Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Anoop Jacob Thomas
GIMP for a 5th std student will be difficult. Learning layers and all those stuff. Or what exactly are you looking for GIMP for a 5th std student. (by difficult I don't mean difficult for all) -- JUST A THOUGHT. The student needs to learn pixel, resolution and all those stuff before he does

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 12:24 +0530, Anoop Jacob Thomas wrote: GIMP for a 5th std student will be difficult. Learning layers and all those stuff. Or what exactly are you looking for GIMP for a 5th std student. (by difficult I don't mean difficult for all) -- JUST A THOUGHT. The student needs

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Sistla Venkata Abhishek
I know that this is not the appropriate thread to post this question .. but since the topic of GIMP and TuxPaint are going on .. I would just like to ask something ... MS Paint .. This was one MS application with which all the basic requirements of painting and sketching would be fulfilled .. so

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread V. Sasi Kumar
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:09 +0530, Sistla Venkata Abhishek wrote: MS Paint .. This was one MS application with which all the basic requirements of painting and sketching would be fulfilled .. so ... is there any application under GNU which is similar to paint .. ?? xpaint, gpaint and

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Raru Rv
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Sistla Venkata Abhishek svabhis...@gmail.com wrote: but since the topic of GIMP and TuxPaint are going on .. I would just like to ask something ... MS Paint .. This was one MS application with which all the basic requirements of painting and sketching would

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Anoop Jacob Thomas
@Raru I understand a 5th std student can grasp and can be very good at it(upon the child's interest). But keeping in mind a classroom environment where a teacher's explanation is not sufficient for all and provided they have lot of topics to be learned in other subjects. It will be actually an

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Raru Rv
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Anoop Jacob Thomas anoo...@gmail.comwrote: @Raru I understand a 5th std student can grasp and can be very good at it(upon the child's interest). But keeping in mind a classroom environment where a teacher's explanation is not sufficient for all and provided

[fsug-tvm] developing USB device drivers

2010-05-28 Thread arun ashok
Hi all, I am an electronics instrumentation engineering student with no prgramming experience in Linux. (although very familar with ubuntu). As a part of my final year project, I am trying to develop a device(possibly an HID like a mouse) and I want to know the feasibility of developing a USB

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Vimal Joseph
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:49 +0530, Prasad SR wrote: We require volunteers who can make syllabus (for 5th standard student) before Monday on the following topics. 0. Linux commands 1. Basics on Gnome DE 2. Tux Paint ( Im working on it) 3. Kturtle 4. GIMP 5. OpenOffice the content we

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Prasad SR
the time is very limited, so i dont know whether this approach will work or not. Any way we can build an outline for the first two three chapters so that the school can start teaching it. I have done the tuxpaint thing. Let them start with it, this will buy us some time to work on other

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Raru Rv
here is the contents of 5th standerd computer text. It has 8 lessons, 1. More On internet,(intrnet,www,email,chatting and search engine) 2. Windows Xp,(windows xp,folders,control panel, and recyclebin) 3. Windows accessories,(calculator,defragmentation,taskbar and start menu) 4. MS

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Anoop Jacob Thomas
@raru - dont take me bad. Did you check the copyright before sending the thing to the list. -- Anoop Jacob Thomas http://anoop.caremedia.org -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Raru Rv
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Anoop Jacob Thomas anoo...@gmail.comwrote: @raru - dont take me bad. Did you check the copyright before sending the thing to the list. Oh.Sorry...Am really sorry. But I think this will help you to understand how the course is to be designed. -- Raru Rv --

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Hiran Venugopalan
Hi, GIMP is bit tough to teach students of 5th standard. Well, just teach them about brushes, selection and cropping. The basic. Don't go in detail. The tool named pinta could be a replacement for MS Paint like tools. I really suggest to introduce GIMP as a digital canvas, than a photo editor to

Re: [fsug-tvm] Package manager error.

2010-05-28 Thread Subin Sebastian
Make sure your sources.list is in order and error free. Then try updating the index. If this doesn't solve your problem, try dpkg --configure -a to purge and fix all packages... Regards... Subin Sebastian -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this

Re: [fsug-tvm] Volunterres required for Installation #Christ Nargar School, Vellayambalam

2010-05-28 Thread Vimal Joseph
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 15:23 +0530, Prasad SR wrote: I have done the tuxpaint thing. Let them start with it, this will buy us some time to work on other topics. http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/web/ChristNagar-tuxpaint.pdf really good work. ~vimal -- Libarate your documents,

[fsug-tvm] developing USB device drivers

2010-05-28 Thread arun ashok
Hi all, I am an electronics instrumentation engineering student with no prgramming experience in Linux. (although very familar with ubuntu). As a part of my final year project, I am trying to develop a device(possibly an HID like a mouse) and I want to know the feasibility of developing a USB

Re: [fsug-tvm] developing USB device drivers

2010-05-28 Thread Mohamed Naufal
The book Linux Device Drivers might help you. It has got a chapter specific to writing USB drivers. Google it. It is available for free download. Cheers Naufal On 5/28/10, arun ashok arunashok...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am an electronics instrumentation engineering student with no

Re: [fsug-tvm] how to know what kind of data is coming from internet??

2010-05-28 Thread Arjun Sr
You can also use Wireshark for analyzing packet over network On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:44 AM, raghu ram raghuramsusa...@gmail.com wrote: friends here i am having some problem with bsnl connection if i kept my modem on some data is coming into my pc which is i am monitoring through system

Re: [fsug-tvm] how to know what kind of data is coming from internet??

2010-05-28 Thread Arjun Sr
wireshark is for advanced users. you can refer the manuals for details. or else a command line utility called tcpdump can be used. you can install the firewall to defend sudo apt-get install gufw On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:17 AM, raghu ram raghuramsusa...@gmail.com wrote: i installed wireshark

Re: [fsug-tvm] how to know what kind of data is coming from internet??

2010-05-28 Thread Ershad K
An application called Etherape can help you, it's easy to use and features a decent GUI. It even shows the protocol when some data is being transfered. -- Ershad -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the

[fsug-tvm] fsug monthly meeting on June 12.. pls suggest a venue..

2010-05-28 Thread prakreet
We had planned during the ubuntu release party to conduct a monthly meeting of fsug on second saturdays.. Guys, thus the next meeting is on June 12.. Time is 3pm as usual.. we had an opinion that we could conduct the meeting at a different venue this time.. i think christ nagar school as venue of