[fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi all, See the new syllabus of CUSAT for Btech. These guys are still prescribing Microsoft stuff. http://soe.cusat.ac.in/files/btech_s1s2_syllabus_2012.pdf 11 L2 COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LABORATORY Application packages Word 1. to create an advertisement in word. 2. to illustrate the concept

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cusat and free software.

2012-09-04 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
I am awaiting for the remaining part of the syllabus. I am sure matlab will be there. Sunil On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote: This seems like new additions. I havn't seen such things in previous syllabuses atleast 3 years back Sad to see that all

Re: [fsug-tvm] Ham radio

2010-11-08 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
The classes are simple and the classes are only on weekends. You can call allen and the last date of submission of application to WPC is 15th Nov. Sunil On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:47 AM, JeevZ jeevan...@gmail.com wrote: 30th october On 11/8/10, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Ham radio

2010-11-08 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
it is a hobby and you can look at the following links too http://www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2005-01-05-voa24-66363817.html Sunil IIT Bombay On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Visakh gokulda...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Would u pl. enlighten me the advantageous of a HAM Radio over and

Re: [fsug-tvm] Ham radio

2010-11-07 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
@kenney Now there are two kind of licenses , restricted and general. The restricted is limited in power out put compared to general . With good band condition and proper equipment , you can reach anywhere on the globe. My own record is like this. with 2 watts - vijayavada(

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Release Party Looking for A venue

2010-04-22 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Another possible place will be Sisuvihar school near trivandrum club. Call HM 04712723374 . or PTA president Mr. Sridhar ( thanal). Sunil On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Raru Rv raru...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, I contacted Chirst Nagar School, Vellayambalam for the venue, But

[fsug-tvm] e-grantz and free software

2010-01-07 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi all, I am writing this mail after spending nearly one hour with http://www.e-grantz.kerala.gov.in/ The SC/ST department administers the scholarships and grants via this site. As a part of my job , I had to open up this site today and forward some applications. Every time I

Re: [fsug-tvm] Ubuntu Karmic and Dell Studio 14; No sound

2009-12-06 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Sajjad Anwar Does anyone here have any new ideas to tackle? I had similar problems on a toshiba nb 200 net book. I dumped alsa and installed oss. Now sound works. Sunil -- Sunil T T aka VU2SWX Assistant Professor Dept. of Electronics College of

Re: [fsug-tvm] [OT]-entry Level laser Printer

2009-12-02 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
hp 1007 works for me on jaunty On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Aneesh A aneesh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Raj Kamal kamalraj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am new to linux world though i have been using computers from the age of MS-DOS to Vista. I want to buy

[fsug-tvm] Re: Seminar on FOSS and Technical Education at MBCET

2009-11-06 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Subin subinsebast...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the reply... I personally uses SDL for my graphics apps. And never touched Turbo C++ IDE on my PC and I'm using Linux exclusively. CUSAT C.G syllabus is made for Turbo C++ IDE and even library functions like

[fsug-tvm] Re: Modprobe not working..

2009-10-17 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:51 AM, stranger in black gnu...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to modprobe a usb modem in jaunty. But the command *modprobe usbserial* is not working... What to do next? Send the exact error message you are getting Sunil Sent from my mobile device junise safvan

[fsug-tvm] Re: startup program priority

2009-09-15 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Junise For NIS and NFS the start up priority can be controlled via rc2.d . Has your NIS NFS setup worked ? Sunil On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:50 PM, stranger in black. gnu...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Adhin D I also want this tip. In my

[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: Remote home folder

2009-09-08 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi I had done a similar setup long back with NIS and NFS . The NIS authenticated all users and whenever some on logged in his home was exported via NFS. It was done on RH 7.2 long back when I was working at CAS calicut. Instead of NIS you can use LDAP to authenticate. There are

[fsug-tvm] Re: How to make a Debian Package

2009-08-22 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Look at checkinstall For making it distro independent , you may have to statically link all the libraries. Sunil On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 11:15 AM, subin sebastien subinsebast...@yahoo.comwrote: You can use the dpkg-builpackage program. I don't know if it can produce a noarch build but use

[fsug-tvm] Re: One Day Workshop on BOSS at Thiruvananthapuram

2009-08-05 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
I had attended a 2 hour demo session some time back . It was handled by a novice PR fellow. He just distributed the CD and gave a presentation. You can expect the same. By the way has any one used BOSS ? I don't find it very impressive. Just another remaster from debian. Government

[fsug-tvm] Re: desktop search inside documents

2009-07-19 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
I use beagle along with a firefox plugin. It works like google search box. See this post http://unixlab.blogspot.com/2009/07/searching-your-ubuntu-desktop-with.html It can be adapted for other distros too. Sunil On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Anoop Jacob Thomas anoo...@gmail.comwrote:

[fsug-tvm] Re: FSUG Meeting

2009-07-15 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
+1 On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 1:45 PM, ashik salahudeen aash...@gmail.com wrote: കൈ പൊക്കിയിരിക്കുന്നു -- Sunil T T Assistant Professor Dept. of Electronics College of Engineering Attingal Pin 695 101 http://brainstorms.in --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom is

[fsug-tvm] [OT] Netbook suggestions

2009-07-11 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
As I am travelling most of the time , I am thinking of buying a netbook. Is any of the fsug members using one ? I want to run ubuntu . (It is not going to be used as a development machine , I intend to use it mainly for email , net and some bloging )Any one has any suggestions on

[fsug-tvm] Re: FSUG Meeting

2009-07-11 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
How about tomorrow evening ? Sunil On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Visakh gokulda...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I was thinking about the same. Only a meeting can lay foundation for our practical work - like the LAMP classes we planned earlier. But where are the regular members? Prasad chettan

[fsug-tvm] Re: [Firefox] Mozilla Firefox 3.5 released

2009-07-04 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
This is some what off topic. @keralafarmer Are you getting deepika with padma on firefox 3.0 ? For me deepika suddenly stopped working . I think they have changed fonts. Sunil On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Anoop Jacob Thomas anoo...@gmail.comwrote: Many addon's won't be supported from

[fsug-tvm] Re: PIC microcontroller

2009-07-01 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
If you can pay shiping , Microchip sends out samples to genuine academic users. Last year we got several samples for our student projects. Sunil On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:51 AM, vibi sreenivasan vibisreeniva...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Can you let me know where in trivandrum we can purchase

[fsug-tvm] Re: print from window to a gnu/linux printer

2009-06-25 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
see this http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-shared-printer-in-linux-using.html This is what we did in our college . It was a debian box. 73s Sunil VU2SWX On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Visakh gokulda...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I hope this is helpful to you:

[fsug-tvm] Re: print from window to a gnu/linux printer

2009-06-25 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
shared printer On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com wrote: see this http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2007/08/windows-shared-printer-in-linux-using.html This is what we did in our college . It was a debian box. 73s Sunil VU2SWX On Thu, Jun 25

[fsug-tvm] Re: [OT] Multithreading Reference

2009-06-24 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Are you looking for pthreads programming ? Sunil On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Visakh gokulda...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Can anybody lend me for a few days, any book on multithreaded programming? Suggestions on online resources are welcome, especially the ones I can download and read

[fsug-tvm] Re: Note to Yahoo Messsenger users]

2009-06-23 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
This has hack has also started failing. The real problem is that yahoo has stopped supporting yahoo messenger versions prior to 7.5 . The new pidgin 2.5.7 is out which solves the problem. For ubuntu 9.04 users do the following. Import the public key for Launchpad PPA for Pidgin

[fsug-tvm] Re: Moderation on the List and List Policy Guidelines

2009-06-21 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
One more point Anoop The newbies should be asked to read ESR http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Also some idea about googling may be given when they are accepted as members. 73s VU2SWX On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Anoop John anoopj...@gmail.com wrote: Dear

[fsug-tvm] Re: FORTRAN-77 COBOL

2009-06-09 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
An apt-cache search followed by apt-cache show resulted in open-cobol - COBOL compiler Description: COBOL compiler OpenCOBOL implements substantial part of the COBOL 85 and COBOL 2002 standards, as well as many extensions of the existent compilers. OpenCOBOL translates COBOL into

[fsug-tvm] Re: Who can teach me PHP/Drupal?

2009-05-01 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
If there is sufficient interest, I can organize a workshop at my college. Now we are having vacations , so the entire infrastructure is at my disposal till the end of June. The only problem is that Attingal is 30km away from the city. Sunil On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Aneesh A

[fsug-tvm] Re: One day workshop on 25th April

2009-04-23 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Come to Attingal KSRTC bus stand. College is 2mins walk from there. Sunil On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:41 AM, stranger in black gnu...@gmail.com wrote: sir... how to reach to the college.??? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all

[fsug-tvm] One day workshop on 25th April

2009-04-21 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hello all The one day work shop on Remastering is Scheduled on 25th April. I have already sent a conformation mail to all those who expressed interest. All together there are 18 people. I can accommodate a few more ( 3 or 4). I am posting the draft of the first session here.

[fsug-tvm] Re: One day workshop on re-mastering Ubuntu

2009-03-29 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
you are forced to.. ! = On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. It is only 30km away from Trivandrum. I want to give hands on training and I have full control over my computer lab. Any other place

[fsug-tvm] Re: One day workshop on re-mastering Ubuntu

2009-03-29 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
is this College of Engineering Attingal. Hope u will provide a gud road map to reach there :) On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Nope. Even school students are welcome. Sunil On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 6:26 PM, sunil s sunils1...@gmail.com wrote

[fsug-tvm] Re: One day workshop on re-mastering Ubuntu

2009-03-28 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Here is the latest update on this. I have obtained permission for conducting the program at my college. I will be putting out a formal email with in few days. The program is tentatively scheduled for 25th April at College of Engineering Attingal. Please watch out for my announcement. Sunil

[fsug-tvm] Re: One day workshop on re-mastering Ubuntu

2009-03-28 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
will be members of this list.( and our own students). Sunil On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Jiks jikkuj...@gmail.com wrote: Attingal ?? :( 2009/3/28 Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com Here is the latest update on this. I have obtained permission for conducting the program at my college

[fsug-tvm] Re: SUDO

2009-03-26 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Have you installed the sudo package ? Sunil On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Anoop Jacob Thomas anoo...@gmail.comwrote: Hey navneeth, After type visudo and editing the file. Press ctrl + x and press y to save and quit. -- Anoop Jacob Thomas http://CareMedia.org http://caremedia.org/

[fsug-tvm] Re: Agenda for one day ubuntu Re mastering workshop

2009-03-24 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Ok. My idea is to run the course towards the end of April. We are also having exams (CUSAT), but it will be over by first week of May. When is the Kerala university exams scheduled ? How many of you will be there if I run it in the last week of April. ( Any Saturday after Elections

[fsug-tvm] Re: Agenda for one day ubuntu Re mastering workshop

2009-03-24 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi all I am out of station from 4th to 14th. I may have election duty. The only possible dates in April are 17h and 25th. I am free during May June ( vacation). My first preference is for 25th. Sunil On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Navaneeth T nava...@gmail.com wrote: OK then try to

[fsug-tvm] Agenda for one day ubuntu Re mastering workshop

2009-03-23 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hello all, I have posted a tentative agenda on the re mastering workshop. http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/web/Agenda_for_Ubuntu_Remastering_workshop-1.pdf Please go through it and suggest refinements. I am also preparing a tutorial and a set of slides on the subject. Let us

[fsug-tvm] Re: Dual Cores

2009-03-21 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Depending on what you do. If you compile kernel you can speed up . Sunil On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM, BINNY THOMAS binn...@gmail.com wrote: I want to know about the multiprocessor support of linux i.e. Dual cores,Core 2 Duo,Quad cores etc. Can it effectively utilise all the cores?

[fsug-tvm] Re: Dual Cores

2009-03-21 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Oops. My reply caused a lot of confusion. I was referring to kernel compilation as a possible use of multi core for a power user. See this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Kernel/Compile Sunil On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com wrote

[fsug-tvm] Re: mini iso

2009-03-17 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
You can try LFS.( linux from scratch). It will be a good learning experience. Otherwise you can remaster an existing distro and customize. For ubuntu there are tools like remaster sys and reconstructor. Sunil On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 9:53 PM, junise safvan gnu...@gmail.com wrote: how could i

[fsug-tvm] Re: BSNL WLL Clarity Wireless modem

2009-03-05 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
hi http://brainstorms.in/?p=194 Sunil http://brainstorms.in On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Navaneeth T nava...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am using a bsnl wll internet phone woth inbuilt mode it doesnt support my debian what do? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ Freedom

[fsug-tvm] Re: command to show BaSH commands

2009-02-20 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi, How about reading this. http://brainstorms.in/pdf/commonds.pdf I got this during a training which I am presently attending. I posted it for my own reference. It must be from some other site. Sunil http://brainstoms.in On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Yadu Nand

[fsug-tvm] Re: Gtalk voice chat

2009-02-10 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
See this blog entry ofVU3RDD http://www.zerobeat.in/2008/05/02/google-talk-voice-chat-on-gnulinux/ Sunil http://brainstorms.in On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 3:58 PM, BINNY THOMAS binn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey thats just what I did using Empathy I even got the call Icon but beside chat but

[fsug-tvm] Re: resconstructor

2009-01-22 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi Jinise, If you want to build your own ubuntu derivative you can do the following a) Install a fresh ubuntu b) install whatever software you want. c) Install remaster sys d) Make a custom iso e) Install reconstructor f) run reconstructor on you custom iso g) Finally

[fsug-tvm] Re: Easy way to download video from Youtube

2009-01-19 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
You can also try the python script youtube_dl from http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/ I some time use it along with screen to download in the background. Sunil On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Sebin Jacob sebinaja...@gmail.com wrote: Youtube is opening up video downloads, very

[fsug-tvm] Re: Easy way to download streaming audio

2009-01-19 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi Have a look at this thread. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-capture-streaming-audio-626876/ Streamripper , Mplayer are some choices you can have, http://streamripper.sourceforge.net/ There are several streaming formats and each may require a different

[fsug-tvm] Re: [fsug-tvm]

2009-01-07 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
at 9:53 AM, midhun raj smidhunrajloveslinu...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Anivar Aravind ani...@movingrepublic.org wrote: On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil vu2...@gmail.com wrote: if your are looking for text to speech conversion try

[fsug-tvm 4106] Re: [ilug-tvm] Re: GNu/Linux installs at Christ Nagar School

2008-12-27 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Hi, I can do a session on LTSP if some of the listers need it. For a school it will be the easiest thing to administer. It can be either based on fedora (K12LTSP) or debian/ubuntu. I have handled both kind of environments. Sunil On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:00 PM, ashik salahudeen

[fsug-tvm 4112] Re: [ilug-tvm] Re: GNu/Linux installs at Christ Nagar School

2008-12-27 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
is not having network boot facility I can program an EPROM and bring it. Sunil On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:09 PM, ashik salahudeen aash...@gmail.comwrote: thanks sir. There are people who are interested in this. What all will you be needing to do a session ? 2008/12/27 Sunil Thomas

[ilug-tvm] Re: Some FS posters for our group

2008-12-17 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
Vimal http://ilug-tvm.googlegroups.com/web/fsugt-poster.jpg has an error. Look at the URL on the poster Sunil On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Vimal vimaljos...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, here are some posters for our group... http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm/web/fsug-tvm-posters

[ilug-tvm] Re: Anybody using BSNL CDMA wireless landline for internet?

2008-12-15 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
been connecting using the method you mentioned just that I didnt use b) Load the ppp drive # /sbin/modprobe ppp_generic I use to straight away go to wvdial. The problem in my case is that Baud = 9600 only. If I increase it manually the modem wont work. 2008/12/15 Sunil Thomas

[ilug-tvm] Re: Anybody using BSNL CDMA wireless landline for internet?

2008-12-14 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
What make phone you are having For a phone make called CLARITY , I wrote this. http://brainstorms.in/?p=194 Sunil On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:48 AM, guruprasad rane ranegurupra...@gmail.comwrote: I am using the same connection on windows and it work quite fast. 2008/12/15 Dileep Kumar M

Re: [FSUG-TSR] [ilug-tvm] Re: A few photos from FSFS

2008-12-13 Thread Sunil Thomas Thonikuzhiyil
I think the concept of barcamp can coexist with FOSS. How about running the next barcamp in Trivandrum Sunil On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:46 AM, .Kenney Jacob kenney.ja...@gmail.comwrote: Now this is what I call propaganda. How did you conclude that BarCamp is a Microsoft user group ?