[Ilugc] Big-O Algorithm Complexity - Cheet sheets
Some might find this useful: http://bigocheatsheet.com/ -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Livecode - Code management
Not sure if it's an IDE in the conventional sense. But, anyway http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Project Sputnik reviewed by Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/it-just-works-dell-xps-13-developer-edition-linux-ultrabook-review/2/ Additional software included in project Sputnik: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/w/wiki/3687.software-dell-xps-13-laptop-developer-edition.aspx -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Google patents and open source software.
Check this out. http://mashable.com/2013/03/28/google-opn-pledge/ -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] 100 Linux Tutorial Campaign
FYI: https://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/185-jennifer-cloer/692115-please-join-us-the-100-linux-tutorial-campaign -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] OpenSource OBD Software
Here are some software that can help you do On-board diagnostics of your vehicle. People who hack automobiles would find these useful. http://www.geekmyride.org/wiki/index.php/Open_Source_OBD_software P.S. Some projects are dead. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [gaming] Doom3 Source code
ID software has this tradition of releasing the source code of old software. They make excellent 3D FPS games. Remember Quake? That's theirs. Their source code of Doom3 is on GitHub (GPL) and it's a valuable resource for anyone who wants to get their hands dirty with game programming. Here are some reviews of the code: 1. http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code 2. http://fabiensanglard.net/doom3/index.php Source code: https://github.com/TTimo/doom3.gpl -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] Computational Complexity - Introduction
I found an excellent introduction to the concept of Computational Complexity Analysis. Anybody who is into algorithms or big O's would find this intro useful. http://discrete.gr/complexity/ -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC][IRC][learn] IRC sessions
On 7 August 2012 12:45, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: The topics you listed are fine to start with. Add Inkscape to that list. Fix a suitable time for you and start your sessions. Announce here about the time and topic. Will do. How about this evening? I also like the idea of a shared calendar that Tushar proposed. We will get more audience, if we continue doing such session regularly. It's on IRC, so even if we have 3 interested people we can go ahead. No of audience will increase eventually. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Linux carrier growth and solaris
On 6 August 2012 13:32, Murugan, Naresh Kumar naresh.kumar.muru...@logica.com wrote: What actions be needed for carrier growth in linux ? career ! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC][IRC][learn] IRC sessions
Hi, Suggest topics that you want to learn about on IRC. I and several other people will be able to spend time on IRC to discuss and share stuff about Linux and Free Software. Suggest topics and convenient time in IST. My convenient time is 8 PM to 11 PM . Topics: Security - Basics Linux Concepts - Basics Operating System - Basics Programming - Basics (Python, C) Cloud - Basics Virtualization - Basics Hardware Architecture - Basics All sessions will be on freenode #ilugc-in -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Linux carrier growth and solaris
On 6 August 2012 13:59, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Your mail also shows poor English and muddled thinking. People make mistakes. Along with that you want to become a systems admin instead of a programmer. So it is all wrong. Ridiculous. What's wrong with being a systems admin??? Anyway Solaris is old commercial UNIX. OpenSolaris. Today by UNIX people mean FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD. Also AIX HPUIX etc Start with FreeBSD. After you find that you are comfortable with it then graduate to NetBSD. Then you can get to OpenBSD in the end. This process will take 3 years. 3 years ? How so?? -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Linux carrier growth and solaris
On 6 August 2012 14:12, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: I dunno how to prove that UNIX is better than Linux. Lot of people simply don't understand it. And they cannot understand it. You can. You just have to learn it. As a systems administrator if you set your sight very low at any rate you cannot understand much because your target itself is so low. Oh, common. What is wrong with being a systems administrator and how is it in anyway inferior to any other IT job? 1) Linux has bad file systems, it is a fragmented world with many distros, even kernel is not standard. Many commercial people like Redhat has spoilt the charm 2) There are too many ways to do the same thing. No agreement, too many egos to satisfy and the project is being pulled in too many directions as finding consensus when there are too many interests is hard. Even in things like epoll or inotify or udev or whatever 3)Linux is not an OS. It uses the GNU toolchain, bash and other userland from GNU project and only the kernel is maintained. A distro puts together all these and does package management like RPM, DEB etc. 4) Linux is immature and a kid compared to UNIX as it does not have ftp, ssh or make or gcc or gdb in base install. The very spirit of UNIX and engineer mindset is lost in trying to make it everything for everybody 5) I can go on and on and on ;) Now UNIX is what started it all when Dennis Ritchie and Kernighan wrote C to write UNIX. Those brains had some vision and values behind what an OS should be. Today OpenBSD is the only OS that upholds that spirit and resists rampant commercialism. The key difference between Linux and UNIX is that UNIX is one single thing. By FreeBSD people know what it is. It is one single thing. There are not 1000 distros in FreeBSD. It is a combination of entire userland , kernel and base system. All source code is maintained and audited in a single repository. You can get the source code of entire toolchain used to create an OS including X. In short it is the lack of commercial interests and proper team management, leadership and focus that creates a good quality OS suitable for engineering purposes. You have left me thoroughly confused half of the above is false and the rest of them are irrelevant. Sorry for being rude. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Sad demise of our dear KG (Keneth Gonsalvas)
On 3 August 2012 15:25, JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com wrote: Just now I got a message that our dear KG (Kenneth Gonsalvas) passed away. He was admitted in hospital due to Asthma attack and passed away today morning. This is really bad news. Sadly, I never got to meet him. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC] Microsoft, the US government and StuxNet
I really didn't know what title to give to this news: http://it.slashdot.org/story/12/06/15/1614219/us-security-services-may-have-moles-within-microsoft-says-researcher -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Microsoft, the US government and StuxNet
On 22 June 2012 19:23, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: I really didn't know what title to give to this news: Well, the first thing to add would be [OT] :D mea culpa. Apologies. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Microsoft, the US government and StuxNet
On 22 June 2012 19:23, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: I really didn't know what title to give to this news: DRDO should atleast modify GNU/Linux to suit their needs, I don't know whether BOSS is such an attempt. As far as I know, BOSS's focus is on localization of GNU/Linux so that it'd become suitable for the non-english speaking public. There is not much of hardening that I know of on BOSS. But the government could use some hardened Linux for handling critical data. We should speak to CERT-IN and NIC and ask them about their security practices. And as for websites, the situation is so rotten. Recently Anonymous took down several Indian sites very easily.. This is not good. I myself have reported more than two instances of site defacements by some Pakistani Cyber Army or something similar. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC] XML processing
Hi, Which is better to process streaming XML? (e.g. RSS) SAX or DOM? Why? I read up a bit on SAX and here's what the Wikipedia article says; Where the DOM operates on the document as a whole, SAX parsers operate on each piece of the XML document sequentially. Does it mean that DOM reads the whole document before processing it? I'm trying to understand and make sense of a lot of tech jargon here.. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] XML processing
On 20 June 2012 13:08, Natarajan V raja...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Which is better to process streaming XML? (e.g. RSS) SAX or DOM? Why? Is your XML of unlimited size and keeps streaming in? Or is it a tiny XML such as those RSS in news websites? If it is continous and non-stop/ huge (of the order of 1 Mb), shy away from DOM. It is continuous stream that updates not-so-frequently.. But eventually, in a over a span of several months, I expect the size would reach MBs.. Yes, DOM reads the entire XML, converts it into objects, and is very often implemented using a nested hash-map. It is quite heavy on memory. BUT, it is quite usefull in terms speed of development and the ability to enrich (edit) the XML. SAX on the otherhand is read only. DOM and SAX are not the only options. There is a StAX parser as well. Initially I'll be doing a lot of reading than writing XML. So I guess I'll stick with SAX. I don't know if there are any implementations for Python. Also note, now a days, there are tools, at least in the Java .NET world, where you supply a XML Schema, and the tool would create a corresponding object representation (Similar to a Struct in C). You can then import the generated code into your application and use a list [array] of the generated objects. It can read as well as create the XML. There won't be any code in your application to read the XMLs. These would be externalized into those XML libraries. Eg. JAXB. Something like this would be very useful. Taking points from this, I'll read up more.. Thank you !! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Indian Court Order
On 7 June 2012 18:31, Raja Subramanian rajasuper...@gmail.com wrote: My advise is to never use tor. It is used for lot of illegal activity and heavily monitored by law enforcement. You become guilty by association. I don't agree.. what do you mean by a lot of illegal activity? The thread so far has been about illegally accessing sites that are blocked in India.. :) I don't see your point here.. And how exactly does law enforcement agents monitor tor?? Running tor in any enterprise network will set off several security triggers. You will have a lot of explaining to do. True. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC][JOB][Commercial] CSS Corp. needs a Network Engineer
Hi, CSS Corp is looking for a Network Engineer. Below are the details. Job Title: Network Engineer Experience: 2-6 years Location: Chennai Primary Skills: Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/CentOS), Good command line skills, Good understanding of the OSI Model, IP Tables Secondary Skills: * Configuration and troubleshooting of high-end networks * Good interpersonal, communication, documentation, problem solving skills * Team player. * In depth knowledge of Network Security concepts, Contact: Mr. Niyaz Ahamed (niyaz.aha...@csscorp.com) -- Yogesh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC] Ethical Hacking course
Hi, Just found this in the Anna University web site. I was surprised to find that there is an elective paper titled Ethical Hacking Forensics and that the recommended book is by Ankit Fadia. I think this says a lot about the quality of the course itself.. http://cs.annauniv.edu/academic/mecse2009.html Ankit Fadia related links: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/ http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/ankit_fadia/fadia10.html The term Ethical Hacking is IMO not a good term : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_definition_controversy Note: I'm CC-ing Dr. K. S. Easwarakumar of CSE, Anna Univ. (http://cs.annauniv.edu/easwara/) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [IlugC][PuduvaiLug][OT] GIMP Magazine - call for content
Hiya, FYI http://blog.meetthegimp.org/call-for-content-gimp-magazine-is-here/ -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] How to autorun html file in Linux on CD insertion?
On 17 April 2012 12:15, Dhastha dhasthagh...@gmail.com wrote: Autorun #!/bin/sh fullpath=$(pwd) exec firefox $fullpath/index.html There seems to be a program for this: http://linux.die.net/man/1/autorun Look at this as well: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/autorun That said, autorun is kind of risky when the user does not know what is being run automatically. And this feature can be used to run an attack script. You get the drift. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [OT] Stickers and stuff
Hi, If someone is looking for stickers, here are some, that you can print. http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=150228 -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Stickers and stuff
On 18 April 2012 09:48, Tha.Suresh jemenisur...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, If someone is looking for stickers, here are some, that you can print. http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=150228 Hi Yogesh, This link didn't open for me. Please send the correct url. The site seems to be down. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Stickers and stuff
On 18 April 2012 10:16, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: The site seems to be down. Alternate Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?dj31uni3wqsph95 CC - BY - NC - SA Licensed - Luis Medina. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] linuxpert baskar at kalaignar tv
On 16 April 2012 11:37, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: presentation of news is a creative work - the news itself may not be. The fact that Baskar is a huge asset to open source in TN is news and may be published, but the interview as presented is a creative work. Never thought of it at this angle. So, this should automatically imply that ALL of the broadcast/telecast news (with the exception of maybe government channels) are all restricted with copyright, right?? *The world is a bad bad place* On a side note, I'm also wondering what's so creative about presenting news! :) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] linuxpert baskar at kalaignar tv
On 16 April 2012 12:55, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com wrote: ...So if the world does not give you free beer, it's a bad bad place is it? Do you know the cost of running a television studio? You expect them to spend the money and give you their content free of cost? If it was a movie or a talk show then it can be re run by the creators with support from sponsors and advertisements. If it's news, more often than not, it's one time, or atleast a one day show, after which I don't see how it can ever be used apart from reference purposes. So yes, I was expecting the world to give me free beer.. Or at least the empty bottle. I'm not asking for content that entertains, I am asking for news. Do you know the number of technical and non technical people involved in creating a new show? No, I don't. Please enlighten. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] linuxpert baskar at kalaignar tv
On 16 April 2012 10:01, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: I think, this would be illegal copying and distribution. It is best if we can get it through baskar. It'd be illegal to copy creative content from television. This is news. Public domain! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] linuxpert baskar at kalaignar tv
On 16 April 2012 10:46, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: It'd be illegal to copy creative content from television. This is news. Public domain! citation? Looking for it. I remember reading about this somewhere. And the MIB site not helping either .. http://mib.nic.in Will post once I get the article. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] linuxpert baskar at kalaignar tv
On 16 April 2012 11:09, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On 16 April 2012 10:46, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com I do not think I will live that long! I'm sure you will ! :) It is not a breach of copyright to quote extracts of a creative work for the purpose of review or citation, but it is certainly a breach to publish the whole of it or substantial portions of it. This has been settled law for probably over a 100 years. True. But that depends on whether news is considered creative work by the law! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC] Event logging and Syslog
Hi, I've been trying to look up event logging in Linux. But I don't seem to find explanations to certain things. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424 for e.g. What is a Facility? What are local0, local1 etc. Can someone point me in the right direction? Maybe a link in plain English? Thanks in advance. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Event logging and Syslog
On 14 April 2012 11:35, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been trying to look up event logging in Linux. But I don't seem to find explanations to certain things. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5424 This gives me a somewhat better understanding, but still.. http://www.softpanorama.org/Logs/syslog.shtml -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Julia, I Love You
On 2 April 2012 11:19, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.comwrote: What crappy subject? I thought it was a virus. ;) I was going to spam it ! :) Another programming language.. *sigh* -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] RD
On 26 March 2012 10:35, Kishore kish...@xerago.com wrote: Hi , We are looking for a person with strong skills on open source technologies. He should be a one stop solution across all web technologies. Passion to explore and even do research on latest technologies. The following broad skiils would be needed. Kindly refrain from posting stuff multiple times. And please tag it as [OT][Commercial]. You can also post this in fossjobs.in -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C][OT] DNS cache poisoning
On 12 March 2012 17:55, Balasubramaniam Natarajan bala150...@gmail.comwrote: More on that over here https://forms.fbi.gov/check-to-see-if-your-computer-is-using-rogue-DNS Thanks. What I'm looking for is not a malware detector. I was looking for ways to find out if my ISP's DNS servers have been poisoned.. http://ketil.froyn.name/poison.html -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILug-C][OT] DNS cache poisoning
Hi, How do I find out if my ISPs DNS cache has been poisoned.. What are the suspect symptoms. Are there any tools/methods to find if it has occurred? -- Yogesh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Zooming presentations on Linux
2011/8/3 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com Hi, I'm not sure if this has been discussed in the list before. I was wondering if there was a zooming presentation editor/creator for Linux. There are web based solutions like Prezi. And more recently, a plugin for MS Power Point was developed by some third party. But I don't see any for Linux (FLOSS). Anyone aware of any on going project that aims to do this? Apologies for bumping an old thread. I was looking for a lightweight presentation maker and did a simple dpkg -l | grep presentation on Ubuntu Presice Beta. I was pleasantly surprised to find Sozi. It is an extension to the popular Inkscape that can be used to create zooming presentations. The presentations will be traditional SVGs and viewable in any modern web browser. http://sozi.baierouge.fr/wiki/en:welcome I tried it and it works really well. On Ubuntu 12.04 beta, you can simply use apt-get sozi to install it. For earlier versions, there is a PPA. http://sozi.baierouge.fr/wiki/en:install -- Yogesh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Zooming presentations on Linux
2012/2/28 Gautam gautham5...@gmail.com Use Impress.js It works on any platform and is Open Source http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/ http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored Impressive! But what skills would I need to use it?? -- Yogesh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Zooming presentations on Linux
2012/2/28 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com 2012/2/28 Gautam gautham5...@gmail.com Use Impress.js It works on any platform and is Open Source http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/ http://bartaz.github.com/impress.js/#/bored Impressive! But what skills would I need to use it?? Quoting from : https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/blob/master/index.html Believe me, you need quite decent HTML and CSS skills to be able to use impress.js effectively. And what is even more important, you need to be a designer, too, because there are no default styles for impress.js presentations, there is no default or automatic layout for them. -- Yogesh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILug-C] Pinpoint - Presentation tool for hackers
Hi, I also stumbled upon this tool: https://live.gnome.org/Pinpoint It's a simple presentation tool, where you edit your presentations using a text editor. Seems like it would come in very handy for many of us. You might be interested in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po5La1OP2WI -- Yogesh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need Volunteers for ILUGC Website - enhancements
27 பிப்ரவரி, 2012 7:23 am அன்று, விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) viky.nan...@gmail.com எழுதியது: 5. facebook like link bad idea. Avoid social networking sites. +1 Facebook tracks each and every activity of the user who visits any page with a facebook like button even if the user is not logged in to facebook. This is totally against user freedom. I think we shouldn't support that. That's all right.. Anyone who wants to click the like button would have a facebook account that he/she would be using everyday anyway.. So it is NOT A BAD IDEA to have a facebook Like button. In fact social networking is not a bad/evil thing IMO. It's a good way to share stuff (which is what they were intended to be doing in the first place). We need reach. So I support adding buttons for ANY popular social networking that comes to mind: FB, G+, Reddit, Digg, etc. And don't forget the Diaspora* button. :) And regarding videos: Promoting the use of free standards/formats is a good thing. In-fact it MUST be done. But I don't think we should be RESTRICTING videos to ONLY allow OGV or free formats. If there is a good video about some free software which has been uploaded in a non-free format, embed them as well. But if the video is being manually uploaded to the site, it would be a good idea to convert to OGV or WEBM or any similar free-format files before uploading. We needn't be so fussy about the formats when we are embedding stuff from Youtube, Vimeo, etc. That would be naive. -- Yogesh. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Need Volunteers for ILUGC Website - enhancements
2012/2/28 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com 27 பிப்ரவரி, 2012 7:23 am அன்று, விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) viky.nan...@gmail.com எழுதியது: 5. facebook like link bad idea. Avoid social networking sites. +1 Facebook tracks each and every activity of the user who visits any page with a facebook like button even if the user is not logged in to facebook. Missed the point: FB like button seems to do this.. So it is better not to use FB Like button.. Sorry about the earlier post.. I recommend the use of NoScript firefox addon that blocks unwanted scripts including js and FlashBlock that blocks flash stuff, swf and videos if anybody wants to block such stuff.. Cookie Culler is another such addon that would block unwanted cookies. -- Yogesh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Pinpoint - Presentation tool for hackers
2012/2/28 Harisankar P S mai...@hsps.in Does it have a graphical tool to make these presentation, or is it just like latex where we use codes and all.. No, it does not have any graphical tool to make presentations. It does not seem to be as complex as LaTeX as it does not have any container markup tags. It appears to be so simple even for absolute beginners. People who fear LaTeX beamer would love it.. Just check the site for a sample code and you'll understand its simplicity. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Pinpoint - Presentation tool for hackers
2012/2/28 prasannatsmkumar prasannatsmku...@gmail.com Is it available in ubuntu repo? at least not in 10.10 repo. It is available in 12.04 beta which is what I run on my machine. This project is quite new so I do not think it will be available by default on older versions of Ubuntu. There might be a PPA somewhere or sometime soon. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Zooming presentations on Linux
2012/2/28 Bharathi Subramanian bharathi.l...@gmail.com On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure if this has been discussed in the list before. I was wondering if there was a zooming presentation editor/creator for Linux. There are web based solutions like Prezi. And more recently, a I have seen some of the Gnome Compiz Extension is having option to zoom the screen using a special key sequence. I hope, you can try that also to zoom the presentation. That is not a straightforward solution. Besides that, I hate compiz. It's a bloated crapware in my opinion. It is for people who want loads of eye candy at the expense of performance. What compiz does is to zoom the entire screen and it won't be able to satisfy the needs that users may have in mind for zooming presentations. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] libpanel-applet error
2012/2/22 Karthikeyan Venkatraman vgkarthick...@gmail.com Thanks shrini, I ran the syntax apt-get -f install and it successfully removes the python-gnomeapplet. and I successfully installed fslint. But when I try to install giplet it throws the same error again. $ sudo dpkg --force-all -P python-gnomeapplet $ sudo aptitude purge ~c $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade Just to be safe -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT]hard disk recovery service
2012/1/17 Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com Greetings, On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Manokaran K manoka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anyone here recover data from a HDD that's stopped spinning? Or do you know anyone? Any idea of how much it would cost? There is a recovery service place at Vijayanagar Velachery. Opposite the bus terminus. If you have valuable data, just take it there and see what can be done. Anecdote: I've had the same problem quite long ago and all hopes were lost of recovering anything from it. One of my friends jokingly tapped the hard-disk against the wall saying work, you piece of crap! work!. It worked ! :) As a last ditch effort I tried attaching the disk and it started spinning. We could recover only (atleast) some data. But I'd recommend against trying anything of that sort before you have given the recovery service a shot.. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [OT]hard disk recovery service
2012/1/17 kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com another way to try is to seal it in a waterproof bag and freeze for 12 hours. Then thaw and try - make absolutely sure nothing inside gets wet. (this is not a joke) If you put it in the freezer, there will be condensation INSIDE the hard disk. No? -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] quality computer training institutes in chennai
2012/1/12 My JD sperm2...@gmail.com One of my colleague who is a non-computer science, non electronics student wants to get an insight on the computer programming world. Even if there is such an institute, I'd recommend spending a month or so trying to learn the basic stuff from the Internet. This would greatly accelerate learning later on. he wants to ensure that the lecturers are good. Lectures are useless. hands-on is the only thing that helps. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
10 ஜனவரி, 2012 10:10 பிற்பகல் அன்று, விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) viky.nan...@gmail.com எழுதியது: Now we are in a sorry state that even a FOSS enthusiast in a LUG has forgotten the whole point of Free software and is advocating for using M$ product on Linux. LMAO :) Damn aliens :) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/11 Parthan parth.technofr...@gmail.com To answer the OP, have you looked at CrossOver (http://www.codeweavers.com/)? I know of people who run licensed MS Office using CrossOver in CentOS and it works pretty well. I am aware of that. And there is also 'playonlinux' which is more popular when running MS Office. But they are not without glitches. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/11 Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com please don't take any opinion personal. everyone can have their own thoughts and can express it here. Please let the thread continue if people have value to add :) Nobody is going to take things personal.. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/7 JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com: Prove it, sir !! You and me being Linux/FOSS enthusiasts does not mean I am using GNU/Linux (fedora) for more than 7 years . Now I am working as a Senior Staff to a Multinational Company. Handles lots of document than code . Still I am using OpenOffice.org / LibreOffice and Lotus Symphony for read write and send documents clients across the glob. Still I don't have any issues with it. With this experience I dare put forward my argument . That is exactly what I mean. You are using Linux for more than 7 years. You are used to it. Even I like LibreOffice. Try and look at things from the perspective of a long time MS office user and you'll understand what I mean. I myself use LibreOffice / Claws mail / Thunderbird. I'm speaking about normal users, you know? Those who don't care about FOSS and stuff. People who just want to get their work done, and fast. I would like to suggest some thing you may not like: try googling something like, openoffice sucks or why I hate openoffice or something similar. I know that most are mere nonsensical rants and that many problems stated would have already been fixed in LibreOffice. But then, see what they mean when they say usability / ease - of -use / interface etc. I find LibreOffice pretty usable for myself. Convincing people is a nightmare and I'm trying to do just that. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/5 Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com: I don't see point of pushing M$ office on Linux. I'll give you four 'points': 1. Ease of use (read very visually appealing) 2. Excel Macros 3. Powerpoint 4. Outlook + MS Exchange -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 11.10 Repository ISOs for colleges / institutions
2012/1/6 Pratap Chakravarthy prata...@gmail.com: I was excited because there are so many things we can do with such a large collection of repositories. I believe zyxware.com also provides these :) http://www.zyxware.com/requestcd -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/6 Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com: Hi, On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: 1. Ease of use (read very visually appealing) It is more a case of having got used to MS Office. I find LibreOffice to be quite easy to use and visually appealing as well. I find it appealing too.. But those who have been using ribbons and stuff on MS will not find it as appealing or easy to use.. I've tried MS word and I must say most tools are handy. They are easier to access than they are in LibreOffice. But I love LibreOffice for several other reasons impertinent to a MS user. 2. Excel Macros 3. Powerpoint You have far better options than that. Read the thread on Impress.js for an example. LaTeX beamer is another. And Lyx is a WYSIWYG that supports beamer Bad learning curve. No one wants to unlearn what they've already learnt and learn something new. I'm sure many have neither the time nor the inclination to do that. Beamer is brilliant I agree. But do you really expect people to learn it and use it? People want to use the mouse to click and move stuff and get their work done. Beamer is for pros, mathematicians and enthusiasts. Atleast IMO. 4. Outlook + MS Exchange MS Exchange is not part of the office suite. And so even if Office is released for linux(We know that the story was fake), they need not release MS Exchange. And taking just Outlook into consideration, I find both Evolution and Thunderbird to be better. Yes. I meant that most enterprises use Exchange server and Outlook does a good job of integrating with it. I know Thunderbird has a plugin to do that and Evolution can handle it by default. But still, I'm pointing out why MS Office in Linux might be exciting to some people and enterprises. That said, I really do hope LibreOffice (and LaTeX and Thunderbird) is improved and people start using it big time. I do, really ! :) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/6 JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com: So there is no point in your four points Prove it, sir !! You and me being Linux/FOSS enthusiasts does not mean everyone would find LibreOffice appealing/easy to use. Please see my reply to Mr. Balachandran Sivakumar. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Tamil Corpus
2012/1/6 JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com: @karthik You can use the Tamil Wikipedia dump as a corpus. Try it IMHO building a language model out of Tamil Wikipedia is a bad idea.. It has lots of colloquial terms and modern/mixed words.. And sentences are similar to everyday conversations. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux
2012/1/2 Ashok Gautham thescriptde...@gmail.com: How is this piracy-proof? It is not. But atleast more people will be willing to pay for it. @Kenneth, I find it surprising because, there are lots of people ( who would otherwise switch to linux) stuck with Windows just because they can't run office on Linux. Mac is expensive. Linux alternatives are not good enough for them due to their familiarity with MS software. Would this not be a major blow to Microsoft OSes? -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Request for suggestion : laptop VS netbook
2011/12/28 Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com: I am looking for buying a laptop or netbook. It depends on what you intend to run on it. If you are going to do a lot of browsing and minimal office work, or if you want good portability, then get a netbook. If you are going to be running resource intensive apps, if you are going to be watching movies, playing games, if you need storage space, if you don't mind carrying something around 3kgs or so in your back pack, go for a laptop. My recommendations: Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Lenovo. DO NOT buy: HP, Compaq, Samsung, HCL. (my experiences) Sony is unnecessarily expensive. So I wouldn't buy it. If you have reading problems or if your eye isn't healthy, go for a laptop. Also ask for something that comes with free DOS or Linux by default. Laptops heat up. Netbooks don't heat up as much. If there are unusually high numbers of heat vents, you don't want to by that (my observation). If you are buying dell, buy extended warranty (trust me). Buy VT enabled stuff that runs hardware assisted hypervisors better. Make sure you don't buy a glorified tablet if you're buying a Netbook. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Thunderbird 7 - mails lost when cleared the messages in the server
On Thunderbird desktop client(6.0 or 7.0), choose Tools-Account Settings-service settings-Leave Message on server check box(can either be ticked or not ticked according to your option) or leave blank. Until I delete from server check box. That's all. This does exactly what happened to the OP in the first place, if I'm guessing right. This option is for those who wants messages to remain on their server even after they delete it from within the thunderbird mail client. But if you delete it from the server ( and if IMAP is the method of message retrieval ) then the messages will be removed from the server as well as the client during the next sync. What the OP needs is to set his message retrieval method to POP3. Evolution or Thunderbird (The choice of MUI) is irrelevant here. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] app cannot find sun java
2011/12/22 kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com: On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 19:03 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: as mentioned in Fedora it is /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_30 and /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_30/default/bin/ Try setting JAVA_HOME to /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_30/default/ . That's what(the equivalent of it) I have here. Thanks export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_30 Are you certain that Sun Java components were not automatically removed ?? Just to clarify.. This is supposed to happen when you run package upgrades. http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=274158 -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILug-C][PuduvaiLug] Google chat on terminal
Hi, Here is one covered by Muktware. quote Two Indian brothers have written a program, called Whiz-Chat, which allows anyone to chat with their Gmail friend directly from the terminal. It is a very good alternative for those who are on a very slow Internet connection or just don't want to get out of their terminals./quote http://www.muktware.com/articles/2998. You may already know that the brothers mentioned there, Prasanna and Sathianarayanan run the shows at Puduvai LUG. Good going. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux
2011/11/2 0 0...@0throot.com: It looks like, it is meant for running highly parallel applications. [...] By general-purpose computing, I meant something like running adhoc applications on the CPU. Moonshot is meant only to run certain types of applications. Agreed :) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux
2011/11/2 0 0...@0throot.com: This Moonshot thing is really badass: 89% power savings 94% space savings 63% cost savings 2,800 servers into a single HP Redstone Server Development Platform rack unit Each Core consumes 1.5 w Each server unit (card sized) consumes 5 wats Don't believe me? check out yourself !! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Game-over for Linux
2011/11/2 Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com: On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Some of you might me interested. Why feed the trollers? No common, I was just trying to share what 'some people' think about Linux.. No offense :) BTW: Redbus is a organization that uses Linux. There are so many others. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux
2011/11/2 0 0...@0throot.com: But it uses ARM and not meant for general purpose computing. IMO, This limits the platform greatly and HP is just trying something different. Although, It will be good see a platform challenging the dominance of x86 and ending Intel's monopoly. I don't see how it limits platform. They are servers after all and are supposed to run in data centers. I see so many distros (if not done already) coming up with ARM builds. Ubuntu is one. With this level of cost savings, and savings in other aspects, all cloud players are going to be interested. BTW what do you mean by general purpose computing? -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux
2011/11/2 0 0...@0throot.com: IMO, This limits the platform greatly and HP is just trying something different. Although, It will be good see a platform challenging the dominance of x86 and ending Intel's monopoly. http://arm.com/community/software-enablement/linux.php I also urge you to participate in Ubuntu Developer Summit. They have several sessions on Linaro ! Thought you might be interested.. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] HP's New Low-Power Servers To Run Only Canonical And Red Hat Linux
2011/11/2 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com: 2011/11/2 0 0...@0throot.com: IMO, This limits the platform greatly and HP is just trying something different. Although, It will be good see a platform challenging the dominance of x86 and ending Intel's monopoly. http://arm.com/community/software-enablement/linux.php I also urge you to participate in Ubuntu Developer Summit. They have several sessions on Linaro ! Thought you might be interested.. Hey, there is a session going on right now on Grand sierra - F on ARM !! http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-p/2011-11-02/ -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILug-C] OpenStack beginner's guide - Diablo version released
Hi all, The beginner's guide for OpenStack Diablo tested on Ubuntu (11.04) Oneiric, has been released. Please check it out. https://cssoss.wordpress.com/ The book is open: Suggestions, patches welcome. https://launchpad.net/openstackbook/2.0 -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!
Hi, Found this interesting. Abstract: The Tamil Nadu government is adding costly MS software to laptops meant for poor students. It could cost Rs 10,200 Crore and hamper student growth http://www.tehelka.com/story_main50.asp?filename=Ws101011MICROSOFT.asp -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILug-C] Elcot marries Microsoft - A love story !!
It's already a done deal. They are preloading BOSS linux with Windows. http://bosslinux.in/BOSS-In-TamilNadu You sure about that?? :) :) -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] myswl a cripleware?
2011/9/29 Christopher Sagayam christopher...@gmail.com: About the only choice now is for the FOSS community to make the same moves with MySQL as we made with OpenOffice. So why not do it ? and make MySQL opensource forever ! https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/MySQL#Forks -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Low battery power management problem in Laptop
hi, thanks for the tip. I'll try it. however my problem is not battery drain. it's the behaviour when the system hibernates.. -- Y On 12 Aug 2011 09:26, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Yogesh yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Here are my power settings while on battery: * Never put computer to sleep * When battery is low, hibernate. * When lid is closed, suspend. Is this a Gnome problem or an Ubuntu problem? Any clues?? While it may not be the direct solution to your problem, can you try and install powertop http://lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/ (should be available as an Ubuntu package) and check what are the tunables that seem to be causing battery drain. ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/ ___ 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] [ILugC] OpenStack Beginner's Guide
Hi all, CSS OSS has released the OpenStack Beginner's Guide. You can download the PDF here: http://wp.me/pT1iY-od. Feedback welcome. Please post feedback / comments at http://cssoss.wordpress.com. Pardon if this is OT. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC] Unit conversion utility for Linux
Hi, Back in the days I was using Windows 98/XP, I used to use this utility for unit conversion. I know I can run it on Wine. But I am looking for an Open Source version. Anyone? I did some search and didn't find any. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILugC] Unit conversion utility for Linux
2011/8/3 Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in: Do you mean converting units like foot, metre etc., try units. man units will throw more light on it. It is part of Unix/Linux for a long time. Thank you Raman. It's amazing. I love it and will use it for myself. But I am also looking for a GUI tool for my parents. Something like this: http://joshmadison.com/convert-for-windows/ -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILugC] Zooming presentations on Linux
Hi, I'm not sure if this has been discussed in the list before. I was wondering if there was a zooming presentation editor/creator for Linux. There are web based solutions like Prezi. And more recently, a plugin for MS Power Point was developed by some third party. But I don't see any for Linux (FLOSS). Anyone aware of any on going project that aims to do this? -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] What is wrong in this script ?
2011/7/28 Mukesh Yadav mak@gmail.com: Use the bash interpreter: #!/bin/bash still getting bash: ./yuicompress.sh: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Pl post output of 'which bash' without quotes. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] What is wrong in this script ?
2011/7/28 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com: 2011/7/28 Mukesh Yadav mak@gmail.com: still getting bash: ./yuicompress.sh: /bin/bash^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory Simply open the file with vim and you might see the extra windows eol character. +1 on Guruprasad's comments http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=810745 -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILUG-C] VirtalBox importing snapshots
I had a laptop with a VM on VirtualBox. The VM had some 5 snapshots. I had to format the laptop for some reason. So I just copied the VM directory. Now I want to import it into my newly installed VirtualBox. I am able to attach the harddisk to a new VM which gives me the last snapshot. Now I want to import my snapshots into it. I have a .vbox file which seems to have information about the snapshots in some XML format. Please help. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILUG-C] VirtalBox importing snapshots
2011/7/15 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com I had a laptop with a VM on VirtualBox. The VM had some 5 snapshots. I had to format the laptop for some reason. So I just copied the VM directory. Now I want to import it into my newly installed VirtualBox. I am able to attach the harddisk to a new VM which gives me the last snapshot. Now I want to import my snapshots into it. I have a .vbox file which seems to have information about the snapshots in some XML format. Please help. Hi, Got it. Did this in the terminal: VBoxManage registervm /path/to/filename.vbox This imported the VM complete with snapshots. :) -- Thanks, Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] How to make ILUGC list user friendly?
2011/7/13 Yuva raj uvar...@gmail.com What i felt long before was like if we ban Kenneth Gonslaves newbies wont be afraid. No Offense.. Just criticizing the way he is behaving in the mailing list. I think he wont take this personally. If he takes then he is not in FOSS world according to him Yuva Raj, People have their ways of expressing ideas. You may or may not like them. What this thread is intended to do is to express the opinion of people like me, that it is a *better* thing to have a bit more tolerance and patience when dealing with newcomers to the list. You are making things personal here, which is unhealthy and very wrong. Kindly refrain. @All, We need to have some additions that goes into the mailing list guidelines. 1. The Objective of this list. ( Policies with respect to free software, use of linux, evangelism, etc.) 2. Are we promoting free software aggressively ( or are we here to provide / share technical assistance to Linux users?) 3. What is our policy on proprietary software? Do we refuse to help people who want to use Linux alongside Windows? 4. More.. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] How to make ILUGC list user friendly?
2011/7/12 Balajee - Gmail balajeesesha...@gmail.com When I drive my car on the road I should follow the rules, otherwise we know what will happen. The same way when a member like to participate in the list let him see the previous mails, study list rules and understand how to ask questions. Most new comers have zero idea about seeking support from the Internet. We need to be polite to them. We should educate them. If you think we have no business educating them then we should stay silent instead of rebuking them the very first time. Repeated mistakes can be taken seriously. We should first welcome them and then maybe point them to list rules. Recently someone asking if he can use Ubuntu alongside Windows Server was rebuked for no reason. For all we know, he might have had some good reason for that. I was working part time at an Internet cafe and I have tried to switch the whole cafe to Ubuntu. The proprietor told be Do whatever you want, just don't touch the server! He had his own concerns. Everyone has to start somewhere. I would certainly expect the senior Linux experts / Veterans to be a bit more kind and forgiving. And this thread is not about decline in the number of posts. It's about new comers to the list and how they (and their mistakes) are treated. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Internet cafe software to run on Ubuntu client and Windows server
2011/7/9 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:48 +0530, anu nivas wrote: Can any of you suggest an Internet cafe software to run on Ubuntu client and Windows server? no LOL ! :) To the OP: Why Windows Server? Why not a Linux Server ? Explain your requirements please.. Read up here: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.ilugc/70013 -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILUG-C][OT] On matters of national security and open source
2011/7/6 Vamsee Kanakala vkanak...@gmail.com So are you meeting them to convey your concern? At least track down who's responsible and start a conversation? :) That is where I thought the open letter would help ! Track them down?? :) I would if I could or get a chance ! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
[Ilugc] [ILUG-C][OT] On matters of national security and open source
Hi all, How would you all like to contribute to an open letter asking the Union Home Ministry, The National informatics agency, and the like to start using open source instead of proprietary software? It's a shame that most sites including those of National investigation agency, National security guards ( both were hacked very recently ), etc still use IIS. Seriously, IIS? And heaven knows why there was data in those servers that could be siphoned off. So I was thinking writing an open letter to those douc***ags in plain english on what this is all about and how and why they should rethink about using proprietary software that rely on security by obscurity. Please share your views. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] [ILUG-C][OT] On matters of national security and open source
2011/7/6 Vamsee Kanakala vkanak...@gmail.com On Wednesday 06 July 2011 07:22 AM, Yogesh Girikumar wrote: So I was thinking writing an open letter to those douc***ags in plain english on what this is all about and how and why they should rethink about using proprietary software that rely on security by obscurity. Writing an open letter is all fine, but you have to think from their shoes. These companies are led by bureaucrats who haven't been trained in god knows how long and they simply don't know any better in most cases. Most junior-level employees who can effect changes don't have any power to do so or the will to fight the system. If you go and meet these guys, the response will most likely be, thanks for bringing it to our attention. So who can set this up and give us SLAs, and where do we sign?. So unless you're approaching them with a reasonably complete solution that addresses this problem, you can mostly expect as much animosity as you're showing them in return. So instead of writing them an accusatory open letter that is only likely to get them even more defensive, try meeting any of them and ask, this is what I do for a living, how can I help?. That would help you understand the challenges they're dealing with, and help you propose a more meaningful solution. Vamsee, I can't agree more with your point. There are people the government can turn to for help in these matters. I can think of CDAC and NRCFOSS. I'm sure that Microsoft did nothing more than to just sell them IIS. What about the guy(s) who designed and developed the site. If it's merely a website that people visit to learn more about the agencies, then there's not much to worry. But if there's sensitive data that's at risk of being siphoned off then it's a different story all together. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers - July 2011 meet
2011/7/1 0 0...@0throot.com On 06/29/2011 11:30 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: We have our next meet on July 9, 2011. Please volunteer for talks. I am currently looking for talks on android (a basic introduction) and bit coin ( http://www.bitcoin.org/ ). If someone could share their knowledge on the same, It will be very helpful. I can do the bitcoin part. But expect it to be boring and very confusing!! I can give also a very basic primer of android, the SDK, etc. Nothing hardcore though. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers - July 2011 meet
2011/7/1 Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com I can do the bitcoin part. But expect it to be boring and very confusing!! I can give also a very basic primer of android, the SDK, etc. Nothing hardcore though. Will try to make the material as easy to understand as possible. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Guidance for open source development
2011/6/30 Babu Poomalai pbab...@gmail.com Hi, I wish to involve myself in open source development. I am more comfortable in C++ and Java. As I'm a novice to this world, i don't where to start my contribution. Please provide me a guidance.I am interested to do any projects of the above platform. Attempt to explain in a nutshell: There are lots of projects hosted in so called repositories that hold various versions of source code. You use a version control system to check the code out (download) and then after making modifications, you push it back into the repository (check-in). Contributions can be anything. Some are: * Bug reports / fixes (You'll need to look into bug tracker for the project ! * Patches * Documentation (of the final product as well as the internals like any APIs, etc.) and translations Search for terms you don't understand. HTH. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers - July 2011 meet
2011/7/1 0 0...@0throot.com Thats great! I am looking forward to your talk. It'd be great if you can trim your posts. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Next meeting ?
2011/6/29 0 0...@0throot.com Hi all, I am new to the list and I was wondering when you guys are meeting up next. I checked the site but the new event seems to point to the one that happened on Jul'2010. The second Saturday of every month. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Free laptops from TN Govt - The students Nature
2011/6/24 SRIKANTH NS srikanth...@gmail.com I cannot but agree with this with all my heart. Lack of support is the one critical element which is stymying the spres of LInux. It depends on what you mean by support. A computer (Linux) literate neighbour or a support license. If it's the latter, I don't think the govt. is buying support for Windows for the users even now. ( There's nothing to support there anyway!) . If it's the former, then you've got a point. Mass awareness campaign about the forums, IRC, mailing lists, .. will be required.. -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Clarification on OS development.
2011/6/20 Prasanna Venkadesh prasmai...@gmail.com I just wanted to know is there any Linux development is going on for building a system that supports both RPM and DEB packages to be used in a single Distribution without use of other tools like alien. That is not possible as the underlying design for RH based and Debian based distros are totally different. You can always compile stuff from the source! Why cant if the underlying design be created newly that supports both RH and Debian Based Distros? Why reinvent something that's already there? Creation of some totally new Linux architecture is a mammoth task and IMO a totally unnecessary one. People choose distros that best suit their needs. A package manager is just a piece in the OS architecture. As long as you have something that gives you a quick and easy way of installing packages, you should be fine. If not, you always have more ( powerful ) ways of doing that, like compiling from source ! -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies?
2011/6/13 Ganesh Kumar bugcy...@gmail.com Hi Guys, How do I make apt-get ignore some dependencies?. In Debian based system, How do install without dependencies using apt-get dpkg I doubt if you can do that with apt-get. You can however use download only option which will download the packages. You can install them manually thereafter. For dpkg, there is an --ignore-depends=pkg1,... option. But I don't think it does what you want. What are you trying to achieve? -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 11.04 64bit Issues
2011/6/12 Bose ifrb...@gmail.com Hi all, I have purchased Lenovo Ideapad Y560. It came with Win7 but i installed 11.04 on top of it. Whenever i boot my laptop in battery, Ubuntu is not booting up only windows boots up. After the choice chosen only blank screen comes. Could be a power management issue? Try installing with acpi on. I am not able to install abode flash player also, if i give apt get command i am getting error. Can any one help me out in these issues? 64 bit Linux generally has problems with flash. Try the 32 bit version. apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Reg:which book is best for to learn Linux Cluster
2011/6/8 Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com Greetings, You can use following links to update knowledge on linux redhat cluster. http://www.centos.org/docs/5/pdf/Cluster_Administration.pdf http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/Cluster_Administration/ch-overview-CA.html Please note above is about High availability (HA) cluster. Never confuse it it with High Performance Cluster (HPC). There is one in IITM, I suspect If it's high availability that the OP wants: DRBD + HeartBeat : http://www.drbd.org/home/what-is-drbd/ Linux HA: http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Main_Page If the OP just wants to know about Clustering: Please google Linux Clustering. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_*cluster -- Y * ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
