[Ilugc] Finding FOSS projects that need volunteers
Hi, Are there places on the web where FOSS projects that need volunteers can post their requirements? I've come across http://sourceforge.net/people/helpwanted-latest.php but it seems to be a very small list and mentions only SF projects. Is there some online directory that lists such projects across multiple source code hosts? Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Top Open Source Sites Protesting SOPA, PIPA
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.muktware.com/blogs/3228/top-open-source-sites-protesting-sopa-pipa There are many open source communities which are protesting the anti-freedom bill SOPA and its 'Little Boy' cousing PIPA via their websites. Closer home, we have our own internet censorship - http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/01/16/is-india-ignoring-its-own-internet-protections/ Anybody protesting? Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Please guide me how to install windows 3 inside linux.
2011/11/24 Vishnu Guruswamy vishnugurusw...@gmail.com: Dear Ilugcs Please guide me how to install windows 3 inside linux. Windows 3? Are we reading that right? or did you mean Gnome 3? Which Linux distribution are you using? (BTW, what does 'inside' Linux mean?) Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Firefox 8 Dialogue box,
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 8:08 AM, sag kavin sagka...@gmail.com wrote: I am using ubuntu 11.10, recently i upgraded to firefox 8. Now whenever a dialogue box appears it has no action. No message is displayed. For example when i click delete all spam messages in gmail, a dialogue box with ok and cancel appears. Clicking anything is not at all possible. I tried it in windows also, there also same problem occurs. How to fix this? Try it after disabling all Firefox extensions and plugins you have. If that solves the issue, re-enable the extensions and plugins one by one and test it again till you eventually identify the extension/plugin that causes the problem. If you experience the issue even with no extensions/plugins enabled, then perhaps, a complete uninstall and re-install might help. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] More Free Online Classes from Stanford University
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Kumara Guru gurukum...@gmail.com wrote: Encouraged by the response for the three online classes currently running * http://www.ai-class.com/ * http://www.ml-class.org/ * http://www.db-class.org/ Stanford is now launching 6 more classes in 2012: * Human-Computer Interface - Scott Klemmer - Jan 2012 http://www.hci-class.org/ * Natural Language Processing - Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky - Jan 2012 http://www.nlp-class.org/ * Game Theory - Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham - Jan 2012 http://www.game-theory-class.org/ * Probabilistic Graphical Models - Daphne Koller - Jan 2012 http://www.pgm-class.org/ * Computer Science 101 - Nick Parlante - Feb 2012 http://www.cs101-class.org/ * Software Engineering for Software as a Service - Armando Fox and David Patterson - Feb 2012 http://www.saas-class.org/ Two more classes from Stanford that might be of interest to Entrepreneurs: * Technology Entrepreneurship - Chuck Eesley - Jan 2012 Understand the formation and growth of high-impact start-ups in areas such as information, green/clean, medical and consumer technologies http://www.venture-class.org/ * The Lean Launchpad - Steve Blank - Feb 2012 Learn how to turn a great idea into a great company. http://www.launchpad-class.org/ Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] Python script of 23 lines to download file using http
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: Forget urllib2 and httplib, use requests http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/index.html . It's much easier for complex tasks. I Agree. I sometimes wonder if urlib2 was designed by a Java Architect :D Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] More Free Online Classes from Stanford University
Encouraged by the response for the three online classes currently running * http://www.ai-class.com/ * http://www.ml-class.org/ * http://www.db-class.org/ Stanford is now launching 6 more classes in 2012: * Human-Computer Interface - Scott Klemmer - Jan 2012 http://www.hci-class.org/ * Natural Language Processing - Chris Manning and Dan Jurafsky - Jan 2012 http://www.nlp-class.org/ * Game Theory - Matthew Jackson and Yoav Shoham - Jan 2012 http://www.game-theory-class.org/ * Probabilistic Graphical Models - Daphne Koller - Jan 2012 http://www.pgm-class.org/ * Computer Science 101 - Nick Parlante - Feb 2012 http://www.cs101-class.org/ * Software Engineering for Software as a Service - Armando Fox and David Patterson - Feb 2012 http://www.saas-class.org/ What can I say, this is pure awesomeness!!! Thank you Stanford! Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] Python script of 23 lines to download file using http
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: print Connecting to , host conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(host) urllib2 makes it real easy: http://docs.python.org/howto/urllib2.html Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Laptop battery critical power.
On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Roshan George ros...@arjie.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 09:14 +0530, sag kavin wrote: Where is the configuration file which specifies the critical battery limit? Like many other things in Gnome, the information is stored in gconf. Use `gconf-editor` and look under `/apps/gnome-power-manager/thresholds`. You might also consider looking at the `use_time_for_policy` key in `/apps/gnome-power-manager/thresholds` if you decide to use percentage instead of time to judge when to do things. Ubuntu 11.10 (which the OP is using) is using Gnome 3 -- gnome apps have migrated from gconf to Gsettings (with dconf backend). The dconf backend is binary, so you won't be able to directly change it from a text editor. If you have dconf-editor installed, navigate to org - gnome - settings-daemon - plugins - power in the left pane and you can edit the power configuration in the right pane. Alternatively, you can also use gsettings from the command line. gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power will list all the keys and their values under this schema. If you want to change a value of a key, say percentage-critical : gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power percentage-critical 10 You will find description of the keys here: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/tree/data/org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.gschema.xml.in.in Note: You should also set use-time-for-policy key to false if you use percentage. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Transcript of Stallman's lecture...
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Sundaram Ramachandran sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com wrote: Many years back I remember reading a lengthy transcript of Mr. Stallman's speech at MIT Chromepet. Can anybody point me to a link where I can find it now? http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=W1rqU8mm Wondering why it's not on the ILUGC website! Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT][meta] Bangalore LUG?
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Kumara Guru gurukum...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason, I went to the LFY site and noticed a Poll on the homepage: Which is the most active and helpful LUG in India ? URL link to the poll It's on the homepage of http://www.linuxforu.com/ Look for it in the right column, half way to the bottom of the page. and also when was the poll taken? I am guessing it was started years back and hasn't closed yet. Perhaps the LFY folks in this list can shed some light on the poll. Perhaps Diksha Gupta can help. She's from EFY but LFY is part of their Group. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] GNU Health-1.4.1 released
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 4:19 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: http://health.gnu.org/ GNU Health 1.4.1 released ! In screen shot No 1 (Patient main screen), you might get into trouble with the photo. Even if the lady's photo was in public domain, associating it with the listed disease genes might get you guys into trouble :-) Why don't you go for a icon? She is not a model but a Police woman. http://en.showchina.org/Gallery/Fashion/200807/t196696.htm It's like asking for trouble when you don't need it. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT][meta] Bangalore LUG?
For some reason, I went to the LFY site and noticed a Poll on the homepage: Which is the most active and helpful LUG in India ? I thought it would be a landslide win for ILUGC but to my surprise the Bangalore LUG is also equally placed in votes with ILUGC. I know ILUGC has been very active since those early days (no mean feat, this!) but had no idea about the Bangalore LUG. Google tells me their old site is http://linux-bangalore.org/blug/ -- which looks very much dead -- even the linked Yahoo Groups have no posts for months,years. Much worse, I am not able to connect to their new site http://blug.in/ (the most recent wayback machine mirror informs us that the site is to be re-created). Am I missing something here? Is there a Bangalore/Bengaluru LUG that's *active* now? Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT][meta] Bangalore LUG?
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:51 AM, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: Am I missing something here? Is there a Bangalore/Bengaluru LUG that's *active* now? Must be this one, http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru seems to be active. http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-bengaluru/about Only 11 emails last month and a mere 5 the month before it. One of the emails is someone's wedding invitation and another is from someone apologizing for sending spam to the list. Not exactly active in the sense for it to be useful :( Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] A simple question regarding ubuntu background processes
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Christopher Sagayam christopher...@gmail.com wrote: I run some background processes from time to time ... [5] Done perl script5.pl [7]- Done perl script6.pl [8]+ Done perl script7.pl Can anyone please explain to me the significance of the minus - and plus + present at lines 7 and 8 ? + is an identifier for the most recent job - is an identifier for the next most recent job. From jobs manpage: ( http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/oneiric/man1/jobs.1posix.html#contenttoc9 ) The character '+' identifies the job that would be used as a default for the fg or bg utilities; this job can also be specified using the job_id %+ or %% . The character '-' identifies the job that would become the default if the current default job were to exit; this job can also be specified using the job_id %-. For other jobs, this field is a space. At most one job can be identified with '+' and at most one job can be identified with '-' . Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Disk error
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:35 PM, aravindh aravindh aaravindh...@gmail.com wrote: i formatted both os and installed 11.04 again .when i re-start the screen it indicates DISK ERROR.How to rectify.My pc configuration 2gb RAM,DUAL CORE,160 GB HD AND NO GRAPHICS CARD. When you re-installed 11.04, the Grub configuration may not have been updated properly. Boot from a Live CD and try this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Unable to install You tube downloader
On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 7:23 PM, SRIKANTH NS srikanth...@gmail.com wrote: I run Debian 5.0 in a dual boot machine. When I ran apt-get install youtube-dl as root, it says could not find package youtube-dl. Looks like it's not packaged for Debian 5. But youtube-dl is just a single python script that you can download from http://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/download.html Here's the direct link for the latest version, if you want to wget it: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/raw/2011.09.30/youtube-dl Will the youtube-dl install only in DEbian 6.0? Python 2.5+ is the only requirement for youtube-dl and it should work everywhere Python 2.5+ is installed including Debian 5 (or even Windows for that matter). On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com wrote: If you cant find youtube-dl then there is an beautiful plug-in available for Firefox called as FlashGot. That's fine except for the fact he would not be able to schedule an automated downloading from a shell script or chain it with other command line tools. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Problem in connecting to Mozilla IRC Server
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Dwaraka Nath dtsdwa...@hotmail.com wrote: Connection details Server - irc.mozilla.org/6667 or irc.mozilla.org/6697 If I use the 6697 port, I check the 'Use SSL for all the servers on this network option' and 'Accept invalid SSL certificate' Do you notice any specific error message when you run the following? openssl s_client -connect irc.mozilla.org:6697 Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] RIP: Dennis Ritchie (Oct 9th 2011)
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Bharathi Subramanian bharathi.l...@gmail.com wrote: Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (September 9, 1941 - October 9, 2011) was an American computer scientist notable for developing C and for having influence on other programming languages, as well as operating systems such as Multics and Unix. He received the Turing Award in 1983 and the National Medal of Technology 1998 on April 21, 1999. Ritchie was the head of Lucent Technologies System Software Research Department when he retired in 2007. I am surprised at the coverage (or the lack thereof) on this news especially after seeing pages after pages of eulogy for Steve Jobs even in the local media. Sure, Dennis isn't as famous but he is the father of 'C' - a language that still is as important as ever; touches everyday life silently -- and a key contributor to Unix (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoVQTPbD6UY) to which every modern Operating System is indebted. As a great inventor who stood humble all his life, he deserves a better farewell than what he is getting now. Thank you very much Dennis, R.I.P. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Problem in connecting to Mozilla IRC Server
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:28 AM, Dwaraka Nath dtsdwa...@hotmail.com wrote: I've been trying to connect to Mozilla's IRC Server - irc://irc.mozilla.org/ via xchat. But with no success. I'm using Fedora 15. It was listed in the Mozilla's IRC Wiki page that, we could connect to it via 6697 port as well as against the normal 6667. Still, no hope. Did it give you an error message? It works for me. The 6667 port is for a non-ssl connection and the 6697 port is for a SSL connection. So make sure you are using the right port. If you got that right and still not able to connect with SSL turned on, check your openSSL configuration. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Senthil Nathan mymailst...@gmail.com wrote: TN Government must try to install both windows and Linux so that students can decide whichever best suites them. If there are budget constraints then they must drop Windows in favor of Linux. It's already a done deal. They are preloading BOSS linux with Windows. http://bosslinux.in/BOSS-In-TamilNadu The question is, with such a large scale purchase of Windows licences on Tax payer money, who is getting kickbacks and laughing all the way to the bank? Laptop without WiFi is a stupid idea. Forget WiFi, they will not get even a wired internet connection and since most students can't afford a subscription on their own, there's no way to pull anti-virus updates (If I am not mistaken, a 1 year AV subscription is part of the deal). Students will most likely share flash drives and get an uninhibited supply of malware. So yeah, stupid terrible idea! Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Help regarding Project
On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Abdur Rahman sarsarah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi ILUGCians i m doing my BE final year ... and planning to do project on wireless network security... i wanna know how to write code in java to detect r scan the wifi networks... please guide me thanks in advance... Is it something like http://meraki.com/products/wireless/wifi-stumbler (unfortunately, not opensource) ? There's an old opensource Wifi scanner written in Java called Mognet. Google for Mognet-1.16.tar.gz Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] NS3 -Query
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM, chidambaresan ananthan chidambasak...@gmail.com wrote: Is any one have the working or project experience in ns3 and i want the link of peoples who working in it. By ns-3, I guess you mean the Network Simulator (nsnam.org). Velammal and VIT conducted workshops on NS2 earlier this year: http://www.vit.ac.in/events2011/NET%20WORk.pdf http://www.velammal.org/pdf/NetworkStimulator2011.pdf You may probably approach the resource persons mentioned in the brochure or ask your query in the ns3 users group: http://groups.google.com/group/ns-3-users Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] not able to get ubuntu on boot screen
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:16 PM, meena r meenu140...@gmail.com wrote: i have installed ubuntu 11.04 inside my windows xp and worked on it. but after some days system got restarted so i changed my system configuration as normally start up-load devices and drives and services . from that moment am not able to get ubuntu on boot screen, but ubuntu file is still present in the drive where i installed . how to get back ubuntu on boot screen nw? http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/20340/how-to-restore-the-wubi-ubuntu-bootloader/ Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think this question is directed at me since I did no such thing. Righto! I generally use You only as a figure of speech; nothing personal. (Btw, saw your photo on fedoraproject.org; the kid is real cute :-) Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: ...MSRTC, Centos, ... BEST.. .. ...taxpayer's money. grocery vendorprivate4 medical practitioner... ... Openvista... pre-Fortran...GT.M database... LTS... RHEL/CentOS...bleeding edgestability... ... Freedom...choiceTN...Kerala...foss...well. Shri Rajagopal ji, Thanks for your time, but no Vivekananda quotes for me? Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Unless you have talked to *anyone* handling a large deployment, all you can do is speculate about their needs which isn't useful. Not many people will explain the specifics for you in a public mailing list. Deployment use cases and requirements are often treated as confidential. Yeah, since when did the Enterprise looked to public mailing lists for answers and shared plans of their deployments? Glad, you put the public mailing list in its place. Yet, when the OP was looking for a LAMP setup, it was immediately assumed he is an Enterprise guy and there was a completely unjustified suggestion Don't touch (even think about) Fedora, Ubnutu etc. as a server platform for new production apps. How is this useful? Make no mistake, I have nothing against RHEL/CentOS but you cannot trivialize another distro like Ubuntu just like that, or argue that a completely arbitrary N-years support cycle is the clincher without considering the specific internals of the organization itself. If tomorrow, RHEL or Ubuntu provided 20 years extended support for every release, will it be any more useful? Anyways, as I previously mentioned, Wikipedia effectively migrated to Ubuntu LTS Servers. http://www.ubuntu.com/products/casestudies/wikimedia Wikipedia is one of the high traffic sites on the Internet, run on a meager budget. Even with mind-blowing stats like 50,000 http requests/second and 80,000 SQL queries/second and millions of visitors, the entire setup of Wikimedia's 300+ servers is very much stable: http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_roles Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Have you talked to any organization having a large deployment on Linux? I encourage you to do that before making assumptions around this topic. Fair enough, but I am not a person they would/could share details with. If someone could provide the data, that will be helpful. A open web platform does mean costs are going to be less Which is my expectation too. but doesn't mean stability concerns are going to just evaporate. In fact, the point of enterprise releases in part is because large deployments don't necessarily want to follow the break neck pace of changes in the open source world. I've explained it before. I am not asking you to upgrade your setup whenever, say, PHP had a new point release. I am asking you to upgrade when a major shift happens - Example: OOP concepts in PHP 4 vs PHP 5 - when that shift is a significant improvement and makes the development/maintenance cycle less painful, if not super easy. I don't expect you to make the shift overnight but you should at least start thinking about it sooner than later. migrating a custom PHP (4.x to 5.x) or Python (2.3 to 2.7) or MySQL (3.x to 4.x) and you will see how costly it can be. I've done migrations from PHP4 code to PHP5 myself - painful indeed - not in coding it in PHP5 but in grasping what the original PHP4 code does with insufficient documentation written years ago, by someone I cannot contact now because he has already left for another company, in another country. However, the sooner it's done the better, because otherwise, as bugs/adjustments start to creep in, developers add patch after patch in PHP4 style code - more trouble to deal with and a nightmare for maintenance. If you are worried about the migration costs now, you better be prepared for the costs 10 years later. At that time, there will very few developers who can deal with PHP4 style code and be nice with their charges. You could throw out everything and start from scratch but that again will be expensive in its own way. Heck, forget enterprises. Even hosting providers have problems of this sort. Does having problems stop them from providing a new version? After all if they don't, they would lose prospective customers to competitors. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Ramkumar ramkumar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks for all of our techies reply. My Query is FYI only : we have to setup LAMP server for this how do we make it as fast and reliable. which distro is good to setup LAMP. My suggestion is Cent OS 6. OS preference is : Cent OS and Debian. i am also interested to know about Ubuntu - why and why not. Hello Ramkumar, Someone (is that you?) asked this on Slashdot by a timely coincidence : http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/09/25/1211203/newb-friendly-linux-flavor-for-lamp-server A note of caution: Remember Slashdot posters are just like us here - answers are opinions with implicit YMMV disclaimer. Not intended as a replacement for professional, legally binding advice if you are going to throw in a lot of money. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: The goal of sticking to a single release is essentially because it is a known quantity and that is very important when you have hundreds or thousands of systems or even a few critical ones. Custom in house applications are often written in enterprises and upgrading can break them in non obvious ways. Unless the new release offers something that is compelling enough to think about, mere inertia is enough to not change anything. So far, enterprise was forced to upgrade their applications when they replace their aging hardware and the new hardware setup is not compatible with their old Apps. With Virtualization helping them, they can indefinitely postpone upgrades by maintaining the old setup even in new hardware. With this kind of inertia, even a 10 year support-cycle will not be enough for them. So why eliminate Ubuntu based on this criteria? On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Kumara Guru gurukum...@gmail.com wrote: If the enterprise wants a 10-year locked-down deployment even for an Open Web Apps stack, that makes me really sad. I was under the impression that only proprietary, commercial products lock down their customers and make upgrades a costly affair. As a general practice, upgrades (even .xy releases) need to be validated - be it FOSS or proprietary. Validation costs money. I am not denying that. When designing apps around an open platform, I expect costs be less than intimidating to comfortably go for periodical planned upgrades. My only contention is that a *Web application stack* -- of all things -- should be on a shorter upgrade cycle. 10 years is a ridiculously long time by Internet standards. This is especially true for customer-facing applications like an eCommerce portal. Yes, it would be highly risky to make unstable upgrades to an eCommerce portal as any Failure due to it has direct financial consequences. However, if you shy away from even making significant upgrades in reasonable time periods, your App will be a dinosaur caught in a time warp. Until like 4 years ago, cloud strategy was largely unheard of, and many enterprise Web Apps had a not-so-great design for scalability with either a huge wastage of computing resources or an abysmal resource pooling. But now, significant cost savings can be achieved with a well designed cloud strategy (Disclaimer: I am not pretending to be a expert on cloud computing -- merely stating the obvious). If your eCommerce portal had no architectural redesign for the last 5 years and will continue to be so for the next 5 years, your are pretty much limiting the number of customers you can do business with. It would be unwise not to expect a better architecture to surface in much less than a decade from now and resisting the change at that point, will actually be a financial drain. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: .. PHB's who wants to push their responsibility to vendors. In which case, It makes sense to go with development using Centos which can then be cnverted into RHEL/Oracle Linux of they want to buy 24/7 support from another corporate. Ubuntu is backed by Canonical and they do offer commercial support services. If this is what your PHBs need, it's already available for Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/business/services/server Ubuntu/Mint for desktops: OK. But for servers (especially located in remote data centers): RHEL/Centos if you wand peace of mind and do not want to jump though the hoops and loops of upgrade every now and then. If you need stable releases, you should really be using the LTS (long term support) versions. The LTS Server versions are also supported for 5 years and is actually enterprise focused. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: I can see that that Shri Rahul Sundaram has aptly answered to this query. If the 10-year support cycle interests you, RHEL is not the lone provider; SUSE Linux Enterprise also provides a comparable 10-year support life-cycle. http://support.novell.com/inc/lifecycle/linux.html http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/extended_lifecycle_support/ (quick illustration: http://dag.wieers.com/blog/sites/dag.wieers.com.blog/files/rhel-business-continuity.png ) The point is, a production environment runs long after its deployment. I know of clipper and foxpro production systems running to date (and fate) to this day. The original poster was referring to the LAMP stack. I can understand organizations holding on to their old proprietary solutions for ages (like IE6 and Active-X based Intranet apps). I can even understand people not upgrading their email servers as SMTP, POP or IMAP may not see radical changes. But why should the dynamically changing nature of *Open* Web technologies be limited by stale deployments? I for one, would really not want to limit myself to an age old MySQL server, when a newer release would greatly enhance the scalability of my web application. Nor would I want to miss a significant upgrade to PHP features in the name of maintaining stability. Just compare how the web was 5 years ago and how much it has evolved now. If the enterprise wants a 10-year locked-down deployment even for an Open Web Apps stack, that makes me really sad. I was under the impression that only proprietary, commercial products lock down their customers and make upgrades a costly affair. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] LAMP setup which distro is good
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Don't touch (even think about) Fedora, Ubnutu etc. as a server platform for new production apps. As someone actively using Ubuntu servers, I would like to know your reasoning for avoiding Ubuntu server for production. The well known poster child for the LAMP stack - Wikipedia, extensively runs on Ubuntu servers: http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical/resources/case-studies/wikimedia-chooses-ubuntu-all-its-servers Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Command to shutdown windows machine from ubuntu
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:44 PM, Aathi Narayanan aathinarayana...@gmail.com wrote: Which command is used to shutdown windows machine from windows 7 * If you want to shutdown a Windows machine from another Windows machine: Use something like shutdown /s /m \\computername (For this you need an Admin account under a domain controller setup). Check shutdown /? for the various options. * If you want to shutdown a Windows machine from Ubuntu: Install samba-common binaries and use the net tool to issue a shutdown command. See http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/manpages-3/net.8.html#id2533232 * If you want to shutdown a Ubuntu machine from Windows: Install openssh-server in Ubuntu. Using putty from Windows, SSH to the Ubuntu machine and issue a shutdown. It's not clear what you want to do or why you want to do it. You may even login to your windows machine through a remote desktop connection (through the rdp client in Windows or rdesktop in linux), and get to the shutdown menu with CTRL+ALT+END. Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] php + zend error
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Usha Subramanian usha.subramania...@gmail.com wrote: Hi anyone could shed light on overcomming the following error: My php version is PHP 5.3.2 (cli) Warning: The magic method __isset() must have public visibility and cannot be static in /home/COMOCHENNAI/usha/projects/vinnies/application/libraries/Zend/Config.php on line 182 Warning: The magic method __unset() must have public visibility and cannot be static in /home/COMOCHENNAI/usha/projects/vinnies/application/libraries/Zend/Config.php on line 194 Thanks., Usha In PHP 5, all overloading methods must be defined as *public* but PHP versions prior to 5.3 didn't really make a fuss if you defined your overloading method as *protected*. The Config.php file in the version of Zend framework you are using, overloads __isset , __unset methods but defines them as protected. Starting in PHP 5.3, the public scope requirement for overloading methods is being enforced by throwing a warning like the ones you are reporting. This issue is fixed in Zend Framework version 1.6 (see http://framework.zend.com/issues/browse/ZF-3417). If you don't want to turn off those warnings (using error_reporting() or php.ini), you should upgrade to the latest version of Zend framework compatible with your application. 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
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] [OT] Arduino Boards
Hi, A year back, I bought a Arduino Duemilanove from SimpleLabs. They now sell the Arduino UNO for 1360/- You can even save the courier charges by going to their place in person and buying it. http://www.simplelabs.co.in/catalog/arduino Not sure about bluetooth, but they do seem to sell a Xbee shield for Rs 2500 and an Ethernet shield for Rs 2300 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
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Arun SAG saga...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Shanu shan...@gmail.com wrote: FSFTN team had a detailed discussion with him when the previous tender was released. He seems to u9nderstand the depth of issue. However we did not feel that he can amend the decision. I don't understand this However we did not feel that he can amend the decision., Do you mean, He cannot amend the tender, because he is not behind the tender or as he cannot amend it as it has been already out? -- Arun S.A.G http://zer0c00l.in/ What a complete disappointment! I thought it was a good compromise to provide a multi-boot option but now they've removed Linux completely out of the spec. The question now is, are the students allowed to install Linux on their own or will it void the warranty and support? If they are not allowed to do so, they should at least be allowed to run Linux on VirtualBox. Will it be possible for them to at least pre-install, say, VirtualBox and a Ubuntu VM image on these laptops? Regards, Kumaraguru ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
