Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender
Dear Chandan, On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:47 AM, K.P. Senthil Kumar sekumar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Chandan Gupta gupta.chand...@gmail.comwrote: I just wrote a blog post about it :) http://www.linuxcandy.com/2011/09/minister-for-it-tamil-nadu-clarifies.html I read your blog. Thank you for spreading the news, However there are some facts those are missing in your post. I have put a detailed comment on it. Kindly have a look at it. Regards, Srujan. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:27 PM, srujan kumar srujankuma...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Chandan, On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:47 AM, K.P. Senthil Kumar sekumar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Chandan Gupta gupta.chand...@gmail.com wrote: I just wrote a blog post about it :) http://www.linuxcandy.com/2011/09/minister-for-it-tamil-nadu-clarifies.html I read your blog. Thank you for spreading the news, However there are some facts those are missing in your post. I have put a detailed comment on it. Kindly have a look at it. Thank you for the corrections and updated informations. I have updated the post with missing informations. Apologizes for the missing information. We shall do a good research before posting such news in future. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Today's The Hindu carries clarification by the Minister for IT, TN has clarified that the laptops will be loaded with BOSS by ELCOT itself. I think all of us should be happy. Raman.P blog:http://ramanchennai.wordpress.com/ No reason to be really happy.. knowing well that a huge amount of tax-payer money is going to be forwarded to Microsoft's coffers. Did ELCOT at least try to cut a deal with Microsoft to get free/subsidised academic licences instead of paying for them at market prices? I am curious to know if the Govt would also provide free Internet access to the students. If not, many would not afford to have access to Internet at all. That would also mean when they use windows, the antivirus software will not receive updates but the laptops will receive a steady supply of malware through the flash drives they share. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender
I am curious to know if the Govt would also provide free Internet access to the students. If not, many would not afford to have access to Internet at all. That would also mean when they use windows, the antivirus software will not receive updates but the laptops will receive a steady supply of malware through the flash drives they share. +1 Good thought! Thanks for sharing your views. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Arduino Boards
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Krishna mail2kr...@gmail.com wrote: If you are looking for low cost arduino compatible in india, you can see Riduino. http://www.roboticsindia.com/entry.php/84-Riduino-Low-Cost-Fully-compatible-Arduino-for-India . Amazing price! I wanted to take 2 for my personal project, but unable to order online. Also the contact details are not there. No response from their online enquiry too. Regards, Arun ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Xmpp4r for Facebook
Hi friends, I have been developing a Terminal based Chat application using Ruby version 1.8 and i have used XMPP4R (ruby gem) from XMPP/Jabber implementation and i can well authenticate and able to chat using google (gmail) account. But When i try to connect to Facebook using the domain ( usern...@chat.facebook.com), it logs in without any problem but i am not able to chat with anyone or it doesn't shows my status as online. Is this implementation for facebook xmpp is correct or someother gems exist for ruby? Please help me out. and here is my Github Public repository: https://github.com/PrasannaVenkadesh/Whiz-Chat -- Regards, Prasanna Venkadesh PuduvaiLUG (puduvai Linux Users Group): http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/ FOSS Jobs all over India: http://fossjobs.in ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Security breach on kernel.org
Interesting info at kernel.org site: Quote from the kernel.org site: quote Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure. What happened? Intruders gained root access on the server Hera. We believe they may have gained this access via a compromised user credential; how they managed to exploit that to root access is currently unknown and is being investigated. Files belonging to ssh (openssh, openssh-server and openssh-clients) were modified and running live. A trojan startup file was added to the system start up scripts User interactions were logged, as well as some exploit code. We have retained this for now. Trojan initially discovered due to the Xnest /dev/mem error message w/o Xnest installed; have been seen on other systems. It is unclear if systems that exhibit this message are susceptible, compromised or not. If developers see this, and you don't have Xnest installed, please investigate. It *appears* that 3.1-rc2 might have blocked the exploit injector, we don't know if this is intentional or a side affect of another bugfix or change. What Has Been Done so far: We have currently taken boxes off line to do a backup and are in the process of doing complete reinstalls. We have notified authorities in the United States and in Europe to assist with the investigation We will be doing a full reinstall on all boxes on kernel.org We are in the process of doing an analysis on the code within git, and the tarballs to confirm that nothing has been modified The Linux community and kernel.org take the security of the kernel.org domain extremely seriously, and are pursuing all avenues to investigate this attack and prevent future ones. /quote More at https://www.kernel.org/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says No to Linux - issues new tender
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 10:47 +0530, K.P. Senthil Kumar wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Chandan Gupta gupta.chand...@gmail.comwrote: I just wrote a blog post about it :) http://www.linuxcandy.com/2011/09/minister-for-it-tamil-nadu-clarifies.html Thanks for those IIT Students which IIT students? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
