Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Vinod Parthasarathy
2009/11/16 Kapil Hari Paranjape > Hello, > > On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > > Basically RSA relies on the NP complete problem of prime number > > factorization and Diffie Hellman relies on discrete log problem. > > First of all, I should clarify that my aim is not to try to pr

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Sorry for the duplicates. The connection here is very poor and though the mail was sent, I received an error message so I sent it again! Kapil. -- ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Basically RSA relies on the NP complete problem of prime number > factorization and Diffie Hellman relies on discrete log problem. First of all, I should clarify that my aim is not to try to prove anyone wrong. However, when a statement is

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Mano wrote: > On matters mathematics I would trust Dr. Kapil more than anyone else > on this list! Never (at least almost never) _trust_ someone else's mathematics. The whole point of mathematics is that if it is correct you should be able to verify things for yoursel

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSF_TN] Decmber 5th & 6th, a Two-day workshop @ SSN by FSFTN

2009-11-15 Thread Salvadesswaran P.S.
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Suganthi T wrote: > It is not just to the organizer. It is for everyone who is interested in > attending the meet. They too may have some suggestions right.. I'm studying at SSN though I'm not really interested in attending this meet. Anyway, I'll try contacting

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 08:26:02AM +0530, Asokan Pichai wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Girish Venkatachalam > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape > > wrote: > >> > [snipped] > > > > Hey, I was talking math and you are talking something else. > > > [snipped] > > Mig

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Mano
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape > wrote: > >> However, the RSA encryption and decryption algorithms are inverses of > > each other so one could make a signature by applying RSA de

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Asokan Pichai
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape > wrote: >> [snipped] > > Hey, I was talking math and you are talking something else. > [snipped] Might be illuminating for Girish (and others) to check what Kapil does. HINT: lo

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > Which RSA algorithm? > > RSA encryption does not require a message digest algorithm. You get me wrong. > The RSA signature algorithm usually uses message digest algorithms for > efficiency and for a few other reasons. You get me r

Re: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > In fact the RSA algorithm is based on this message digest algorithm > but I don't think many people recognize this fact. Which RSA algorithm? RSA encryption does not require a message digest algorithm. The RSA signature algorithm usually

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil Nadu electoral roll database is using MS SQL Server

2009-11-15 Thread amachu
On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 23:48 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: > > Happy to know that they go for a RDBMS from Access for details of 4.13 > crore electors with their images. > > So sad for them for choosing MS SQL server. > > Is there any way to tell them about PostgreSQL and MySQL? Normally, the int

[Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (cksum utility in OpenBSD)

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Sorry guys and girls, This time it is a tip for OpenBSD. $ cksum -a sha512 /etc/passwd SHA512 (/etc/passwd) = b4d6a742cada5305686832f1037b60f79b56fe6dfdf9904e6070295e74 c2341535db26b731e27e04a73f0cb70bb589d31b8e9e18e207a8aae5aa81d06ea29f5a prints a very long checksum. This is also known as messa

Re: [Ilugc] Re: [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Shrinivasan T
We have a mirror in google groups too. http://groups.google.com/group/ilugc-mirror -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com ___ To unsubsc

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil Nadu electoral roll database is using MS SQL Server

2009-11-15 Thread Shrinivasan T
Happy to know that they go for a RDBMS from Access for details of 4.13 crore electors with their images. So sad for them for choosing MS SQL server. Is there any way to tell them about PostgreSQL and MySQL? -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpre

Re: [Ilugc] C++ linked lists, stack, queue tutorial

2009-11-15 Thread Shrinivasan T
Hi, Some students felt the following links are easy to understand the things. http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/showtopic10157.htm http://richardbowles.tripod.com/cpp/linklist/linklist.htm -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Fre

[Ilugc] Re: [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Balachandar
Rajz M writes: > i have never got this problem. try "create a filter" option in gmail. use it > to assign any tag (say ILUGC) or even move to inbox. so that it doesn't go > it spam folder. Hope this may help I dont know why you guys are reading ilugc mailing list posts via emails.You

[Ilugc] Tamil Nadu electoral roll database is using MS SQL Server

2009-11-15 Thread Ananth Ramakrishnan
Tamil Nadu electoral roll database migrates to MS SQL Server http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/15/stories/200911171300.htm - Ananth ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http:

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread siddharth srivastava
me too having no problems. Nothing is going in spam ever in my account 2009/11/15 Arun SAG > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Rajz M wrote: > > > > > >i have never got this problem. try "create a filter" option in gmail. > use > > it > > >to assign any tag (say ILUGC) or even move to inbox. so

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Arun SAG
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Rajz M wrote: > > >i have never got this problem. try "create a filter" option in gmail. use > it > >to assign any tag (say ILUGC) or even move to inbox. so that it doesn't go > >it spam folder. Hope this may help > > I am using filters and tagging emails from il

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Rajz M
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Mano wrote: > Am a gmail user and of late I see a lot of mails from ILUGC being tagged as > spam by gmail!! Wonder if it has anything to do with all the social network > invites we get on ILUGC? Perhaps other members (who also use gmail) mark > that as spam withou

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSF_TN] Decmber 5th & 6th, a Two-day workshop @ SSN by FSFTN

2009-11-15 Thread Suganthi T
It is not just to the organizer. It is for everyone who is interested in attending the meet. They too may have some suggestions right.. On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Ravi Jaya wrote: > On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Suganthi T > wrote: > > > Is there a possibility of having a change in the

[Ilugc] Re: [LANGUAGETIP - C ] mplayer patch for footpedal in medical transcription

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
I should certainly add the help rendered by Arun Venkataswamy of Kavyasoft (http://www.kavyasoft.com) for Windows serial port access. He is a kind soul who mailed me out of the blue from LUG and bought me a dinner at Adyar Cafe Coffee Day and also took me to Besant Nagar beach in his car. ;) Wit

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSF_TN] Decmber 5th & 6th, a Two-day workshop @ SSN by FSFTN

2009-11-15 Thread Ravi Jaya
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Suganthi T wrote: > Is there a possibility of having a change in the dates? Most of the > students > who are non-residents of Chennai will not be able to make it on December > 5th > and 6th. > I think you need to be address the organizers rather the list. -- R

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mano wrote: > Assuming you still have those mails lying in your spam folder, would > marking > it 'Not Spam' make gmail unlearn the old heuristics? > > Unfortunately, I delete all my spam mails after training my own spam filter. But I am regularly marking ILUGC ma

Re: [Ilugc] [LANGUAGETIP - C ] mplayer patch for footpedal in medical transcription

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S. wrote: >> Anyway now please go to this page: >> >> http://gayari-hitech.com/languageclasses >> > > You got the URL wrong :) > > http://gayatri-hitech.com/languageclasses > > works :) Hey thanks man. Great help. I missed the 't' of gayatri. ;)

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Mano
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Mano wrote: > > Assuming you still have those mails lying in your spam folder, would > marking it 'Not Spam' make gmail unlearn the old heuristics? > > I just marked all ILUGC mail as Not Spam. If other gmail users also do that lets see if it corrects itself!

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Mano
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Manvendra Bhangui wrote: > > > > > This started happening from the day (few days back) I marked quite number > of > mails from ILUGC with social network invites. There may have been others > also who would have marked thos mails as spam. > > Assuming you still have

Re: [Ilugc] [LANGUAGETIP - C ] mplayer patch for footpedal in medical transcription

2009-11-15 Thread Salvadesswaran P.S.
> Anyway now please go to this page: > > http://gayari-hitech.com/languageclasses > You got the URL wrong :) http://gayatri-hitech.com/languageclasses works :) ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject o

[Ilugc] [LANGUAGETIP - C ] mplayer patch for footpedal in medical transcription

2009-11-15 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
This is a sequel to last week's tip about the footpedal access using the serial port. I figured out how to interface the footpedal with the PC and recognize the pedal presses but I had an important problem. The goal of this real life project was to help medical transcription folks to be able to r

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Manvendra Bhangui
On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Mano wrote: > Am a gmail user and of late I see a lot of mails from ILUGC being tagged as > spam by gmail!! Wonder if it has anything to do with all the social network > invites we get on ILUGC? Perhaps other members (who also use gmail) mark > that as spam withou

[Ilugc] [OT]Gmail spam filter too aggressive

2009-11-15 Thread Mano
Am a gmail user and of late I see a lot of mails from ILUGC being tagged as spam by gmail!! Wonder if it has anything to do with all the social network invites we get on ILUGC? Perhaps other members (who also use gmail) mark that as spam without considering that ILUGC did not originate it. As a con

Re: [Ilugc] archiving/sharing mail for future reference

2009-11-15 Thread steve
On 11/15/2009 02:12 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Satheesh Kumar wrote: "We need to archive certain individual mails so that it shall be available for future reference for any within the organization. i.e the user should be able to send the mail (along with the

[Ilugc] RE: Linux meet

2009-11-15 Thread பத்மநாதன்
>The way things are in "namma ooru" , laduva platela vecha pothathu! >Eduthu vaila vaikanum. Appo than makkal sapiduvanga. What about the people far away from chennai? ( Kovai kusmbu?!) >If you have registrations, then nobody will come. LOL! What about

Re: [Ilugc] archiving/sharing mail for future reference

2009-11-15 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Satheesh Kumar wrote: > "We need to archive certain individual mails so that it shall be > available for future reference for any within the organization. i.e > the user should be able to send the mail (along with the attachments), > this mail has to be published as web

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSF_TN] Decmber 5th & 6th, a Two-day workshop @ SSN by FSFTN

2009-11-15 Thread Suganthi T
Is there a possibility of having a change in the dates? Most of the students who are non-residents of Chennai will not be able to make it on December 5th and 6th. 2009/11/10 தங்கமணி அருண் > FYI > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Siddhartha Malempati > Date: 2009/11/10 > Subje

[Ilugc] archiving/sharing mail for future reference

2009-11-15 Thread Satheesh Kumar
Hi, I am looking forward for a solution for my problem, "We need to archive certain individual mails so that it shall be available for future reference for any within the organization. i.e the user should be able to send the mail (along with the attachments), this mail has to be published as web p