Re: [LUG@IITD:17240] Open hardware project

2013-11-03 Thread Linux Lingam
Get in touch with Vinay Chaddha from http://www.gvc.in and give my reference: vinay: 9811074026 regards n On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote: I have in mind a small project using Arduino board. I want to control from laptop to initiate a sequence start

Re: [ilugd] RIP Atul

2013-06-03 Thread Linux Lingam
Atul. Chitnis. . . . . wow! On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.comwrote: On 06/03/2013 01:01 PM, Gaurav Mishra wrote: Just came to know from twitter. Atul Chitnis is no more http://www.nextbigwhat.com/atul-chitnis-297/ Very disturbing to see some great

Re: [LUG@IITD:17010] subwoofer volume is too high

2013-05-06 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:53 PM, vivek nain vvkn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I am using Dell XPS L502X with Ubuntu 13.04 my laptop has inbulit Jbl speaker and subwoofers. almost everyting is working fine except the bass which is too high my bass volume is at maximum level. so its

Re: [ilugd] No page on wikipedia on Raj Mathur

2013-04-13 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.comwrote: On 04/12/2013 01:04 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: though his name does show up in some searches on wikipedia. See Gora Mohanty's article on Raj oldmonk Mathur http://buckycat.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/a-last-waltz

[ilugd] No page on wikipedia on Raj Mathur

2013-04-11 Thread Linux Lingam
though his name does show up in some searches on wikipedia. regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

[ubuntu-in] share roaming broadband via wifi

2013-01-24 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, Ubuntu 12.04 hums along with a few burps, with all updates applied as i write this, on my apple macbookpro. have a roaming broadband connection, via reliance netconnect+ (3.1Mbps) once connection is established, wish to share this with other devices within wifi range of my laptop.

Re: [ilugd] Multiple installable distributions on a USB

2012-12-12 Thread Linux Lingam
would this be raj's last email to ilug-d? regards niyam On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Tuesday 11 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: On 12/10/2012 09:15 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: On Monday 10 Dec 2012, Balwinder S Dheeman

Re: [ilugd] Shocking and Sad news.

2012-12-12 Thread Linux Lingam
Raj! Regards niyam ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-09-18 Thread Linux Lingam
sensors work. all systems go. so just install it. regards n Once again: great work!! Regards, Swarup On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 04:21 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: Dear All, So finally, here are the steps I've taken to first get Ubuntu 12.04 working in LiveCD-mode on my Apple MacBook Pro 5,1

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-09-18 Thread Linux Lingam
-in-line On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Swarup, Niyam Have been following you trials and tribulations so far and am happy that something has worked Am sure you have been asked this before. But am asking anyway - Why are you installing

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-09-08 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear all, Have taken the discussion, with my fierce determination and my battle-to-death-to-install-ubuntu here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=12225981 Regards niyam Gnu/Gladiator -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-09-06 Thread Linux Lingam
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Ninad Pundalik ninadsp16...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, hit the send button too soon. :s Does this help you? https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CategoryMac thanks Ninad, had already seen

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-09-06 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Swarup dinban...@sprynet.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 13:07 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: I'm still struggling to install Ubuntu 12.04, which is supposed to be supported for 5 years. I have a MBP 5,2, and am hesitating to even attempt the 12.04 installation

Re: [fosscomm] Any FOSS Compatible Printing Press in Mumbai?

2012-09-06 Thread Linux Lingam
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:21 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: uh ho! please never use a command-line tool to convert RGB to CMYK. you need to soft-preview to see which color-tones have gone for a toss. printing

Re: [LUG@IITD:16110] Video Samples Needed for testing in GSOC project

2012-07-18 Thread Linux Lingam
just curious, i also have a minidv camera, can transfer some video segments over firewire, but i presume no metadata gets embedded in that stream? niyam -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer

Re: [LUG@IITD:16111] iptables rule to block incoming request

2012-07-18 Thread Linux Lingam
try firestarter. makes it easer. regards n -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer

Re: [fosscomm] microsoft and aicte

2012-07-18 Thread Linux Lingam
On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 10:18 PM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net wrote: cloud is the latest tool to bring proprietary sw in, any suggestions how to approach AICTE? RTI. usually works can we get a rte to get the mou between

Re: [fosscomm] Any FOSS Compatible Printing Press in Mumbai?

2012-07-18 Thread Linux Lingam
uh ho! please never use a command-line tool to convert RGB to CMYK. you need to soft-preview to see which color-tones have gone for a toss. printing is a visual process and a craftsmanship, not an industrialized production method alone. so you need to preview and adjust changes on-screen. that

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-06-28 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote:  How about buying a real computer instead of trying to run a state of the art OS on a shiny toy... While I continue to wait even after 7 years for the otherwise state-of-the-art OS to catch up, that shiny toy can

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 12.04 on Macbook Pro 5,1

2012-06-27 Thread Linux Lingam
. Regards Swarup On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 02:15 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, waited awhile to see the overall response on ubuntu 12.04, and unlike its recent predecessors this one looks good. want to install it on my macbook pro 5,1 (2008/2009) model. alas! the ubuntu

Re: [ilugd] Blender on grid

2012-01-08 Thread Linux Lingam
Very, very impressive. have you heard of the chamba project? http://chambaproject.in/ regards niyam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Varun Mittal varunmitta...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone,  I have completed the third face of my program and now I am able to discrete applications on an

Re: [LUG@IITD:15524] touch-pad not working in ubuntu 11.10

2012-01-08 Thread Linux Lingam
the touchpad would mysteriously stop working on my ubuntu 11.10 too. apart from the tips mentioned in this thread, also noticed sometimes it would reset itself to off when connecting a mouse, or if some keys were accidentally pressed which toggle it on and off. the keys are the function key 'FN',

[ilugd] [jobs] possessed by steve ballmer chanting wordpress developer

2012-01-02 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, am beginning to understand why he lost his hair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE i'll lose mine chanting in the same way, but repeating 'wordpress developer' over and over again. to work on contract, BYOC, on projects, in NCR, specifically south-delhi. we meet every second

Re: [ilugd] best framework to design a wizard to customize / create / edit HTML pages online

2011-11-15 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, abhishek jain abhishek.netj...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I am working on a project which needs a wysiwyg, drag and drop module, for HTML page editor, non-trivial. i too am looking for

Re: [fosscomm] BOSS to shut out Windows

2011-11-15 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:00 AM, Krittika kritt...@itforchange.net wrote: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/channels/cities/chennai/boss-shut-out-windows-247 After a request from the Union Ministry of Comm-unications and Information Technology, the state government’s Information Technology

Re: [ilugd] [commercial] Web-designer with HTML+CSS skills

2011-11-07 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/07/2011 07:08 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: absolutely! there are people in the world who are adept at both. however, my specific requirement here is for someone who can take an existing websketch and convert

Re: [ilugd] [commercial] Web-designer with HTML+CSS skills

2011-11-06 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 7:20 AM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/06/2011 05:02 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: More details here: http://niyam.com/blog/2011/11/im-hiring-are-you-looking-for-a-web-designer-job/ * Your Gear:*  * Your own Laptop of any brand. The model should

Re: [LUG@IITD:15195] [Commercial] web-designer with HTML+CSS skills

2011-11-06 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 12:47 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-11-06 at 05:03 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: Need to hire a couple of web-designers with HTML+CSS skills. More details here: http://niyam.com/blog/2011/11/im-hiring-are-you-looking-for-a-web-designer

[ilugd] [commercial] Web-designer with HTML+CSS skills

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear All, Need to hire a couple of web-designers with HTML+CSS skills. More details here: http://niyam.com/blog/2011/11/im-hiring-are-you-looking-for-a-web-designer-job/ Giddy up! Regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ Ilugd mailing list

[ubuntu-in] [Commercial] webdesigner with HTML+CSS skills in Delhi

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear All, Need to hire a couple of web-designers with HTML+CSS skills. More details here: http://niyam.com/blog/2011/11/im-hiring-are-you-looking-for-a-web-designer-job/ Giddy up! Regards niyam -- niyam bhushan -- niyam bhushan -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

[LUG@IITD:15186] [Commercial] web-designer with HTML+CSS skills

2011-11-05 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear All, Need to hire a couple of web-designers with HTML+CSS skills. More details here: http://niyam.com/blog/2011/11/im-hiring-are-you-looking-for-a-web-designer-job/ Giddy up! Regards niyam -- niyam bhushan -- niyam bhushan -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles:

Re: [ubuntu-in] Audio disturbance

2011-10-24 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:00 PM, Kingsly John member+ubu...@kingsly.net wrote: +++ Sahana Basavapatna [2011-10-23 20:51:28]: Hi, I have installed the latest version of Ubuntu on Acer Aspire 5253-BZ661. Until about a day back, my audio worked perfectly. Now I see that there is a constant

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu pre-loaded laptop

2011-10-22 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Lalremlien Neitham lalreml...@gmail.com wrote: Which shop? First of all, I dont like the looks of Vostros. Vaio is getting cheaper (inexpensive), wonder why, and with all the competitivity. oh! just go to nehruplace, start from the corner shop on the

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu pre-loaded laptop

2011-10-21 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Just want to share that I recently bought a Dell laptop online which came with pre-installed Ubuntu (10.10). This was a pleasant surprise as the listing said it included Free DOS. I have written a review if

[ilugd] Calling Elvis: Is Ocelot Home?

2011-10-17 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear All, Hope you've heard that Dire Straits song that inspires the subject-line. I want the Ubuntu Ocelot 11.10 disc, so i can have my Money for Nothin' And The Clicks for Free. regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ Ilugd mailing list

Re: [ilugd] Plan for a workshop series

2011-10-14 Thread Linux Lingam
great idea! any interest in graphic-design, web-design, tools and techniques? or even audio, video, et al? i'll volunteer for that If that covers photography, post-processing, etc. using FOSS of-course, then I'm interested as novice. Thanks it can. but for the moment am focussed on

Re: [ilugd] Plan for a workshop series

2011-10-13 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: Hi, We have been kicking around the idea of a doing a series of workshops: * The idea is to start out with topics of interest, and on each topic,  have a series of workshops that go progressively deeper into the  

Re: [LUG@IITD:15041] [EVENT] UBUNTU 11.10 (Oneiric) launch party at Jamia Millia Islamia on 13th Oct,2011 at 5.pm

2011-10-13 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 1:09 AM, Sheel Sindhu Manohar sheel.lover...@gmail.com wrote: Let's celebrate the Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot release! For every Ubuntu release this party organise all over the world. At Jamia Millia Islamia we first time organizing this everyone is welcome and we get

Re: [LUG@IITD:14886] [OT] Help in selecting an External Hard drive

2011-09-25 Thread Linux Lingam
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Arjun Suresh Raji arjun1...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I am planning to buy a external hard drive [= 2 TB ] to keep my data. Possible brands of choice are Seagate[including GoFlex],Western Digital, Toshiba and Transcend. Can you guys help me in choosing the

Re: [LUG@IITD:14818] [idea] Educational Picture Database for schools

2011-09-17 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: When presenting a lecture in class (1 to 12 or higher) teacher draw diagrams on blackboard. NOw a days some classroom are equipped with projector now. So Teacher can show images. It is possible to create a

Re: [ubuntu-in] 11.04 or 11.10?

2011-08-21 Thread Linux Lingam
dear nitesh, I would recommend upgrading it to 10.04LTS and then wait for 12.04LTS. By then the direction of Unity and Ubuntu would get more clear Just my two cents :) thanks for the advice. makes sense. by then though, the distro-vesion will be new, but my laptop older. :-) so how about

Re: [ubuntu-in] 11.04 or 11.10?

2011-08-21 Thread Linux Lingam
The Hardisk which crashed was running  Fedora 14 , My Net book  is running Ubuntu 11.04 , going through the steps mentioned in this tutorial http://live.gnome.org/DejaDup/Help/Restore/WorstCase ,   my home after backup is around 54 GB so its taking a while to decrypt been running it for

Re: [ubuntu-in] 11.04 or 11.10?

2011-08-16 Thread Linux Lingam
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:31 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: noticed 11.10 will offer deja-dups. anybody using it, or with any experience with it? i am using it , as i speak i have a worst case scenario of hard disk crash and try to recover my /home  using the backup , can  

Re: [ubuntu-in] 11.04 or 11.10?

2011-08-16 Thread Linux Lingam
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:35 PM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: all ears on this one. are you on ubuntu? if so, which version? The Hardisk which crashed was running  Fedora 14 , 'nuf said about fedora [g,d,r] My Net book  is running Ubuntu 11.04 , going through the steps

[ubuntu-in] 11.04 or 11.10?

2011-08-15 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, what would you recommend: to create a stable workstation on my apple macbookpro, should i move up from the nice and solidly-working ubuntu 9.04, to 11.04, or to 11.10? canonical and mark shuttleworth's stance on unity and no more defaults of gnome make me a bit queasy. also don't know

Re: [LUG@IITD:14525] foss for making orgn charts

2011-08-09 Thread Linux Lingam
software called Pencil, which does this too. look for stencils that do org charts http://pencil.evolus.vn/en-US/Home.aspx regards n -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer

[ilugd] [commercial] I'm hiring. Apply if you love design

2011-08-01 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear all, Lookin' for a couple of bright sparks that use muft and mukt software for design. Are you one? Know any? http://niyam.com/blog/2011/08/im-hiring-do-you-understand-design/ regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ Ilugd mailing list

[ubuntu-in] [commercial] I'm Hiring. Apply if you love design.

2011-08-01 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear all, Lookin' for a couple of bright sparks that use muft and mukt software for graphic-design. Are you one? Know any? http://niyam.com/blog/2011/08/im-hiring-do-you-understand-design/ regards niyam -- niyam bhushan -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [LUG@IITD:14468] Re: [JIITU-LUG:1521] jQuery tutorials needed

2011-07-29 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: May be we can organise next meetup on focus on jQuery and its anyone doing any focus-talk on JQuery-UI? regards n -- niyam bhushan -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles:

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu in a samsung galaxy tab ad

2011-07-06 Thread Linux Lingam
[ I think you are talking about this: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/07/ubuntu-logo-appears-samsung-galaxy-ii-ad-why/ -- ramky, is it because apple forbade samsung from using the apple logo, or any other apple-icon as well, in the samsung ad? as a response, samsung may have used the ubuntu

Re: [LUG@IITD:13263] GIMP, Inkscape Blender Designer

2011-04-28 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 11:12 +0530, Ashish wrote: I am looking for an expert designer, who have got expierence working on GIMP, Inkscape Blender. He should be based out of Delhi NCR. This is a one time

Re: [fosscomm] Nokia and Microsoft form partnership

2011-02-11 Thread Linux Lingam
2011/2/11 Guru गुरु g...@itforchange.net: Nokia and Microsoft form partnership Stephen Elop Stephen Elop was at Microsoft before taking over Nokia in September 2010 Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft in an attempt to regain ground lost to the iPhone and Android-based devices. The deal

Re: [LUG@IITD:12016] [Tip] Wanna to play guitar in your terminal ... !

2011-02-08 Thread Linux Lingam
On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: hi suresh, Type the following code to play $ for i in E A7 E2 B7 A E3 G A B C7 D;do play -n synth 1 pluck $i repeat 2;done The command play is a part of the package sox. More info see the manual page for 'sox

Re: [ubuntu-in] Netbooks - suggestions and advise

2011-01-26 Thread Linux Lingam
LinuxForYou magazine has started to carry a 'buyers' guide' section or somethin', every month, that lists all boxes sold in india with some linux distro or platform pre-installed. it should mention 'em netbooks. the list also mentions android phones. prakash, if the ones you share here aren't

Re: [ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] ALSA hacker wanted

2011-01-09 Thread Linux Lingam
hi! free advice 2: On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: 2011/1/8 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: [Please send offers to me personally, not to the list] Hi, I have a Dell Optiplex 380 (a fairly new model) which is having problems with

[ilugd] Oracle kicks LibreOffice supporters out of OpenOffice

2010-10-24 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, it's happening. oracle's kicking out LibreOffice supporters, and guess who's doing all the corporate-speak? Louis Suarez Potts, for Oracle! strange strange world, eh? http://blogs.computerworld.com/17197/oracle_kicks_libreoffice_supporters_out_of_openoffice regards niyam -- niyam

[ilugd] blender3d: new movie Sintel premieres 27 sep

2010-09-25 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, have been following the excitement every day. the new poster's just out. the movie trailer was launched in may 2010. the movie's been cut down to just 10 minutes, but the story and the vfx are stunning. too late to organize a blender-ka-langar with Sintel prasada?

Re: [ilugd] blender3d: new movie Sintel premieres 27 sep

2010-09-25 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, have been following the excitement every day. the new poster's just out. the movie trailer was launched in may 2010. the movie's been cut down to just 10 minutes, but the story and the vfx are stunning

[ubuntu-in] blender3d: new movie Sintel premieres 27 sep

2010-09-25 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, have been following the excitement every day. the new poster's just out. the movie trailer was launched in may 2010. the movie's been cut down to just 10 minutes, but the story and the vfx are stunning. too late to organize a blender-ka-langar with Sintel prasada?

Re: [ubuntu-in] blender3d: new movie Sintel premieres 27 sep

2010-09-25 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, have been following the excitement every day. the new poster's just out. the movie trailer was launched in may 2010. the movie's been cut down to just 10 minutes, but the story and the vfx are stunning

Re: [ubuntu-in] Text to speech

2010-09-20 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:04 AM, stranger in black. gnu...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any text to speech software in gnu/linux which has GUI? more details in the oct 2010 issue of linuxforyou, there's infact a whole ecosystem of somewhat disparate components and half-baked projects and

Re: [ubuntu-in] application-based firewall?

2010-09-18 Thread Linux Lingam
If you are on Ubuntu, it comes with ufw. I am not commandline smart, so use Gufw, a gui tool for ufw. It allows me to configure rules based on applications, protocol/service. Its gpl3. Read here. -- just what the doctor ordered! thanks. niyam Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in

[ubuntu-in] application-based firewall?

2010-09-17 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, any application-based firewall which is active and working well and copyleft? found tuxguardian, but not developed beyond 2006 linux-firewall has some dubious freeware license. firefly seems quite extinguished. firestarter and its ilk are not application-based firewalls. regards niyam

Re: [ubuntu-in] General Question About Linux - Would there be any kind of Computer Users you would not introduce to Linux

2010-09-17 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi [snip] For some time now i have been grappling with the feeling that maybe , just maybe its better to leave some users to Wincedows or whatever propreitory OS and hardware they are on. [snip] So what kinds of

Re: [fosscomm] Software freedom day celebration along with Eben Moglen at IISc, Bangalore on 17th at 3p.m.

2010-09-16 Thread Linux Lingam
Interaction with Prof.Eben Moglen on the Freedom in the Cloud at Indian Institute of Science, on 17th September , 3p.m – 5 p.m, faculty hall IISc. Speaker: Prof. Eben Moglen Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Founder, Director-Counsel Chairman of Software Freedom Law

Re: [fosscomm] Freesoftware for education steaming LIVE from Kozhikode

2010-09-12 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 1:02 PM, jtd j...@mtnl.net.in wrote: Freesoftware for education steaming LIVE from Kozhikode. http://streaming.hipatia.net:8000/fsedu.ogg steaming? is it the humidity? the mill rice? or somethin' else? :-) n -- Rgds JTD

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Linux Lingam
netbook-remix is what i've been looking for since 6 months. the idea itself is not new. in 1984, apple mac debuted 'easy access' which changed the desktop metaphor into something quite similar to this, without the alpha transparency, for kids and grannies to use with ease. always wanted something

Re: [ubuntu-in] Always something new and interesting in Linux

2010-09-10 Thread Linux Lingam
also, once launched, how do i get rid of it without resorting to kill processes? niyam -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: [FSF] FSF responds to Oracle v. Google and the threat of software patents

2010-09-10 Thread Linux Lingam
the irony! for several years oracle shook the entire industry with their bold and high-decibel ads 'Unbreakable Linux'. today, it is Oracle that is trying to break the FOSS movement. once more, dogen the zen master comes to mind, can't help it. when he says You become what you reject. oracle,

Re: [fosscomm] Obituary to Our Friend FOSS Activist Shyam Karanat

2010-09-04 Thread Linux Lingam
but why did he end his life. just feels like yesterday when i met him at calicut and then at other events. seemed like a nice straightforward guy. why? niyam On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Anivar Aravind

Re: [fosscomm] Software War Pits Oracle vs. Google

2010-09-02 Thread Linux Lingam
this nick may be found on several hundred public sites and public discussion-threads, spread across the web. People across the FOSS community also know me by this nick's initials, 'LL' Once in a while, at public talks and seminars, I am sometimes addressed as Mr. Linux Lingam, or even as LL. 5

Re: [ubuntu-in] how to play collated audio-clips from in-the-middle

2010-08-31 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] thanks sanjay for your humming response :-) [aside: gora, by the way, frowns upon emoticons] apologies :) (it was 4 in the morning or something, and I really was hmmming and smiling looking at your email.. ) okay, so that's your inspiration. IF you do collaborate on authoring such a

Re: [fosscomm] Software War Pits Oracle vs. Google

2010-08-31 Thread Linux Lingam
Sun's philosophy behind Java was to free the world of the digital tyranny of Microsoft. Oracle bought Sun so it could unleash its tyranny on the world using Java. 'You Become What You Reject.' - Dogen The Zen Master. n ___ network mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-in] how to play collated audio-clips from in-the-middle

2010-08-30 Thread Linux Lingam
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:33 AM, Sanjay Bhangar sanjaybhan...@gmail.com wrote: hmmm . :) (inline) On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, bewildered no software exists to do this, and thankful if you point me to one: 1. take several

[ubuntu-in] how to play collated audio-clips from in-the-middle

2010-08-29 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, bewildered no software exists to do this, and thankful if you point me to one: 1. take several mp3 files. 2. create a playlist that sequences audio-clips from within these mp3-files. all existing music-player software create playlists of full audio-tracks. i wish to play, for example:

Re: [fosscomm] No Copyright Law: The real reason for German's industrial expansion?

2010-08-29 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Sudev Barar sba...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 August 2010 12:35, sajan venniyoor venniy...@gmail.com wrote: The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion? By Frank Thadeusz, Der Spiegel, 18 Aug 2010

[ilugd] turnkey linux

2010-08-18 Thread Linux Lingam
Meine freunde, Das ist interessant: http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ solves a lot of issues, but creates a few with cloud-cages. regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] google docs vs openoffice-in-the-cloud

2010-07-21 Thread Linux Lingam
2010/7/18 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org On Sunday 18 Jul 2010, H.S.Rai wrote: 2010/7/18 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: any viable alternative to Google Docs has to present an interface that has a minimal learning curve. Don't http://eyeos.org/ fit the

Re: [ilugd] Rupee font in open format

2010-07-21 Thread Linux Lingam
money is a very funny thing. if you discover you have a fake or a torn note in your pocket along with a perfectly legit and crisp one, you'd be tempted to use the first one immediately. people talk about the relative worthlessness of a small denomination, especially if it is heavily soiled. that

Re: [fosscomm] Record labels should make MP3s free, and freely shareable

2010-07-21 Thread Linux Lingam
there's millions of rupees being made out of music even today, and you're paying for it without being aware of it. most of you probably have 'caller ringback tones', often paying Rs 15 per month or more (do the math for a year or more) for 2 minutes of tinny-junk to be heard irritatingly by

[ilugd] google docs vs openoffice-in-the-cloud

2010-07-17 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, noticed a couple of emails in the ILUG-D flood, that point to docs that people have stored and shared on google-docs, for inputs and comments from ilug-d. astonishing how muft and mukt visions go up in smoke when they go up in the cloud. isn't there a better way for us to collaborate

[ubuntu-in] ubuntu lullaby timer

2010-07-16 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, i'd love to drift to sleep listening to some audio or music playing via mplayer on my ubuntu 9.04, but obviously, once asleep, don't want to get up to quit mplayer and shutdown the laptop. likewise, i'd also love to wake up to mplayer after the laptop autoboots into ubuntu. any way of

Re: [fosscomm] http://rti.gov.in/ promoting IE...

2010-05-11 Thread Linux Lingam
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Jagjit Phull jagjit.ph...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, This is really weird , I visited http://rti.gov.in/ and found *To view the RTI map properly, use I.E.(screen resolution:1024/768)* This is a kind of enforcing users to use IE. I think the Website

[ilugd] off-topic-ish: insuring a linux laptop

2010-04-20 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, googling to see if i can get insurance-cover on my laptop beyond its warranty period. discovered the four major indian insurance companies supposedly offer some fig-leaf of a cover. oriental insurance, new india assurance, national insurance, united india insurance:

Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-16 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] To sum up, I'm unlikely to change my working style just because hardware demands it. /me pets his old 17 4:3. spoken like a true living FOSSil: unreasonable to the multi-core as usual. you can of course, trust apple to have come up with solutions for such unreasonable people,

Re: [fosscomm] Fwd: [FSF] Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the web!

2010-04-02 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:41 PM, narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:54 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.orgwrote: please join in this campaign, and publicise this widely

Re: [ubuntu-in] audio stopped working

2010-03-10 Thread Linux Lingam
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:20 PM, stranger in black. gnu...@gmail.comwrote: My laptop sound stopped suddenly yesterday. I dont know how it happened. i checked alsamixers and other things, all are in normal case. I restarted the system to M$, there the sound is working fine. Should I

Re: [fosscomm] Update - clarifications from the multimedia expert in the IOTA CBT workflow case

2010-03-10 Thread Linux Lingam
No the learning curve is not a deterrent, as in learning linux tools is not more complicated than the doze tools. Both would take the same amount of time. But having invested in one tool a user will not invest his time in learning a second tool. How is that contradictory? the knowledge

Re: [fosscomm] Update - clarifications from the multimedia expert in the IOTA CBT workflow case

2010-03-08 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] frequently (discounting global meltdown scenarios), an organization needs a panel of internal and external resources of people, to regularly orient new staff to use foss tools and techniques. Sometimes, when the progenitor of foss-adoption quits, the baby gets thrown out with

Re: [fosscomm] Update - clarifications from the multimedia expert in the IOTA CBT workflow case

2010-03-07 Thread Linux Lingam
Kishore Bhargava knows of a few professional sound studios that work with 100% foss. He also delivered a talk at TEDx on digital photography and more with Foss. Gaurav Mishra works with blender3d to handle sophisticated modelling, rendering and animation. IIT-B has authored fully-interactive and

Re: [fosscomm] IOTA invites interested members of the community to aid / assist in the PoC of FOSS based CBT-development

2010-03-06 Thread Linux Lingam
[niyam is lurking and listening to the discussions on the thread.] regards n ___ network mailing list network@lists.fosscom.in http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in

Re: [ilugd] evolution+multisync+openSyncML to Nokia over bluetooth

2010-03-05 Thread Linux Lingam
  a regular bluetooth connection within wammu also failed,   though the mobile connects easily with my computer over bluetooth for   drag-and-drop. See http://wammu.eu/phones/nokia/?page=6 and http://wammu.eu/phones/nokia/?page=5 E series has one of the worst supports on g/wammu. thanks

Re: [ilugd] evolution+multisync+openSyncML to Nokia over bluetooth

2010-03-05 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] AFAIK, this phone has the Symbian OS. So, try your luck at symbian.org. ah yes., already did. there's a nice article there on using ubuntu linux with symbian, also browsed through allaboutsymbian.org to look for some .sis or .sisx or even a java app to break the ice between the two

[ilugd] evolution+multisync+openSyncML to Nokia over bluetooth

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, some rogue software crashed my Nokia E61i, and deleted 779 contacts and all calendar entries. don't ask. so i've got this mobile that looks and behaves like matt daemon from the Bourne Identity. no backup of the data on the external microSD card either. fortunately, the only backup i

Re: [ilugd] evolution+multisync+openSyncML to Nokia over bluetooth

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:08 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, some rogue software crashed my Nokia E61i, and deleted 779 contacts and all calendar entries. don't ask.[snip] fortunately, the only backup i have is a single vCard file, and the calendar entries in another

Re: [fosscomm] Using Open Source can become akin to piracy if a lobby has its way

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:20 AM, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Mohan Sundaram mohan@gmail.com wrote: Need to fight this ridiculous crap. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property no one seems

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:59 AM, jitendra jituv...@gmail.com wrote: IOTA has done it well to ask a professional to analyse the FOSS alternatives. Often the FOSS enthusiasts miss out on this. I am sure much of this is buried into the To-Do lists and buglists of the developers. [snip]

Re: [fosscomm] Using Open Source can become akin to piracy if a lobby has its way

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
or... How do you jail governments who adopt and develop FOSS, unless you want to attempt digital imperialism in the free information age? :-) niyam ___ network mailing list network@lists.fosscom.in

Re: [fosscomm] Sharing a Win/Mac based multimedia developer's views on FOSS tools

2010-03-04 Thread Linux Lingam
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Vivek Khurana hiddenharm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: am using FOSS for professional and production-intensive projects, works for me. the only real problem is with video-edit, for which i'd

[ilugd] free music using free software on ubuntustudio at cc-salon delhi

2010-03-01 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, thanks to kinshuk, and mohawk (!), for pushing ahead to hold the CreativeCommons cc-salon delhi at sarai this weekend. as promised there, have published 'Flight' a music-track under the cc-by-sa 2.5 india license. interesting details of how the track was authored using free software,

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