[Ilugc] June Month ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule

2010-06-25 Thread Arulalan T
Dear All, Greetings ! Tomorrow [26.06.2010] ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule : 1) Topic : How To Create Deb File Format From Python Application File Talker: Mr.Rajkumar , KanchiLug Member Duration : 30 min Ref Link :

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Terminal with no title bar, menu bar or scroll bar

2010-06-25 Thread Parin Sharma
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: eterm -O --buttonBar no --scrollBar no -x -f WHITE -g 100×15+30+900 Not working in my ubuntu 10.04 eterm is not

[Ilugc] Monitoringforge - The community

2010-06-25 Thread Jobin
*What is Monitoringforge [www.monitoringforge.org]? * This was a site which was setup by GWOS, to provide a one stop shop for anything and everything related to monitoring software. i.e Tools, Plugins, Projects containing different applications which can be incorporated into the Monitoring

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2010/6/24 Vannia Rajan van...@vannia.co.cc But, as long as HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc., will recommend Windows 7, we can't kill Microsoft and had to bear the pain of this Cancer!! Correct. Once I had a conversation with one of the Dell Guys on twitter. I asked him why they Recommend Windows. All

Re: [Ilugc] Re: mails missing

2010-06-25 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2010/6/24 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com 10K is too big - mumbai list works fine with a 7K limit Agreed!! 10K is a lot of text !! It'll be fine if people do interleaved posting with the unnecessary quotings cut off.. Thank You, Yogesh. ___

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 25 June 2010 16:41:43 Yogesh Girikumar wrote: Personally, I feel microsoft shouldn't die. It will be actually bad for the open source community. Microsoft is the one that unites all Free Software people IMHO. It should shift towards open source. Maybe it will.. eventually..

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2010/6/25 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com osi has even recognised the microsoft license as open source Yes. That was the real shocker for me... But as long as they comply to the rules laid down by the Open Source Initiative / FSF, things are going to be fine with Open Source within

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 25 June 2010 17:00:34 Yogesh Girikumar wrote: osi has even recognised the microsoft license as open source Yes. That was the real shocker for me... But as long as they comply to the rules laid down by the Open Source Initiative / FSF, things are going to be fine with Open Source

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2010/6/25 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com their open source lab is huge - possibly the best funded lab for open source in the world. But unfortunately all the open source work is done using proprietary tools. Sadly, yes :( But they also seem to be funding some open source

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Arun SAG
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: their open source lab is huge - possibly the best funded lab for open source in the world. Is it the size of the lab or the community ? Btw Codeplex doesn't allow hosting projects licensed under GPLv3 , why? --

Re: [Ilugc] mails missing

2010-06-25 Thread Akilan R
2010/6/24 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com 10K is too big - mumbai list works fine with a 7K limit Yes, as long as it is in English. My guess is Amachu wrote in Tamil. For that 10 KB limit is small, isn't it? We should figure out some way to make Tamil postings work well. Mailman has

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely! Microsoft dying would be the best thing ever that can happen to the freedom philosophy!! Would like to differ: *weak anthropic principle*: *...conditions that are observed in the universe must allow the

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 25 June 2010 17:30:23 Yogesh Girikumar wrote: their open source lab is huge - possibly the best funded lab for open source in the world. But unfortunately all the open source work is done using proprietary tools. Sadly, yes :( But they also seem to be funding some open source

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 25 June 2010 17:33:13 Arun SAG wrote: their open source lab is huge - possibly the best funded lab for open source in the world. Is it the size of the lab or the community ? size of the lab Btw Codeplex doesn't allow hosting projects licensed under GPLv3 , why? very

Re: [Ilugc] mails missing

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 25 June 2010 17:42:55 Akilan R wrote: 2010/6/24 Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com 10K is too big - mumbai list works fine with a 7K limit Yes, as long as it is in English. My guess is Amachu wrote in Tamil. For that 10 KB limit is small, isn't it? what is so big about

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread சிவகுமார் மா
2010/6/25 Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely! Microsoft dying would be the best thing ever that can happen to the freedom philosophy!! Would like to differ: *weak anthropic principle*:

[Ilugc] OAOD (Album Shaper)

2010-06-25 Thread Dhastha Gheer
Application: Albumshaper What it is: Album Shaper strives to be the most friendly, easy to use, open source application for organizing, annotating, framing, enhancing, stylizing, and sharing your digital photos. Features: Two-layer albums can be created in a drag-n-drop interface which allows

Re: [Ilugc] June Month ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule

2010-06-25 Thread Victor Johnson
ChennaiPy becomes KanchiPy. :-) Cheers Guys. Regards, Victor ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] List of FOSS clubs

2010-06-25 Thread Victor Johnson
I am wondering why there are no other FOSS groups in colleges. ILUGC and NRCFOSS are going to many colleges and conducting events. Heard this from a college lecturer. How do we follow those college students further? we can ask them to join ilugc list. What if they are not joining in list? It

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Arun Khan
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/6/24 Vannia Rajan van...@vannia.co.cc But, as long as HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc., will recommend Windows 7, we can't kill Microsoft and had to bear the pain of this Cancer!! Correct. Once I had a conversation

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
2010/6/25 சிவகுமார் மா masivaku...@gmail.com Hundreds of years of scientific / engineering development was based on sharing information and learning from others. That was artificially interrupted using copyright to restrict freedom of others by clever software vendors, Microsoft being the

Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-06-25 Thread Yuvi Panda
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Victor Johnson victor.li...@gmail.com wrote: I am still wondering why there is no reply from NRCFOSS for my previous questions. As I've mentioned before, that syllabus won't be 'taught' atleast for another year - so NRCFOSS has time. If my understanding of the

Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-06-25 Thread Victor Johnson
Fine. Thanks for the thoughts. However, it *would* be nice if we could get some news directly from NRCFOSS instead of speculating and assuming things. Anyone? True. Instead, we discussing about this, Let us wait for someone from NRCFOSS reply on their activities on Anna University Syllabus.

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread சிவகுமார் மா
2010/6/25 Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com 2010/6/25 சிவகுமார் மா masivaku...@gmail.com Hundreds of years of scientific / engineering development was based on sharing information and learning from others. That was artificially interrupted using copyright to restrict freedom of others

[Ilugc] Re: [chennaipy 425] June Month ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule

2010-06-25 Thread kausikram krishnasayee
please stop cross posting. -- Kausikram Krishnasayee Company: http://silverstripesoftware.com | Webpage: kausikram.net | Blog: blog.kausikram.net | Twitter: http://twitter.com/kausikram | Email: kausik...@gmail.com | Mobile: +91 9884246490 ___ ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
2010/6/25 சிவகுமார் மா masivaku...@gmail.com As I understand, patents are designed to +share+ information (for a fee), not to hide. Yes this is true. But I just mentioned it in the context of the discussion. Scientists publish papers which have to be peer reviewed, sharing of procedures

[Ilugc] Re: June Month ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule

2010-06-25 Thread Arulalan T
2010/6/25 Arulalan T arulal...@gmail.com: Dear All, Greetings ! Tomorrow [26.06.2010] ChennaiPy Meeting Schedule : 1) Topic :  How To Create Deb File Format From Python Application File Talker: Mr.Rajkumar , KanchiLug Member Duration : 30 min Ref Link :

[Ilugc] OAOD (AppPerfect DeploySuite)

2010-06-25 Thread Dhastha Gheer
Application: AppPerfect DeploySuite What it is: The AppPerfect Agentless Monitor is a new generation of system monitoring products that does not use the old agents-based approach to monitoring. AppPerfect's agentless architecture is easier to install, configure and maintain and is also far more

Re: [Ilugc] Linux in CGHS

2010-06-25 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Last week, I was @ RoboCup 2010. It is really exciting to see the large size robots, which are playing the soccer game and the program, that decides the robot movements, is running on Ubuntu. Link: http://www.robocup2010.org/ Bye :) -- Bharathi Subramanian

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread steve
Hi, Just wanted to make an observation ... On 06/25/2010 08:03 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: 2010/6/25 சிவகுமார் மாmasivaku...@gmail.com Hundreds of years of scientific / engineering development was based on sharing information and learning from others. That was artificially interrupted

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread சிவகுமார் மா
2010/6/25 Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com 2010/6/25 சிவகுமார் மா masivaku...@gmail.com Going off topic, But Bajaj had a patent - do you think they would have allowed TVS to use it even if they were willing to pay crores of rupees to access the information? My point was even in the

Re: Re: [Ilugc] Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS

2010-06-25 Thread prakash srinivasan
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:35:31 +0530 wrote Fine. Thanks for the thoughts. However, it *would* be nice if we could get some news directly from NRCFOSS instead of speculating and assuming things. Anyone? True. Instead, we discussing about this, Let us wait for someone from NRCFOSS

Re: [Ilugc] mails missing

2010-06-25 Thread Akilan R
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: what is so big about tamil mails? it is just unicode which is not much bigger than ascii I did not mean Unicode took up space. In fact i assumed English mails were also encoded in utf-8 only. It is bigger because: * Tamil sentences

Re: [Ilugc] mails missing

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 26 June 2010 10:34:43 Akilan R wrote: GNU - குனு [3 in Eng - 4 in Tamil] 2 in tamil Linux - லினக்ஸ் [5-7] 4 in tamil Python - பைத்தான் [6 - 8] 4 in tamil please check out the unicode encoding - so actually tamil is shorter than english -- regards kg

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 25 June 2010 20:37:22 சிவகுமார் மா wrote: As I understand, patents are designed to +share+ information (for a fee), not to hide. what would have happened if Waqar and co had patented reverse swing and demanded a royalty from any one who used it? -- regards kg

Re: [Ilugc] Some good news.....

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Saturday 26 June 2010 09:06:31 steve wrote: Patents inherently are not *bad*. In fact, they are required in mechanical related industries to protect and nurture innovation. there is no proof for this statement - it is just a misapprehension - patents are bad because they hinder

Re: [Ilugc] Linux in CGHS

2010-06-25 Thread Ramkumar
Hi All, Our native is near by madurai,My friend is running a browsing center in our native. He is using only Ubuntu Linux For Browsing. And we are getting very good response from our people. Thanks Ramkumar C On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Bharathi Subramanian bharathi.l...@gmail.com

[Ilugc] [Tip] Find details about your ISO images from the Linux command line

2010-06-25 Thread jemenisuresh
If you ever wondered what that mysterious ISO file you downloaded two years ago is, and don’t want to burn the image, you can view details of the volume with a simple command: isoinfo -d -i filename.iso You’ll be given details like the volume size, if the image file is a bootable one and other