Re: [Ilugc] FOSS competency certification

2009-03-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 06 March 2009 11:26:32 Arun Khan wrote: Also, the rest of the material is too high level what exactly is too high level? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe

Re: [Ilugc] Yum Repos

2009-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Ashish Verma wrote: Hi, Please suggest some yum repos. rpms like below will be very helpful. http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm for livna repo. http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpmfor rpm-fusion Generally, mixing repositories would lead to

Re: [Ilugc] Firefox problem

2009-03-06 Thread padma priya
Thanks for all the inputs. I uninstalled firefox and installed 3.0.7 stable version. It works :) ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message.

[Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Prasath Ramachandiran
Hi, Am presently using Fedora Core 2 OS, i have to update into Fedora 9. How to update the OS. Thanks R. Prasath ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Prasath Ramachandiran wrote: Hi, Am presently using Fedora Core 2 OS, i have to update into Fedora 9. How to update the OS. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FAQ#I_have_an_older_Fedora_release.__Can_I_upgrade_my_existing_installation.3F Rahul

Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi,    Am presently using Fedora Core 2 OS, i have to update into Fedora 9.    How to update the OS. Is the upgrade is essential? Why not a fresh install of new version? Fedora 2 is very old to use. If there is no important data, or very little data, back up them. Do a fresh install of

Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 06 March 2009 16:49:09 Shrinivasan T wrote: Fedora 10 already come. Go for a latest one always. actually it is always advisable to go for the second latest - not only in software, but for everything you acquire. -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com

Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Raman.P
--- On Fri, 6/3/09, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: Is the upgrade is essential? Why not a fresh install of new version? Fedora 2 is very old to use. If there is no important data, or very little data, back up them. Do a fresh install of Fedora 9. This will make your

RE: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Mahesh Thiagarajan
From: ilugc-boun...@ae.iitm.ac.in [ilugc-boun...@ae.iitm.ac.in] On Behalf Of Kenneth Gonsalves [law...@thenilgiris.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 4:50 PM actually it is always advisable to go for the second latest - not only in software, but for

Re: [Ilugc] Update Fedora 9 OS

2009-03-06 Thread Ravi Jaya
I second it, atleast for fedora. In the desire for cutting edge, some crucial subSytems could come out with bugs unsurmountable at the start. But also, fedora releases get obsoleted qucik too. Give a good read of fc10 known issues before taking a call! my question to prasath is, why

Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists

2009-03-06 Thread Nallu Ignacius
Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Zico mailz...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Parthan SR parth.technofr...@gmail.com wrote: And also please don't write a mail with 1945 words. Nobody is going to read it through ;-) haha :D Come on!!! ;) @ALL Understood.

Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists

2009-03-06 Thread Krishna
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Guruprasad lgp171...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Parthan SR parth.technofr...@gmail.com wrote: And also please don't write a mail with 1945 words. Nobody is going to read it through ;-) When someone can count the number of words,

Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists

2009-03-06 Thread Guruprasad
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Krishna mail2kr...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. with Eric S Raymonds explanation of Zen enlightenment http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html a simple wc -w foo.txt is enough :). When someone shows interest to count the number of

Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists

2009-03-06 Thread Guruprasad
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Krishna mail2kr...@gmail.com wrote: Not necessarily. with Eric S Raymonds explanation of Zen enlightenment http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html a simple wc -w foo.txt is enough :). When someone shows interest to count the number of

Re: [Ilugc] Communicating in lists

2009-03-06 Thread Nallu Ignacius
hi, வணக்கம், In brief, if you don't have anything to say, don't say it, if you don't like what is written just ignore/delete it. Instead of spending so much energy on deciding which *language* we can communicate in, we should spend some time on communicating! And also please don't write a

[Ilugc] about swap area

2009-03-06 Thread nandha kumar
hai to all. I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using windows.. now i have a doubt about swap area. my doubts are

Re: [Ilugc] about swap area

2009-03-06 Thread Ravi Jaya
I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using windows.. now i have a doubt about swap area. my doubts are 1.

Re: [Ilugc] about swap area

2009-03-06 Thread Roshan George
On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 19:38 +0530, nandha kumar wrote: hai to all. I m nandha doing second year in saveetha engg college.. I hav a system with intel 845GV - p4 - 640 mb RAM - 40+20 gb hdd i m using dual os - windows xp and ubuntu 8.04 . after switching to ubuntu i m not at all using

Re: [Ilugc] ??? ??? ?? ???? - ???????????????? ??? =?UTF-8?B?4K6f4K6x4K+I

2009-03-06 Thread ம . ஸ்ரீ ராமதாஸ்|Sri Ramadoss M
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Senthil Kumaran S style...@gmail.com wrote: Bharathi Subramanian wrote:   And Writing in Tamil in this list is NOT GOING TO HELP ANYWAY in to improve our language. If Tamil is forced, then it will die soon - Rough translation of MahaKavi Bharathiyar's

Re: [Ilugc] about swap area

2009-03-06 Thread Senthil Anand
On 3/6/2009 7:38 PM, nandha kumar wrote: 1. how to utilize the swap memory completely( i hv created a swap of 1280 mb and ubuntu is in 40 gb hdd) bcoz most of the time my swap is idle. Use programs which use more than 640MB of memory. Idle swap is good since it means you have enough memory

[Ilugc] Looking for live cd/distro supporting eafs/htfs filesystem

2009-03-06 Thread LinuXpert Academy
Hi all, I need to recover data from a SCO Open Server 5.0 harddisk which uses EAFS/HTFS (not NTFS) filesystem. I didn't find any linux distro which supports this kind of filesystem to mount from linux. Any pointers would be helpful. S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems

Re: [Ilugc] Looking for live cd/distro supporting eafs/htfs filesystem

2009-03-06 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi, I need to recover data from a SCO Open Server 5.0 harddisk which uses EAFS/HTFS (not NTFS) filesystem.  I didn't find any linux distro which supports this kind of filesystem to mount from linux. See the following link. http://www.aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_linuxfs.html -- Regards,

[Ilugc] Acer Aspire One sound update

2009-03-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: As you will note from my comment on the Debian Wiki page, I could not get the internal mic to work. Please let me know if some more recent version of alsa

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS competency certification

2009-03-06 Thread Arun Khan
On Friday 06 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Friday 06 March 2009 11:26:32 Arun Khan wrote: Also, the rest of the material is too high level what exactly is too high level? Please see these for examples of the content that needs to be outlined in the proposed certification.

Re: [Ilugc] Acer Aspire One sound update

2009-03-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Using Debian lenny on the Acer Aspire One I just tested: ... And it worked! So perhaps some recent changes to the alsa-source package in lenny made it work or my tests earlier were buggy! If you plug-in headphones

[Ilugc] anatomy of ext4

2009-03-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
Hello, IBM DW has featured a recent article on ext4 Linux file system, and is good reading for any Linux file system enthusiast. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-anatomy-ext4/index.html The Resources section of the article has plenty of pointers to further information. - Raja

Re: [Ilugc] Acer Aspire One sound update

2009-03-06 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sat, 07 Mar 2009, Raja Subramanian wrote: If you plug-in headphones or a mic do they work as expected? Yes. There is a mixer setting which toggles between internal mic and external mic. (I use alsamixer). I have one more issue -- at the lowest screen brightness, the screen flickers