[Ilugc] PhoneGap platform

2012-01-04 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
Hi, Has anybody in the group used PhoneGap: http://phonegap.com/ for real world mobile app development? Any experience worth sharing here? Regards, Arun ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Fwd: [job] [chennaigeeks] Call for PHP Yii Framework Developers

2012-01-04 Thread Shrinivasan T
-- Forwarded message -- From: Selvam Muniyandi alansel...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:23 PM Subject: [chennaigeeks] Call for PHP Yii Framework Developers To: chennaige...@googlegroups.com Hi, We are plan to develop social web app using PHP Yii framework. We looking for

Re: [Ilugc] impress.js - javascript based presentation tool

2012-01-04 Thread Gautam
html5slides is quite good , But the effects from impress.js are quite impressing (No pun intended ). May be I should try to combine them both On 4 January 2012 13:55, ijeyant...@gmail.com ijeyant...@gmail.com wrote: I was really impressed with impress.js , I am going to use it for

Re: [Ilugc] impress.js - javascript based presentation tool

2012-01-04 Thread Pratap Chakravarthy
OT Answer Have you had a chance to look at Tiddly Wiki? Works completely in HTML/JS/CSS. Converts Wiki to HTML, comes as a single HTML File :-) /OT Answer Hey thanks for the pointer. I am happy, atleast thus far, to use eazytext for all my documentation needs. I was only wondering how

Re: [Ilugc] impress.js - javascript based presentation tool

2012-01-04 Thread Pratap Chakravarthy
I have been using http://html5slides.pageforest.com/ for quite some time and they have a basic editor for creating simple yet attractive html5 presentation in just minutes. The UI idea is one fine innovation ! I am gonna steal it ;) ___ ILUGC Mailing

[Ilugc] Building RPMs in Ubuntu

2012-01-04 Thread arunthe...@gmail.com
Hello all, I have been using Ubuntu (debian) system all through the Linux life. Recently I got into a situation where I am required to package a software for a RPM system (CentOS). There are rpm build tools available in the Ubuntu repos, but I my reading through the forums suggest that its always

Re: [Ilugc] Building RPMs in Ubuntu

2012-01-04 Thread 0
I have been using Ubuntu (debian) system all through the Linux life. Recently I got into a situation where I am required to package a software for a RPM system (CentOS). There are rpm build tools available in the Ubuntu repos, but I my reading through the forums suggest that its always

[Ilugc] Linux compatible TV tuner card

2012-01-04 Thread Version Control Buddy
I am planning to buy a internal TV tuner card. Does anyone has any experience with any local TV tuner card ? any suggestions ? Google does not suggest much for local market I saw one post[1] in ilugc by vivek srinivasan. Vivek, did you get it working ? Rgds, Siva. [1]

Re: [Ilugc] Microsoft reluctantly bows to Linux users | ZDNet

2012-01-04 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:29 AM, narendra babu cnarendra_b...@yahoo.comwrote: Hello all, interesting article on Microsoft reluctantly bows to Linux users | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-reluctantly-bows-to-linux-users/10074 Expected. No other go for Microsoft --

[Ilugc] web framework query

2012-01-04 Thread Suresh Kumar
Hi, My query is regaring the opensource web frameworks (drupal,ruby on ralis,...etc). I am quite confused which one should i choose/learn for my developement work. i want to develop the website which is very simple (mostly informative) just like companies websites. (no forum,wiki,content mgmt

[Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread Gourav Shah
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schrei/the-god-project-hinduism_b_486099.html Thanks Gourav Initcron www.initcron.org | www.initcron.com ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] web framework query

2012-01-04 Thread Shrinivasan T
install wordpress and create pages. install plugins for contact form, sliding images and a decent corporate theme. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] web framework query

2012-01-04 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: install wordpress and create pages. install plugins for contact form, sliding images and a decent corporate theme. +1. Wordpress is obviously the most intuitive CMS out there. Also, new web standards like CSS3 are

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

2012-01-04 Thread Krishnan Sethuraman
Why Not? Apple's app signing is a good example for piracy proof way of using a AppStore to distribute software. If Ubuntu goes the same way with its paid apps, why can't MS get a piracy proof method? I don't think they will. Because to build a Linux version and offer it to people, they need to

[Ilugc] OAOD (Tellico)

2012-01-04 Thread Dhastha
Application: Tellico What it is: Tellico is a collection manager for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom collections; with unlimited user-defined fields allowed. Automatically formatted names, sorting by any property,

Re: [Ilugc] OAOD (Tellico)

2012-01-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Dhastha dhasthagh...@gmail.com wrote: Application: Tellico What it is: Tellico is a collection manager for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines, and also allows custom collections; with

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread A. Mani
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Gourav Shah g...@initcron.org wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schrei/the-god-project-hinduism_b_486099.html crap. All religions are devoid of reason and reek of whimsical decision making. The author does not seem to be qualified in religious studies

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: crap. All religions are devoid of reason and reek of whimsical decision making. The author does not seem to be qualified in religious studies or philosophy either. CRAP You don't anything about Religion.

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread A. Mani
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, You don't anything about Religion. No, I know a lot about religion, nature of knowledge and philosophy of various Indian texts and more. What the author has written does not reflect well on his

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 04:16 +, A. Mani wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Gourav Shah g...@initcron.org wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schrei/the-god-project-hinduism_b_486099.html crap. All religions are devoid of reason and reek of whimsical decision making.

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

2012-01-04 Thread ashwin kesavan
On 5 January 2012 10:25, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Krishnan Sethuraman krishnan.ubu...@gmail.com wrote: Why Not? Apple's app signing is a good example for piracy proof way of using a AppStore to distribute software. If Ubuntu goes the same

[Ilugc] How fsck runs automattically after power failure

2012-01-04 Thread Ranjith Rajendran
Hi Friends, How fsck runs after power failure in Linux? Unmounting a file system during a standard shutdown sets the clean bit in the file system header, indicating that the file system was cleanly umounted and is consistent. If the Linux system is not properly shut down such as on power

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
Ha ha. Get rid of this stupid thread. -Girish On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Gourav Shah g...@initcron.org wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-schrei/the-god-project-hinduism_b_486099.html crap. All religions are

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread Siji Sunny
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Ha ha. Get rid of this stupid thread. +1 -Girish On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 9:46 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Gourav Shah g...@initcron.org wrote:

[Ilugc] Call for speakers - Jan 2012 Meet

2012-01-04 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. We have our meet on Jan 14, 2012. Reply here if you wish to give a talk. Give the topic, description, duration, links to read, about speaker. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in

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

2012-01-04 Thread sag kavin
I don't think they will. Because to build a Linux version and offer it to people, they need to release the source code as well. Which they will not do. Is that really necessary to release source code? If so how skype messenger, some propitiatory games like Penumbra Black plague, Braid, Osmos

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

2012-01-04 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 13:03 +0530, sag kavin wrote: I don't think they will. Because to build a Linux version and offer it to people, they need to release the source code as well. Which they will not do. Is that really necessary to release source code? If so how skype messenger,

[Ilugc] Call for trainers - one day workshop on Linux

2012-01-04 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Meenakshi College of Engineering,Chennai is looking for one day workshop on Linux and MySQL. Date: Jan 28, 2012 If you are interested in giving a training, please contact me. Thanks. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux

Re: [Ilugc] [OffTopic] Article comparing Hinduism with Open Source

2012-01-04 Thread 0
All religions are devoid of reason and reek of whimsical decision making. However they may be, denial of existence of god or atheism is still Hinduism [1]. Not to mention, In 1995 Supreme Court [2] came up with the following ruling, (29). When we think of the Hindu religion, we find it