Re: [Ilugc] Are we planning SFD for 2012.

2012-06-24 Thread ஆமாச்சு
On Saturday 23 June 2012 11:15 AM, Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன் wrote: > Hi Guyz, > > Is there any preparation for Software Freedom Day this year?. Srini, has been asking for volunteers for a Ubuntu/ Fedora release party. Very few turned out & that is not conducted yet. We need to first raise hands h

Re: [Ilugc] Are we planning SFD for 2012.

2012-06-24 Thread ஆமாச்சு
On Saturday 23 June 2012 11:44 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > I'm wondering how different is fossconf from SFD. As far as I remember, > from the fossconf 08 at MIT (It was my first year of college at MIT and > that's where I got introduced to FOSS, by working as a *non-tech* volunteer > ;)), it

[Ilugc] Instrumental from MP3 using Audiocity ??

2012-06-24 Thread தங்கமணி அருண் || Thangamani Arun
Dear All, Did any one tried extracting instrumental from MP3 song using Audiocity ?? If not is there any other opensource tool to do the same work?? Thanks Arun -- அன்புடன் அருண் || Arun [ நுட்பம் நம்மொழியில் தழைக்கச் செய்வோம் ] எனது கிருக்கல்கள் : http://thangamaniarun.wordpress.com தருமபுர

Re: [Ilugc] Instrumental from MP3 using Audiocity ??

2012-06-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
2012/6/24 தங்கமணி அருண் || Thangamani Arun : > Dear All, > > Did any one tried extracting instrumental from MP3 song using Audiocity ?? > > If not is there any other opensource tool to do the same work?? > Your Tamizh fonts display very beautifully in my OpenBSD. Okay now audacity can only remove

[Ilugc] error while installing android in virtual box

2012-06-24 Thread prakash p
I tried to install android 4.0 icecream sandwich on my laptop, but after certain stage it getting error like following ( (Cannot mount /dev/sda1 - Do you want to format it?) if i give "y es" it shows it can't format it, it doesn't work, drops back to the format screen, and I get this error a

Re: [Ilugc] error while installing android in virtual box

2012-06-24 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
Hi prakash, On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:41 PM, prakash p wrote: > I tried to install android 4.0 icecream sandwich on my laptop, but after > You didn't mention details about which GNU/Linux you are using. I hope its LinuxMint as you are my friend, but others won't know it until you say for them

Re: [Ilugc] Instrumental from MP3 using Audiocity ??

2012-06-24 Thread Roshan George
On Sun, 2012-06-24 at 18:07 +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: > Your Tamizh fonts display very beautifully in my OpenBSD. Ha ha. That's nice to hear. > Okay now audacity can only remove voice track if multiple tracks are > preserved in > the format. Girish is right, here. You can get a nice per

Re: [Ilugc] Instrumental from MP3 using Audiocity ??

2012-06-24 Thread Sunit Sivasankaran
For those interested in science, the process of obtaining different sound "streams" from an audio such as instrumentals or vocals, is an active research topic in the field of audio signal processing. You can use CASA (computational auditory scene analysis) or blind source separation as keywords t

Re: [Ilugc] Net Traffic Log

2012-06-24 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Harisankar P S wrote: > Hey, > > Is there a way to keep track of the network traffic through all the > different interface devices in my system. Or a library to do so, I want to > create a log that store the total size of file transfered since the script > or prog

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-24 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jacob G Podipara wrote: > Hi; > Would anyone be able to give some inputs regarding drawing software to > generate architectural and > structural drawings like AutoCAd and comparison thereof. > I've tried using some of the free alternatives and found them difficu

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-24 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Mohan Sundaram wrote: > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jacob G Podipara > wrote: > > > Hi; > > Would anyone be able to give some inputs regarding drawing software to > > generate architectural and > > structural drawings like AutoCAd and comparison thereof. >

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-24 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > My father's company had no choice but to stick to Autocad. There were a few > alternatives like Turbocad which was much cheaper and was good. The reason > why we had to stick to Autocad was because of employees. The existing > draftsmen

[Ilugc] Tools for simulating network issues

2012-06-24 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, I'm looking for ways to simulate network issues. Specifically, the following scenarios: IP - packet loss TCP - connection establishment takes time - connection established, but server application is slow / unresponsive - piled up connections / running out of sockets The end goal is t

Re: [Ilugc] Net Traffic Log

2012-06-24 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Harisankar P S wrote: > Hey, > > Is there a way to keep track of the network traffic through all the > different interface devices in my system. Or a library to do so, I want to > create a log that store the total size of file transfered since the script > or pro

Re: [Ilugc] Tools for simulating network issues

2012-06-24 Thread Balachandran Sivakumar
Hi Suraj, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Suraj Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for ways to simulate network issues. Specifically, the > following scenarios: > > IP >  - packet loss > TCP >  - connection establishment takes time >  - connection established, but server application is slow / u

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-24 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Mohan Sundaram > wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Jacob G Podipara > > wrote: > > > > > Hi; > > > Would anyone be able to give some inputs regarding drawing software to > > > generate archi

Re: [Ilugc] Tools for simulating network issues

2012-06-24 Thread M K Saravanan
Usually for a quick testing, I use FreeBSD-based live CD Frenzy as a VM (create a VM and assign the ISO image of the CD and boot directly from it with out installing anything) and use "ipfw" to simulate bandwidth, latency and packet loss. http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/ -- mks -- __

[Ilugc] Query: Tools for monitoring servers

2012-06-24 Thread K.C. Ramakrishna
Hi all, We are trying to look into monitoring servers in Beta and Prod environments. The stack: a. 2(more in future) Front End apache httpd/tomcat/Liferay Servers b. Independent CAS-SSO and SOLR servers. c. standalone server running webservices (written in Java) d. 2MySQL (Percona) servers 1 WRIT

[Ilugc] Image processing in 16 bit color depth?

2012-06-24 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
Hi, Gimp is limited to handling 8 bit color depth only. Any pointers to a good alternative in Linux to handle 16 bit color depth? I use UFRaw to manage raw file from the camera and it handles all color depths. But I need something interactive like Gimp for post processing. Also, anybody else inte

Re: [Ilugc] Net Traffic Log

2012-06-24 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Harisankar P S wrote: > Hey, > > Is there a way to keep track of the network traffic through all the > different interface devices in my system. Or a library to do so, I want to > create a log that store the total size of file transfered since the script > or pro

Re: [Ilugc] Image processing in 16 bit color depth?

2012-06-24 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
I don't have much idea about this, How about imagemagick ? -- Regards, Balasubramaniam Natarajan www.etutorshop.com/moodle/ ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Tools for simulating network issues

2012-06-24 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi Bala, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar < benignb...@gmail.com> wrote: >I guess the tc tool would be of use to you. You can do > something like this: > > # tc qdisc add dev eth0 root netem delay 100ms > > for adding a 100ms delay to all packets. It can be deleted

Re: [Ilugc] Free CAD/AUTOCAD Software

2012-06-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Kingsley G. Morse Jr. wrote: > Hi Jacob, > > I liked blender better than librecad. > > If I recall correctly, it has better > documentation, and a more helpful IRC channel. > > I hope that helps, > Kingsley > For drafting alone, IMHO, Autocad is an ove

[Ilugc] Watermark using Composite, Python and Identify

2012-06-24 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
A few days ago I wanted to watermark few of my images on command line and I wrote this blog http://bullet-bala.blogspot.in/2012/06/adding-watermark.htmland the trouble which I had was that the Watermark was either very small or very big and got out of the final image. The result of which I created

Re: [Ilugc] Tools for simulating network issues

2012-06-24 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
> > Thanks. didn't know about tc. Looks like this will be useful for part of my > needs (for atleast simulating latency). > > Just had a look at its manpages, I am happy to learn that at least learned that such a tool exists. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man8/tc.8.html -- Regards, Ba

Re: [Ilugc] Query: Tools for monitoring servers

2012-06-24 Thread Balasubramaniam Natarajan
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, K.C. Ramakrishna wrote: > > > I have researched all the usual suspects: Cacti, Nagios, ZenOSS, Zabix?.. > JMX seems to be very popular for tomcat/Java. > > What are your recommendations for handling this scenario? What are the > pros and cons of various tools and

Re: [Ilugc] Image processing in 16 bit color depth?

2012-06-24 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > Gimp is limited to handling 8 bit color depth only. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIMP [quote] GEGL The Generic Graphics Library (GEGL) was first introduced as part of GIMP on the 2.6 release of GIMP. This init