Re: [Ilugc] Software Freedom Day (PR - Co-ordination)
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Ma Sivakumar wrote: > Thanks Akilan. Do you know how to make widget which can be added with > one click to blogger blogs? We can ask bloggers to add to their blogs > for publicity. > Here we go: http://hosting.gmodules.com/ig/gadgets/file/108664960353323049895/sfd-ilugc.xml You can add this gadget in Blogger blogs, iGoogle page, Google sites, Google documents etc. Pretty much on all sites that supports Google Gadget API. I have not hard-coded location and link, so that you can change them if you want to promote some other SFD event(like in Jaya, for example). Defaults are 'Birla Planetarium, Chennai' and ' http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2010/Asia/India/Chennai/ilugc' respectively. You can change title too. Since every visible portion is made editable, Tamil Blogs can also utilize this. Just change values in textbox to Tamil when blogger asks you to change defaults if necessary. Go to the page in which you can edit page design (in Blogger this is Dashboard-->Design), click on 'Add Gadget' --> 'Add gadget by URL' and give the above URL. Some services like blogger will ask you to change default values and in others you have to change them after adding by selecting Edit Gadget. -- *அகிலன்* (Akilan R) (http://www.coding-aviator.blogspot.com) *I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.* --Jean Rostand ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] How to run java WAR file in command line
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Ranjith Kumar wrote: > Hi all, > Using apache-ant i compiled a java project what i did is created it > into war file and deployed on tomcat. what i need is how to deploy the same > war file in command line. So, you deployed the war into Tomcat using apache-ant, but want to know how to deploy it using command line? As far as I know, ant works on command-line. Can you explain how you're using ant and not using command line? Might be that you're using an IDE such as Eclipse or Netbeans. clarify. > > note : > I don`t want to run it on localhost everything should be executed in command > line. > Thanks in advances > > -- > Cheers > Ranjith, > > http://ranjith10z.wordpress.com > http://ranjithtenz.wordpress.com > ___ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
Hi, On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Yogesh Girikumar wrote: > > Thank you, that was very helpful. There seems to be a dearth of "Open" > implementations of these standards. > As for the ETSI standards, quite a few of them have "Open" implementations(I would prefer to use the term "free" instead of "open"). For eg. http://www.ttcn-3.org/OpenSourceTools.htm But when we talk about 3gpp specifications, they are normally huge communication systems like the GSM or UMTS or LTE that involve a lot of network elements at the infrastructure side. Even if we have free implementations, not every one will be able to use them because the costs of the actual boxes they run, on are extremely high. So only huge companies(we call them "operators") can afford to buy those boxes. And since they invest a big capital, they prefer to buy it from companies that have a established track record with these kind of standards. Unfortunately, we don't have a free software company in this domain. :( On the other hand, when we talk about Customer equipments(called CPE) for these standards, they are much cheaper hardware which could be bought by anyone, we have free software implementations of, say the wimax stack(IEEE standards, IEEE 802.16) for eg. May be in the future, we may have "free" GSM or LTE user equipments. :) -- Thank you Balachandran Sivakumar Arise Awake and stop not till the goal is reached. Mail: benignb...@gmail.com Blog: http://benignbala.wordpress.com/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
2010/8/20 Shakthi Kannan > > Either hardware manufacturers do not wish to share their device > details due to competition, or there are just too many irregularities > and deviations from the hardware specification that they don't want > end users to know about them. > Seems to be more like the latter.. > --- > | Is there > | a standard for lets say building the basics of a mobile broadband modem? > \-- > > There are standards and specifications. For a start: > > ETSI: > http://etsi.org/WebSite/Standards/Standard.aspx > > 3GPP: > http://www.3gpp.org/Specifications > Thank you, that was very helpful. There seems to be a dearth of "Open" implementations of these standards. Yogesh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
Hi, --- On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Yogesh Girikumar wrote: | Thank you so much for the insight. From what I understand, Blobs are here to | stay for a while. Why does this happen? Because there are not enough people | willing to write code for these hardware or is it because each hardware for | which the drivers are written are way too diverse from each other? \-- Either hardware manufacturers do not wish to share their device details due to competition, or there are just too many irregularities and deviations from the hardware specification that they don't want end users to know about them. --- | Is there | a standard for lets say building the basics of a mobile broadband modem? \-- There are standards and specifications. For a start: ETSI: http://etsi.org/WebSite/Standards/Standard.aspx 3GPP: http://www.3gpp.org/Specifications SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Re: [kanchilug] OAOD (Emacspeak)
Hi, >>sudo apt-get install emacspeak I am getting an error while installing emacspeak as follows thy...@thyagu-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install emacspeak [sudo] password for thyagu: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: tclx8.4 Suggested packages: emacspeak-ss psgml eflite w3m-el tclx8.4-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: emacspeak tclx8.4 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded. Need to get 2,375kB of archives. After this operation, 11.3MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe tclx8.4 8.4.0-2 [103kB] Get:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe emacspeak 29.0-2 [2,272kB] Fetched 2,375kB in 34s (69.7kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 121, line 14. Use of uninitialized value $_[1] in join or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Client/ConfModule.pm line 121, line 16. Selecting previously deselected package tclx8.4. (Reading database ... 290244 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tclx8.4 (from .../tclx8.4_8.4.0-2_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package emacspeak. Unpacking emacspeak (from .../emacspeak_29.0-2_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for doc-base ... Processing 1 added doc-base file(s)... Registering documents with scrollkeeper... Processing triggers for install-info ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up tclx8.4 (8.4.0-2) ... Setting up emacspeak (29.0-2) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacspeak running in / emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs22 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22 Wrote /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacspeak running in / install/emacspeak: Handling install for emacsen flavor emacs22 Temporary log file is /tmp/fileqkWMp5 Byte-compiling (~1.0 min) ...done. New alternative for /usr/bin/emacspeak is /usr/bin/emacspeak.emacs22 ...with priority "25" update-alternatives: error: alternative path /usr/bin/emacspeak.emacs22 doesn't exist. emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacspeak emacs22 emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, line 2. dpkg: error processing emacspeak (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2 Processing triggers for libc-bin ... ldconfig deferred processing now taking place Errors were encountered while processing: emacspeak E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) thy...@thyagu-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 57 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up emacspeak (29.0-2) ... emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacspeak running in / emacsen-common: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs22 emacsen-common: byte-compiling for emacs22 Wrote /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/00debian-vars.elc Wrote /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/debian-startup.elc /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacspeak running in / Ignoring install-info called from maintainer script The package emacspeak should be rebuild with new debhelper to get trigger support any help is appreciated , TIA, regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugam ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Contribution Projects-Session plan
Dear luggies, on behalf of our college foss club,we plan to conduct the program on contribution projects to third and final year students.suggest me some of the contribution projects and guide me,how to plan the session for the contribution projects. -- Regards... Chidambaresan ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
2010/8/20 Raja Subramanian > > Can someone please enlighten me on what Mark means by "binary-blob > drivers"? > > "Blobs" are binary only firmware which are used by addon cards/devices. > > [..] > See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497 > > > > I also don't understand how making them proprietary makes the OS open > > source > > Binary only drivers and blobs are included in Ubuntu/Debian only when > good quality open source drivers do not exist. > Thank you so much for the insight. From what I understand, Blobs are here to stay for a while. Why does this happen? Because there are not enough people willing to write code for these hardware or is it because each hardware for which the drivers are written are way too diverse from each other? Is there a standard for lets say building the basics of a mobile broadband modem? Has there been any attempt to write a framework for groups of similar[in h/w] devices? Or am I not making sense here? Just curious. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] OAOD (Emacspeak)
Application: Emacspeak What it is: Emacspeak is a speech output system that will allow someone who cannot see to work directly on a UNIX system. Emacspeak is built on top of Emacs. Once Emacs is started with Emacspeak loaded, users get spoken feedback for all actions. As Emacs can do everything, they get speech feedback for everything they do. This package includes speech servers written in Tcl to support the DECtalk Express and DECtalk MultiVoice speech synthesizers. For other synthesizers, look for separate speech server packages such as emacspeak-ss and eflite. To know more about: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ To install in ubuntu: sudo apt-get install emacspeak -- Cheers, Dhastha A Kanchi Linux User http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Works on Linux http://dowithlinux.wordpress.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Re: Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
2010/8/19 Yogesh Girikumar > > Please see: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/77#comment-34278 > > Can someone please enlighten me on what Mark means by "binary-blob > drivers"? > Adding to that: Is he speaking of this??: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BinaryDriverEducation Yogesh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Protect India's coast
Hi, On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 8:16 PM, anu nivas wrote: > Could you give me a more detailed explanation of how this would affect us? > Thank You > Anupama > > Please do not troll. Kindly follow the list guidelines. regards, Thyagarajan Shanmugham ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Yogesh Girikumar wrote: > Please see: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/77#comment-34278 > > Can someone please enlighten me on what Mark means by "binary-blob drivers"? "Blobs" are binary only firmware which are used by addon cards/devices. Eg. a USB DSL modem may not have internal flash storage to store its embedded OS/code, and would rely on the host OS (Linux/Windows/etc) to upload it to the device when it's connected/initialized. Binary only drivers on the other hand may execute on host CPU as well. >From a security perspective, binary only drivers are bad as they may have bugs which can be exploited. OpenBSD stopped including binary only drivers or blobs in their source trees many years ago. See: http://kerneltrap.org/node/6497 > I also don't understand how making them proprietary makes the OS open > source Binary only drivers and blobs are included in Ubuntu/Debian only when good quality open source drivers do not exist. Blobs are not created by the Ubuntu team and they come from the hardware manufacturers. Some blobs may be included in the non-free section of Ubuntu/Debian repository. If the blob license does not permit 3rd party redistribution, a dummy package is provided which downloads the actual binary during the install process. - Raja ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Protect India's coast
Could you give me a more detailed explanation of how this would affect us? Thank You Anupama On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Sivabalan wrote: > Hi, > > Our politicians forget their promises so easily! They vow to keep our > coasts safe, but do nothing about the fact that over 300 ports are > proposed to be built on our coast, many in the vicinity of biodiversity > rich areas. > > Many of these ports will be near mangrove areas, on fertile inter tidal > mud flats, near the breeding and spawning grounds for turtles, horseshoe > crabs and other marine creatures. Along with several other organisations, > Greenpeace is asking the environment minister Jairam Ramesh to keep the > construction of new ports and expansion of existing ones away from such > eco-sensitive areas. > > I have already written to the minister asking him to protect our coasts > as > promised. More letters will put more pressure on the minister to act. > > Can you also write to the minister? > > http://greenpeace.in/turtle/no-more-dhamras > > Thanks! > > siva...@gmail.com > > You are receiving this email because someone you know sent it to you from > the Greenpeace site. Greenpeace retains no information about individuals > contacted through its site, and will not send you further messages > without > your consent -- although your friends could, of course, send you another > message. > ___ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Ubuntu Free Software License - Clarification Needed
Hi All, Please see: http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/77#comment-34278 Can someone please enlighten me on what Mark means by "binary-blob drivers"? I also don't understand how making them proprietary makes the OS open source. I know that FSF doesn't recognize Ubuntu as a FreeLibre Software since it let's people download and use proprietary drivers. But what they claim is that "All parts of Ubuntu will always be free, along with the source code", right?? Or am I not seeing something here?? Thank You, Yogesh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] SFD 2010 Stalls
Friends. We planned for around 20 stalls for sfd 2010 in the last monthly meet. Please update here with the stall details and stall incharge details. Let us invite the First timers to participate. Thanks. Shrinivasan -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with GNU/Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Foss news-36
FossNews-36 is released. Table of contents: Contents 1. 1.Linux 2.6.36-rc1 Kernel Released 2.Install VLC 1.1.2 in Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) 3.The Beauty of LATEX 4.10 differences between Linux and BSD 5.Resizing Linux partitions, Part 1: Basics 6.Vi IMproved 7.3 Released w/ Fixes + New Features 7.Top 15 GIMP Tutorials From Around The Web 8.The Perfect Server - CentOS 5.5 x86_64 [ISPConfig 2] 9.Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" frozen 10.Open source contributors 11.5 of the Best Free Linux Typing Tutors 12.15 HTML5 Demos Showcasing Prowess of HTML5 Over Adobe Flash 13.Trying Out The New Ubuntu 10.10 Installer 14.24 Addictive Free Linux Games etc. Download at : http://tinyurl.com/348svsw -- Regards, A.Yaassir Arrafath Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks !! http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Views for u http://pheonixtuxworld.wordpress.com/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] How to run java WAR file in command line
Hi all, Using apache-ant i compiled a java project what i did is created it into war file and deployed on tomcat. what i need is how to deploy the same war file in command line. note : I don`t want to run it on localhost everything should be executed in command line. Thanks in advances -- Cheers Ranjith, http://ranjith10z.wordpress.com http://ranjithtenz.wordpress.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Re: OAOD (HTTrack)
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > one does not need sudo in debian Using sudo is usually a different usecase from using su. sudo allows for finer access control and provides a logging mechanism. -- Alok Agree with them now, it will save so much time. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Re: OAOD (HTTrack)
Mirroring public websites is a netiquette gray area. Some don't mind, some do. Since bandwidth usually costs, it would be prudent to ask before using httrack or even wget -r. -- Alok ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] session in opensource
> Also you can get the following distro repository from us (bring external HDD > with atleast 80 GB free space) > > how to get it,am in madurai > If you have contacts in Chennai, ask them contact us and we will provide to them. If that's not possible, give your college details and we will send them by courier to college/dept. and you can collect from them. Regards S.Baskar CEO/LinuXpert Systems ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Opening terminal
> open ~/.bashrc > > and at the end of the file write > > cd ~/Desktop Thanks. It works. -- with regards Raja Pandi ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
