[Ilugc] [OT] Wireless broadband recommendations?

2009-07-14 Thread K.C. Ramakrishna
Hi all, Has anybody used wireless broadband services in India? I was looking to subscribe to one but not sure which one to buy. Google hasn't really helped. I (and many people I know) have had very bad experiences with Tata Indicom in general (telecom as well as internet/broadband, billing etc

RE: [Ilugc] [OT] Wireless broadband recommendations?

2009-07-14 Thread Sivakumar Gopalan
> I am looking at Reliance. Does Airtel have any? Are there other good > services available? I have been using Reliance for at least couple of years not and I have not faced much problem. The speed is something similar to what we use to get in dialup(varies from area to area). However I heard from

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Wireless broadband recommendations?

2009-07-14 Thread Gaurav Paliwal
> Has anybody used wireless broadband services in India? I was looking to > subscribe to one but not sure which one to buy. Google hasn't really helped. > > I (and many people I know) have had very bad experiences with Tata Indicom > in general (telecom as well as internet/broadband, billing etc) a

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Wireless broadband recommendations?

2009-07-14 Thread Gaurav Paliwal
I have been using Reliance for at least couple of years not and I have > not faced much problem. The speed is something similar to what we use to > get in dialup(varies from area to area). However I heard from one of my > friend that the new 1Mbps wireless from reliance gives 512Kbps > constantly.

[Ilugc] web conferencing in GNU/linux?

2009-07-14 Thread K.C. Ramakrishna
Hi all, 1. Is there a good web conferencing tool for conferencing between Linux and Windows? Our clients use gotomeeting or gomeetnow. Both of these force us to use Windows (XP) on our laptops. Is there any way that we can use Ubuntu (our default desktop OS) for web conferencing? I heard abo

Re: [Ilugc] web conferencing in GNU/linux?

2009-07-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, K.C. Ramakrishna wrote: > 1. Is there a good web conferencing tool for conferencing between > Linux and Windows? Our clients use gotomeeting or gomeetnow. Both of > these force us to use Windows (XP) on our laptops. AFAIK, ekiga is compatible with Netmeeting. There are

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
Vamsee Kanakala writes: >1. The site with static pages, with code available as an svn repo on a >google code project. Why is a static site considered a good idea in this time and age? If your concern is that a CMS-managed site can be hacked while a static site can't be - well, yes, it is more dif

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > I think there is a tremendous benefit to using a CMS-managed site > I think the benefits of using a dynamic CMS environment far outweigh the > benefits of using a static html website. Though you make these two assertions, your e-mail contai

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: | But are we saying that we have no | one in this list who is capable of securing a simple dynamic site? \-- ... with time to promptly respond to queries and maintain it, because they are busy with a day-job? --- | [Snip] | | I t

Re: Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need? Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
>> I think the benefits of using a dynamic CMS environment far outweigh the >> benefits of using a static html website. >Though you make these two assertions, your e-mail contains no mention >of the benefits of a dynamic web site. Instead your e-mail contains >examples of by-passing known difficul

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Raman.P
--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > | > ... provided you have a *dedicated* list of people who can > maintain > it? There has been many a time when I couldn't show the URL > of ILUG-C > when talking to students because the website has been > filled with > spam, or the site itself has be

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > > Why is a static site considered a good idea in this time and age? If your > concern is that a CMS-managed site can be hacked while a static site can't > be - well, yes, it is more difficult to attack a pure static site. I believe sta

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:03 PM, balachandar muruganantham < mbchan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Please tell us what you are expecting in our site? > > Would like to have the Saturday meetings webcast or video archived! regards, Arun -- Arun Venkataswamy http://arun289.wordpress.com

Re: Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need? Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > > To state what you will already know - there are some very capable CMSs out > there - from large "enterprise-class" ones such as Liferay, Plone etc to > the smaller ones such as Joomla. Some of these products content > versioning, separ

[Ilugc] Equivalent of ActiveX in Linux

2009-07-14 Thread R.Subramanian (RS)
Dear All We have developed a browser based biometric application in .net/windows using activeX controls. The web server interacts with the driver of the fingerprint reader device in the client machine using activeX controls and the captured fingerprint image is transfered to the server for compari

Re: [Ilugc] Equivalent of ActiveX in Linux

2009-07-14 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM, R.Subramanian (RS) wrote: | The web server interacts with the driver of the fingerprint reader device in | | Now we are developing this application to work in Linux systems. | Could some one help on how to do the equivalent of activeX controls in | linux/ja

Re: [Ilugc] Equivalent of ActiveX in Linux

2009-07-14 Thread R.Subramanian (RS)
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:25 PM, R.Subramanian (RS) > wrote: > | The web server interacts with the driver of the fingerprint reader device > in > | > | Now we are developing this application to work in Linux systems. > | Could so

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
>| But are we saying that we have no >| one in this list who is capable of securing a simple dynamic site? >\-- >... with time to promptly respond to queries and maintain it, because >they are busy with a day-job? What do you propose as the plan of action for tracking apache vulnerabilities, OS

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Ashok Gautham
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Raman.P wrote: >> We can do better! > do better and lot simpler - why over engineer? In the name of tech > let us not fail to have basic info > a.what is our group > b.topic and timings of next meet > c.join our mailing list +1 I am sure the site will come out gre

[Ilugc] Artwork for the site

2009-07-14 Thread Ashok Gautham
Start contributing good artwork to the site My contribution (Might be the worst that will be posted http://scriptdevil.byethost7.com/Documents/tuxTamil.png --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "uns

Re: [Ilugc] Artwork for the site

2009-07-14 Thread Krishna
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: > Start contributing good artwork to the site > > My contribution (Might be the worst that will be posted > > http://scriptdevil.byethost7.com/Documents/tuxTamil.png It will be better if it has Tux with some tamil characters rather than tamil

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: | What do you propose as the plan of action for tracking apache | vulnerabilities, OS vulnerabilities and so on? \-- The hosting providers can take care of that. --- | Do you think it takes a lot less effort to track changes in s

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Prem Kurian Philip
> >> Why is a static site considered a good idea in this time and age? If your >> concern is that a CMS-managed site can be hacked while a static site can't >> be - well, yes, it is more difficult to attack a pure static site. >I believe static pages in *our case* would be a good idea because we

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:28 PM, Prem Kurian Philip wrote: > In any case, this is just my opinion on the subject. The people who are > actually going to be managing the site should take the call - and if they > are happier managing using an SCM, so be it. > I think we have a volunteer for the CMS r

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread balachandar muruganantham
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Prem Kurian > Philip wrote: > | What do you propose as the plan of action for tracking apache > | vulnerabilities, OS vulnerabilities and so on? > \-- > > The hosting providers can take care of th

Re: [Ilugc] Artwork for the site

2009-07-14 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Ashok Gautham said: > http://scriptdevil.byethost7.com/Documents/tuxTamil.png PillaYaar PeeDigGa PooYee, Tux anna KaDhaiYa iruku :) -- Bharathi S ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the

[Ilugc] Dial -up connection in PC Linux

2009-07-14 Thread Navaneethan
Hi all, I am using PC Linux 2009 kde and I'd like to connect BSNL Nic card in PC Linux 2009 Usually In Ubuntu for having the Dial-up connection we need to configure the file "wvdial.conf" but I don't know that how to configure for having dial-up connection in PC Linux OS? and wvdial is m

Re: [Ilugc] Dial -up connection in PC Linux

2009-07-14 Thread kish
>        I am using PC Linux 2009 kde and I'd like to connect BSNL Assuming you hardware is detected: Create a dialup connection. Use kppp ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message.

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
Sorry, I'm replying from the cumbersome gmail interface than my regular thunderbird one, so the formatting and headers might be off. >PK wrote: > What exactly is the workflow you have in mind for how the static website > is going to be updated? Whether you use an SCM or not you are going to > have

[Ilugc] A very written article

2009-07-14 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Benjamin Mako Hill argues that we should be clear that we are doing FOSS because of our principles: <http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/20090714-00> I generally agree with this except that my principle (as someone puts it in the comments section) is: Sharing and discussing programs is f

Re: [Ilugc] running scilab 5.1.1 on linux

2009-07-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 11:16:08 am Rahul Sundaram wrote: > On 07/14/2009 08:46 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > hi, > > has anyone succeeded in running scilab 5.1.1 in gui mode in linux? I get > > a seqfault in FC11 and a google search shows a lot of similar complaints > > but does not seem to offe

Re: [Ilugc] running scilab 5.1.1 on linux

2009-07-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 15 Jul 2009 7:51:58 am Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > I was able to extract the 32-binary tarball, go to bin and run scilab > > out of the box in Fedora 11. Since it seems to bundle all it > > dependencies in the third party folder, it appears self contained. Are > > you by any chance us

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Vamsee Kanakala
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:43 PM, balachandar muruganantham wrote: > > discussion is being deviated from the subject. Its not the discussion about > static or dynamic website. > We need to decide that first. All the rest of the features that people requested can be added as subdomains/vhosts to the

Re: [Ilugc] chennailug.org / ilugc.in - what do you need?

2009-07-14 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 8:25 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Prem Kurian > Philip wrote: > --- > | And at the end of the day you will have a website which does not even > | support searches? > \-- or apache Lucene/Solr. I have used it within apps

Re: [Ilugc] running scilab 5.1.1 on linux

2009-07-14 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 07/15/2009 07:51 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jul 2009 11:16:08 am Rahul Sundaram wrote: >> On 07/14/2009 08:46 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: >>> hi, >>> has anyone succeeded in running scilab 5.1.1 in gui mode in linux? I get >>> a seqfault in FC11 and a google search shows a lot

Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009

2009-07-14 Thread sivaji j.g
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Raman.P wrote: > Our member and student of Jaya Engg College, Sivaji is selected > in this years gsoc for a project in drupal I am happy to let you know that i have passed the midterm evaluation. The alpha verstion of my GSoC code will be released on 20th of t

Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009

2009-07-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 15 Jul 2009 11:53:20 am sivaji j.g wrote: > > Our member and student of Jaya Engg College, Sivaji is selected > > in this years gsoc for a project in drupal > > I am happy to let you know that i have passed the midterm evaluation. The > alpha verstion of my GSoC code will be released

Re: [Ilugc] google summer of code 2009

2009-07-14 Thread Sudharshan S
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:23 AM, sivaji j.g babbled: > > I am happy to let you know that i have passed the midterm evaluation.  The > alpha verstion of my GSoC code will be released on 20th of this month. > Thanks to ILUGC for supporting me :-) > Awesome, Congrats Regards Sudharshan S Blog : htt