[Ilugc] Kaniyam August issue released

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
Greetings, We are happy to release the eighth issue[1] of Kaniyam. Thanks to Mr.Iniyan for designing the issue. Thanks to all the authors who make this initiative keep going and to the encouraging readers. All the articles in Kaniyam are released under Creative Commons license. By this, one is a

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar > wrote: > > Equation 2 in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LaTeX_Output.svg ? > > m = {{m_0} over sqrt{1-{v^2 over c^2}}} > Well, probably the equa

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar < viky.nan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < > raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar > > wrote: > > > Equation 2 in http://en.wikipedia.org/w

[Ilugc] Open source and Tamil Computing workshop at Anna University

2012-08-19 Thread Shrinivasan T
Anna university conducts a workshop on Tamil computing and open source. date : 7th and 8th september. The last date for registration is 3rd september. contact : A.Safia 9445815274. vvcs...@gmail.com for registrations. check the link for further details. http://www.annauniv.edu/pdf/tamil_dcs

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote: > > But I'm not an expert with either of them to be so sure. Neither am I. I have just done things. > Well, probably the equation is pretty simple. I believe there are complex > equations that cannot be represented in Lib

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > LibreOffice supports importing of MathML. > You could create the most complex formulas with MathML too. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML > > An instance of ODF dicument such as .odt, .ods etc _is_ an XML document. Jus

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > > LibreOffice supports importing of MathML. > You could create the most complex formulas with MathML too. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathML > That's nice. Thanks for clarifying. -- Vignesh Nandha Kumar http://vigneshnandhakumar.in

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Vignesh Nandha Kumar
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar > wrote: > > > > But I'm not an expert with either of them to be so sure. > > Neither am I. I have just done things. > > > Well, probabl

Re: [Ilugc] accidental GRUB deletion

2012-08-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Velmurugan Moorthy wrote: > hello, > 1. The problem is with my desktop. > 2. I have installed windows7(long ago) and ubuntu12.04 in it. > 3. ubuntu is the 2nd installed one. > 4. Recently I wanted to repartition my hard disks while

Re: [Ilugc] virtual box not starting

2012-08-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM, snegan wrote: > hi lugs, > > i have installed fedora 17 then i have installed latest virtual box i > have run vbox in terminal it is showing following error how to resolve > this > > VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: > dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/Virtua

[Ilugc] Is MySQL Turning into Closed Source ?

2012-08-19 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
I recently came across this post from Slashdot which suspects the nature of MySQL Database server being turned into Closed source from Open Source. Here is the link:- http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/0152237/is-mysql-slowly-turning-closed-source I think this is definitely not a good n

Re: [Ilugc] Is MySQL Turning into Closed Source ?

2012-08-19 Thread Rajagopal Swaminathan
Greetings, On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh wrote: > I recently came across this post from Slashdot which suspects the nature of > MySQL Database server being turned into Closed source from Open Source. > Here is the link:- > http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/08/18/015223

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Using Libre Office as a DTP Tool

2012-08-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Arun Khan wrote: >> I tried a similar thing with OOwriter back in 1Q/2009 (don't recall >> the version number).However, the book had a *lot* of screenshots; >> as it was end use o

[Ilugc] [ilugc] Gnome Vs KDE Vs Unity

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
Hi all, I have read several articles regarding the comparison of Gnome, KDE and Unity. But, Still, I could not come to a conclusion on which one to suggest as a desktop environment.. All three are awesome. For people who came to Linux, bored on Windows Methods, Unity and Gnome seem to be attracti

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Gnome Vs KDE Vs Unity

2012-08-19 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
> > For people using Windows for a long time, KDE almost looks like Windows. > Hence, it may be similar and easy to adapt. > And which one has the capability of turning more people towards Linux? > Please offer your comments. Mageia 2 with KDE, as most things in Mageia resembles Windows and I hav

[Ilugc] [Event Report] Two days FOSS workshop in Arunai College of Engineering

2012-08-19 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
Dear all, On behalf of ILUG-C, myself conducted a two days workshop on 'open source lab' in Arunai College of Engineering (formerly Kamban Engineering College) Thiruvannamalai on 17/08/12 & 18/08/12 (www.arunai.edu.in). Faculty members from various colleges in Thiruvannamalai/Villupuram/Vellore d

Re: [Ilugc] accidental GRUB deletion

2012-08-19 Thread Velmurugan Moorthy
> > > Which commands exactly did you try? so that we do not repeat the same solutions to you. velmurugan:- I have tried prefix, ls commands. But these commands are useful only when GRUB is present in any of hard disks. But I said that I deleted the partition. so these commands won't help that's

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread apvr
2012/8/18 ARUN PALANIAPPAN : > What is the difference between LaTex and a normal Office Document? > What are the advantages of using LaTex or what difference does it make? One main advantage of LaTeX is the visual output. http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/05/latex-vs-word-vs-writer/

Re: [Ilugc] Indic Unicode support for Scribus is developed

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/16 Shrinivasan T > Scribus team provides the support for Indic Unicode fonts. > > *Nice to hear * > This development is done by a team of Appropriate Technology Promotion > Sociiety (ATPS), Kochi ( http://www.atps.in ) with the support of > Prajasakti (http://www.prajasakti.com), Andra p

Re: [Ilugc] Indic Unicode support for Scribus is developed

2012-08-19 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: | But, will some one please help me with compiling?* * | When I give the command ./configure, it tells that scribus is of cmake.. \-- In short, you need to use: $ cmake . $ make --- | I dont understand the terms. \-- Do som

Re: [Ilugc] Indic Unicode support for Scribus is developed

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
Sir, Thank you for your reply. 2012/8/19 Shakthi Kannan > Hi, > > --- On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:00 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN > wrote: > | But, will some one please help me with compiling?* * > | When I give the command ./configure, it tells that scribus is of cmake.. > \-- > > In short, you need t

Re: [Ilugc] Is MySQL Turning into Closed Source ?

2012-08-19 Thread Prasanna Venkadesh
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan < raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Prasanna Venkadesh > wrote: > > I recently came across this post from Slashdot which suspects the nature > of > > MySQL Database server being turned into Close

[Ilugc] [HELP] Linux Setup @ UCH

2012-08-19 Thread Bharathi Subramanian
Dear All, UCH is a home for number of abandoned and poor children. Link: http://www.tewfi.org/child-rights/test/history-history/ ILUGC is having long-time relationship with UCH. 1. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2006-September/028648.html 2. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2008

Re: [Ilugc] Indic Unicode support for Scribus is developed

2012-08-19 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 10:47 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: | *Here is What I did and What I got: * | | aalunga@ARUN:~/DeskDocs/S$ ./configure \-- As I mentioned earlier, you are not supposed to run configure. --- | Scribus uses the CMake (http://www.cmake.org) buildsystem instead of | co

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 9:18 PM, apvr wrote: > 2012/8/18 ARUN PALANIAPPAN : > > What is the difference between LaTex and a normal Office Document? > > What are the advantages of using LaTex or what difference does it make? > > One main advantage of LaTeX is the visual output. > http://oestrem.com

Re: [Ilugc] [HELP] Linux Setup @ UCH

2012-08-19 Thread Baskar Selvaraj
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > Dear All, > > UCH is a home for number of abandoned and poor children. > Link: http://www.tewfi.org/child-rights/test/history-history/ > > ILUGC is having long-time relationship with UCH. > 1. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
Hi Sir, 2012/8/19 Vignesh Nandha Kumar > Unlike Office suites, LaTex is not a WYSIWYG way of creating the document. > Rather you write markups and styles, (think of HTML and CSS) and then you > export it to PDF or other formats to view it. *Thank you for the clarification.* What are the advant

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/19 Guru Prasath > One good site to visit is http://www.texample.net/ There are many > sites like this. > > Also http://www.latextemplates.com/ > > Thank you Sir.. I will check them!! "Preserve the earth; Else we will perish" ___ ILUGC Mailing Li

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/20 Mohan Sundaram > > > Apps like OO, Word etc are good for documents. I've found DocBook and > Latex useful when one does compilations where we have chapters, section > headers, subsections etc... These are automatically done based on indents > in OO/Word but the user has only a few contr

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/19 apvr > 2012/8/18 ARUN PALANIAPPAN : > > What is the difference between LaTex and a normal Office Document? > > What are the advantages of using LaTex or what difference does it make? > > One main advantage of LaTeX is the visual output. > http://oestrem.com/thingstwice/2007/05/latex-vs-

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
Sir Greetings 2012/8/19 Rajagopal Swaminathan > Greetings, > > Lyx provides a sorta WYSIWYG. > > LaTex is very mature and has tons of addons, extensions etc. as it has > been around for a very long time. It is a derivative of TeX > (pronounced as tek -- the last letter is supposed to be the gre

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Mohan Sundaram
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 9:56 AM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN < arunpalaniappan@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/8/20 Mohan Sundaram > > > > > > Apps like OO, Word etc are good for documents. I've found DocBook and > > Latex useful when one does compilations where we have chapters, section > > headers, subsectio

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread Shrinivasan T
> I am much concerned about the alignment of words and paragraphs in a > document , which may end within a page or run to 150 pages. > Can LaTex Help me in this regard? latex is used for ubuntu-manual.org download the book and see its powers. ___ ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/20 Mohan Sundaram > > One good example is a manual or a book with multiple chapters. This is what > I call a compilation, especially when different chapters have different > authors. The whole compilation needs an uniform look and feel. One example > is the format of a note or a symbol giv

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/20 Shrinivasan T > > I am much concerned about the alignment of words and paragraphs in a > > document , which may end within a page or run to 150 pages. > > Can LaTex Help me in this regard? > > latex is used for ubuntu-manual.org > > download the book and see its powers. > Thank you Sir

Re: [Ilugc] [ilguc] Difference between LaTex and Office

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/20 Shrinivasan T > > I am much concerned about the alignment of words and paragraphs in a > > document , which may end within a page or run to 150 pages. > > Can LaTex Help me in this regard? > > latex is used for ubuntu-manual.org > > download the book and see its powers. OMG!! Thats Am

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Using Libre Office as a DTP Tool

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/19 Arun Venkataswamy > > Inkscape is great but is limited to a single page. You will have to use a > separate file for each page of your document. This is not feature issue > with Inkscape, but it is it's nature. Inkscape is a SVG editor and SVG does > not support multiple pages. > > Inksc

Re: [Ilugc] Awesome story of migration to open source in a hospital at coimbatore

2012-08-19 Thread ARUN PALANIAPPAN
2012/8/16 Shrinivasan T > Here is the awesome story of a hospital in coimbatore migrated to > GNU/Linux, written by a doctor. > > The Great Dream … > > I dreamed that the hospital will implement an all Open Source > Solution. I advised them likewise. > > > > Read more at > > http://dreaswar.w

Re: [Ilugc] Awesome story of migration to open source in a hospital at coimbatore

2012-08-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:16 AM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > Thats Good... > Let All people shut down Windows and Open their Doors Wide! Another catching caption - "In a world without fences who needs windows" it came on a Linux Journal T-shirt I received a few years back. -- Arun Khan "As a la

Re: [Ilugc] Awesome story of migration to open source in a hospital at coimbatore

2012-08-19 Thread ஆமாச்சு
On Monday 20 August 2012 11:16 AM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > Thats Good... > Let All people shut down Windows and Open their Doors Wide! > on the web-front, how would you call that? ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [ilugc] Gnome Vs KDE Vs Unity

2012-08-19 Thread Arun Khan
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM, ARUN PALANIAPPAN wrote: > > For people using Windows for a long time, KDE almost looks like Windows. > Hence, it may be similar and easy to adapt. I hope you mean adopt KDE. Adapting KDE to look like Windows (theme wise) is not that attractive (Windows 95 widge