[Ilugc] [ILug-C] Ubuntu User Days - For beginners

2012-01-01 Thread Yogesh
Hi, Ubuntu user days is an IRC event that beginners to Linux can make use of to learn Ubuntu and other things like basics of using the command line interface. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays -- Y ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailma

Re: [Ilugc] Shell tip : Renaming multiple files.

2012-01-01 Thread Ashok Gautham
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 08:05:05AM +0530, Pratap Chakravarthy wrote: > Following is an example to rename all .css files under a directory to .tss, > > $ for i in *.css; do hg mv "$i" "${i/.css}".tss ; done You can do one better % rename .css .tss *.css --- Ashok Gautham

[Ilugc] Kaniyam - a new Tamil E-Magazine for FOSS

2012-01-01 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. Happy to announce the birth of Tamil monthy E-Magazine for FOSS. "Kaniyam" Thanks for all your support and suggestions. Download the first issue at http://www.kaniyam.com/release-1/ Feel free to share your suggestions and articles to edi...@kaniyam.com Thanks for amachu for hosting

[Ilugc] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts from a new technical contributor Fwd: Donation to Wikimedia Foundation

2012-01-01 Thread Shrinivasan T
-- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda Date: Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 4:59 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thoughts from a new technical contributor Fwd: Donation to Wikimedia Foundation To: "Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia." < wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.

[Ilugc] PuduvaiLUG 2011 a review with Annual Report

2012-01-01 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
Dear all, Belated New year wishes to all and am happy to share Puducherry Linux Users Group's review in 2011 and its annual report to you :-) And also am glad to inform you all that PuduvaiLUG is completing 1 year by this January 30th. Here is the link: http://puduvailug.wordpress.com/2011/annua

Re: [Ilugc] Kaniyam - a new Tamil E-Magazine for FOSS

2012-01-01 Thread Raman.P
--- On Mon, 2/1/12, Shrinivasan T wrote: > From: Shrinivasan T > Subject: [Ilugc] Kaniyam - a new Tamil E-Magazine for FOSS > To: "ILUG-C" > Date: Monday, 2 January, 2012, 12:00 AM > Friends. > > Happy to announce the birth of Tamil monthy E-Magazine for > FOSS. > > "Kaniyam" > > > Thanks f

Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux

2012-01-01 Thread arunthe...@gmail.com
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > what is your objection? > > Exactly. Whatever be the reason, Microsoft has a really good office suit. Or in other terms, most people have grown accustomed to it. If they make a linux version and make it a Pay App at the Ubuntu Software

Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux

2012-01-01 Thread Ashok Gautham
On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:25:18AM +0530, arunthe...@gmail.com wrote: > Exactly. Whatever be the reason, Microsoft has a really good office suit. > Or in other terms, most people have grown accustomed to it. If they make a > linux version and make it a Pay App at the Ubuntu Software Centre, I think

Re: [Ilugc] Request for suggestion : laptop VS netbook

2012-01-01 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 18:14 +0530, Sundaram Ramachandran wrote: > >> priority is to get rid of the complainant as fast as possible. > > Noting that you are still alive and kicking, they have not > succeeded!!! ;-) > > Or did you mean Complaint? complainant -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___

Re: [Ilugc] Kaniyam - a new Tamil E-Magazine for FOSS

2012-01-01 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Hi, On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Feel free to share your suggestions and articles to edi...@kaniyam.com > The site says edit*e*r...@kaniyam.com Which is the valid one? -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http:/

Re: [Ilugc] Kaniyam - a new Tamil E-Magazine for FOSS

2012-01-01 Thread Shrinivasan T
2012/1/2 விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் (Vignesh Nandha Kumar) > > Hi, > > On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > > > Feel free to share your suggestions and articles to edi...@kaniyam.com > > > > > The site says edit*e*r...@kaniyam.com > Which is the valid one? > Fixed it. the valid emai

Re: [Ilugc] [ILuG-C] Microsoft Office on Linux

2012-01-01 Thread Yogesh Girikumar
2012/1/2 Ashok Gautham : > How is this piracy-proof? It is not. But atleast more people will be willing to pay for it. @Kenneth, I find it surprising because, there are lots of people ( who would otherwise switch to linux) stuck with Windows just because they can't run office on Linux. Mac is

Re: [Ilugc] Shell tip : Renaming multiple files.

2012-01-01 Thread Pratap Chakravarthy
Thx. Also `rename` looks to be a perl script. On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 08:05:05AM +0530, Pratap Chakravarthy wrote: >> Following is an example to rename all .css files under a directory to .tss, >> >> $ for i in *.css; do hg mv "$i" "${i/.css}