[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 11:14 +0530, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: I feel that Piracy is a very apt term for this, and it is quite like looting and arson of someone else's property. Sorry, I cannot change my point of view merely because of FUD about terminology. Well, you are free to believe

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread JAGANADH G
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Kenney Jacob kenney.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Are there any online dictionary databases available for download ? I wanted a dictionary and I couldnt find anything reliable. Now scrapping a few sites to get the information. www.kenneyjacob.com Kenney Jacob

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread ranjith s kumar
Dear Srihari A combination of Octave and Qtoctave (front end) will do the job well. Even that is mlab compatable the same file will run in mlab too if needed. Scilab is another good option. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_numerical_analysis_software with regards Ranjith S.

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
If you started talking about 'stealing some one else property' no 1 pirate would be M$ stealing the windows UI system itself. Piracy is a term defined by monopolies to create a fear among the public . (which we know will not work with us -like we saw even with movies)

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
Why the community cant start such initiatives. I think a same topic ended in the middle. I can contribute if we planning for a dictionary. -- http://techplex.wordpress.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org

[fsug-tvm] Fwd: [fosscomm] UOC's Official Master Programme in Free Software

2009-09-10 Thread Anivar Aravind
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[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Ashik S
There are already pretty good community initiatives on it. Instead of starting another effort, enhancing the already existing efforts would be better. http://wiki.smc.org.in/Dictionary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Manilal K M
2009/9/10 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS everlovingyo...@gmail.com Why the community cant start such initiatives. I think a same topic ended in the middle. I can contribute if we planning for a dictionary. A community controlled collaborative dictionary is really a great idea. But it needs reliable

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Manilal K M
2009/9/10 Ashik S aash...@gmail.com: There are already pretty good community initiatives on it. Instead of starting another effort, enhancing the already existing efforts would be better. http://wiki.smc.org.in/Dictionary I really missed this. Well said Ashik, we need to strengthen such

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:32 AM, V. Sasi Kumarsasi@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 11:14 +0530, Rajeev J Sebastian wrote: I feel that Piracy is a very apt term for this, and it is quite like looting and arson of someone else's property. Sorry, I cannot change my point of view

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
I don't mean such a big one(encyclopedia?) like wikipedia. We could start as an application project in some free software hosting servers and the dictionary as part of the application. -- http://techplex.wordpress.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
:) Yes there it is --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Manilal K Mlibreg...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS everlovingyo...@gmail.com Why the community cant start such initiatives. I think a same topic ended in the middle. I can contribute if we planning for a dictionary. A community controlled

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
I suppose those are not needed in your fantasy world If we started such approach to ideas we will find our self in a fantasy world! --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread JAGANADH G
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Manilal K Mlibreg...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS everlovingyo...@gmail.com Why the community cant start such initiatives. I think a same topic

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Manilal K M
2009/9/10 Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com: On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Manilal K Mlibreg...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS everlovingyo...@gmail.com Why the community cant start such initiatives. I think a same topic ended in the middle. I can

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
I had a database of words hence said can contribute. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to this group, send

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
You think such experts developed word to word mapping like this :P http://malayalam.kerala.gov.in/index.php/Dictionary --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed

[fsug-tvm] Re: See a comment

2009-09-10 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
2009/9/10 .Keralafarmer chandrasekharan.n...@gmail.com: See this http://letterstocm.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/it-at-school/#comment-104 He should try coding with Qt which makes things very easy. Regards Rajeev J Sebastian --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the

[fsug-tvm] Re: compare ubuntu and gNewSense

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
@shyam i'd tried this. but didn't make any effect. http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/amr. i dont know why, but i don't like mplayer. i'm using it only because, it can play .amr, .rm and .3gp; there is xine player and kmplyer in gnewsense repo. i prefer to use it. @manu krishnan; I have been using

[fsug-tvm] See a comment

2009-09-10 Thread .Keralafarmer
See this http://letterstocm.wordpress.com/2007/12/22/it-at-school/#comment-104 __ മണ്ണിരകളെ കൃഷിയിടങ്ങളില്‍ സംരക്ഷിക്കൂ പ്രകൃതിയും ആരോഗ്യവും സംരക്ഷിക്കപ്പെടട്ടെ! Thank you എസ്.ചന്ദ്രശേഖരന്‍ നായര്‍, ശ്രീരാഘവ്, പെരുകാവ്, പേയാട്-പി.ഒ, തിരുവനന്തപുരം. 695 573 Ph.

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
the subject is about MATLAB installation in LBS college. and not about the term piracy and sharing; @srihari if you have authorised windows version, there will(must) be a provision to change to Debian version. but from my knowledge there is lot of limitation in its Linux version. Scilab or

[fsug-tvm] free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
for last few moths there is strong fight[not physical [?]] between me and my brother. he os a central government employ. i could not convince him the need and advantage of free software. only thing he agreed is it free from virus. last moth i gave him *GRASS GIS* (Geographic Resources Analysis

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
i forgot to mention one more thing he strongly opposes google earth, wikimapia, and osm project; he suspects these projects may helped the terrorist in Mumbai attack[??]. he also said making and keeping map by a common man in India is not legal. @sajath i know GRASS is perfect software

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:48 PM, sooraj kenoth soorajken...@gmail.comwrote: @srihari but from my knowledge there is lot of limitation in its Linux version. I have used matlab on Ubuntu and I didnt find any limitation as far as our present day engg. curricula is concerned. Sunil

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
i didn't used matlab even in widows. i know some people who use matlab and octave. they said that in sound processing there is some difficulty. i dont know much about it. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org

[fsug-tvm] fedora11 Sound recording problem

2009-09-10 Thread JAGANADH G
In my desktp I am facing problem in sound recording. I can hear music or sound. But i cant record sound. System details are given below Os - fedora 11 Kernel - 2.6.31 Desktop- Gnome Soundcard - SB Live 5.1 [SB0220] (Alsa Mixer) (External) Ram - 8 GB Processor - Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500

[fsug-tvm] Re: fedora11 Sound recording problem

2009-09-10 Thread Manilal K M
2009/9/10 JAGANADH G jagana...@gmail.com: In my desktp I am facing problem in sound recording. I can hear music or sound. But i cant record sound. System details are given below Os - fedora 11 Kernel - 2.6.31 Desktop- Gnome Soundcard - SB Live 5.1 [SB0220] (Alsa Mixer) (External) Ram - 8

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread Syam Krishnan
On 09/10/2009 04:23 PM, sooraj kenoth wrote: he strongly opposes google earth, wikimapia, and osm project; he suspects these projects may helped the terrorist in Mumbai attack Well, in that case, we should also ban the sales of all text books and other study materials since those could be

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
i believe that the free software movement is kind of socialist movement. through which any one can be an owner of computer set of legal professional software (like open office, gimp, blender, qt, python, gcc and lot of other application, by using it we can find some income) with less than

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
got a new thread my brother said only survey of india can produce and print maps of india. also, he said, a common man is not supposed to keep a map, and if i have a copy it is non-transferable. http://www.surveyofindia.gov.in/home%20page.htm there is an option to download map from their site.

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread Sajjad Anwar
@ Jaisen Where are you? Please respond to the queries. I think you are the best to do it. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:56 PM, sooraj kenoth soorajken...@gmail.comwrote: got a new thread my brother said only survey of india can produce and print maps of india. also, he said, a common man is not

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread sooraj kenoth
my objective is not to promote a single product like grass, but the free software movement; i want to prove that we could generate an income from free software applications like, we generating income from photoshop, 3ds max, vb,.net etc --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 19:16 +0530, sooraj kenoth wrote: my objective is not to promote a single product like grass, but the free software movement; i want to prove that we could generate an income from free software applications like, we generating income from photoshop, 3ds max, vb,.net etc

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread Adhin D
In Mr. Srihari's mail, is mentioned that Matlab software is needed to be used in an educational institution. This is in the case of a college (most probably an engineering college), not for personal use. Hence it may not be wise to ask them to switch to the alternatives of above software. The

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread Srihari k
@ranjith I have informed them about alternatives. We plan to try out alternatives first. Sorry again for making the move for an illegal action of copying a software. Regards, Srihari .K On 9/10/09, Adhin D mejaithekni...@gmail.com wrote: In Mr. Srihari's mail, is mentioned that Matlab

[fsug-tvm] Re: compare ubuntu and gNewSense

2009-09-10 Thread BINNY THOMAS
Hey how many gnewsense users are there in our community?Its only recently that i heard about it.Maybe its a good idea if we take a small survey. In that way we will know how many users use a particular distro. Let me begin first. I started from Ubuntu 7.10, but I now use Linux Mint Gloria.

[fsug-tvm] Re: compare ubuntu and gNewSense

2009-09-10 Thread Mahesh Mohan
Me Linux Mint 7, will move to Ubuntu 9.10 after it's out. Also, going to install Pardus 2009 as an alternate. = Q: How many Bell Labs Vice Presidents does it take to change a light bulb? A: That's proprietary information. Answer available from ATT on payment of

[fsug-tvm] Re: [OT] Questions we face and a honest self analysis

2009-09-10 Thread Harish CM
On Mandriva MLO (2009.1?) just tested playing a vcd I bought (the famous Bruce Lee movie) on VLC, it didn't. I also have my old time favourite xine-ui installed = it simply worked!!! best/harish 2009/9/9 Anoop Jacob Thomas anoo...@gmail.com You can use VLC media player to play VCD. Just insert

[fsug-tvm] Re: Software Freedom Day 2009

2009-09-10 Thread Mahesh Mohan
ഘോഷയാത്ര will be fine. Also, what about a cycle rally( not kidding!) = Q: How many Bell Labs Vice Presidents does it take to change a light bulb? A: That's proprietary information. Answer available from ATT on payment of license fee (binary only)!

[fsug-tvm] alternate to pdf printer

2009-09-10 Thread stranger in black.....
We can have the links in the documents we created using oowriter, even if it is exported to pdf using the plugin provided by openoffice.. But when I use the pdf printer, the links become plain text. Is there any way to export a web page to pdf with active links? --

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Sebin Jacob
Hi, was trying to install the dictionary in arch linux. but when giving the second command: dictfmt -f --utf8 -s Freedict-English-Malayalam -u smc.org.indict-freedict-eng-mal dict-freedict-eng-mal-src.txt dictzip dict-freedict-eng-mal.dict the result is bash: dictfmt: command not found

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread Amarnath
Hey You can use octave instead of Matlab. Being an electronics engineering student I know that our work can be done in octave. We don't require matlab. But may be you will find some functions available in matlab missing in octave. But i think we can contribute to octave by building those

[fsug-tvm] Re: [OT] Questions we face and a honest self analysis

2009-09-10 Thread Adhin D
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:43 PM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 19:26 +0530, Anoop Jacob Thomas wrote: I think we lack CAD softwares. Of course, we have Qcad, but it is only 2D. We have Freecad: http://www.ar-cad.com/products/freecad.html but I am not sure

[fsug-tvm] Re: Software Freedom Day 2009

2009-09-10 Thread Srihari k
I don't know how many of us have an orkut account.But it is the best tool for campaigning.if all of us change our profile photo for one or two days that photo will be sensational all over orkut.And when people ask what that photo is we could simply give them a link to a page telling about Free

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 06:37 +0530, Amarnath wrote: You can use octave instead of Matlab. Being an electronics engineering student I know that our work can be done in octave. We don't require matlab. But may be you will find some functions available in matlab missing in octave. But i think we

[fsug-tvm] Re: [OT] Questions we face and a honest self analysis

2009-09-10 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 07:43 +0530, Adhin D wrote: Going through the screenshots of FreeCAD, I think it is a better one, and i'm going to try it. Good. And please post your assessment to this group. There used to be a Linux version of Pro/Engineer, most popular mechanical CAD software. But

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS
Sorry I followed the convention once started in the thread by some one . --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To post to

[fsug-tvm] Re: [OT] Questions we face and a honest self analysis

2009-09-10 Thread jinesh kj
hi, I am posting an offtopic on top of one :) My Home PC has both Windows XP and GNU/Linux(Debian Lenny). My father is now using the PC and he wants to move completely to GNU/Linux. Only problem he faces is with CAD. I showed him QCad and he was very eager to use it(he draws only 2D and said

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread ashik salahudeen
Sebin, I had packaged the dictionary for Arch a while back . check http://aashiks.in/blog/?p=55 2009/9/11 Sebin Jacob sebinaja...@gmail.com: Hi, was trying to install the dictionary in arch linux. but when giving the --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread ashik salahudeen
Sebin, I just noticed your query about x86_64 arch only now. I think you can get the PKGBUILD, change the 'arch' field to x86_64 and build the package. I dont have an x86_64 setup to test it on -- -- Ashik S --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law.

[fsug-tvm] Re: Software Freedom Day 2009

2009-09-10 Thread stranger in black.....
On 9/11/09, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of us have an orkut account.But it is the best tool for campaigning.if all of us change our profile photo for one or two days that photo will be sensational all over orkut.And when people ask what that photo is we could

[fsug-tvm] Re: free software, free information and sharing???

2009-09-10 Thread stranger in black.....
On 9/11/09, Santhosh സന്തോഷ് VS everlovingyo...@gmail.com wrote: helped the terrorist in Mumbai attack I dont think it will help more . I think major security threat areas are hidden in Google earth. Also they can directly take blue prints or photos (I think now its controlled in north).

[fsug-tvm] Re: MATLAB installation in LBS college

2009-09-10 Thread JAGANADH G
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:53 AM, V. Sasi Kumar sasi@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 06:37 +0530, Amarnath wrote: You can use octave instead of Matlab. Being an electronics engineering student I know that our work can be done in octave. We don't require matlab. But may be you

[fsug-tvm] Re: alternate to pdf printer

2009-09-10 Thread stranger in black.....
Is there any FOSS software...??? -- .. Junise Safvan www.gnuise.co.cc 9746 283 383 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed

[fsug-tvm] Re: CDAC's Trilingual dictionary database

2009-09-10 Thread Sebin Jacob
Thanks Ashik, I installed the missing dependency, dictd and was able to install your package using yaourt. Didn't even changed the architecture from i686 to x86_64. regards, Sebin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged

[fsug-tvm] Suggestion for Software Freedom Day

2009-09-10 Thread james mathew
What about the official launch of a computer lab running on Free Software for children with special needs (like Autism, learning disabilities, physical handicap etc.)? Insight insight.kerala.gov.in is planning such a lab in TVM and if interested, volunteers can get associated with setting it up