Re: [Ilugc] FOSS competency certification
On Friday 06 March 2009 11:26:32 Arun Khan wrote: Also, the rest of the material is too high level what exactly is too high level? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Yum Repos
Ashish Verma wrote: Hi, Please suggest some yum repos. rpms like below will be very helpful. http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm for livna repo. http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpmfor rpm-fusion Generally, mixing repositories would lead to conflicts. Other than livna + rpmfusion - free/non-free repositories, many of them are not compatible with Fedora completely or replace packages leading to many problems. You can refer to http://rpmfusion.org/FedoraThirdPartyRepos Rahul ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Firefox problem
Thanks for all the inputs. I uninstalled firefox and installed 3.0.7 stable version. It works :) ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
Hi, Am presently using Fedora Core 2 OS, i have to update into Fedora 9. How to update the OS. Thanks R. Prasath ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
Prasath Ramachandiran wrote: Hi, Am presently using Fedora Core 2 OS, i have to update into Fedora 9. How to update the OS. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ#I_have_an_older_Fedora_release.__Can_I_upgrade_my_existing_installation.3F Rahul ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
Hi, Am presently using Fedora Core 2 OS, i have to update into Fedora 9. How to update the OS. Is the upgrade is essential? Why not a fresh install of new version? Fedora 2 is very old to use. If there is no important data, or very little data, back up them. Do a fresh install of Fedora 9. This will make your life easier. Fedora 10 already come. Go for a latest one always. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
On Friday 06 March 2009 16:49:09 Shrinivasan T wrote: Fedora 10 already come. Go for a latest one always. actually it is always advisable to go for the second latest - not only in software, but for everything you acquire. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
--- On Fri, 6/3/09, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: Is the upgrade is essential? Why not a fresh install of new version? Fedora 2 is very old to use. If there is no important data, or very little data, back up them. Do a fresh install of Fedora 9. This will make your life easier. Fedora 10 already come. Go for a latest one always. Not always, think about hardware specs and then upgrade. Newer versions generally assume more ram and cpu power. Raman.P Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
RE: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
From: ilugc-boun...@ae.iitm.ac.in [ilugc-boun...@ae.iitm.ac.in] On Behalf Of Kenneth Gonsalves [law...@thenilgiris.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 4:50 PM actually it is always advisable to go for the second latest - not only in software, but for everything you acquire. I second it, atleast for fedora. In the desire for cutting edge, some crucial subSytems could come out with bugs unsurmountable at the start. But also, fedora releases get obsoleted qucik too. Give a good read of fc10 known issues before taking a call! ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS
I second it, atleast for fedora. In the desire for cutting edge, some crucial subSytems could come out with bugs unsurmountable at the start. But also, fedora releases get obsoleted qucik too. Give a good read of fc10 known issues before taking a call! my question to prasath is, why Fedora not Debian? since you used Fedora for long run it time to taste something different. Try Debian Etch/Lenny. RJ ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Zico mailz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Parthan SR parth.technofr...@gmail.com wrote: And also please don't write a mail with 1945 words. Nobody is going to read it through ;-) haha :D Come on!!! ;) @ALL Understood. There is no way out. regards, Ignacius ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Parthan SR parth.technofr...@gmail.com wrote: And also please don't write a mail with 1945 words. Nobody is going to read it through ;-) When someone can count the number of words, he/she _can_ read it. ;-) Not necessarily. with Eric S Raymonds explanation of Zen enlightenment http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html a simple wc -w foo.txt is enough :). Bye, Krishna. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Krishna mail2kr...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. with Eric S Raymonds explanation of Zen enlightenment http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html a simple wc -w foo.txt is enough :). When someone shows interest to count the number of words (whatever the method), he _can_ read it and he _should_ read it before making comments. :-). That post was kind of suggesting people not to read it because it was so much words long and was trying to dilute the issue being mentioned. :-). P.S. These are only my personal opinions and not intended to offend anyone. :-) Regards, Guruprasad. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Krishna mail2kr...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. with Eric S Raymonds explanation of Zen enlightenment http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html a simple wc -w foo.txt is enough :). When someone shows interest to count the number of words (whatever the method), he _can_ read it and he _should_ read it before making comments. :-). That post was kind of suggesting people not to read it because it was so much words long and was trying to dilute the issue being mentioned. :-). BTW, the post was telling *how to communicate in lists*! lol :-D. Regards, Guruprasad. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists
hi, வணக்கம், In brief, if you don't have anything to say, don't say it, if you don't like what is written just ignore/delete it. Instead of spending so much energy on deciding which *language* we can communicate in, we should spend some time on communicating! And also please don't write a mail with 1945 words. Nobody is going to read it through ;-) தூங்குபவர்களை எழுப்பி விட முடியும் தூங்குவது போல நடிப்பவர்களை ... **We can wake up a person who is really sleeping but not the one who pretends to be sleeping regards, வாழ்த்துக்கள், Ignacius இக்னேசியச் ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] about swap area
hai to all. I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using windows.. now i have a doubt about swap area. my doubts are 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics if possible please tell me how to do it?? thanking you ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] about swap area
I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using windows.. now i have a doubt about swap area. my doubts are 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. My friend, Swap memory is your virtual memory. When your linux box run out of primary memory (RAM) then it started using swap partition (area ). If you system is not using the swap area, it really good, since it show you have enough RAM on board. Utilizing the swap partition for your graphics memory is not an ideal option. Swap partition grows on your secondary memory (HDD), is comparatively very very slow to the RAM. Its no way possible to used swap as per you mentioned in post. cheers RJ . ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] about swap area
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:38 +0530, nandha kumar wrote: hai to all. I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using windows.. now i have a doubt about swap area. my doubts are 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics if possible please tell me how to do it?? Swap space is just space on your hard-drive set up to compensate for when you run out of RAM. Accessing that is as slow as accessing your hard drive, so less swap used is better. I do not think any graphics card currently available can use hard-drive space to augment VRAM, and besides that isn't a very good idea at all. On the Intel 845 board, you should be able to increase the amount of main RAM that is allocated to your on-board graphics in the BIOS. ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] ??? ??? ?? ???? - ???????????????? ??? =?UTF-8?B?4K6f4K6x4K+I
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Senthil Kumaran S style...@gmail.com wrote: Bharathi Subramanian wrote: And Writing in Tamil in this list is NOT GOING TO HELP ANYWAY in to improve our language. If Tamil is forced, then it will die soon - Rough translation of MahaKavi Bharathiyar's statement. A strong +1. Out of curiosity more than anything please quote that Bharathi's line as such in Tamil.. Just wanna know, where and when he uttered those words? Being his admirer myself, I wish it doesn't got on record even in one person's mind that even Bharathi has uttered such word.. If this is the phrase, then read it completely and understand what Bharathi expects every Tamilan to do, புத்தம் புதிய கலைகள், பஞ்சப் பூதச் செயல்களின் நுட்பங்கள் கூறும்; மெத்த வளருது மேற்கே, அந்த மேன்மைக் கலைகள் தமிழினில் இல்லை! ... சொல்லவும் கூடுவ தில்லை! அவை சொல்லும் திறமை தமிழ்மொழிக் கில்லை! என்றந்தப் பேதை உரைத்தான், ஆ! இந்த வசையெனக் கெய்திட லாமோ ? சென்றிடுவீர் எட்டுத் திக்கும், கலைச் செல்வங்கள் யாவும் கொண்ர்ந் திங்கு சேர்ப்பீர்! மகாகவி பாரதியார் -- ஆமாச்சு ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] about swap area
On 3/6/2009 7:38 PM, nandha kumar wrote: 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. Use programs which use more than 640MB of memory. Idle swap is good since it means you have enough memory for your workloads. 2. can swap can be used as a virtual graphics card to improve my graphics if possible please tell me how to do it?? Don't think that is possible under X Window System. Regards, Senthil ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Looking for live cd/distro supporting eafs/htfs filesystem
Hi all, I need to recover data from a SCO Open Server 5.0 harddisk which uses EAFS/HTFS (not NTFS) filesystem. I didn't find any linux distro which supports this kind of filesystem to mount from linux. Any pointers would be helpful. S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Looking for live cd/distro supporting eafs/htfs filesystem
Hi, I need to recover data from a SCO Open Server 5.0 harddisk which uses EAFS/HTFS (not NTFS) filesystem. I didn't find any linux distro which supports this kind of filesystem to mount from linux. See the following link. http://www.aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_linuxfs.html -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Acer Aspire One sound update
Hello, On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: As you will note from my comment on the Debian Wiki page, I could not get the internal mic to work. Please let me know if some more recent version of alsa makes this work for you. This is a deal breaker for me as I'm a heavy Skype user. The built-in webcam is also something I'm using effectively now. Using Debian lenny on the Acer Aspire One I just tested: # get module assistant to get, build and install the alsa modules m-a a-i alsa # unload the older alsa modules from kernel rmmod $(lsmod | grep snd | cut -f1 -d' ') # load the newly built modules --- note model=acer! modprobe snd-hda-intel model=acer # record 10 seconds of CD quality audio arecord -f cd -v -d 10 /tmp/test.wav # play it aplay /tmp/test.wav And it worked! So perhaps some recent changes to the alsa-source package in lenny made it work or my tests earlier were buggy! Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] FOSS competency certification
On Friday 06 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 06 March 2009 11:26:32 Arun Khan wrote: Also, the rest of the material is too high level what exactly is too high level? Please see these for examples of the content that needs to be outlined in the proposed certification. http://www.redhat.in/training/course/RH131 http://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1/exam_101_detailed_objectives http://www.lpi.org/eng/certification/the_lpic_program/lpic_1/exam_102_detailed_objectives Also please include the USP of the proposed cert vis a vis this http://www.redhat.in/training/courses/applications/ and http://www.redhat.in/training/courses/web_dev/ -- Arun Khan ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Acer Aspire One sound update
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Using Debian lenny on the Acer Aspire One I just tested: ... And it worked! So perhaps some recent changes to the alsa-source package in lenny made it work or my tests earlier were buggy! If you plug-in headphones or a mic do they work as expected? On WinXP atleast, whenever I plug in headphones, I need to ensure the acer audio mixer app is running for the sound to be routed to the headphones. Not running this app causes the sound to be played back through the built-in speakers even though I have the headphones plugged in. I have one more issue -- at the lowest screen brightness, the screen flickers every time the HDD reads/writes data. This happens all the time, even when the laptop is on AC or battery power. I'm not sure if this is a hardware of software glitch, do you notice the same problem using X.org servers? Thanks for all your inputs! - Raja ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] anatomy of ext4
Hello, IBM DW has featured a recent article on ext4 Linux file system, and is good reading for any Linux file system enthusiast. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-anatomy-ext4/index.html The Resources section of the article has plenty of pointers to further information. - Raja ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Acer Aspire One sound update
Hello, On Sat, 07 Mar 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: If you plug-in headphones or a mic do they work as expected? Yes. There is a mixer setting which toggles between internal mic and external mic. (I use alsamixer). I have one more issue -- at the lowest screen brightness, the screen flickers every time the HDD reads/writes data. I haven't noticed anything specific like this. I have not tried to do anything disk intensive while having a video or GL graphic running, so that needs to be tried. Regards, Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
