Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Everything in this world does not revolve around GNU/Linux! Take some time off to enjoy things around you! Yes and Deepavali is not the only festival. In India, we can relate most of the days to some event belong to some specific religion. Our members also belongs to different religion and if

Re: [Ilugc] Re: Diwali Wishes (burst crackers?)

2009-10-18 Thread Rahul Sundaram
On 10/17/2009 01:24 PM, magesh wrote: Hello Guys Wish you all a Happy and Safe diwali here our geeks have found an innovative way of bursting crackers without pollutions saving the environment check it out here http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/specials/diwali2005/cracker.htm click it

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 17 Oct 2009 11:18:08 am Varrun Ramani wrote: Wish you all a very happy deepavali(not :) diwali )! I just was enlightened what has this post got to do with linux? or foss? do you not know that it is a breach of list rules to send seasons greetings. Or are you incapable of reading

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 17 Oct 2009 1:01:34 pm narendra sisodiya wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Varrun Ramani darthsit...@gmail.com wrote: Wish you all a very happy deepavali(not :) diwali )! I just was enlightened by my professor with some info i had no idea about. I think every Indian

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
2009/10/18 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com On Saturday 17 Oct 2009 11:18:08 am Varrun Ramani wrote: Wish you all a very happy deepavali(not :) diwali )! I just was enlightened what has this post got to do with linux? or foss? do you not know that it is a breach of list rules to

[Ilugc] C sample code for reading and writing files

2009-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, I had to write a stub code for reading and writing binary and text files as part of my MAPI work. I thought I will share this with you all since it is very useful for you to learn C. Please find the code with sexy syntax highlighting here: http://gayatri-hitech.com/Misc/fio.c.html

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
Hi Kenneth Well, i got a mail from the very same group earlier with a mailing list etiquette where it was specifically mentioned that i have to top post. Well, i really cannot suit my mails to the fashions of different people wanting to read different mails differently.So please bear with it.

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 18 Oct 2009 12:10:55 pm Varrun Ramani wrote: Well, i got a mail from the very same group earlier with a mailing list etiquette where it was specifically mentioned that i have to top post you got a mail saying you *have* to top post?? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
Oh, I am sorry, i meant the opposite. Here is what was written.Please check the archives. * *2009/10/1 Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com Mailing List Guidelines: Monthly reminder: *4. Do not top-post: Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting Example of a top-post: Because it messes up

Re: [Ilugc] Downloading frame based sites with wget

2009-10-18 Thread steve
On 10/18/2009 10:43 AM, Varrun Ramani wrote: 2009/10/17 stevest...@lonetwin.net http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/faq.php#11 Could somebody confirm the reality (as opposed to what the website mentions) of this ? cheers, - steve The content in the website is free to access :- both the videos

[Ilugc] Stardict dictionary

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
Hi I have came across this software Stardict http://stardict.sourceforge.net . It is pretty useful tool having some cool features like Adding dictionaries,thesaurus and showing the meaning of a word when you double click on it. It also has an amazing plugin to help you learn the pronounciation of

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 18 Oct 2009 12:31:29 pm Varrun Ramani wrote: Always use bottom-posting. this is wrong - it should read 'always use interleaved posting'. I have been pointing this out to Shakthi for the last two years, but unfortunately it has not been changed. And why are you top posting now? --

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
See, i am pretty new to the mailing list and dont know that much about the etiquette. I just followed the ones stipulated in the guidelines, to maintain uniformity. People like you who have been active in the list for long, have to point me in the right way. I am pretty open to ideas.I agree with

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: | this is wrong - it should read 'always use interleaved posting'. I have been | pointing this out to Shakthi for the last two years, but unfortunately it has | not been changed. \-- I only changed it in my

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 18 Oct 2009 12:48:41 pm Varrun Ramani wrote: See, i am pretty new to the mailing list and dont know that much about the etiquette. I just followed the ones stipulated in the guidelines, to maintain uniformity. People like you who have been active in the list for long, have to point

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 18 Oct 2009 12:50:12 pm Shakthi Kannan wrote: | pointing this out to Shakthi for the last two years, but unfortunately it | has not been changed. \-- I only changed it in my presentation (slide #9) with 'interleaved, trimmed, bottom posting' as per yours and Kumar Appaiahs'

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
Hi, --- On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Varrun Ramani darthsit...@gmail.com wrote: | Now, i am clearly confused :) . Once in for all, please tell me if | top-posting is allowed or not? \-- Ok,thanks for the tips. I am clear now :) 2009/10/18 Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com Nobody

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread steve
On 10/18/2009 12:48 PM, Varrun Ramani wrote: See, i am pretty new to the mailing list and dont know that much about the etiquette. I just followed the ones stipulated in the guidelines, to maintain uniformity. People like you who have been active in the list for long, have to point me in the

Re: [Ilugc] Downloading frame based sites with wget

2009-10-18 Thread Varrun Ramani
2009/10/17 stevest...@lonetwin.net I'll send out a mail to the people involved and ask them about the licensing terms. I'll update the list about this. cheers, - steve It would be really helpful if you did update the list about it. -- Take up one idea.Make that one idea your life-

[Ilugc] Re: Significance of Deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Asokan Pichai
To Mr Ramani Everything in this world does not revolve around GNU/Linux! Well, you were not writing to the world. But instead to the Linux User group So may be different standards apply. Take some time off to enjoy things around you! Sure we all do; not on the list though -- Asokan Pichai

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Anthoni Shogan
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Sunday 18 Oct 2009 12:31:29 pm Varrun Ramani wrote: Always use bottom-posting. this is wrong - it should read 'always use interleaved posting'. I have been pointing this out to Shakthi for the last two years, but unfortunately it has not been changed. And

Re: [Ilugc] Keyboard configuration for LED brightness

2009-10-18 Thread Rajesh Pandian M
Ashok Gautham wrote: Try xbacklight -%age to reduce or xbacklight +% to increase same thing happened with my compaq C772TU laptop . but xbacklight helped me set to desired brightness values. #apt-get install xbacklight #xbacklight -set 10 Thanks Ashok signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Anthoni Shogan
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On Saturday 17 Oct 2009 11:18:08 am Varrun Ramani wrote: Wish you all a very happy deepavali(not :) diwali )! I just was enlightened what has this post got to do with linux? or foss? do you not know that it is a breach of list rules to send seasons greetings.

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Anthoni Shogan wrote: If a person cannot top post to a Free and Open Source list, I really don't understand what is the kind of freedom we talk about all the

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Anthoni Shogan
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Anthoni Shogan wrote: If a person cannot top post to a Free and Open Source list, I really don't understand what is the kind of freedom we talk about all

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Parthan SR
Anthoni Shogan wrote: Is it so difficult to reply to a person privately, telling him not to top/bottom post? Does it really require such a mail to be addressed to the list, with all the talking we've done over years to keep the archives clean and helpful to others?? If we start advising

Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali

2009-10-18 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 4:50 PM, Anthoni Shogan anthonisho...@gmail.com wrote: | Is it so difficult to reply to a person privately, telling him not to | top/bottom post? \-- The whole point of having a mailing list for discussion is that everyone knows about the discussions. --- | Does

ML Noise and Community (Was Re: [Ilugc] significance of deepavali)

2009-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, A long response to Anthoni Shogun's query about why we don't just ignore bad postings in this list. FOSS is largely a _community_ activity. If people behave badly with the community then even great ideas, coding or philosophy cannot excuse them. If you don't believe me then see the

[Ilugc] Handling mailing lists - part 1

2009-10-18 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Since handling mailing lists was referred to in my earlier mail here is part 1 of a tutorial on handling mailing list traffic. I hope other parts will be written by others. 1. If you subscribe to many mailing lists then learning to filter your incoming mail is a must. If you use a shell

[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (sqlite3 - complete SQL database in one file)

2009-10-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
$ sqlite3 persons.db SQLite version 3.6.18 Enter .help for instructions Enter SQL statements terminated with a ; sqlite create table person (id integer primary key, name string, age integer); sqlite insert into person values(NULL, Bharathi, 43); sqlite insert into person values(NULL, Raman,

Re: [Ilugc] GNU/Linux based laptops

2009-10-18 Thread Manu K Mohan
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Ashok Gautham thescriptde...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Manu K Mohan manukn...@gmail.com wrote: I found this on Software Freedom Day 29th September 2009 That was bad of me for such a big mistake in typing. I meant that i found it on

Re: [Ilugc] Stardict dictionary

2009-10-18 Thread Venkatesh Nandakumar
Yes it is :).And, you can add custom dictionaries available to it. Venkatesh Nandakumar Department of Electronics Computer Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee 2009/10/18 Varrun Ramani darthsit...@gmail.com It would be useful for people writing GRE/TOEFL/IELTS or just in