Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 13:23 +0530, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > >GLUGOT[0], the GLUG of Thiagarajar College of Engg,Madurai > has > > been doing a lot of these stuff from about 2004 or so. But what we > are > > >After reading Kenneth's comment about "including neighboring > col

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar wrote: > Hi, > > >        GLUGOT[0], the GLUG of Thiagarajar College of Engg,Madurai has > been doing a lot of these stuff from about 2004 or so. But what we are After reading Kenneth's comment about "including neighboring coll

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread Rajesh kumar
Thanks i will. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:59 PM, vijayaraghavan seshan < msvraghavan2...@gmail.com> wrote: > please remember to use complete path when adding a cron entry. > > On 1/25/12, Rajesh kumar wrote: > > Thanks I have tried as below > > > > instead of hwinfo or /usr/bin/hwinfo i tried /u

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 12:34 +0530, Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: > On 1/25/12, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > > I hope you noted that I mentioned the exceptions to the rule. > Kumaran > > and Benedict are among the 15 people I mentioned. > > -- > > Yes, I know that people like you are aware of th

Re: [Ilugc] HDD error in Fedora

2012-01-24 Thread Shrinivasan T
use a live cd to run fsck to check and fix the errors. sudo fsck -y /dev/sdaX replace X with partition number. run this for all partitions. share the results here. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread vijayaraghavan seshan
please remember to use complete path when adding a cron entry. On 1/25/12, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Thanks I have tried as below > > instead of hwinfo or /usr/bin/hwinfo i tried /usr/sbin/hwinfo. > > Now its work. > > -- > regards > Rajesh Kumar R.K > > > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Shriniva

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi, On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: > > Yes, I know that people like you are aware of the exceptions. May be > 15 in your case, and 50 in my case. > 15 or 50, it is still much lesser than desired. Assuming we have about 500 colleges, we should have at le

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread Rajesh kumar
Thanks I have tried as below instead of hwinfo or /usr/bin/hwinfo i tried /usr/sbin/hwinfo. Now its work. -- regards Rajesh Kumar R.K On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > give the full path of the output file. > ___ > ILUGC Mail

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 1/25/12, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > I hope you noted that I mentioned the exceptions to the rule. Kumaran > and Benedict are among the 15 people I mentioned. > -- Yes, I know that people like you are aware of the exceptions. May be 15 in your case, and 50 in my case. I just wanted the member

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread A. Naseer Ahmed
Please see the link that contains the details and photocopies of National workshop on LaTeX and Scilab http://www.ksrcasnwlls.blogspot.com Thank you. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, A. Naseer Ahmed > wrote: > | i take the ef

[Ilugc] HDD error in Fedora

2012-01-24 Thread Vijay Kumar
Dear all, I am using Seagate 500GB SATA HDD. When I install Windows & Ubuntu it didn't find "BAD sector", but when I install fedora in the same HDD it dispalys "Disk has many bad sectors". I already send it to seagate for warranty they returned it with "No fault found tested OK" report. But when I

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 11:42 +0530, Srinivasan Sundararajan wrote: > However, I request the members to consider one point : while the > students are transient, the staff provide a semblance of continuity. > Wouldn't you consider Kumarans and Benedicts have made the existence > and escalation of FOSS

Re: [Ilugc] Python error starting OpenERP 6.1 RC1 on Centos 6.2

2012-01-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 12:23 +, VK Sameer wrote: > > return sorted([(k,v) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() > > I honestly don't know the code and am operating at a > syntactic-correctness level > rather than semantic-correctness level. what does this mean? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
Most members of this list (at least the vociferous ones) have the view : staff is no good and we will reach out only to students. Much as I disagree with this*, what i consider dogmatic, view , I have not intention of starting a flame war or discussion how to correct the situation -- especially fr

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread sathishkumar sankar
hi all, good day guys if u can use cron job entry in root user * * * * * /usr/sbin/hwinfo > /home/username/hardware it's working for me . so can u try to root user. run in cron job On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote: > give the full path of the o

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Srinivasan Sundararajan
On 1/25/12, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, A. Naseer Ahmed > wrote: > | i take the effort to teach both for the staff members who are > | interested, by doing Workshops for past two years in our campus and > | out of campus. > \-- > > Can you provide a link t

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread Shrinivasan T
give the full path of the output file. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread vijayaraghavan seshan
where is the txt file located in the system On 1/25/12, Rajesh kumar wrote: > Hi all, > > I am trying to create a cronjob which calls hwinfo which echoes out to a > txt file. If i run the code direclty from konsole its working but the same > doesnt work in cron. > When i open the file it shows i

[Ilugc] Cron Job

2012-01-24 Thread Rajesh kumar
Hi all, I am trying to create a cronjob which calls hwinfo which echoes out to a txt file. If i run the code direclty from konsole its working but the same doesnt work in cron. When i open the file it shows its empty. My cronjob is * * * * * hwinfo --short > hardware if i read /var/log/message

[Ilugc] OAOD (Kipina)

2012-01-24 Thread Dhastha
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Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, A. Naseer Ahmed wrote: | i take the effort to teach both for the staff members who are | interested, by doing Workshops for past two years in our campus and | out of campus. \-- Can you provide a link to your presentations/teaching material (under a free/

Re: [Ilugc] Python error starting OpenERP 6.1 RC1 on Centos 6.2

2012-01-24 Thread ஆமாச்சு
On Tuesday 24 January 2012 06:17 AM, VK Sameer wrote: > Request for help from Pythonistas and/or OpenERP users. I'm trying to install > OpenERP 6.1RC1 (http://nightly.openerp.com/6.1/release/openerp-6.1rc1.tar.gz) > on > Centos 6.2 using Python 2.6 and get this very weird error: > > python: Python

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Govindasamy Thiruvengadam
All, You all forgot the basics. No point discussing. Pay the staff on par with industry and you get quality staff. Universities in the west have quality teachers because they are paid on par with industry. Govind. Connected by MOTOBLUR™ -Original message- From: 0 <0...@0throot.com> To

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread 0
>> my experience i have seen that the intelligent always goes to the industry >> sector. then how do expect the staff to be very bright and know everything. > >We expect staff to be sincere, and dedicated, with a willingness > to learn new technology and developements > IMO, This is a ver

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread சுதன் | suthan
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar < benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: > We expect staff to be sincere, and dedicated, with a willingness > to learn new technology and developements > Not all staff members a re sincere and dedicated. But this is the scenario in all industries. If

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread A. Naseer Ahmed
Sorry to say this, i dis-agree with all your comments. Being a mathematics faculty, i comment something below, In our autonomous institution we include the FOSS like LaTex and Scilab in our syllabus of PG and UG respectively. i use both for past 6 years. i take the effort to teach both for the s

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi, 2012/1/24 சுதன் | suthan <83su...@gmail.com>: > > > Being a staff member, my feedback on the comments that are made in this > mailing list. It is not necessary that a staff should know everything. In Nobody knows everything. > my experience i have seen that the intelligent always goes

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread சுதன் | suthan
In my opinion even if u reach the students, the same thing as of staff applies to them too. only those who are interested will learn it. others will be trying only to get the minimum pass marks. I think if u really want the staff members to learn a little atleast in the syllabus completion perspect

[Ilugc] OAOD (Route Planner)

2012-01-24 Thread Dhastha
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Re: [Ilugc] Python error starting OpenERP 6.1 RC1 on Centos 6.2

2012-01-24 Thread VK Sameer
On 2012-01-24 at 07:59:28 GMT kenneth gonsalves writes: > On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 07:46 +, VK Sameer wrote: > > return sorted([(k,k) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() > > should this not be: > > return sorted([(k,v) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() Also, changing to (k,v) and uncom

Re: [Ilugc] Python error starting OpenERP 6.1 RC1 on Centos 6.2

2012-01-24 Thread VK Sameer
On 2012-01-24 at 07:59:28 GMT kenneth gonsalves writes: > On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 07:46 +, VK Sameer wrote: > > return sorted([(k,k) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() > > should this not be: > > return sorted([(k,v) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() I honestly don't know the code an

Re: [Ilugc] teaching Foss syllabus in colleges

2012-01-24 Thread Shrinivasan T
shall we ask that the college staff should join the training. they should join with us on training other colleges. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Python error starting OpenERP 6.1 RC1 on Centos 6.2

2012-01-24 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 07:46 +, VK Sameer wrote: > return sorted([(k,k) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() should this not be: return sorted([(k,v) for k,v in fields.__dict__.iteritems() -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http