[ilugd] Poster Competition on Women's and LGBT Issues
WFS India in collaboration with Glug-Cal, Fedora and Mozilla announces a poster competition on women's, LGBT and gender-related issues in India using free software tools as part of the extended Cultural Freedom Day celebrations. http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues Important Dates: Submission Begins: 3rd June'2013 Last Date of Submission: 14th June'2013 Announcement of Results: 15th June'2013 Gallery Update: By 24th June'2013 http://www.wfs-india.org/p/poster-competition-womens-and-lgbt-issues -- Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [LUG@IITD:16967] Wikipedia page of Raj Mathur
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Sheel Sindhu Manohar wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj_Mathur > > I added this page to Wikipedia with some references. Please help me in > improving this wiki page. > It will be better to delete the stats about kandalaya.org. Raj was of the view that he does not maintain it because it has no real value. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, AMS, CLC, CMS http://www.logicamani.in ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Review W8
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/UnNews:Windows_8_baffles_users;_but,_screw_%27em! Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.in http://www.logicamani.co.cc -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.in http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Fwd: Project Neon
For kde development: http://dot.kde.org/2012/07/24/introducing-project-neon-kvm \quote Project Neon provides daily builds of KDE modules for Kubuntu. It is an easy way to get the latest code without having to build the entire KDE-Git/SVN tree and maintain the checkout. Project Neon is unstable, but it installs alongside stable packages. It is suitable for contributors such as new developers, translators, usability designers, documenters, promoters, and bug triagers. With Project Neon, people can experiment freely without risk to a working KDE environment. \unquote Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.in http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Fedora 16 -17 Notes
I tried to upgrade fedora 16 x86-64 via preupgrade a few days ago. After the first stage up to download of packages and installation of grub2 for the actual install process ... it went fine. The new grub2 entry was not bootable (known bug?), but anyway I modified it manually and started anaconda. The installer invariably crashed after ´wanting a network connection´ (actually the machine connects manually to the Internet). All of the tricks including deletion of /etc/anaconda.repo and modification of the ks file did not work. Fresh Install from dvd was ok... except for no support for encrypted btrfs. Grub2 of Kubuntu-12.04 cannot handle Fedora-17 entries at all. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [X] and, nor, or, xor
http://aseigo.blogspot.in/2012/05/and-nor-or.html Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] (no subject)
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/new-74-android-mini-computer-is-slightly-larger-than-a-thumb-drive/ \quote Chinese retailers have started selling a miniature Linux computer that is housed in a 3.5-inch plastic case slightly larger than a USB thumb drive. Individual units are available online for $74. The small computer has an AllWinner A10 single-core 1.5GHz ARM CPU, a Mali 400 GPU, and 512MB of RAM. An HDMI port on the exterior allows users to plug the computer into a television. It outputs at 1080p and is said to be capable of playing high-definition video. The device also has a full-sized USB port with host support for input devices, a conventional micro-USB port, a microSD slot, and an internal 802.11 b/g WiFi antenna. The computer can boot from a microSD card and is capable of running Android 4.0 and other ARM-compatible Linux platforms. . \unquote Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [X] GNU/Linux Audio Conference Report
https://lwn.net/Articles/495612/ Plenty of links in that report. Also see https://github.com/harryhaaren/openAudioProgrammingTutorials Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] [X] on phoronix.com
Nice set of comments on a crap article by Micheal Larabel at phoronix.com Examples: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressing&p=259648#post259648 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressing&p=259677#post259677 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressing&p=259680#post259680 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressing&p=259753#post259753 \quote *Yawn*, here Micheal goes again. This is a list of projects FSF would *like* to see free software alternatives for, not projects FSF is working on, and they list alternatives as they find them. Of these projects I only know of Gnash and Coreboot which has actually been supported by FSF. It's a wish-list trying to put focus on areas where open source alternatives would be appreciated, Micheal tries to turn this into some failure of FSF which I can only assume stems from his anti-FSF/anti-GPL bias. FSF's main projects are things like GCC, GNU userland, and of course the GPL licence. Yes, they are very successful. But hey, let's focus on areas FSF lists as lacking in open source alternatives and try to paint these areas that are lacking as a failure of FSF (because of course THEY must provide open source alternatives to everything proprietary in use out there, else they are failingwtf!?) F***ing travesty of an article. Just like the first one. Yes, we know Micheal, you don't like GPL, you like permissive licencing, this not only shows in 'articles' like this but also spills over into your biased reporting of llvm/clang vs GCC. But hey, when will we see the article on for example how 'FreeBSD projects not progressing' while listing things from http://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage#Fr...2ideas.22_List and pointing out how many of them are 'active as a bumper car from Chernobyl'. Or any of hundreds of other open source wish-lists, it's hardly as if only FSF have wished for PowerVR drivers, but you hold FSF responsible for them not materializing??? Glad I never opted for premium membership here with smearing articles like this. \unquote Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] check this
http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?course=PracticalUnix Please check the quality of this tutorial series. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Linus receives Millennium Technology Prize
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2012/04/linux-creator-linus-torvalds-receives-one-world%E2%80%99s-highest-technolog Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] LibreOffice In Indian Languages
On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: > Hi, > > I am meeting with the Founder of LibreOffice at FOSDEM and he was interested > in knowing what kind of localization work is going on for LibreOffice. I > think there are some active communities. I would like to connect them with > LibreOffice can you point me to someone? > Check with the swecha.net people Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] KDE guide (for new developers)
http://en.flossmanuals.net/kde-guide/# Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Scribus special edition
A special compilation of articles on Scribus from PC Linux OS magazine http://www.pclosmag.com/pdf/ScribusSE.pdf Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Fwd: Updates on Download.Com caught adding malware to Nmap installer
Forwarded Message __ From: Fyodor Date: Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 9:41 AM Subject: Updates on Download.Com caught adding malware to Nmap installer To: nmap-hack...@insecure.org Hi Folks. A lot has happened since yesterday's email about Download.com's antics (http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/5) and I wanted to send a quick update. First of all, several people complained about my angry tone and my telling Download.com to "F*ck" themselves. I appologize to anyone offended. But if you ever spend more than 14 years creating free software as a gift to the community, only to have it used as bait by a giant corporation to infect your users with malware, then you may understand my rage. The good news is that many users are sick and tired of having their machines hijacked by malware. Especially by CNET Download.Com, which still says on their own adware policy page: "In your letters, user reviews, and polls, you told us bundled adware was unacceptable--no matter how harmless it might be. We want you to know what you're getting when you download from CNET Download.com, and no other download site can promise that." --http://www.cnet.com/2723-13403_1-461-16.html Um, what people WANT when they download Nmap is Nmap itself. Not to have their searches redirected to Bing and their home page changed to Microsoft's MSN. Speaking of which, Microsoft emailed me today. They said that they didn't know they were sponsoring CNET to trojan open source software, and that they have stopped doing it. But the trojan installer uses your Internet connection to obtain more "special offers" from CNET, and they immediately switched to installing a "Babylon toolbar" and search engine redirect instead. Then CNET removed that and are now promoting their own "techtracker" tool. Apparently the heat is so high that even malware vendors are refusing to have any more part in CNET's antics! But if CNET isn't stopped, the malware vendors will come crawling back eventually and CNET will be there to receive them. There have been dozens of news articles in the last day and hundreds of outraged comments on blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. In the midst of all this terrible PR, Download.com went in last night and quietly switched their Nmap downloads back to our real installer. At least for now. But that isn't enough--they are still infecting the installers for thousands of other packages! For example, they have currently infected the installer for a children's coloring book app: http://download.cnet.com/Kea-Coloring-Book/3000-2102_4-10360620.html Have they no shame at all??! I've created a page with the situation background, links to the news articles, and the latest updates: http://insecure.org/news/download-com-fiasco.html Feel free to share it. Together, I hope we can get Download.Com to apologize and cease this reprehensible behavior! Cheers, Fyodor ___ -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] A Study on office suites
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/journal/v20/n5/pdf/ejis201114a.pdf initial comments: ... the authors are definitely biased, vendor lock-in is not properly considered. Does not analyse implementation models from the perspective of licenses. The blanket term 'open source' is used. Some remarks like those on 'functionality' are wild and unjustified . Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Off-topic]R expert
On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Nagarjuna G wrote: > Raj, could you create a user's group for R on your server. it seems we do > have a few enthusiasts. R is popular but needs more support for new > users. It is a great software with not a very good introductory support. > I have created a google group : Indian GNU/R Group http://groups.google.com/group/r-group-india Please join. If another independent mailing list can be made then this can be used for archival purposes > If you people would like to have a place, a wiki, resource sharing place, > metastudio.org can be used for this. I created a group here: > https://metastudio.org/groups/gnu_r Please also announce the various Thanks and Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Off-topic]R expert
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:54 AM, kamakshaiah m wrote: > > I am happy to learn that there are experts of R in India. I use R for my > research (management). Though I am not a programmer I am trying to do > something about it. My question is, do we have any groups for R in India. I We can form one as there are plenty of people, but given the quality of the R mailing lists ... does it make sense? Language can be a reason. ...OK, we have a workshop on R in Kolkata at JU (9,10 Dec'11). I will form one after that. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] FOSS Petition for WB
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sanjeev Gupta wrote: > Mani, > > You say: > >> The recent tender >> at the WBPCB site (http://www.wbpcb.gov.in/cgi-bin/notice.cgi for >> purchasing closed source proprietary software ) reeks of corruption, >> kickbacks and nepotism by the new players. > > "Reeking" is hardly an offence. Do you have any evidence of, for example, > nepotism? You need to understand the provider pool and the way the decision was taken. > >> In >> Microsoft's own land the Obama administration is going for Free >> software as the means of delivering e-governance. > > Excellent. > > But in Mani's own State, the Government is using MS software. What does > that prove? The State Govt was prevented from adopting FOSS in various sectors through constraints imposed by the Central Govt. The few lines about FOSS were never understood by the Central ministers. So only some departments could be shifted to FOSS. On key sectors, the Central Govt basically said "If you do not follow OUR specs, then you will NOT be funded". In school education, the hilarious situation at one stage was 'a huge load of PCs were sent with no funds for training". So our concept of "Community based initiatives" became all the more important. The previous Govt's strategy was to build the necessary FOSS manpower through initiatives in the education sector and training of personnel. A lot has been done. But the present Govt has zero vision and evil priorities. The present Govt has also modified the software specs of machines to be used in schools towards closed source s/w. Ubuntu was compulsory (I will provide the link later). Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] FOSS Petition for WB
Please Sign: http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/stop-shift-towards-closed-source-proprietary-software-i.html The text of the petition is STOP SHIFT TOWARDS CLOSED SOURCE PROPRIETARY SOFTWARE IN E-GOVERNANCE AND EDUCATION, AND DECLARE A PRO-FOSS POLICY Target: Department of IT, Government of West Bengal Region: India Background (Preamble): We, the members of the Kolkata Chapter of the Indian GNU/Linux user group (http://www.ilug-cal.info ), Free Software Mancha of West Bengal (http://www.fsmwb.org ) and FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) activists across the country have been observing a marked shift towards the adoption of closed source proprietary software by the present Government of West Bengal. This is a retrograde trend that is bound to adversely affect earlier efforts towards adoption of FOSS in e-Governance (at least in some sectors), Education and other sectors by the previous Government and any concept of freedom that the people at large of the state may entertain from foreign interest laden proprietary closed source software. A case in point is the happenings at WBPCB, where in-house personnel for FOSS deployment were appointed by the previous Government. The strategy permitted the best quality solutions at least TCO and with the benefits of maximum security and transparency. The recent tender at the WBPCB site (http://www.wbpcb.gov.in/cgi-bin/notice.cgi for purchasing closed source proprietary software ) reeks of corruption, kickbacks and nepotism by the new players. Of course it is ages away from vendor neutrality or open standards. Similar actions have happened in other departments as well. Further the present Govt has signed MOUs with Microsoft according to which the company will invest in Bengal if the Government of West Bengal vetos the use of Microsoft's cloud platform and technology for future e-governance projects. (Source: Business Standard ). We are extremely concerned about an e-governance policy influenced by proprietary software vendor like Microsoft, Oracle etc. . It took a lot of effort by many of us to convince sections of the the previous Government about the evils of proprietary software and finally they agreed to change their pro Microsoft stand and support use of free and open source software in e-governance projects to an extent (given the restrictions imposed by the Central Government). There are several examples of sustainable e-governance implementations like EMIS. The technical superiority of free and open source software are proven . All Internet giants Amazon, Facebook, Google , Twitter and Yahoo uses free software to run their application and infrastructure. In Microsoft's own land the Obama administration is going for Free software as the means of delivering e-governance. Government departments are known to be the largest consumer of software and a short-sighted policy of the kind is bound to have serious adverse effects beyond the wastage of tax payers money. It is also never too late to make amends. The recent happenings in the state of Tamil Nadu, as per this http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/boss-shut-out-windows-247report, should be suggestive of the same. Petition: We demand that the Government 1. Declare and implement a FOSS policy at least along the lines of the policy adopted in Kerala and certainly beyond the minimal policy lines in the Central Govt policy. 2. Try to understand the concept of 'vendor neutrality and open standards' and follow it in all dealings. All e-Governance projects should be built on top of open platform following open standards .None of taxpayer's money should be spent in buying software licenses and bringing vendor lock-ins and a host of evils in public services. 3. Revive bodies like WB-IOTA (that have not been witnessing much activity since the formation of the present Govt) and also form similar bodies for overseeing the adoption of FOSS in all spheres of activity. _______ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] (hardware/slightly OT) New SATA disk giving BIOS errors
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > > Hi all. > > I know this is not related to Linux or FOSS. But the box runs Debian, > and am hoping that people here would have some experience dealing with > things like this. > > I got a new 500 GB SATA HDD, Seagate make. Output of smartctl says > something about compliance with version of 8 of ATA standards. (the > disk is not connected right now). There are many SATA versions http://www.t13.org/Standards/Default.aspx?DocumentType=3 > > When the new disk is connected, the BIOS either shows a blank screen > or throws up an error message, and asks me to set CMOS time, which > falls back to 2002. Especially When I power on after a gap of 20 > minutes or more. M28N Some mainboard component has failed or it is a built-in bug for the type of chipset you have. change bios. Remove all other sata drives and test. use ahci speed? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Motherboard that supports Linux on Desktop with I5, I7 CPU
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Sudhir Gandotra wrote: >> > Which hardware ? > No vendor is giving a board with assurance that Linux runs on their > board/s. If I but without that assurance, and it does not work, the board > becomes a costly paper-weight for me. > Vendors have mostly been slaves of M$ and idiots at that and have been guided by standard evil marketing principles. There are certifications for different hardware by canonical for e.g. Fedora collects huge amount of data relating to h/w at all stages of development, but they use a community approach. There are firms like http://www.linux-tested.com/ How many companies do h/w certification for GNU/Linux in India? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Article on Drupal in "Hindu"
I sent this to the editor. ___ Dear Sir, I would like to point out a few glaring mistakes in Pavithra.S. Rangan's article on Drupal in your newspaper (http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Hyderabad/article2621473.ece ) The author writes "While over thousands of developers maintain the software, ‘tens of thousands' of community volunteers across the world continuously add new features, called modules, to the license-free software". But Drupal is licensed under GNU GPL >=2 and is not "license-free". It is Free (as in Freedom) software under a copy-left license. >From the Drupal site: "Drupal and all contributed files hosted on Drupal.org are licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. That means you are free to download, reuse, modify, and distribute any files hosted in Drupal.org's Git repositories under the terms of either the GPL version 2 or version 3, and to run Drupal in combination with any code with any license that is compatible with either versions 2 or 3, such as the Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3." __ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Comparison of txt2tags and other light mark-up Languages
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM, A. Mani wrote:
> (In French)
>
> http://fgallaire.flext.net/comparaison-langage-balisage-markup-lightweight-leger-txt2tags-pandoc-docutils-asciidoc-deplate-stx2any-aft-markdown-textile/
(My view: Automated mark up is never good enough and google
translate is imperfect in handling languages with solid structure (esp
if the target is English?). )
Google translate (tables figures missing):
Comparison of markup languages (markup) lightweight (lightweight):
Txt2tags, Pandoc, Docutils, AsciiDoc, Deplate, Stx2any, AFT, Markdown
and Textile
The office is the main use of computers since its inception. Yet the
majority of tools used in this field, software WYSIWYG word processor
such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice, leaving the majority of IT
professionals and ergonomists very doubtful, if not totally desperate.
These programs have in fact a very large number of defects: they focus
on form and not substance, their final result is often not what is
displayed, they are incompatible with each other, they are huge plants
Gas unusable on older, they only work in graphics mode, etc.. The only
rational, efficient and interoperable to work on a computer is to use
simple text files, all documents are therefore editable in any text
editor.
It was therefore necessary to think of a way to give these
instructions formatting in the text file itself, and thus appeared
markup languages (markup), the best known are HTML (invented in 1991
by Tim Berners-Lee) and LaTeX (established in 1985, and based on TeX,
invented by the great Donald Knuth in 1977), which was the first major
figure Roff, a Unix program history developed from 1961, which GNU,
Groff, is installed by default on all Linux distributions, since we
still use the man pages for software.
To better view, take as example the creation of a new section of a
document in man:
. SH New section in man
HTML:
New section in HTML
and LaTeX:
\ Section {new section} LaTeX
These languages represent a significant improvement, but all have
one big problem: they are annoying! There are no longer content just
as easily in the middle of all these additional tags, not to mention
the fact that the complex syntax pave the way for many compilation
errors.
In 1995 we found the solution to this problem, with the creation of
the first language Wiki, whose main purpose was to allow easy editing
of web pages for everyone, and which the current user most famous is
the free encyclopedia Wikipedia. If there are almost as many different
syntaxes that Wiki software, they all have the characteristic of using
text characters simple and intuitive to give indications of text
formatting.
Always the same example, a new section in MediaWiki:
Section = = New Wiki
and one in Setext:
New section Setext
===
But why limit these lightweight markup languages in one generation
of HTML? Why not use the same syntax for different targets (called
backends, targets or as software writers), so as to obtain both a web
page in HTML, LaTeX a document for printing, or a page of man for
software? It is the software that is the aim that interest me, they
are for me the future of desktop computing, and I was led to compare
them to choose which one get involved as a developer.
Here is a comparison of the best existing free software, with
additional information as the existence of a target plain text,
because I wished to rely on the code to program some of my ideas ASCII
art.
The complete software
Name Popularity of Programming Languages Project License i18n Target
plain text
Txt2tags average Python doc + + Yes Yes RedNotebook GNU GPLv2
Python docutils strong Sphinx + No No Public Domain
AsciiDoc Python strong Dump No w3m or Lynx GNU GPLv2 or later
No Yes Ruby Deplate low GNU GPLv2 or later
Haskell average pandoc No Yes GNU GPLv2 or later
Sed and m4 low Stx2any Not Dump w3m personalized copyleft license
AFT No No small Perl Clarified Artistic License
Except Docutils and AFT (Almost Free Text), all software seemed at
first to propose a target text. But in fact it's a bit of a trompe
l'oeil, as two of them, and AsciiDoc Stx2any, simply dump a text-only
web browser (w3m or Lynx) income generated by the target HTML. There
was no in these cases the basic code that I could hope to improve.
I put in the comparative stx2any AFT and encoded respectively in Perl
and m4, so as to provide a wide range of programming languages, but
these programs are used both less and have fewer features than others.
By studying the different software available, I realized that,
fortunately for me, many were coded in Python (3 of 7 in total, but
above 3 on the 5 really interesting). Moreover, it is not the first
time that I see, trying to select free software, as coded in python
are both more numerous and better.
The five remaining programs are really excellent, and are all good
choices. Three of them, Docutils, Deplate Pandoc a
[ilugd] Comparison of txt2tags and other light mark-up Languages
(In French) http://fgallaire.flext.net/comparaison-langage-balisage-markup-lightweight-leger-txt2tags-pandoc-docutils-asciidoc-deplate-stx2any-aft-markdown-textile/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Timer Slack Controller
>From http://lwn.net/Articles/463357/ The "timer slack controller" is a proposed mechanism that would allow a session management program to adjust the timer tolerances of a group of processes with a single knob. It seems like a relatively obscure and harmless feature, but it has been the focus of an intense debate on the kernel mailing lists. The core question has been seen before: what measures should the kernel take, if any, to keep poorly-written applications from hurting performance? Timers allow a process to request a wakeup at some future time; timer slack gives the kernel some leeway in its implementation of those timers. If the kernel can delay specific timers by a bounded amount, it can often expire multiple timers at once, minimizing the number of wakeups and, thus, reducing the system's power consumption. Some processes need more precise timing than others; for this reason, the kernel allows a process to specify its maximum timer slack with the prctl() system call. There is, currently, no mechanism to allow one process to adjust another process's timer slack value; it is generally assumed that any given process knows best when it comes to its own timing requirements. The timer slack controller allows a suitably privileged process to set the timer slack value for every process contained within a control group. The patch has been circulating for some time without generating a great deal of interest; it recently resurfaced in response to the "plumber's wish list for Linux" which requested such a feature. . __________ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Kubuntu 11.04 ->11.10
Not recommended for newbies. This can happen: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/811441 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Internal BB Modems
Has anybody got the software driven Akeeo internal BB modems working in LInux? May be useful for converting old PCs into router +firewall + whatnot ... and some vendors are using those in new PCs with M$ stuff. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] ELC: Embedded Linux Conference
The Linux Foundation and CE Linux Forum announced a schedule for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE), set to take place Oct. 26-28 in Prague. Co-located with LinuxCon Europe, ELCE 2011 offers 50 presentations on Linux and Android -- including projects such as Genivi, Yocto, Linaro, and possibly Tizen -- plus speakers ranging from Linus Torvalds to Intel's Dirk Hohndel. This year's Embedded Linux Conference Europe conference is the second ELCE event since the CE Linux Forum (CELF) forum merged into the Linux Foundation (LF) as a working group in Oct. 2010. (The first post-LF event occurred the same week the merger was announced last October in Cambridge, U.K.) CELF also sponsors the U.S. ELC show, which this year was held in April in San Francisco. https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/embedded-linux-conference-europe/ http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kernel-summit Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Best Obituary for Steve Jobs
by RMS 06 October 2011 (Steve Jobs) Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." Nobody deserves to have to die - not Jobs, not Mr. Bill, not even people guilty of bigger evils than theirs. But we all deserve the end of Jobs' malign influence on people's computing. Unfortunately, that influence continues despite his absence. We can only hope his successors, as they attempt to carry on his legacy, will be less effective. Related Comments by others: Jobs was a marketing guru very good at selling you expensive crap and taking away people's freedom to use software and even hardware. Apple's vision is a conglomerate of everyone else's vision. It was Jobs himself who said, "we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas". What he has managed to do was dumb things down and make people feel stupid. It's the only way I can explain things like the one button mouse or those idiotic commercials (PC vs. Mac) featuring simple characters, unconfusing white background, and nursery music, not to mention all their other ads where people basically admit to being morons and, "gee, isn't it great that *finally* someone makes a computer for us!" People have never needed a science degree to use computers, this is the lie that Apple has perpetuated. My parents use a PC. My little nephews use a PC. Nerds use PCs, jocks use PCs, and so on and so on. The fact that you would still be toeing the "computer science degree" line says a lot more about how you see your own intelligence than what the reality is. This is what Jobs wants, this is what he's gunning for -- your insecurity, your lack of confidence, your belief that the world is just too big and scary and those awful awful machines are just way too complicated to figure out! And even if computers are easier to use today than they were a few decades ago, something which I will admit is true, Apple was merely riding on the bandwagon of change, not the driver. The people who really pushed things forward were companies like Xerox, Adobe, and Palm - graphical user interface, usable / creative / beautiful software and design, touch and portable devices. Apple simply brought it all together (they don't manufacture any of their own components, their OS is "borrowed"), slapped an Apple logo on it, doubled the price (their mobile unit sales are 4th on the world, their profits are 1st - you do the math), and used their brightest shill, Steve Jobs, to convince people that it was pure Apple "genius". PatrickBay.ca Mandatory : Apple fans are the exemplars of "Stockholm syndrome" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome ___ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Kernel-power regression Myth
ld be far more helpful to the community if he would learn how to properly identify and test for these sorts of problems and report them through the proper channels. He is more interested though in driving clicks to his website, and the best way to do that is through fear, uncertainty, and doubt. If he cared about the community, you would see his participation about his fabled ASPM "regression" on the Linux Kernel Mailing List. If he were to post about the myth he created there though, he would probably be eaten alive .. and deservedly s __ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani CU, ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] FOSS Consultancy as a job option in India
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Abhishek Choudhary wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to figure out FOSS consultancy options that exist in India and > online (globally). It will be great if you can point me to some case studies > of success (and failure). Better still if you can share your own story. For > larger good I will write a report on my findings (under CC or GFDL). seems nobody wants to do programming in indic languages :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] QasMixer New Version
QasMixer version 0.12.0 is now available. QasMixer is an ALSA mixer powered by a Qt GUI. Changes: * New dB/percent value label for each slider * Numeric slider value setting moved to a tool/dialog widget (label click) * New view type toolbar (hidden by default) * New mixer controls toolbar (hidden by default) * Device selection can be hidden (hidden by default) * CTL mixer: Shows sliders for all integer type inputs * CTL mixer: Interface type selection (mixer, pcm, etc.) moved to the element selection * CTL mixer: remembers selected element after a view change or restart * CTL mixer: SVG icons for the "Joined" check button * SVG support for check buttons * Sliders pad layout tweaks and bug fixes * View type key sequence simplified (No strg press required anymore) * Menu tweaks * Removed localization for some one letter strings * Localized value strings (Decibel, Percent, etc.) * New Czech translation (Pavel F.) Homepage with more informations and screenshots http://xwmw.org/qasmixer Project page with file downloads http://sourceforge.net/projects/qasmixer/ __ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] national ip essay competition
[http://conferencelex.blogspot.com/2011/06/national-ip-essay-competition.html] ConferenceLex (Call for Papers): The National IP Essay Competition Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] GO Review
See http://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/go-review __ Anyone comparing the appearance of Go source code to his favourite C-oid gets a chance to express her basic attitude: Is Go partly like what you love, or partly like what you hate? It has a bit of annoyance for everyone, which is what you get when trying to do better. It creates an own feeling, so you can't claim it just mimics some other language. Well done! In the end, we get a simple and clean type system that is easy to learn, but unusual. It might be a major obstacle in selling Go to CS beginners, who usually get taught classic OO principles. Its simplicity and safety, however, make it well-suited for self-taught programmers. "Effective Go" is a great document to read if you come from a classic OO background. It's important to have such a document, but it is not complete enough. Researching and writing this review has taught me more about Go than writing the application which I did in parallel. There are so many things you are used to do which Go does differently but equally well (or even better), and I wasn't aware of them. There is a constant feeling of "Go can't do X" while it actually can do it well, only way differently. For a fair image of what Go's potential is, note the age of Go. The first release was less than 2 years ago and declared stable enough since this year. Look at what Go already does today, and imagine what would be possible if Go had the same commercial backing as Java or JavaScript have. The best example of a successful introduction of a new language is Java, and now compare Go's feature set to that of Java 1.0. We have a winner here. But to leverage that potential, the language needs some momentum. Either through an open, active and growing community, or through corporate backing. I'd prefer the community, but for real-world success, there probably has to be some corporate involvement. Bonus points if Oracle messes up the Java business even more :) Really, Go can be the answer to the shortcomings of all currently popular system programming languages, it just needs adoption. And as a final note, I have seen a fair amount of criticism of Go on the internet, which I cannot ignore, so here it goes: Most of these people didn't actually look at it. Go is different, even though it still looks kinda-C. It isn't. It's not C++, nor Objective C, and it doesn't try to be! So stop saying "Who needs Go when we have C++/Objective C?" already. Check out how Go tries to solve the same problems in a radically different way. Accept the fact that OO can be done in different ways. You may have opted to ignore it, but if you use JavaScript, you already use something that isn't class-based OO. Do not just accept it, actively use the power of that different approach. To the other ones, those who think Go isn't taking this far enough: Remember this is a real-world language. And it is there. And it works. What use is a beautifully constructed language that doesn't get stable, finished or fast enough for real-world problems? It's easy to nitpick on details, but to make it a real product, you need to address all constraints. That's what Go does. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] cgroups: simple howto
http://linux-tipps.blogspot.com/2011/06/putting-group-of-processes-into-cpu-and.html "Control groups are really, really great. They can effectively make your system act as if it were two or more systems in one. It's like virtualization without all the overhead and much more efficient than e.g. renicing. (Just a little overhead... and no hard cpu limit yet, but still great!) You can lock a process into a jail that is only as fast as e.g. 10% of your cpu and has only 10 % of your memory and 10 % of your disk speed. Pretty much whatever it does, it won't be able to really annoy you. This means that e.g. big compiles in the background *really* don't affect your browsing *at all*. Here are some presentation slides about cgroups. So let's see how we take the first steps to get there. I will show you how to do it manually step by step so you can learn how it works." Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] wikileaks
Wikileaks, Internet and Democracy | http://wiki-leaks.wikispaces.com/ Let us consider this hypothetical scenario: You are working in a government department. You come across a secret government document. The document is in digital format . The document has the names of Swiss bank account holders in India. The document names important corporate heads, bureaucrats and political leaders . The document also has information on illegal sources of these funds. But, you are under the oath of secrecy not to reveal this. However you see that important people in power are doing clearly illegitimate things. You would want the public to know this, in the interest of the ordinary man. Your conscience doesn't allow you to grow numb and be silent like rest of the crowd. Then, you decide to be a whistleblower, ready to face any dire consequences, which might pose threat to your career, or something more important. You think of passing this information to a media house. However you see that the media houses are working closely with some of the corporates who have been named in the report and stories are being planted . You come to the realization that the media is dominated by paid news. Their major reporters are at a phone call reach to some of the powerful lobbyists. Instead of being depressed and/or dejected, if you face this personal scenario with courage, you could be a person worth your salt by using a gamut of Free Software (Free as in Freedom) like the TOR, and send this information safely and discreetly via the internet to a publisher called the Wikileaks. What is Wikileaks? Is it important, or firstly is it necessary? Want to protect your own freedom and the right to voice the truth. Want to understand Free Software and the technology behind Wikileaks. Want to understand how the advent of the internet has enabled Free Software and a publishing format like the Wikileaks. Once you've read this mail, please visit http://wiki-leaks.wikispaces.com/, where we have put together some material about Wikileaks and Web Democracy, which we think are important and essential. Here is an excerpt from the Hindu Editorial which apprehends about the threat to freedom to disseminate information. " For instance, draft rule 3(2)(a) for intermediaries requires the user not to publish or display information that belongs to another person. Potentially, secret documents ferreted out by investigative journalists or whistleblowers in the public interest may be interpreted to belong to a third party — and blocked from the public domain" [http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article1515144.ece] This means a publisher like Julian Assange (Editor in Chief of Wikileaks) who uses the Internet to publish suppressed material obtained via whistleblowers, could be in jail if he happens to do that in India. Watch some important videos on Wikileaks and understand the smear campaign on Wikileaks: http://wiki-leaks.wikispaces.com/Video+-+Julian+Assange+speaks+to+Steve+Kroft%2CCBS How can you support and be part of this campaign --- 1) Popularize this page and presentation on the page. Ask more friends to write and blog about it 2) Distribute support Wikileaks stickers 3) Organise video shows in your college, glug, ngo, institutes, home - we will be happy to meet you and share the videos 4) Organise talks by Whistleblowers 5) Invite us for a talk on wikileaks, internet and democracy 6) Send us comments to add in the page and add content to the campaign page 7) Sign up on the Support Wikileaks Signature campaign page: http://wiki-leaks.wikispaces.com/Signature+campaign Visit http://wiki-leaks.wikispaces.com/ for more details and campaign material. ______ -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] KGPU
>From http://code.google.com/p/kgpu/ KGPU is a GPU computing framework for the Linux kernel. It allows Linux kernel to call CUDA programs running on GPUs directly. The motivation is to augment operating systems with GPUs so that not only userspace applications but also the operating system itself can benefit from GPU acceleration. It can also free the CPU from some computation intensive work by enabling the GPU as an extra computing device. Modern GPUs can be used for more than just graphics processing; they can run general-purpose programs as well. While not well-suited to all types of programs, they excel on code that can make use of their high degree of parallelism. Most uses of so-called ``General Purpose GPU'' (GPGPU) computation have been outside the realm of systems software. However, recent work on software routers and encrypted network connections has given examples of how GPGPUs can be applied to tasks more traditionally within the realm of operating systems. These uses are only scratching the surface. Other examples of system-level tasks that can take advantage of GPUs include general cryptography, pattern matching, program analysis, and acceleration of basic commonly-used algorithms; we give more details in our whitepaper. These tasks have applications on the desktop, on the server, and in the datacenter. The current KGPU release includes a demo of GPU augmentation: a GPU-accelerated AES cipher, which can be used in conjunction with the eCryptfs encrypted filesystem. This enables read/write bandwidths for an ecrypted filesystem that can reach a factor of 3x ~ 4x improvement over an optimized CPU implementation (using a GTX 480 GPU). KGPU is a project of the Flux Research Group at the University of Utah. It is supported by NVIDIA through a graduate fellowship awarded to Weibin Sun. More We have a short whitepaper describing the motivation and design of KGPU. The idea behind KGPU is to treat the GPU as a computing co-processor for the operating system, enabling data-parallel computation inside the Linux kernel. This allows us to use SIMD (or SIMT in CUDA) style code to accelerate Linux kernel functionality, and to bring new functionality formerly considered too compute intensive into the kernel. Simply put, KGPU enables vector computing for the kernel. It makes the Linux kernel really parallelized: it is not only processing multiple requests concurrently, but can also partition a single large requested computation into tiles and spread them across the large number of cores on a GPU. KGPU is not an OS running on GPU; this is practically impossible because of the limited functionality of current GPUs. _____ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [LUG@IITD:12464] What competition can do !!!
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 05:10 +0530, A. Mani wrote: >> See http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/ >> >> It is a GPL violation. > > it is not The main argument would be "The GPL says quite plainly: The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it. Whether combining lots of patches into one large patch constitutes a change in "form" would be an argument for the lawyers if this ever goes to court, which I very much doubt. In my opinion, however, the case is pretty clear -- you simply do not modify that large a patch file. Therefore it's not a "preferred form". Therefore Red Hat is, ideally if not materially, in breach of the GPL." Further there are more conditions on the distribution of patches, that is definitely imposing additional restrictions. This comment says it better http://lwn.net/Articles/430889/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [LUG@IITD:12456] What competition can do !!!
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:53 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote: > The following has been an interesting read > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Controversy-surrounds-Red-Hat-s-obfuscated-source-code-release-1200554.html > See http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/ It is a GPL violation. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Debian 6 Reviews
On Debian Squeeze reviews: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/distrowatch-gave-squeeze-a-poor-review-864166/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] p2p on mobiles
RIAA and MPAA to confiscate mobiles on suspicion: http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/Qualcomm-FastLinq/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] War on spammers and other views
Also on those social networking spammers ... http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Open-source-weapons-in-the-privacy-war/0,339028227,339308833,00.htm http://blog.futurestreetconsulting.com/?p=484 ...He does not understand the economics of mobiles Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Narendra Sisodiya wrote: > I am talking about normal user and not sysadmin type of guys (like me ) who > can handle problems > > Most of the users who follow the package manager do not run into problems. Google search results do not suggest much. Many of the users simply do not read the upgrade instructions properly and even then it works fine for most people. Do you have a study of the problems experienced to justify the statement? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Rakesh Kumar said on Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 08:20:01PM +0530,: > > > As i could think that may be grub couldn't be updated due to > > incorrect parameters or may kernel couldn't be updated properly. > > > > I think she should delete the grub > > by using : > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=256 count=1 > > or using "hda" instead of "sda" > > > > > > and reinstall it by using the media. Please if any one has experienced > > this problem, share your experience and suggest me something.. > > My first guess is this is a UUID problem. > I am certain that this is bug and not a uuid problem. OP should post the dmesg and older boot logs. Does the system boot now? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar wrote: > Hi, > One of my friend was using ubuntu 10.04. Today she tried to update > the ubuntu (as she told me) then shut down her laptop (ubuntu not > asked to restart). When after few hours she tried to turn on her > laptop it couldn't be loaded showing an error message "The disk drive > for / is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait or press S to > skip mounting or M for manual recovery". I told her to try in > accordance with the instructions but it couldn't recover her system. > As i could think that may be grub couldn't be updated due to > incorrect parameters or may kernel couldn't be updated properly. > Simply reboot or wait the login screen will appear. It is a new bug. check at launchpad. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/18/2010 07:41 PM, A. Mani wrote: >>> >> epub is a Xhtml + XML based format meant specifically for ebooks. > > you are still talking about the storage format, and not the delivery > mechanism. Blind people, afaik, dont give a rat's ass as to what or how the > content is stored. Its the delivery in such situations that makes it > relevant. > > the point you made is that epub would convert better into braile or even > text-to-speach, as compared to any other format. I'm just asking you how you > got to that result. > It is very structured (see specs) and uses less markup. It manages TOC in a efficient way through NCX. ... In readers this is important for speed. Text to speech would be more dependent on the ability of the external s/w used. The safest thing to convert is plain text. At least that is what most of manuals/books say. >> Editing : pdf, djvu are not meant for this. >> Size: epub is better than others >> lines can be wrapped in epub but not in pdfs/djvu ... this is >> important for reading the same document on other readers/pc > > Atleast the publishing, media and newsprint industry would disagree with you > on being able to edit or change column width in pdf files :) You can render > pdf into raster files - but one would consider that for the target audience > surely ? That would mean more baggage. I would like to see a white paper/study on that. Even Acrobat reader is not a very good tool for reading on screen ... speed of auto-scroll cannot be controlled, does not support wrap in any way. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 11/18/2010 07:10 AM, A. Mani wrote: >> >> The best ebook format is epub (for blind people .txt may be easier to >> use). >> Kindle does not support epub. > > perhaps offlist if you prefer, but I would like to know why you think a > storage format might have such a drastic impact on content delivery. > > kindle supports epub format'ed books fine given that non-drm'ed epub > documents can be converted to pdf. epub is a Xhtml + XML based format meant specifically for ebooks. The main criteria is : Screen Reading + Printing: Accessibility: text is better than other formats Searchability: image only pdf/djvu cannot be searched Screen Reading Only optimization Editing : pdf, djvu are not meant for this. Size: epub is better than others lines can be wrapped in epub but not in pdfs/djvu ... this is important for reading the same document on other readers/pc open format: Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM, sankarshan wrote: > 2010/11/18 Nagarjuna G : >> can I read html, text, PDF files of my own? > > The Kindle or, any other ebook reader for that matter supports a set > of file formats. Is your question specific to whether you can transfer > self-published content to the device and read ? If that is the > question then yes, if you are converting it to the format supported by > the device. The best ebook format is epub (for blind people .txt may be easier to use). Kindle does not support epub. Reading on 19 inch + screens is also a good idea for almost all formats. Digital libraries should have content in multiple open formats. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Whiteboards in Linux
Which is the most feature-rich and efficient? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Open Source Tools for creating PDF Forms with Digital Signature Fields
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Tarun Dua wrote: > I am looking for Open Source Tool chain to produce PDF Forms with > Digital Signature Fields ( 2 or more ) http://opensource.intarsys.de/home/en/index.php?n=OpenSource.JPod http://opensignature.sourceforge.net/english.php There are others > With end use being 'Have Acrobat Reader users save form data in text > fields and append their digital signatures visibly to the digital > signature fields. > > I have tried using Scribus and read a bit about OpenOffice's > capabilties but using either of them, the PDF Forms can't save form > data ( I didn't figure out how to add digital signature fields yet ) You can produce such things in Scribus, with LateX, etc Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] I am facing problem with my Graphics card
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: > Latest X doesn't need an xorg.conf as such, however if it is present X will > parse it as normal. For some older non pnp cards, manual editing is > required. > It will simply override xorg.conf in old formats like the one presented. Output device (monitor) should follow the things in xorg logs and serverflags incl autoenabledevices will be important Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Request for pressed cds/dvds for linux event in collg
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Nishant Prakash Kashyap wrote: > > I know everyone speaks about Open Source, FOSS, community, etc... but when it > comes to shell out some > money, everyone will back out. No one is going to send Free CDs/DVDs > including me. The problem is not money. Many FOSS projects will actually pay for the expenses of install fests. The problem is that these media get outdated in a few days time, putting in restricted stuff is a problem, and these days it is easier to make custom updated cd/dvds. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Request for pressed cds/dvds for linux event in collg
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Varun Mittal wrote: > Hello everybody, > On this coming weekend, we are organizing a basic Linux workshop > at Jaypee Univ Shimla. For the sake of the interest of the students we > request you to send us pressed cds of ubuntu or fedora. The package > might be sent directly to the university or given to Mr Aanand > Shankar,PowerGrid Gurgaon. Nobody is going to send Fedora media. The best thing would be to make custom updated DVDs yourself. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] fedora as a server
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 6:07 PM, abhishek jain wrote: > I need to know is it possible? i have used it previously in other flavors of > linux , but cannt do this in latest Fedora. > Pl. advice, Simply configure system-config-services including network and network manager. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: > dear raj, > > oh! this gets better. > apparantly, this proprietary-ware does pivoting in software. > http://www.portrait.com/enu/pivot/overview.html > > > so, taking the vision and philosophy of foss forward: > "once it's done by proprietaryware, > it can easily be replicated in foss" > Rotating the display is easily done in KDE Why do you need a special s/w or script? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] 21" monitor in portrait mode?
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > Amazing! That was exactly the example I was about to give to Mithun > before I decided that there was not enough value in my views to post :) > > So looks like even if I don't wrap at 80, the median and mean line > lengths are likely to be between 20 and 30. Can I please have that 4:3 > monitor now? :) Does your IDE take over the whole screen? Which window managers can help with your problem in wide screen monitors? If you have a big enough (wide or square) monitor from say benq ... you will be fine. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] medical imaging software
See: http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/2010030916055813/MedicalImaging.html Excellent summaries! Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] Nvidia Drivers
This week NVIDIA had to pull its latest WHQL-certified graphics drivers on Windows due to a bug that would cause the fan controller to not respond correctly to the current conditions of the GPU workload and in some cases would even turn the GPU's fan off. This bug could potentially kill the NVIDIA graphics card due to overheating. It turns out this potentially fatal bug is also present in their newest 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 Linux drivers. NVIDIA's Aaron Plattner has made an announcement that this driver fan speed bug may be present in the 195.36.08 and 195.36.03 driver releases so users should cease using those drivers and revert to the older 190.53 version. NVIDIA is in the process of pulling these drivers from their web-site. Canonical has already issued a warning to those using the NVIDIA driver on Ubuntu 10.04 to disable the driver and switch over to the open-source Nouveau driver until this serious bug has been resolved. ___ But that was the solution for the BSOD game in M$Windows. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Issue with Texlive [ Latex ]
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Gaurang Aggarwal wrote: > Hi , > I installed texlive complete package through the synaptic manager . I can't > see the way to open the application . > Help me out . It should have been installed. Install the texlive documentation, kile, Texmaker, texmacs and Lyx Usually people use one of those IDEs for using tex, latex, pdflatex, omega or context. #latex abc.tex Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:18 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Raj Mathur wrote: > >> On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: >> > No , this do not happen, You write a book, most publisher just print >> > your name as author but copyright and license to distribute is with >> > publisher. this is must like a IT company where coder (labor) write >> > code and it goes into company account. >> >> Sorry, copyright vests with the original author. Pick up any book on >> your shelf and look at the copyright on the publishing page, it will >> invariably be with the author or the author's estate. >> >> Sorry , in most of the case copyright will not remain with author, > If copyright is with author then multiple publishers will be able to publish > it, That happens because publishers do not understand / or are confused. Some of them require authors to sign 'copyright transfer forms', which actually restricts the right to publish/ distribute the same work in substantially similar form. But the vagueness in such agreements can be exploited in legal situations. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
Re: [ilugd] M$ open source
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:53 AM, A. Mani wrote: >> >> See: >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5822&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2Fopen-source+%28ZDNet+Open+Source%29&alertspromo >> >> Excerpts: >> >> >> "What Microsoft has done with the library is an open source project >> called the Research Information Centre Framework. It’s a virtual >> research framework, helping them manage the increasingly complex range >> of tasks involved in 21st century research. >> >> OK, where’s the catch? >> >> Built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, >> the RIC extends the core MOSS functionality to meet the needs to >> academic researchers engaged in collaborative research projects" >> >> >> "To Microsoft open source is not an end in itself. It is a marketing >> tool. It is a way to gain lock-in with important customer sets." >> > > The first comment echoes my sentiments exactly - > > A for-profit software extends an existing framework (that they built over 9 > years) to solve a specific problem. > > You think they should have built a whole solution that runs on LAMP from > scratch, and open source it? You think that would be profitable? (remember, > they're a company with investors) FOSS can be more profitable. The problem is also with the clients. They should force the implementation of 100% FOSS solutions. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] M$ open source
See: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5822&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2Fopen-source+%28ZDNet+Open+Source%29&alertspromo Excerpts: "What Microsoft has done with the library is an open source project called the Research Information Centre Framework. It’s a virtual research framework, helping them manage the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in 21st century research. OK, where’s the catch? Built on top of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, the RIC extends the core MOSS functionality to meet the needs to academic researchers engaged in collaborative research projects" "To Microsoft open source is not an end in itself. It is a marketing tool. It is a way to gain lock-in with important customer sets." ____________ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
[ilugd] GPL violations in bluewhite64 linux
See http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/on-ethics-and-bluewhite64-is-it-a-parasite-708535/ for a long discussion. Basically bluewhite64 seems to be a case of violating GPL with 'sed' Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] rpm improvements
http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/2009/10/rpm-summit-at-the-opensuse-conference-2009/ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] FOSS booklets ,
narendra sisodiya wrote: > May ILUGD and Sarai members give us the link to some > articles/tutorials/booklet which you feel suitable to distribute on > Introductory Course Material for FOSS workshops in new Engg colleges. > If anybody has such booklet ,, Also the initial thought in my mind for > giving these contents, Please feel free to add topics For up to date manuals, see foss manuals, Ubuntu and Fedora sites at least http://www.flossmanuals.net The FM people make very effective use of objavi. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Slackware Pkg Management
has improved somewhat, but not in *buntu or Fedora's class http://beginlinux.com/desktop_training/168-slackware/1427-slackware-package-management Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
