Re: [Ilugc] Digital Literacy Project at Chennai.

2010-06-18 Thread anu nivas
Hello, Could I volunteer to be a part of this project?What are the prerequisites? Thank You Anupama 2010/6/17 Dhakshina Moorthy K.M. - தக்ஷிணா மூர்த்தி, க. மோ. < moorthy...@yahoo.com> > I received an invitation for " Recognition of toppers - Midtown's Digital > Literacy Project" > > And this is w

Re: [Ilugc] List of FOSS clubs

2010-06-18 Thread Chandan Prasad Gupta
St. Philomena's FOSS Club PHILOSS (Philomena's Free and Open Source Software) http://philoss.wordpress.com http://tinyurl.com/philoss http://groups.google.com/group/philoss Email: mail.phil...@gmail.com Regards, Chandan Prasad Gupta On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:28 PM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote: > Do y

Re: [Ilugc] MTS Mblaze internet connection problem in Ubuntu

2010-06-18 Thread nandha kumar
Hi 2010/6/19 Chandan Prasad Gupta > HI all, > flash drive internet connection for some of available networks like Tata > photon and a couple of others has default settings in Ubuntu 10.04. But I > recently got Mblaze offer of MTS connection. Can anybody please help me > with > the internet conne

[Ilugc] MTS Mblaze internet connection problem in Ubuntu

2010-06-18 Thread Chandan Prasad Gupta
HI all, flash drive internet connection for some of available networks like Tata photon and a couple of others has default settings in Ubuntu 10.04. But I recently got Mblaze offer of MTS connection. Can anybody please help me with the internet connection? It runs with an pre installed .exe file in

Re: [Ilugc] List of FOSS clubs

2010-06-18 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
Do you guide the students to create a lug or FOSS club > within themself when you reach so many colleges? > Like to know how you communicate to the > loads of students you meet in each college. > > Myself has got involved in the FOSS promotional activitiy, mainly in education since August 2003 wh

Re: [Ilugc] List of FOSS clubs

2010-06-18 Thread Victor Johnson
Baskar, Do you guide the students to create a lug or FOSS club within themself when you reach so many colleges? Like to know how you communicate to the loads of students you meet in each college. How do you follow the progress of their continuous learning of linux? Again thanks a lot for your s

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Victor Johnson
Today night we had a good conversation with my son and his friends. After seeing this thread those guys could not stop laughing for a longer time. They immediately called their friends and asked to read it fully. The laughing is spreading. :-) But I could not answer for the question from a boy. "W

[ilugc] [Tip] Find out what RAM type you have in Linux

2010-06-18 Thread jemenisuresh
To check what RAM memory type yo have installed (and also see other useful information about your system), do a * sudo dmidecode* Depending on the version of *dmidecode* you have installed and the hardware configuration you have,each hardware device will have a certain type number

[Ilugc] OAOD (Mombono)

2010-06-18 Thread Dhastha Gheer
Application: Mombono What it is: Bombono DVD is a DVD authoring program for Linux. It is made easy to use and has nice and clean GUI (Gtk). Features: # Excellent MPEG viewer: Timeline and Monitor # Real WYSIWYG Menu Editor with live thumbnails # Comfortable Drag-n-Drop support # You can author

[Ilugc] [llugc] [Tip] Find out what RAM type you have in Linux

2010-06-18 Thread jemenisuresh
To check what RAM memory type yo have installed (and also see other useful information about your system), do a * sudo dmidecode* Depending on the version of *dmidecode* you have installed and the hardware configuration you have,each hardware device will have a certain type number

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Mohan L
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:36 PM, Salvadesswaran P.S. < salvadesswa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:08, prakash srinivasan > wrote: > > > > Minimum expertise skillset should be required to do all the above stuffs. > But still the content is confusing the target audience. So the f

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Mohan L
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:08 PM, prakash srinivasan < asprakash...@rediffmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:39:11 +0530 wrote > >OBJECTIVE: > > > 1. Kernel configuration, compilation and installation :Download / >access > the > > > latest kernel source code from kernel.org,compile th

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Salvadesswaran P.S.
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 21:08, prakash srinivasan wrote: > > Minimum expertise skillset should be required to do all the above stuffs. But > still the content is confusing the target audience. So the final target will > not be like Linux application development or Linux kernel programming or wha

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Raman.P
There is no point in lamenting about the system, unless we do our bit to set right. So from ILUGC let us do some thing. My ideas a. Write detailed notes for the chapters given, in our wiki page. We shall cover background theory also. b. Design exercises and publish in wiki. There should be two

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread prakash srinivasan
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:39:11 +0530 wrote >OBJECTIVE: > 1. Kernel configuration, compilation and installation :Download / >access the > latest kernel source code from kernel.org,compile the kernel and install it in the > local system.Try to view the source code of the kernel > 3. Compil

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:53 PM, Roshan George wrote: > This made me laugh out loud, mostly because I can relate. 1234 indeed. Obviously so much more secure than 123 ;) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Roshan George
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 20:27 +0530, Yuvi Panda wrote: > I think the LAN Cables are now better off. The Red Hat card has been > replaced with a 'Windows VISTA Server, do not touch!' card. Two > powerful dual-xeon machines sleep mostly unused - the are usually used > as print servers and CD burners. A

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Rajkannan Rajan
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Yuvi Panda wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Arun Kumar wrote: >> If any of the faculty members following this list/seeing this email >> thread, kindly requesting to get rid of using standard programs for using >> lab exercises >> and come out with indiv

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Vatsala Dorairajan wrote: > Sir, Let me assure you that your house is absolutely not at risk because a > PDF file mentions these. Colleges themselves make sure they have a 'few' > software - to ensure their inspection from their certifying authority goes > on well.

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Arun Kumar wrote: > If any of the faculty members following this list/seeing this email > thread, kindly requesting to get rid of using standard programs for using lab > exercises > and come out with individual assignments for students. We convinced one (new) st

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread சுதன் | suthan
a nice initiative. i hope this will make all the colleges know about NRCFOSS and they will start looking for help from the organization, which will help further in promoting foss. i have a doubt. does this syllabus apply only to anna university chennai or also to other anna universities. if it do

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
I wonder why engg school mgmt's not showing > much interest in open source tools/free software but like to keep an > inventory > of commercial/prop software installed and show it to the auditing > commitees? > In my view, it's not correct to mention that engg. college managements are not showing

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Arun Kumar
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Vatsala Dorairajan wrote: > > On 18-06-2010 17:54, Victor Johnson wrote: >> >> I have to think on selling my house, >> if my son wants those software - >> > > Sir, Let me assure you that your house is absolutely not at risk because > a PDF file mentions these. C

Re: [Ilugc] make tutorial

2010-06-18 Thread Roshan George
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 16:59 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > rule :: dependency.c dependency.h foo.c ba.c > gcc foo.c ba.c dependency.c -o rule Wait a second, why the double colons specifically? I've always used it with a single colon and gotten away with it. -- Roshan George __

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Vatsala Dorairajan
On 18-06-2010 17:54, Victor Johnson wrote: some more questions again. Sorry for troubling you much. 1. How many of the staff of colleges know the following things? kernel compiling virtualisation package management writing userspace drivers using fuse GUI programming Version Control System Tex

Re: [Ilugc] Monitoring Forge [http://monitoringforge.org] -Community Site by GWOS

2010-06-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > First imperssion - looks like a portal consolidating the various > "monitoring" tools.  Too early to say how much value add it brings to > the table since most of the packages have their own mailing > lists/wiki/forums with their respective "guru

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
3. How the colleges are going to get support for setting up the LAB? LinuXpert Systems has been already supporting many engineering colleges in Tamilnadu in setting up of FOSS Labs using our FOSS Lab Resource & Development Kit (customised installation of GNU/Linux with all the required application

Re: [Ilugc] make tutorial

2010-06-18 Thread Mohan L
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Girish Venkatachalam < girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, > > This mail is an attempt to teach makefiles in UNIX. Makefiles work the > same way everywhere even in > Windoze. There are also several names for the make tool. tmake, pmake, > gmake, nmake

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:54 PM, Victor Johnson wrote: > some more questions again. > > Sorry for troubling you much. > > 1. How many of the staff of colleges know the following things? > 0 > I dont know why my son and his friends are laughing after > seeing the syllabus. I might know why :) >

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Victor Johnson
some more questions again. Sorry for troubling you much. 1. How many of the staff of colleges know the following things? kernel compiling virtualisation package management writing userspace drivers using fuse GUI programming Version Control System Text processing with Perl Running PHP/Python I

Re: [Ilugc] OAOD (Gazpacho)

2010-06-18 Thread Murali Babu
how to install yum -- Regards D. Murali Babu Jai Linux ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] [OT] Open Hack Bengaluru 2010

2010-06-18 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Yahoo! just announced the 3rd Open Hack event in India. "We’ll be inviting 300+ developers to attend this FREE event which will begin with a series of hack-related presentations from some of the Web’s most respected developers. We’ll then dive into 24 hours of hacking using a great collection of w

[Ilugc] Re: make tutorial

2010-06-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
To show an image file to X, showimg:: qiv -mtf *png Also you can call any rule like this. $ make rule2 when you have two lines like this anywhere in the makefile. rule2:: echo "Rule 2" -Girish On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Dear all, > > This mail is an atte

[Ilugc] make tutorial

2010-06-18 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Dear all, This mail is an attempt to teach makefiles in UNIX. Makefiles work the same way everywhere even in Windoze. There are also several names for the make tool. tmake, pmake, gmake, nmake and so on. ;) But all of them work similarly. In the BSD world makefiles are more subtle and much short

Re: [Ilugc] Monitoring Forge [http://monitoringforge.org] -Community Site by GWOS

2010-06-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Jobin wrote: > I am newbie to the ILUG group, please excuse me, if my few questions given > below are lame... > >   1. How many folks, have heard about http://monitoringforge.org/ >   2. Has any one registered in this site? If so, when and which project did >   yo

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Salvadesswaran P.S.
2010/6/18 தங்கமணி அருண் : > > I am very happy to see this in Anna University Syllabus. Great initiation > > Future is Ours :) > Great initiative though I wish this had happened sometime back. If only the staff are exposed to some real world projects through the FDPs, this initiative will succeed.

Re: [Ilugc] How to bring more people to ilugc meets?

2010-06-18 Thread Arun Khan
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Raman.P wrote: > > --- On Thu, 17/6/10, Arun Khan wrote: >> >> This is an excellent idea.  I have seen such a thing >> done by The >> Chicago Computer Society.  In it's monthly meet, the >> first agenda item >> was Q&A for 30-45 mins.   Any computer >> related que

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Arun Kumar
> - Original Message - > From: Yuvi Panda > Sent: 06/18/10 05:50 PM > To: ILUG-C > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus > > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Victor Johnson > wrote: > > Much worried to think the status of the students who are going to mug up > > every program and

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Victor Johnson wrote: > Much worried to think the status of the students who are going to mug up > every program and exercise as they dont have any theory paper to explain what > they are working in the lab. As a student who sees this happen first hand, I'm incred

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Arun Kumar
> - Original Message - > From: Victor Johnson > Sent: 06/18/10 05:36 PM > To: ILUG-C > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus > > > I am very happy to see this in Anna University Syllabus. Great initiation > > > > Much worried to think the status of the students who are going to mug

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Victor Johnson
> I am very happy to see this in Anna University Syllabus. Great initiation > Much worried to think the status of the students who are going to mug up every program and exercise as they dont have any theory paper to explain what they are working in the lab. Regards, Victor ___

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Victor Johnson
> FOSS Lab Server (developed by NRCFOSS 1. Where can we download it? > Once the list of experiments are finalised, NRCFOSS can generate full > lab manuals > complete with exercises, necessary downloads, etc. These could be made > available on > NRCFOSS web portal. Are the finished? Thrilled

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread தங்கமணி அருண்
OBJECTIVE: > To expose students to FOSS environment and introduce them to use open > source > packages > 1. Kernel configuration, compilation and installation : Download / access > the > latest kernel source code from kernel.org,compile the kernel and > install it in the > local system.

[Ilugc] Open Source Lab Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
OBJECTIVE: To expose students to FOSS environment and introduce them to use open source packages 1. Kernel configuration, compilation and installation : Download / access the latest kernel source code from kernel.org,compile the kernel and install it in the local system.Try to view t

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab in the Anna University Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Awesome effort. > >  * Could not get the theory paper details in that pdf. >  * Do they still have the Theory paper now? >  * Is it elective or essential? >  * Is that happens in any previous semesters? >  * Do they get any basic linux lab in

Re: [Ilugc] Open Source Lab in the Anna University Syllabus

2010-06-18 Thread Shrinivasan T
>> > previously there were only theory papers in the open source initiative - we > have now introduced lab. Awesome effort. * Could not get the theory paper details in that pdf. * Do they still have the Theory paper now? * Is it elective or essential? * Is that happens in any previous semeste