[Ilugc] Chennai Python Users Group, Monthly Meet

2011-08-24 Thread Vijay Kumar B .
August Monthly Meet Announcement Date & Time --- 27 Aug 3:00pm to 5:00pm Venue - Zilogic Systems, Fourth Main Road, Kamaraj Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai Location map: http://www.zilogic.com/contact.html Agenda -- 1. The `with` statement and `

[Ilugc] Unbreakable Linux Box

2011-08-24 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
Hi, I know that there is no such thing as an "unbreakable" system, but would like to provide the best possible solution to a client. I am in the process of building a Linux box to serve videos and to run a LAMP application. The software combo is working fine from Amazon Cloud instances. As a new

[Ilugc] PHPVirtualBox Console disabled

2011-08-24 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
Hi Has any one tried out PHPVirtualBox? I am trying to access the virtualmachine of VirutalBox through the web interface however for some unknown reason the console is greyed out, If some one knows how to fix the problem do let me know. ___ ILUGC Maili

[Ilugc] OAOD (KTuberling)

2011-08-24 Thread Dhastha
Application: KTuberling What it is: KTuberling is a drawing toy for small children with several activities. * Give the potato a funny face, clothes, and other goodies * Build a small town, complete with school, zoo, and fire department * Create a fantastic moonscape with spaceships and aliens

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/22/2011 08:15 PM, Arun SAG wrote: > According to co-founder of stackoverflow.com jeff atwood, SSD's are both > hot and can drive you crazy > http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-hot-crazy-solid-state-drive-scale.html > that is based on anecdotal evidence. Its like I saw a man climb u

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/22/2011 07:43 PM, Sidu Ponnappa wrote: > Get an external drive and setup Time-machine as your #1 priority and > sync everyday. SSDs fail frequently. > There are people who say this, do you have some evidence on hand to say they fail more often than regular sata disks ? I manage machines wit

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/19/2011 06:54 AM, Manokaran K wrote: > The change of environment that am comfortable with is defenitely weighing on > my mind! I did not know we can run Mac OSX in a virtual machine. Is it just > downloadable? In which case I'll check out ThinkPad X220. If you are looking at options, conside

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 08/18/2011 04:30 PM, 0 wrote: > Also, SSDs are so overrated. It definitely makes the laptop lighter and > reduces the power consumption but its not worth the price. I can't wait > to see them replaced by PRAM/PCM based storage. > I strongly disagree. Having used ssd's on server hardware for a

[Ilugc] OAOD (Planner)

2011-08-24 Thread Dhastha
Application: Planner What it is: Planner is a Project Management application that supports Gantt charts, resource allocation and integration with other GNOME applications. Planner was formerly known as Mr.Project. To know more about: http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/planner To install in Ubu

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread ashwin kesavan
On 24 August 2011 13:49, Shaahul Hameed wrote: > On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:18 PM, ashwin kesavan wrote: > >> >> I am happy with Ubuntu  on Thinkpad T400. May be i >> might switch to Fedora . >> >> with regards, >> ashwin .. > Today its a Lenovo Thinkpad (and not an IBM). Has this affect

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread Shaahul Hameed
On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:18 PM, ashwin kesavan wrote: > > I am happy with Ubuntu on Thinkpad T400. May be i > might switch to Fedora . > > with regards, > ashwin I have a question on Thinkpads since there have been numerous mentions of them in this thread. Thinkpads were associated with IBM

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] MacBook Air, Ubuntu, VirtualBox ....

2011-08-24 Thread ashwin kesavan
. > May be.. if you look at it that way. But at the end of the day, any product > can break and, in my opinion, a good service is a must and Dell provides > that. > > In the last weekend's rain, I think, one of the power lines got hit by > lightning and there was a power surge. Both my UPSes we