[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 sheel.lover...@gmail.com 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] 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-Progressingp=259648#post259648 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressingp=259677#post259677 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressingp=259680#post259680 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?70539-Many-FSF-Priority-Projects-Still-Not-Progressingp=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
[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 fyo...@insecure.org 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 nagar...@gnowledge.org 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] [fosscomm] FOSS Petition for WB
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Sanjeev Gupta gha...@gmail.com 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
Re: [ilugd] [Off-topic]R expert
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:54 AM, kamakshaiah m kamakshaia...@gmail.com 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
[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 paiva...@gmail.com 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 sudhirgando...@gmail.com 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
[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
Re: [ilugd] Comparison of txt2tags and other light mark-up Languages
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:39 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com 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:
h1 New section in HTML / h1
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
[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
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 hi_ped...@yahoo.com 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 law...@thenilgiris.com 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 satyaa...@gmail.com 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] 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 naren...@narendrasisodiya.com 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 8:20 PM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com 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] Ubuntu 10.04 got crashed
On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com 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] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.org 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 mail-li...@karan.org 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 foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/11/18 Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org: 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 li...@tarundua.net 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 ankit.chaturv...@gmail.com 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 npkash...@gmail.com 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 varunmitta...@gmail.com 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] 21 monitor in portrait mode?
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com 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 r...@linux-delhi.org 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 :) snip 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 honeygaur...@gmail.com 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 narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org 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 ajn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:53 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: See: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5822utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2Fopen-source+%28ZDNet+Open+Source%29alertspromo 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=5822utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2Fopen-source+%28ZDNet+Open+Source%29alertspromo 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 narendra.sisod...@gmail.com 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/
Re: [ilugd] calculaotr software in linux.
narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: You can have a look at Octave, Octave is Open source alteranative of Matlab. Google search give me some more links - http://extcalc-linux.sourceforge.net/ http://labplot.sourceforge.net/ http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/48666-there-scientific-calculator-under-linux.html But Octave is most suitable for your purpose as you need matrix and quations. Try octave !! xmaxima is also good and simpler. If you are installing octave, then install qtoctave as well. Scilab is another option 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] BOSS on ILUGD list -- sharing a few thoughts
Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: please do open a wiki page. at best we can consolidate the issues -- in the true FOSS spirit, bugs could be identified so that some way to solve them (at worst isolate them) could emerge. http://bugzilla.bosslinux.in/cgi-bin/bugzilla/index.cgi does not seem to exist. 5. There are a few packages like Bulk Document Converter, Presentation Tool, etc. -- integrated with BOSS distro, but could be candidates for stand alone packages. The converter is under GNUGPL2. The package needs to be updated for OO-3.0. It is script basically and definitely requires OO at least 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] NCERT Books online
Sandip Bhattacharya sand...@foss-community.com wrote: At the moment each book is just showing content pages. And the devanagri fonts need some ironing out still. All the chapters are available. The idiot who designed the setup doesn't realize how broken it is. S/He is testing the users understanding of wget :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com 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] F12 Alpha Release
F12 Alpha test releases can be found at: http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-Alpha-TC/ If you want to test it then take a look at the test cases: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Fedora_12_Alpha_Install_Test_Results ... and do update it Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com 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] Fedora - 11 system hang problem
Devendra Gupta dev29...@gmail.com wrote: My system only hangs, it doesn't shutdown in this problem, mouse keep moving but cant click, there are no links to click at the time of hang because a blank screen comes having fedora icon only, the screen which you can see during fedora 11 startup. Only option remains to Boot into runlevel 3 or 2 in CLI mode and post output of 'relevant part of' #dmesg #lspci #startx Seems there is a bug with the graphics card driver. Create a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf . You can make it complete and force it too. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com 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] [OT] New Highs for e-commerce
Strong commercial motivations account for nine out of ten emails on the Internet. That is a 5.4% growth over the previous month. According to a senior US congress spokesperson, 'a ten percent increase should be sufficient to beat the recession'. Read more at http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry4387.html Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] Internet Censorship
Internet Threatened By Censorship, Secret Surveillance, And Cybersecurity Laws By Stephen Lendman See: http://www.countercurrents.org/lendman220509.htm Mentions different laws and their scope in the US. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] Undelete in Linux
'Foremost' works in all *nixes #man foremost FOREMOST(1)FOREMOST(1) NAME foremost - Recover files using their headers, footers, and data struc‐ tures SYNOPSIS foremost [-h][-V][-d][-vqwQT][-bblock‐ size][-odir][-ttype][-snum][-ifile] BUILTIN FORMATS Recover files from a disk image based on file types specified by the user using the -t switch. jpgSupport for the JFIF and Exif formats including implementations used in modern digital cameras. gif png bmpSupport for windows bmp format. avi exeSupport for Windows PE binaries, will extract DLL and EXE files along with their compile times. mpgSupport for most MPEG files (must begin with 0x01BA) SNIP DESCRIPTION Recover files from a disk image based on headers and footers specified by the user. -h Show a help screen and exit. -V Show copyright information and exit. -d Turn on indirect block detection, this works well for Unix file systems. -T Time stamp the output directory so you don’t have to delete the output dir when running multiple times. SNIP Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] How to increase /root partition size in Ubun tu 8.04
Ramkumar R artag...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after installation, using gparted? gparted will do this fine. Next time, consider implementing LVM to resize partitions on-the-fly. Better still get the latest parted magic cd and do it from that. Of course you cannot do it from within Ubuntu. uuids may change, so you may need to edit /etc/fstab (put in device names) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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 and Indian Political Party Websites
Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: The server is Apache and for www.cpim.org as well, the ASP part is not mentioned anywhere True, Interestingly, nothing is mentioned. The source clearly says it uses Drupal and it is all php http://vote.cpim.org/node/1352 see the PODCAST and button with link http://www.gigyamailbutton.com/wildfire/gigyamailbutton.ashx?url=aHR*cDovL3dpbGRmaXJlLmdpZ3lhLmNvbS93aWxkZmlyZS93ZnBvcC5hc3B4P21vZHVsZT1lbWFpbCZ1cmw9aHR*cCUzYSUyZiUyZnd3dy5wb2RvbWF*aWMuY29tJTJmcG9kY2FzdCUyZmVtYmVkJTJmdm9*ZWNwaW1*ZXN* this leads to ASP based site. Does FOSSilosophy allow us to link to M$ tech site like this? Not M$ tech site, but an ad / social networking company. They must have got the button via podomatic.com Linking to such sites may be justified on pragmatic grounds. But yes 100% FOSS is the way to go. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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 and Indian Political Party Websites
Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: Congress Party website is www.aicc.org.in which is PHP based. Best viewed with IE 5.5 .. CPIM website has an election 2009 site http://vote.cpim.org which is ASP based. The server is Apache and for www.cpim.org as well, the ASP part is not mentioned anywhere www.ganashakti.com (CPIM newspaper) : PHP + Apache (Debian) wmtips.com generally provides all the information The Left website www.pragoti.org is all FOSS based php + Apache + Drupal There may be many more parties beloved of many ones out of you and the list may be enhanced for a better analysis. AIADMK : ASP + M$ IIS TMC: ASP +M$ IIS DMK : ASP + M$ IIS and similar results for many others Most of them get the job done through companies ... who may know FOSS tools. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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 and Indian Political Party Websites
Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: Congress Party website is www.aicc.org.in which is PHP based. Best viewed with IE 5.5 .. CPIM website has an election 2009 site http://vote.cpim.org which is ASP based. The server is Apache and for www.cpim.org as well, the ASP part is not mentioned anywhere Addendum: How can anybody use ASP with Drupal ? :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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 and Indian Political Party Websites
Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: Congress Party website is www.aicc.org.in which is PHP based. Best viewed with IE 5.5 .. CPIM website has an election 2009 site http://vote.cpim.org which is ASP based. The server is Apache and for www.cpim.org as well, the ASP part is not mentioned anywhere Addendum: How can anybody use ASP with Drupal ? :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] M$ trying to fragment ODF
Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office Excerpts from http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html The technical details are all on Rob’s blog, but in summary, when opening an ODF spreadsheet (.ods file) using Office 2007, it simply removes all existing formulas without telling anything to the user, leaving only the values in cells (results of formulas evaluation, previously stored in the document). If a user wants to test the ODF support in Office, and without giving due attention, save an existing spreadsheet, will overwrite the document removing all the formulas (as if you were writing a table). I saw absurdities in life, but nothing compared to this. When using Office 2007 to generate a new worksheet, the formulas will be stored in a way that only will be understood by Office 2007 (or by CleverAge, an MS Office plug-in to support ODF, developed as Open Source and sponsored by Microsoft), eliminating the possibility that any other existing application could be used to usefully read the document. While the first problem simply throw out all the business intelligence inside the spreadsheet (formulas), the second locks in the user on Office 2007 forever (we have seen this movie before…). The justification that could be used by Microsoft about it, is the lack of spreadsheet formula definition in ODF 1.0/1.1. Interesting to note that in ODF 1.2 (which is developed with the participation of Microsoft) this problem has been resolved with the creation of OpenFormula). The first comparative table of Rob’s post, summarizes a test on the same subject that he did a few weeks ago, it is easy to see that even without any spreadsheet formula definition inside ODF 1.1, interoperability between the tested set of existing applications ( KOffice, OpenOffice, Google Docs, Symphony and Sun’s plug-in for Office) really exists on the real world (except for CleverAge that presented some problems). This means that all other developers are not concerned only to ‘comply with standard’s requirements’ (conformance) but also in developing a truly useful and interoperable application to users. Rob also says that the set of formulas used by these applications (based on OpenOffice) was developed based on existing formulas from Excel (at least ironic, huh?). Microsoft Office 2007 does not support encryption (password protection) in ODF documents ! I generated a simple text document (.odt) in ODF using OpenOffice and saved it with password protection. I sent the document (and password) to several friends and the result was the same: MS Office cannot open the document because it is password protected (some of those friends also have installed on their computers other tools that support ODF and on 100% of those tools it worked). I also asked them to generate a document in Office 2007 with password protection and send me, but they said that when trying to do this, MSOffice presented a warning message saying that you cannot use password protection using the ODF format. I would really like to find a good technical explanation for this, since the encryption and password protection are fully specified in ODF 1.0/1.1 (item 17.3 of the specification), and they are using existing algorithms, very familiar to any developer. A comment from Rob in his post (that not dealt with the encryption) is able to comment with mastery the problem I found (and I fully agree with him): “…I was taught to never assume malice where incompetence would be the simpler explanation. But the degree of incompetence needed to explain SP2’s poor ODF support boggles the mind and leads me to further uncharitable thoughts… ” Read More at http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html http://www.robweir.com/blog/2009/05/update-on-odf-spreadsheet.html http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2009/05/06/odf-with-no-excuse/ ___ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] Flash BIOS from within Linux Desktop
The Flashrom utility is developed by the CoreBoot project (formerly known as LinuxBIOS) as a way to read, write, erase, and verify flash ROM chips. Flashrom has been in development for quite a while (nearly a decade), but now they have finally come out with a version 0.9.0 release and soon expect to reach a 1.0 status. This utility supports nearly every x86 motherboard after having worked on support for over 150 flash chip families (and many various for each family), 75 different chipsets, workarounds for non-standard motherboards, and there is no need for CD-ROM or floppy disk. read more at http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=coreboot_flashromnum=1 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] Ubuntu -9.04 Released
See http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1209275cid=27687527 Best A.Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] [ilug-calinfo] Re: Ubuntu -9.04 Released
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:41 PM, dan dantrev...@gmail.com wrote: Even better: http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso.torrent http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso.torrent http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-server-amd64.iso.torrent http://ftp.daum.net/ubuntu-releases/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-server-i386.iso.torrent And someone needs to organize a release party in India! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties#Asia The weather is bad in Kolkata. Max temp ~43 C. But on the next LUG meeting we can have a release party... sometime in May. I don't know about Delhi. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://amani.topcities.com ___ 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] Routers under Attack
Recently, security researchers at DroneBL identified a botnet, named psyb0t, which attacks DSL modems and routers. It searches out and takes advantage of particular devices with ports opened to the Internet using a weak password. Once the worm enters a router, it blocks ports and could possibility do more damage by exposing sensitive information and/or attack other networks. See http://www.dronebl.org/blog/8 http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6726/2/ Desktop users should consider pesticides and maybe switch over to the bridge protocol :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] Some Benefit of Using Linux and Free Software over Windows
tashi samphel tasa...@gmail.com wrote: *2. Security: For this purpose one has to use any antivirus*. i) Norton/ McAfee Antivirus, ClamWin, AVG Antivirus ClamWin --Rs 0 ? Rs - 5600 Avast Home for Linux users Clamav Rs - Zero *Rs - 5600* *3. Scientific application:* i) Maxima, Axiom,Sympy YACAS, Sage, Mace Rs-Zero ii) Octave,Scilab Sage Rs-Zero iii) R-project,PSPP,S-Plus Rs-Zero S-Plus is commercial s/w Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] Some Benefit of Using Linux and Free Software over Windows
Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: I saw the part about that link to the list, and the credit to the author. However, I still feel that you should formally ask him for permission. (Waiting for the CC-attributed posts flame war to start again.) Yes we really do not know about his desired license. The mistakes have been copied too Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] Fisicalab
FísicaLab is an educational application to solve physics problems. Is made with GNUstep and use the GSL libraries (GNU Scientific Library). The problems are setting adding elements from the palette to chalkboard, and writing the data of each element. The elements are objects as Blocks, Pulleys, Mobiles, Forces, ... . Use the SI and English systems, scientific notation and many conversion factors. The problems that can be solved with FísicaLab 0.1, are: Kinematics of particles (doesn't include circular motion). Statics of particles in 2D. Dynamic of particles in 2D (doesn't include dynamic of circular motion). The static and dynamic problems are entered constructing the free body diagrams of the objects. Although FísicaLab is easy and intuitive, we recommend you read the help files first before set any problem. You can access these files in the option menu Info - Help. License: GPL 3 http://www.nongnu.org/fisicalab/ __ Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] FAT Patents??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Linux Foundation (LF) announced that it will help companies excise the Microsoft FAT filesystem from their systems to avoid the fate of TomTom, which recently settled with Microsoft over alleged patent infringements over FAT. Meanwhile, other open-source leaders are suggesting a standardized FAT substitute may be in the offing. Read more at http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9491210833.html Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknbfI8ACgkQunMISzvdfU6yAQCfdjb3ThNaM1lnQ0RDpG02kGBD AIMAnRe2ZqHQuoxSm4IjYQpC98D6YaBI =hmtN -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Book on FOSS
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a look at this book... apparently on politics of copyleft and OSS Copy, Rip, Burn by David M. Berry Pluto Press, 2008 On page 15, the author writes In contrast, software that is sold or distributed with the source code, which provides no restrictions on further copying and modification, is known as free software or open source. Richard Stallman19 argues that unless software is supplied with the source code then it should not be considered software at all – if it’s not source, it’s not software (Stallman, 2004). All in all a market economist looking at the OSS and FOSS movements with plenty of borrowed quotes and no real substance or originality. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknQAnsACgkQunMISzvdfU4BggCfXSSSKG3qu6kF/5TzmP8DxQX/ y/MAoJfw4rwgc5hETCKc81J3ojM/Pnc2 =8WA0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 200903181253.24166.li...@sandipb.net wrote: Nothing specific against BJP, but do you really think that a policy intention has in the past ever worked against market forces in a government/economics setup which is market-driven? Not just that. Entire right-wing political politics is market driven and their political parties are made up of people 'essentially representing business houses'. M$ has plenty of people in many of these parties and ...fraudulence of BJP's election promises is well known. The recession has pauperised many and has been an excuse for trimming down 'many excessively wealthy people '. I think the 'lip-service for FOSS' is intended to play a buffer role for the strategies for increasing rich-middle-class -poor divides. Our past friends CPIM talked about FOSS on one hand and proudly announced strategic partnership with M$ for state education on the other hand. That is factually incorrect. No left-ruled state has a strategic partnership with M$ for state education. Or was the recent free h/w with M$ offer accepted? The companies involved include some major IT companies excluding M$. FOSS penetration is severe in Kerala with most departments and almost all Left organisations have adopted FOSS. FOSS penetration in education can be expected to be total within a few years. In WB it is work in progress. You should be also clear about differences between the IT policies of the different Left ruled states. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknBJsAACgkQunMISzvdfU5dWwCfXdmsaWRN5N4hGG3l7dKydu5i amIAn3yiUXq98e7WuG6R0pMYPvlNv6kG =jCbL -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] freedom pdf readers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com But PDF is a widely used format for document publishing. If we bring another format into the public domain we will also be requiring a huge awareness campaign for this. I understand playing catch up might be hard..but at the same time giving too The pdf format specs is huge. Even Adobe does not care to implement all of it in its applications. It is basically a question of selecting an appropriate subset (for implementation)... not playing catch. many options to the end-user and finally ending up with a dozzen of different formats won't also do any good. That should not be a problem, provided they are free and open. DJVU is a very advanced format with over twenty years of evolution. See http://djvu.org/resources/ ... it has plenty of advantages over pdf. Let's not forget, all that an end-user wants is her/his document to be published in a readable format. So, let's not confuse them any further then they already are... That is not meaningful in any sense. Is your 'end-user' an idiot? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm/wycACgkQunMISzvdfU4mYgCdHmKjXcv5gjLiUyGmmcGX071/ 4XwAnj4dMOzeyttNDIW0VSaUduhKv3m9 =Ltip -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] GUI for Phoronix Test Suite
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 See http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=pts_selbu_guinum=1 ... The Phoronix Test Suite is not exactly difficult to use from a command line, but this feature has been in development for Phoronix Test Suite 2.0. However, with this morning's release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.8.0 Alpha 2, a preview of this GUI has been introduced. Those testing Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD, and Mac OS X systems now have a simple yet intuitive interface for facilitating their system benchmarks. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmmp5oACgkQunMISzvdfU7MvACfYilUJ0Xbikv1tRYraa6nq8X7 g/8An0wzIeB4UTf6xigfTreE1OCwy3cE =0kGq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Linux Starter Pack
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Basically a Guide + Ubuntu dvd http://www.tuxradar.com/linuxstarterpack ...your opinion? Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmnAs8ACgkQunMISzvdfU5q5QCgiO3rQpwo9kswhieaNCsCiuMQ cjQAn2vEYWZiPZgFgMCXWCtf3oxi1n07 =pRIX -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Fwd: Patent defense, FOSS-style
-- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Tiller rtil...@redhat.com Date: Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 9:21 PM Subject: Patent defense, FOSS-style To: fedora-announce-l...@redhat.com I wanted to let everyone know of a new development in the lawsuit against Red Hat and Novell brought by IP Innovation, a subsidiary of the noted patent troll firm Acacia Technologies. We are inviting FOSS community members to submit prior art relevant to the patents, which may be used to help invalidate the patents. On Friday we posted information regarding the three patents in suit on the Linux Defenders website in its Post Issue Peer to Patent area. The site was developed with Red Hat's assistance by the Open Invention Network and the Center for Patent Innovations at New York Law School, which is now being run by our old friend Mark Webbink. The site is here: http://www.post-issue.org/user-interface-with-multiple-workspaces-for-sharing-display-system-objects-3 The claims of the patents, which can be reached from the site, concern a user interface that has multiple workspaces.Red Hat has strong defenses in this lawsuit, but this will likely reinforce them. We also view this as an additional opportunity for creative collaboration with the community. Robert H. Tiller Vice President Assistant General Counsel, IP Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh, N.C. 27606 (919) 754 4232 rtil...@redhat.com _ -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] LQ Poll Results
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Desktop Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu (35.36%) Server Distribution of the Year - Debian (25.55%) Live Distribution of the Year - Ubuntu Live (23.43%) Database of the Year - MySQL (58.10%) Office Suite of the Year - OpenOffice.org (93.03%) Browser of the Year - Firefox (75.89%) Desktop Environment of the Year - KDE (43.57%) Window Manager of the Year - Compiz (31.56%) Messaging App of the Year - Pidgin (53.40%) Mail Client of the Year - Thunderbird (51.43%) Virtualization Product of the Year - VirtualBox (61.10%) Audio Media Player Application of the Year - Amarok (48.80%) Audio Authoring Application of the Year - Audacity (70.45%) Video Media Player Application of the Year - mplayer (38.31%) Video Authoring Application of the Year - Avidemux (19.59%) Multimedia Utility of the Year - K3b (46.77%) Graphics Application of the Year - GIMP (70.41%) Network Security Application of the Year - nmap (28.96%) Host Security Application of the Year - SELinux (42.86%) Monitoring Application of the Year - Nagios (39.74%) Windows on Linux App of the Year - Wine (85.21%) IDE/Web Development Editor of the Year - Eclipse (24.25%) Text Editor of the Year - vi/vim (39.76%) File Manager of the Year - Nautilus (25.54%) Open Source Game of the Year - Battle for Wesnoth (17.31%) Programming Language of the Year - Python (26.25%) Backup Application of the Year - rsync (40.10%) See http://www.linuxquestions.org:80/questions/linux-news-59/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-award-winners-704226 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmYIYsACgkQunMISzvdfU6efACfU7Rj9gdjrge1I7tzRMS1MrW+ UsQAniafoj9czwDj6szhGBB9A1ExxCR3 =QCky -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] To Update or Not To Update [OT]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a 500GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 with a dreaded firmware (this drive was a replacement for the same model with same firmware) and the Seagate site recommends a firmware update. But this forum : http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drivesthread.id=9060view=by_date_ascendingpage=11 still says something about ST3500320AS Quite a Problem Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmMcksACgkQunMISzvdfU5RwgCeONHhL+py50n2HF3fNsmtn7eO 3D0AoLTNFQSL/z4KndphsPfmIp/7f4Wx =ugBw -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Tibetan Linux
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will promote the development of Tibetan language software with the goal of helping Tibetans promote their culture and develop their economy. The plan will narrow the digital gap between Tibet and the interior areas and speed the construction of the region's information highway, the CAS official website said Saturday. The CAS Software Institute, Tibet University and the Tibetan Language Working Committee of the Tibet Autonomous Region jointly developed an office software suite in Tibetan last year. They also collaborated with Beijing Zhongke Red Flag Software Company to develop a Tibetan language Linux operating system. Tibet University used the software to establish a teaching platform for its Tibetan information technology and computer classes. More than 150 Tibetan middle and primary schools have adopted the software, as have some media organizations, including Tibet Daily and Tibet Radio Station. Source: Xinhua Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJfh+0oIK4BlImohYRAhoWAJ48Bl1vQJ0r/nj9E0Tdq5Q59EA1TQCfYyG9 5NcDPyQL8y2OJFp16eVPD8w= =5aoQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Barcamp Kolkata Presentations
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please see some of the presentations (including mine) at BARCAMP KOLKATA at the IIT KGP Center on 3rd Jan'2009 at http://blog.barcampkolkata.org/ There were other presentations on ROR, OpenStreetMap, WEB-2.0, Scalability of WEB applications, Conversion (in website design), Mobile Computing and more Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJYNNQoIK4BlImohYRAuafAJ9XqqBhD99IQekklTMSWrqbGcR73wCgjy/5 scFofaLEhfj98j9K24ktSVU= =tKjU -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Strange issue with network card on Ubuntu 8.04
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Arun Khan wrote: It could be flacky hardware or the r8169 is not quite the correct driver for the NIC. His hardware is NOT OK. I have the same NIC, it works perfectly on that driver in all Linux and Kubuntu. Checked lspci -vvv too. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD4DBQFJTCXkoIK4BlImohYRAibJAJY8vyJKWY+bxBbHZUqQdHMGitsQAJ0Xpjcx n3IS34WSjKvftInMGeBlkA== =ZyFA -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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] Perl-6
Version 6 of the popular Perl programming language will not be compatible with previous versions, but will open up a new world of custom languages and interpreters, according to its founder Larry Wall It will break backward compatibility [but] in order to simplify it we have to get rid of old cruft, particularly the regular expression cruft, Wall said. A lot of the unreadability of Perl is related to the regular expression syntax – and we didn't do that, we got it from Unix. It needs to be end-of-lifed. Regular expressions are not strings, they are a sub-language. We took it and made it worse. There is this two-pass nature that is evil. See http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/269758/perl_6_break_compatibility_support_other_interpreters?eid=-6787 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] Fwd: Songbird 1.0 is Released!
-- Forwarded message -- From: Songbird [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 11:28 PM Subject: Songbird 1.0 is Released! Songbird 1.0 is Released! Download Songbird 1.0 We set out to build an open, customizable music player. Today, we're launching with dozens of integrated services, hundreds of add-ons, and a growing developer community. We'll be the first to admit that there's plenty left to do. And, while we're not ready for everyone, 160k users a month are expressing their vote for an alternative music player. New Features GStreamer We now use GStreamer as our main media playback system, across all platforms - giving us higher performance, better reliability, and a platform for much more media-related functionality in the future. Improved mashTape When you listen to music in Songbird you'll have the option to see Flickr photos, YouTube videos, last.fm biographies, google news (and more) for the currently playing artist. Improved Album Art Support The album artwork feature now supports drag and drop of images, as well as, toggling between Now Playing and Currently Selected tracks. Complete Keyboard Shortcuts We've cleaned up our Keyboard Shortcuts this release (and added some new ones for power users). Updated Linux Installer We've created a single archive that has all the necessary dependencies so that Linux users can run Songbird without having to install any additional dependencies. Re-usable Smart Playlists By popular request we've implemented the ability to use a smart playlist as a rule within another smart playlist. Reveal Original Files We've added the ability to expose the media items in Songbird as files in your filesystem by right clicking and choosing Show File. Recommended Add-ons Updater A new update mechanism ensures that all upgraded users have an option to install the latest Recommended Add-ons. Hide Show Display Panes We were inspired by Atrieu's Pane Button add-on and decided to add a few buttons to allow you to toggle between showing hiding Display panes. Simpler Column Headings We've refined the column heading property list and made it easier to enable the properties you care about. Performance Enhancements We made some substantial gains this release: Drastically Faster Search: Searching in Songbird is now anywhere from 10x faster for small libraries to 1000x for large ones. Reduced RAM Usage: There's a 70% reduction in RAM usage when importing and using large (100,000 track) libraries. Faster Media Importing: Importing media into Songbird is now 2-4x faster. Reduced Startup Times: Large library users (10,000 tracks or more) will notice that Songbird startup times are now twice as fast. Efficient Scrolling: Scrolling through your library now uses half the amount of CPU. Snappier Sorting: Sorting your library is now 3-4x faster, which adds up to significantly smoother browsing when scrolling and filtering. Optimized DB Size: We've optimized the database in Songbird and reduced its size by, on average, 60%. This leads to a variety of performance improvements throughout the application. Fewer Crashers: We've worked hard to identify and fix 11 of the most common crashes in Songbird. For Developers We've created a simple guide for updating 0.7.0 Feathers to be 1.0 compatible. For extension developers, we've created a similar guide for updating extensions to be 1.0 compatible. We updated the Media Core APIs to take advantage of GStreamer. This allows for more power and flexibility in controlling playback. We've documented how developers can add support for additional playback formats by packaging GStreamer plugins as Songbird add-ons. Early Feedback on 1.0 Songbird is improving at a rapid pace - Ryan Pau - Ars Technica the program runs and feels faster - Seth Rosenblatt - CNET [Songbird] has much to offer and is an improvement over the betas we looked at earlier - Scott Gilbertson - webmonkey We are very excited about our parternship with Songbird because it integrates a rich deskop media player with our database of concerts and tickets. While listening to my music library, I can see when my bands are on tour. The integration was painless and an example of the open and extensible platform Songbird have built. - Ian Hogarth, Founder CEO of Songkick concert ticketing service Songbird brings the limitless, often fan-created context of the Web to your desktop media player, and put media playing innovation in the hands of any web developer. - Ian Rogers, Topspin Media and Former GM, Yahoo Music What's Next Our goal is to continue to focus on building a world-class, open music player. Our next release will consist of continued focus on performance and stability gains, implementing additional audio features on top of GStreamer, and much more. Stay tuned to the blog to keep up to date, or if you like to live dangerously check out one of our nightly builds and see the progress for yourself! Best A. Mani -- A. Mani
[ilugd] Enlarging the Global Commons
, CSIR, Policy Implications for India Shri Venkatesh Hariharan, Red Hat, 1PM - 2PM Lunch 2PM - 3PM Traditional Knowledge Chairperson: Shri TC James, DIPP, Ministry of Commerce* and Innovation Speaker: Prof. Prabhat Patnaik, Vice-Chairman, Kerala State Planning Board 3 PM – 3.15PM Tea Break 3.15PM – 5.00 PM Patents, Open Source, Speakers: Prof. Shamnad Bashir, National University of Open Standards and Juridical Sciences, Kolkata, Open Content Shri Ashish Gautam, IBM Ms. Kajal Bharadhwaj, Medicine San Frontiere (MSF) Dr. Jaijit Bhattacharya, IIT Delhi Prof. Ram Ramaswamy, Scholars Without Borders JNU 5.00 – 6.00 PM A CollaborativeChairperson: Shri S.P. Shukla, Former Amb. GATT, Innovation Roadmap Chairperson, National Working Group on Patent Law WTO for India: Open House Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc ___ 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] Kernel or Seagate Issue?
Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A bit more info on the hardware you have, the setup you run, smartctl
status etc would go a long way in even starting to look at this issue.
It is a ST3500320AS with Firmware revision SD15
I have tested it well enough. But still I am not sure.
1. Those errors were on AMD RS 690G
AHCI (with RAID), but I was not using RAID.
and changing SATA type to IDE would not help
Sometimes it would be missing because of the errors.
It has been very smart always (smartctl).
Recovered most data.
Three JFS partitions (logical) got badly corrupted (recovery would be
the nitpicking type)
Interchanging the SATA ports still meant a problem with the drive
hdparm info
{EnabledSupported:
*SMART feature set
Security Mode feature set
*Power Management feature set
*Write cache
*Look-ahead
*Host Protected Area feature set
*WRITE_BUFFER command
*READ_BUFFER command
*DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE
SET_MAX security extension
*48-bit Address feature set
*Device Configuration Overlay feature set
*Mandatory FLUSH_CACHE
*FLUSH_CACHE_EXT
*SMART error logging
*SMART self-test
*General Purpose Logging feature set
*64-bit World wide name
*Write-Read-Verify feature set
*WRITE_UNCORRECTABLE_EXT command
*{READ,WRITE}_DMA_EXT_GPL commands
*SATA-I signaling speed (1.5Gb/s)
*SATA-II signaling speed (3.0Gb/s)
*Native Command Queueing (NCQ)
*Phy event counters
*Software settings preservation
*SMART Command Transport (SCT) feature set
*SCT Long Sector Access (AC1)
*SCT Error Recovery Control (AC3)
*SCT Features Control (AC4)
*SCT Data Tables (AC5)
unknown 206[12] (vendor specific)}
2. Then I put it on another AMD 64-bit nvidia chipset system
The Seagate utility showed: SMART OK, but DST error 07 (always)
Then the PC would take quite a lot of time to even complete POST with
the drive in.
So I used the wipe utilities from system rescue CD and hdparm.
After that I made a few partitions and checked it again with the
seagate utility: this time it cleared the long test
(I believe this is due to the drive warming up and self-test being
enabled). Will check it after it cools down :)
Best
A. Mani
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[ilugd] Kernel or Seagate Issue?
you may be knowing this on Seagate SATA drives (Barracuda):
ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90202 action 0xe frozen
[ 116.038145] ata2: irq_stat 0x0040, PHY RDY changed
[ 116.038190] ata2: SError: { RecovComm Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B }
[ 116.038242] ata2: hard resetting link
[ 116.916960] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
[ 116.917019] ata2: EH complete
[ 117.516247] ata2: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90202 action
0xe frozen
[ 117.516300] ata2: irq_stat 0x0040, PHY RDY changed
[ 117.516345] ata2: SError: { RecovComm Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B }
[ 117.516396] ata2: hard resetting link
[ 118.391380] ata2: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
.
What is the correct way to deal with this?
Is the latest kernel OK on this?
Or is it a firmware problem? ... esp as it is apparently a
cross-platform problem?
Thanks
A. Mani
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