[Ilugc] Blog release from OLPC-India

2010-08-06 Thread Narendra Sisodiya
1) OLPC India want to purchase 1 million laptop from Govt of India http://lug-iitd.posterous.com/olpc-india-want-to-purchase-1-million-laptop 2) Mr A Raja (Union Minister for IT & Communications, GoI) appreciated in OLPC http://lug-iitd.posterous.com/mr-a-raja-union-minister-for-it-communication

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
sir, I too would like to give a helping hand in this. I once heard from my RSM (Reg Sales Manager) when he was referring to Mahatma Gandhi : "Greatness is doing the Ordinary things in an extraordinary way". Never trying to do the extraordinary things at all. This may not be in anyway correspond

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Open Any Folder from Your GNOME Desktop

2010-08-06 Thread S.Selvam
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Tha.Suresh wrote: > Open Any Folder from Your GNOME Desktop > > While on your desktop (either with no windows open or with the desktop > focused) type / (forward slash). Now type in a folder path and hit > Enter. The directory will be opened in a new Nautilus wind

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Open Any Folder from Your GNOME Desktop

2010-08-06 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
For a quick usage example, say I want to get to /var/lib quickly. > Instead of having to open Nautilus and navigate to it, I just type the > path out on the desktop. /var/lib Enter, and boom, I'm in the folder. > > Really a very useful tip. Regards S. Baskar LinuXpert Systems ___

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Raman.P
--- On Sat, 7/8/10, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > > I am not in Chennai. > > But what the heck, planetariums have 3d projectors. why not > use that? > > Actually I was working quite closeby in kottupuram a couple > of years back. When we way 'they agreed', we mean following: a.We can use

Re: [Ilugc] How to Increase the Internet speed

2010-08-06 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Kannan wrote: > Hi, > >    I am using the Gprs to access the internet.Some system programs access > the internet without asking  me. Hmmm. You talk as though some system programs are your subordinates. ;) How will they ask you? Let us see. > Basically gprs also s

[Ilugc] How to Increase the Internet speed

2010-08-06 Thread Kannan
Hi, I am using the Gprs to access the internet.Some system programs access the internet without asking me. Basically gprs also slow and because of this again speed is reduced? How can I check and stop the process,which are eat the bandwidth? -- With regards, Kannan. R. P, Blog @

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hi, I am not in Chennai. > >But what the heck, planetariums have 3d projectors. why not use that? > > 3d projectors??... can you be precise on what count your suggestion is connected with my question. > Actually I was working quite closeby in kottupuram a couple of years back. > > AFAIK,Act

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, 2010/8/6 Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் : > Friends, > > I have an idea for this SFD 2010, Lets say we construct a digital wall using > multiple monitors(LCD) and play video in such a wall , will be a theatrics > feel. > Imagine playing a video in such a wall will be fantastic. > Is it doable

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hi , >>Money and Money and more Money :) > > If we have enough, then we can plan any thing, > > We need some 'new' things along with the regular ones. Lets see this is feasible or not... IP phone demo, Biometrics equipment like finger scanner,RFID will also be nice to have.. regards, Thyaga

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Akilan R
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 11:48 PM, wrote: > Friends, > > I have an idea for this SFD 2010, Lets say we construct a digital wall > using > multiple monitors(LCD) and play video in such a wall , will be a theatrics > feel. > Nice idea. It will help enticing laymen audience coming there towards GNU/

Re:[Ilugc] Software Freedom Day 2010 at Birla Planetarium

2010-08-06 Thread Ranjith Kumar
> > Today, Thyagarajan and Myself visited Birla Planetarium to discuss > about the place for Software Freedom Day 2010. > > Wow Great SFD is back., I will inform my Juniors and my social people to know about this news. > They accepted to provided space and official confirmation will be released >

Re: [Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Ravi Jaya
Imagine playing a video in such a wall will be fantastic. > Is it doable in the first place, if so what are the requirements. > Money and Money and more Money :) If we have enough, then we can plan any thing, -- Ravi Jaya Mobile: +91 97909 16181 __

[Ilugc] Building a digital wall using LCD's using linux for SFD 2010.

2010-08-06 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Friends, I have an idea for this SFD 2010, Lets say we construct a digital wall using multiple monitors(LCD) and play video in such a wall , will be a theatrics feel. Imagine playing a video in such a wall will be fantastic. Is it doable in the first place, if so what are the requirements. regard

[Ilugc] [Tip] Open Any Folder from Your GNOME Desktop

2010-08-06 Thread Tha.Suresh
Open Any Folder from Your GNOME Desktop Today we have a quick tip for productivity in your GNOME desktop. This is not a well-known technique, but it is very fast and a quick way to open any folder. While on your desktop (either with no windows open or with the desktop focused) type / (forward sl

Re: [Ilugc] Accenture survey sees open source investment rising

2010-08-06 Thread steve
On 08/06/2010 02:39 PM, Siddhu wrote: I need a help from you, anyone knows any website, which gives list of the stable open source applications in different category. Fg. for developers gEdit is a good tool to develop a program, like this for Page layout designing InkScape is good one. But whe

Re: [Ilugc] recover password

2010-08-06 Thread Ravi Jaya
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Saravanan Selvamani < saravananselvam...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > i want to know how to recover password through the grub. i type 'e' to > edit and i typed ' init=/bin/bash' and b to boot. when i got the root > prompt > i type the passwd command and enter my

Re: [Ilugc] Suggest me with some project idea...

2010-08-06 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:59 PM, kani yarasu wrote: > Hai, It is normally spelled as "Hi" >     I am Kaniyarasu from Kongu Engineering College, Erode and am > currently doing my final year B.Tech[IT]. Can someone suggest me with > some project idea and some real world problem to be re

[Ilugc] recover password

2010-08-06 Thread Saravanan Selvamani
hi, i want to know how to recover password through the grub. i type 'e' to edit and i typed ' init=/bin/bash' and b to boot. when i got the root prompt i type the passwd command and enter my new password. but it says password token busy something like this . is there any thing else i should d

[Ilugc] Suggest me with some project idea...

2010-08-06 Thread kani yarasu
Hai, I am Kaniyarasu from Kongu Engineering College, Erode and am currently doing my final year B.Tech[IT]. Can someone suggest me with some project idea and some real world problem to be rectified. I have interest in doing project in Web Technology( Semantic web, deep web and any other), Natu

Re: [Ilugc] how to use zipped packages to install

2010-08-06 Thread balaji sivanath
On 8/5/10, Anthoni Shogan wrote: > On Thursday 05 August 2010 08:14 AM, balaji sivanath wrote: >> can anyone tell detail about the 3rd point >> > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools > > -- > Anthoni Shogan > > ___ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.

[Ilugc] Foss news-35

2010-08-06 Thread yassir arrafath
FossNews-35 is released. Table of contents: Contents 1. Richard Stallman answers your top 25 questions. 2. Linux Music Players: Amarok vs. Clementine 3. Software: What Exactly Can be Copyrighted? 4. Kongoni Linux­ Another slackware based linux distribution 5. Oracle shuts down open source test se

[Ilugc] Software Freedom Day 2010 at Birla Planetarium

2010-08-06 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. Today, Thyagarajan and Myself visited Birla Planetarium to discuss about the place for Software Freedom Day 2010. They accepted to provided space and official confirmation will be released soon. We need your thoughts and volunteers for the stalls. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread Bhargav Prasanna
On 6 August 2010 15:11, Raja Subramanian wrote: > Still won't work.  Set uid has no effect on script files. > Set uid works only on binaries I wrote a bash script to automatically change frequency of my cores using cpufrequtils some time back. cpufrequtils required privileges. I did the above, an

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread vellingiri
Raja Subramanian wrote: On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: I'm sorry. I agree. I made my script executable before I used the above said command. =) So maybe a chmod +x and then a chmod u+s Still won't work. Set uid has no effect on script files. Set uid works onl

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > I'm sorry. I agree. I made my script executable before I used the > above said command. =) > So maybe a chmod +x and then a chmod u+s Still won't work. Set uid has no effect on script files. Set uid works only on binaries See section 5.5

Re: [Ilugc] Accenture survey sees open source investment rising

2010-08-06 Thread Rajesh kumar
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Siddhu wrote: > from you, anyone knows any website, which gives list of the > stable open source applications in different category. > Go for Osalt.com where you can find all the alternatives for proprietary tools -- regards Rajesh Kumar R.K _

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread Bhargav Prasanna
On 6 August 2010 14:37, Raja Subramanian wrote: > As a security precaution, Unix systems never honor set UID/GID > bit for shell/perl/python/other scripts. > > Set UID works only on binaries. > I'm sorry. I agree. I made my script executable before I used the above said command. =) So maybe a chm

[Ilugc] Accenture survey sees open source investment rising

2010-08-06 Thread Siddhu
Friends, I have read the following article, it shows that the investment on open source platforms are increasing all around the world. http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Accenture-survey-sees-open-source-investment-rising-1051499.html I need a help from you, anyone knows any website, which g

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Bhargav Prasanna wrote: > I'm not sure how being a non-root user will affect anything. > But to the question of how, I believe the answer can be found in our > very own chmod. > If your script is located in /foo/bar/script.sh, you have to just do a > "chmod u+s /foo

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread Bhargav Prasanna
On 6 August 2010 12:56, Dinesh Kumar Rajagopal wrote: > Dear ilug-c, >              I am writing shell script which control services (i.e > start/stop/restart ) in production environment, for remote command execution > i am using ssh with RSH Key for non root user. because root account should > ha

Re: [Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread பாலாஜி நாராயணன்
On 6 August 2010 12:56, Dinesh Kumar Rajagopal wrote: > Dear ilug-c, >              I am writing shell script which control services (i.e > start/stop/restart ) in production environment, for remote command execution > i am using ssh with RSH Key for non root user. because root account should > ha

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Anthoni Shogan
On Friday 06 August 2010 12:53 PM, Rajesh kumar wrote: I need a web framework if it has support for desktop inteface say like open objects, well and good, more database complexity is involved in this project. For web try CherryPy/Webpy or Turbogears/Django depending upon the complexity of

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 03:23 -0400, Rajesh kumar wrote: > > what kind of framework? web or gui? is there a database involved? > > -- > > > > I need a web framework if it has support for desktop inteface say like > open > objects, well and good, more database complexity is involved in this > project

[Ilugc] how to run the service with non root user

2010-08-06 Thread Dinesh Kumar Rajagopal
Dear ilug-c, I am writing shell script which control services (i.e start/stop/restart ) in production environment, for remote command execution i am using ssh with RSH Key for non root user. because root account should have password. so need to run the service in non root user. is thi

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Rajesh kumar
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 02:42 -0400, Rajesh kumar wrote: > > I am on process of developing a webapplication in python. The > > application > > has a huge amount of logics to be performed, lot of artificial > > intelligence > > to be processe

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
Hi, You might want to ask this on http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers too. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:12, Rajesh kumar wrote: > I am on process of developing a webapplication in python. The application > has a huge amount of logics to be performed, lot of artificial intelligence >

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 02:42 -0400, Rajesh kumar wrote: > I am on process of developing a webapplication in python. The > application > has a huge amount of logics to be performed, lot of artificial > intelligence > to be processed. i am really confused to select the exact framework > to be > choos

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread S.Selvam
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am on process of developing a webapplication in python. The application > has a huge amount of logics to be performed, lot of artificial intelligence > to be processed. i am really confused to select the exact framework to be > choo

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Nataraj S Narayan
Hi If it got something to do with database management, try out Dabo ( http://dabodev.com/) regards Nataraj On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am on process of developing a webapplication in python. The application > has a huge amount of logics to be performed, lot