read > > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Ha > > t-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html > > See http://lwn.net/Artic

Re: [ilugd] Fetching geographical data

2011-03-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 03 Mar 2011, Subhranath Chunder wrote: > Hi, > > I need to fetch some Geographical data like, the latitude and > longitude of all the cities in a country, maybe grouped into states. The most comprehensive list I've seen is: http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/country_files.html This

Re: [ilugd] Vikash Ruhil wants to stay in touch on LinkedIn

2011-03-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
> I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. > > - Vikash Ruhil > > Vikash Ruhil > IT Security consaltant at Xiarch Solutions Pvt. Ltd. > New Delhi Area, India The IT Security consultant has been added to: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYour

Re: [ilugd] Good news for you!

2011-03-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 02 Mar 2011, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > 2011/3/2 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) : > > On Tuesday 01 Mar 2011, Mayank wrote: > >> Make your life happier!. > >> http://www.vaca-loca.biz/links.php?eaolid=573 > > > > Added to: > > http:/

Re: [ilugd] Good news for you!

2011-03-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 01 Mar 2011, Mayank wrote: > Make your life happier!. > http://www.vaca-loca.biz/links.php?eaolid=573 Added to: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG:

Re: [ilugd] When customers own the brand...

2011-02-14 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
I strongly suggest you make your spam list by invitation only, otherwise you're likely to be the star entry in a whole load of blacklists. In the meantime, adding blogworks.in to the blacklist for all my clients' mail servers. Regards, -- Raj On Tuesday 15 Feb 2011, Blogworks wrote: > When cu

Re: [ilugd] FSF donation drive at GeekMeetup at Delhi/NCR #FSF #FreeSoftware

2011-01-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 15 Jan 2011, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > IMO, you should contact them before you run a fundraiser on their > behalf. Else, you are setting a bad precedent. Why? > Any random guy can come around, make a few posts on some random > mailing list claiming to support FLOSS, and then start fund r

Re: [ilugd] How not to move files in use using cron

2011-01-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 10 Jan 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:32 PM, wrote: > > Hello Gora Mohanty, > > > > Thanks for the message about "Re: [ilugd] How not to move files in > > use using cron". This is a one-time automatic confirmation to let > > you know you're on my Boxbe Guest List.

Re: [ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] ALSA hacker wanted

2011-01-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 10 Jan 2011, Linux Lingam wrote: > gora is correct. > also, have you tried to check the dell's internal circuitry is not > causing this problem? > depending on the level of hiss, here's a quick workaround: > > 1. ensure the recording has a few seconds of silence recorded: > without voice

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] ALSA hacker wanted

2011-01-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
[Please send offers to me personally, not to the list] Hi, I have a Dell Optiplex 380 (a fairly new model) which is having problems with excessive hiss when recording. Since I've tested without a mic and still got the hiss, I've concluded that it's an ALSA problem. The issue is probably inco

Re: [ilugd] Need Linux Kernel and Drivers Trainers.

2011-01-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 04 Jan 2011, Arun K. Singh wrote: > Btw I havent seen any such guidelines such as Commercial in subject > line etc on any Linux/Android discussion groups... The [COMMERCIAL] tag serves at least two purposes: 1. It permits members who are only interested in the technical or advocacy as

Re: [ilugd] Need Linux Kernel and Drivers Trainers.

2011-01-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 04 Jan 2011, Arun K. Singh wrote: > 2011/1/4 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) > > Since this is a commercial requirement, list etiquette suggests > > that you add "[COMMERCIAL]" in the subject line. > > Ok, do you want this to be re-posted? Nope, the message had

Re: [ilugd] Need Linux Kernel and Drivers Trainers.

2011-01-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 04 Jan 2011, Arun K. Singh wrote: > I am looking for a professional organisation that may provide on-site > training to developers on Linux Kernel in NCR region. I work for ST > Ericsson as a System Architect and would need some good Linux > training organizations that have expertise in

[ilugd] Mid-range laptop for Linux (Debian)

2010-12-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hello my dearest ILUGD, I am now a member of IndyaSucks.com and thought you would like to know about this amazing web site which has helped me connect with all my old school friends who are now either criminals or politicians (or is there a difference?) This invitation is specially for you, IL

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2010-12-21 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 21 Dec 2010, Rockey K. via LinkedIn wrote: > LinkedIn > Rockey K. requested to add you as a connection on > LinkedIn: -- So is it OK to add this security (and presumably privacy) expert to the untrustable with private data wiki page n

Re: [ilugd] Android users here?

2010-12-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Dec 2010, Shayon Pal wrote: > The best part about Android is that every single element that you > store on your phone, is backed up on the cloud itself, on Google's > servers. That goes for calendar entries, contacts, and emails. Is that mandatory? If Android forces me to store my co

Re: [ilugd] Linux-Delhi, Rockey Killer has invited you to open a Gmail account

2010-12-16 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 16 Dec 2010, Rockey Killer wrote: > I should have sent the invitation carefully and should not have > disturbed such > a nice mailing list with some stupid invitation .. I apologize .. > for that .. This is not the only list you have disturbed. As far as I know, your invitation has

Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] [...@iitd:10824] Creative Commons License is not made for you : Here is something better

2010-12-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 15 Dec 2010, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Narendra Sisodiya < > > naren...@narendrasisodiya.com> wrote: > >>> +++ Start > >>> *(c) 2010, Narendra Sisodiya, http://narendrasisodiya.com This > >>> work is release under NPDL license. *

Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] [...@iitd:10824] Creative Commons License is not made for you : Here is something better

2010-12-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
While I agree that content and software licences are complex beasts, there are a number of reasons why you should not be promoting this licence. I'll just stick to the main ones here: 1. A licence is meaningless unless there is at least some expectation of it standing up in (some) court. Unle

[ilugd] Bolnagri + KDE help

2010-12-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Trying to use the KDE Bolnagri input system to type Hindi (Devnagri). Most stuff works fine but not able to enter standalone vowels (i, ee, a, aa, etc.). The document states that you have to have Caps Lock on, but Caps Lock status isn't making any difference to the character entered. Any

Re: [ilugd] Server is hacked, pl. advice

2010-12-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 03 Dec 2010, abhishek jain wrote: > hi friends, > I today noticed my VPS was running too slow, then i logged into root > , and found a lot of load on it (> 240 ). > I did a ps -ef and a lot of process were running, a lot of them were > > > user1 23771 1 0 15:36 pts/000:00:0

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/17/2010 12:20 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > > I'm old-fashioned (or maybe just old) but I still find it much > > easier to read on paper than on a display. It'll be a sad day > > when all you can get is

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: > I am intrigued why there is an interest in physical books these days. > Pretty much everywhere I look ( from the Pasteur Institute in Paris > to the UCL and Kings College here in London ) the libraries are all > scaling back, dropping periodicals in

Re: [ilugd] Converting Unicode to PS

2010-11-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010, Nandeep Mali wrote: > On a side note, am I the only one getting these annoying Boxbe alerts > whenever I send a mail to the list? > > In this case it was from Mr. manishchabr...@gmail.com Have already requested Kishore to either set nomail for that address or drop it from

Re: [ilugd] Converting Unicode to PS

2010-11-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 16 Nov 2010, Nandeep Mali wrote: > How about text2pdf? Thanks. Tried that just now but it has problems: doesn't handle Unicode, and does line wrapping (fixed at 80 columns) instead of wrapping at word boundaries. Regards, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

[ilugd] Converting Unicode to PS

2010-11-15 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, I have some text which contains a few Unicode characters. I'm currently using enscript(1) to convert the text to PS and then to PDF; however enscript isn't handling the Unicode characters. Apart from that it's doing a beautiful job of the conversion, including word wrapping. Any other co

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-13 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: > I decided to check the ext3 overhead empirically, since I not keen to > delve into the resize2fs sources. I've attached a simple python > script that I used on a bunch of machines to measure the difference > between block device size (reported by

Re: [ilugd] LVM and ext3 size relationship

2010-11-12 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 13 Nov 2010, Rakesh Kumar wrote: > I think nobody is here to teach you, but as far as it is concerned to > solve any problem, i have already answered you. With all due respect, you haven't. Taj asked a very specific question: > If I want to grow an ext3 fs by size X in mb, how do I c

Re: [ilugd] Script to run at login but for non-root users only

2010-11-12 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 12 Nov 2010, Amit Sharma wrote: > I want to run a script as soon as a non-root users logs in. If your script is named "/usr/local/bin/foo.sh", try this in /etc/profile: # Only run foo.sh for non-root users [ `id -u` -ne 0 ] && /usr/local/bin/foo.sh Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

[ilugd] Greetings, etc.

2010-11-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, If you care about wishing others during the festive season(s), please do so in individual, personal mails. Please do NOT send greeting mails to the list -- that just indicates you're too lazy to figure out who your real friends are. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kan

Re: [ilugd] Direct Recruitment opportunity with Startup..

2010-11-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Please tag such posts with [COMMERCIAL] in the subject line. On Tuesday 02 Nov 2010, neeraj kumar wrote: > We are looking out PHP Professionals for our Ghaziabad based > incubation center.. -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 36

Re: [ilugd] Meeting in North Delhi?

2010-10-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 20 Oct 2010, Rockey Killer wrote: > Yes , website was down yesterday for maintainance work. It's up and > you can browse it now on > http://h4ck3r.in/ What happen, did it get hacked? ;-) -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:9818] Call for article for OPEN MINDS Annual newsletter of Jmilug .

2010-10-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Friday 08 Oct 2010, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > LFY articles are available at CC domain , you are reuse them > suresh and me and other are posting blogs on lug-iitd.posterous.com , > You can reuse our blogs too. BTW, when you mention CC you also need to specify precisely which CC licence you ar

Re: [ilugd] How to get wifi on visit to Delhi

2010-09-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Sep 2010, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: > As suggested by Raj, there are quite a few options available that > you can use. The situation is not as bad as portrayed by Raj. :-) > Yes, we have problems but we have come a long way and we need to go > further from here. > > Yo

Re: [ilugd] How to get wifi on visit to Delhi

2010-09-19 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 20 Sep 2010, Llywelyn Owen wrote: > I will be visiting Delhi in the next week or so to work on the Games > coverage for a fortnight. I plan to bring my Linux Netbook to keep on > top of my email. Some of my sad Windows using colleague want to do > the same. We've been told that wifi is ei

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

2010-09-09 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 09 Sep 2010, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > As someone has already said, better late than never! > http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/ That is indeed good news. It's only as few months back that the native Linux b43 driver started supporting the Broadcom BCM4312 WiFi chipset on my laptop.

[ilugd] [OT] [X-Post] Delhi-Mumbai courier for RMS

2010-08-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Richard Stallman (RMS) has left a small package weighing about 10KG at my place that needs to be taken to Mumbai. Request you to contact me if you're going Delhi-Mumbai in the next few days and can carry it with you. Thanks, -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org ht

Re: [ilugd] sachinjnu...@gmail.com wants to chat

2010-08-31 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Added to: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi- bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/2b4m3yv ) -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chi

Re: [ilugd] Need Linux Implementation Guys

2010-08-18 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 19 Aug 2010, saurabh vadhera wrote: > I need Linux Implementation Guys for a Project Onsite in Singapore > for a year (with handsome Salary in Dollars) . Please send me the > Resumes and provide the lead time to join Thanks for posting the opening. For future reference, please be sure

Re: [ilugd] calculator with a memory?

2010-08-16 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 16 Aug 2010, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Feeling silly to ask this question; but which calculator programme > has a memory function like the normal calculator has? > > I am speaking of the "M", "M+" "M-" and "MRC" keys most normal > handheld calculators have. > > Have tried gcalctool and qal

Re: [ilugd] Moderating first post?

2010-08-16 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 16 Aug 2010, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Whatever happened to the "moderate first pot" policy, which I > believe, was in place for this list? Never. -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D

Re: [ilugd] how to unsubscribe this mailing list

2010-08-14 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 14 Aug 2010, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: > Please tell me : > > 1. how to unsubscribe this mailing list > > or > > 2. the moderator may please remove me from this list Done. This one is urgent, so I won't wait for the "moderator" Mr Bhargava to wake up and do it. -- Raju -- R

Re: [ilugd] Website Designing Basic class in Jamia Millia Islamia

2010-08-13 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 14 Aug 2010, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: > I dont care a damm for your comment. I know, you think you own this > forum... you get irritated very fast when people take lead. You want > that every people in this forum call you " sir , sir... narendra > sir." and when someone disagrees.

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: > I'm not a lawyer, though i have been on the wrong side of software > patents many times. > > It's not completely true that software patents are not allowed in > india. The simple answer is, it depends on the technology. Mobile, > multimedia codecs,

[ilugd] [X-POST] Licence compatibility

2010-08-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Useful chart if you're choosing a licence for your FOSS work, or integrating your code with someone else's: http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 3

Re: [ilugd] Code editor for Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010, Pratul Kalia wrote: > E is paid but it was released under an open source license, I see > their repo here http://github.com/etexteditor/e/ As Ashish also pointed out, it is neither a Free Software nor an Open Source licence. E is still proprietary software. Regards, -

Re: [ilugd] Code editor for Windows

2010-08-04 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010, Shamail Tayyab wrote: > > Need to handle at least C, C++, Java and Perl. > > Tried e-text editor? Commercial though is a textmate clone for > windows. Nothing new to learn and the bundles are cool. Looks nice, except if you recall one of the original requirements was "F

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2010-08-03 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010, Mohit Yadav wrote: > Mohit Yadav requested to add you as a connection on Added at: http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi- bin/twiki/view/Main/DoNotTrustMeWithYourPersonalData ( http://preview.tinyurl.com/2b4m3yv ) -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org

Re: [ilugd] Code editor for Windows

2010-08-02 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 02 Aug 2010, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: > Can you recommend a good standalone FOSS programmer's editor for > Windows? No Emacs/Vim for Windows please -- the editor shouldn't > force the user to learn new paradigms. > > Need to handle at least C, C++, Java

[ilugd] Code editor for Windows

2010-08-01 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Can you recommend a good standalone FOSS programmer's editor for Windows? No Emacs/Vim for Windows please -- the editor shouldn't force the user to learn new paradigms. Need to handle at least C, C++, Java and Perl. Thanks, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org ht

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-07-25 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 24 Jul 2010, Kartik Singhal wrote: > [snip] > What we need though is a method by which we can "reset" the 'user' > account's home directory at each log in, deleting any traces of the > previous user's activity and recreates these two icons. I had > created the script to generate the ico

Re: [ilugd] REAL FOSS

2010-07-24 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 24 Jul 2010, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: > *Finally I've learned one thing, even Open Source is not for > Community, it is test bed for Corporate houses, a place for them to > get the developers work for free, finally put a logo and then earn > name, fame or money(anone one or all).

Re: [ilugd] How to Capitalise Email Name

2010-07-19 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Tuesday 20 Jul 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: > When you click reply/reply to all., you will see this type of line > How I can Capitalise my name like "Narendra Sisodiya", I am using > Google Apps, Same instruction as gmail. Not really anything to do with I, L, U, G or D, but you just have to s

Re: [ilugd] google docs vs openoffice-in-the-cloud

2010-07-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 18 Jul 2010, H.S.Rai wrote: > 2010/7/18 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) : > > any viable alternative to Google Docs has to > > present an interface that has a minimal learning curve. > > Don't http://eyeos.org/ fit the bill? Now /this/ looks hot! Thanks for the link.

Re: [ilugd] google docs vs openoffice-in-the-cloud

2010-07-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 18 Jul 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: > Well, for using openoffice files we first need to make a good > openoffice viewer. Somebody has to sit and make Complete unzipping > libraries in JavaScript. > http://odp-view.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/src/test1.html Let me reiterate Niyam's point h

Re: [ilugd] google docs vs openoffice-in-the-cloud

2010-07-17 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 18 Jul 2010, Nagarjuna G wrote: > wait for three-four months. gnowledge.org lab is going to release a > web application to do documents, knowledge organisation, > presentations, calendar, tasks, spreadsheets, mind maps, concept maps > ... . all of this in plain text. This project is ba

Re: [ilugd] Need Help regarding developing a site

2010-07-13 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 14 Jul 2010, Kapil Gupta wrote: > I need suggestions / comments / feedback and for making a site like > below. i think that this is a huge site and i may not be able to do > it by myself. my idea to develop it in mediawiki, will you suggest > me something better for my purpose. > Since

Re: [ilugd] Open Democracy

2010-07-11 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Sunday 11 Jul 2010, Neeraj Semwal wrote: > Hello Everyone, >For the past 2-3 months I have been thinking > of an idea, an idea which has the potential of changing the lives of > many. I am thinking about making a new amended version of 'The > Constitution of India' and th

[ilugd] J2ME development kit

2010-07-09 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
Hi, Anyone know of a fully FOSS J2ME development kit for Linux, preferably one that includes a (FOSS) J2ME emulator? TIA, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://

Re: [ilugd] Learn How to Make Websites in 4 days flat using Drupal CMS! Fresh Batch starting Friday, July 16th

2010-07-08 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 08 Jul 2010, Sidharth Kshatriya wrote: > [snip] > This will be paid training and costs would vary depending on whether > you are a student, working professional or company sponsored > candidate. Discounts will be offered to companies sending more than > one individual. Please mark the

Re: [ilugd] emulate grep - w

2010-06-25 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 26 Jun 2010, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Mohit Singh writes: > > Need some help. On an embedded system being minimalistic 'grep -w' > > does not work. Please let me know if somebody can emulate the > > behavior by using some other tool. > > NONWORD='[^[:alpha:][:digit:]-]' > grep "\(^\|${NO

Re: [ilugd] emulate grep - w

2010-06-25 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 26 Jun 2010, Mohit Singh wrote: > [snip] > GAURAV Incidentally, are you Mohit Singh or Gaurav? -- Raj -- Raj Mathurr...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ ||

Re: [ilugd] emulate grep - w

2010-06-25 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Saturday 26 Jun 2010, Mohit Singh wrote: > Need some help. On an embedded system being minimalistic 'grep -w' > does not work. Please let me know if somebody can emulate the > behavior by using some other tool. If you have Perl and you're looking for word Foo, you can: perl -ne '/\bFoo\b/ &&

Re: [ilugd] eduframe expression of interest

2010-06-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Thursday 24 Jun 2010, sreedher ramamurthy wrote: > Dear Mr Mohanty If you're being formal, I guess that should be Dr Mohanty. > My main idea in sharing with the group is that some one at least will > come and see the working of this device and spread the word across > for development of simila

Re: [ilugd] eduframe expression of interest

2010-06-23 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2010, r.sreed...@gmail.com wrote: > It's not an attachment -- it's stored online at Google Docs. To open > this document, just click the link above. I tried, but it's asking for a login. Can you send one of those too, please? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathurr

Re: [ilugd] Mailing list default reply-to option

2010-06-20 Thread Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)
On Monday 21 Jun 2010, Kartik Singhal wrote: > I have also done it once, I think the default option to reply should > be to the mailing list instead of to the sender. It was like this > earlier and has changed recently. Now, you have to hit Reply to all > for replying to the mailing list. > > Admi

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