[ilugd] A radical shift in e-governance
The Hindu has a nice feature on the Indian open standards policy. The examples cited in this article are very relevant. Venky = A radical shift in e-governance On November 12, in a very progressive and sound move, the Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology notified the National Policy on Open Standards in e-governance An Indian case study of how open standards can make an impact on the domestic technology industry and promote innovation, by offering a level-playing field for technology companies — both big and small — is the Smart Card Operating System for Transport Applications (SCOSTA). SCOSTA was a standard developed for smart card-based driving licences and transport-related documentation by different State governments. It was developed by the National Informatics Centre in collaboration with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Despite attempts by proprietary lobbies to make the body opt for a proprietary standard, the NIC and academics went ahead and developed an open standards, one that comprised technological specifications that were entirely royalty-free, and put up the specifications on their website. By doing so, they made a huge impact on the entire market. http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article907442.ece ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [OT][PERSONAL] Need Help To Stay in side/out side of IIT Delhi for 10 to 20 days
Dear Friends, This is Arulalan.T from Tamil Nadu who is the founder of Kanchi Linux User Group [1] and sending ODOC via sms through out the Nation. And mentoring for ODOA mail and [Tip] mails from kanchilug to all lugs in India. Greetings.!. Now I came to IIT Delhi today to attend an interview on 01.12.2010 for join as Project Associate in Department of Center for Atmospheric Science. Now I am staying in Satpura hostel as guest. Paid accommodation fees for 3 days in SBI. Here I am facing a small problem. i.e. Tomorrow I will attend interview and they will give me appointment order after 10 days only. After that only they can arrange room in hostel. Once I joined here as PA, I will be here for next 3 years.:-) Upto that Dr.Krishna Autcho Rao (Center for Atmospheric Science) appointed me Contract Basics for one month from today. My problem is, I need to stay inside IIT or outside IIT from coming saturday (04.12.2010) onwards for 10 - 20 days. They are saying like, guest can stay only 5 days(maximum) in hostels. Can you people help me for this situation. Do anybody have friends who is staying outside of IIT. So that I may get a chance to stay with them for 10 - 20 days. This is my contact nos +91 9994332225 and +91 8695765744 . Can anybody give me suggestion to approach this problem. Also I am finding friends who is staying in delhi to solve this. Thanks in advance . Regards, Arulalan.T Kanchi Linux User Group Rocks ! [1] http://kanchilug.wordpress.com My Experiments In Linux are here http://tuxcoder.wordpress.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] A radical shift in e-governance
On a slightly unrelated note, you may want to work on data in legacy encodings. Like the voter's database, which is bilingual (en local language), with most probably, the local language in the dated ISCII encoding. (At least, that is the case in Kerala). It ought to be a slightly non-trivial task to convert all that into Unicode. Several agencies need to access that data. Most modern Linux distros do not support legacy encodings addequately, and hence it is difficult to access legacy encodings. Venkatesh Hariharan said on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 02:09:25PM +0530,: The Hindu has a nice feature on the Indian open standards policy. The examples cited in this article are very relevant. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com The next best thing to knowing something is to know where to find it. --Samuel Johnson ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [OT][PERSONAL] Need Help To Stay in side/out side of IIT Delhi for 10 to 20 days
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Arulalan T arulal...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody give me suggestion to approach this problem. Also I am finding friends who is staying in delhi to solve this. You can try getting a room in Jia Sarai just outside the IIT campus. Many students taking coachings stay there. I stayed in Kalu Sarai (also nearby) for a few months while taking coaching at FIITJEE. -- Kartik Singhal BTech CSE Student, NIT Calicut http://www.google.com/profiles/kartiksinghal ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Xen: Dom0 vs guest disk buffer/cache
On 11/29/2010 11:13 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I am configuring a Xen host with 4-5 guest VMs and have a question about allocation of memory for buffer and cache. As I understand it, all guest disk IO is routed through dom0 first. Does this mean that dom0 buffer/cache is used for guest I/O as well, and guest buffer/cache is redundant? Its been a while since I looked at blockdev stuff in Xen; but I seem to remember that hostside buffers depends on what sort of a storage setup you have in place. If there is a generic file-as-disk exported from dom0 - domU; There is some level of caching that the host can contribute. However, if its blockdev - domU (eg. a logical vol, or a physical disk ) you wont get any filesystem level caching on the host, but there might still be an opportunity to run with seriously high device buffers ( if you so desire and trust your setup! ). Things get a bit more complex once you move to remote storage, eg a SAN or even just a remote linux iscsi target. Since you can then tweak a few things on that end. I have seen at least one commercial xen VPS vendor disabling buffer and cache for guests. Is this simply a tradeoff for memory vs performance, or is there really no benefit to having two levels of buffers and cache? Are you sure it was a Xen based VPS ? I've seen people using openvz try stuff like that. In the end it boils down to what level of service you need. If you have nearline storage, with blockdevices being exported directly under xen in hvm mode, there wont be two levels of buffers anyway. I know this does not directly answer your question, but hopefully gets you going in the right direction. - KB ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Xen: Dom0 vs guest disk buffer/cache
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: [snip] However, if its blockdev - domU (eg. a logical vol, or a physical disk ) you wont get any filesystem level caching on the host, but there might still be an opportunity to run with seriously high device buffers ( if you so desire and trust your setup! ). Yes I'm running all guest storage on logical volumes on local scsi. I guess this means that I should leave the guest buffer and cache alone, since in general it makes sense to have them as close as possible to the workload. Are you sure it was a Xen based VPS ? Seeds of doubt have been planted. I'm relatively certain that it was Xen and they were just being scummy so they could shove more VMs into the same host while appearing to be fair with memory allocation. I know this does not directly answer your question, but hopefully gets you going in the right direction. On the contrary, this has been very helpful, thanks Karanbir. -Taj. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
