Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Sundaram KR sundaram.ramachand...@kggroup.com wrote: For my son who is in ICSE school, they taught him Scratch and Alice when he was 7. Both these 'free' software packages are very good first languages for kids - they are fun, easy to learn and very powerful

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Best first language

2012-10-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Manokaran K manoka...@gmail.com wrote: Khan Academy has started a CS stream. I have not looked into it entirely so am not sure how appropriate it will be for a 6 year old. But I think it should be good because John Resig (of jQuery) is implementing Bret Victor's

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) released

2012-10-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Arun Khan (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) knu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, please announce when 12.10.1 is available. Announcements are made at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce -- http://about.me/rosh ___

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [chennaipy 1434] September Monthly Meet

2012-09-19 Thread Roshan Mathews
I'd like to highlight the following from the forwarded mail below: After the meet, at 5:00pm, we will be having a meet-up of the people participating in the Brown University course Introduction to Programming Languages. If you're taking CS173 [1], please try to come, else just mail Vijay and

Re: [Ilugc] What Killed the Linux Desktop, by Miguel de Icaza

2012-08-31 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:02 PM, l...@chandrashekar.info wrote: But Miguel's quote about OSX as being more refined or rather appealing to developer community seems a bit exaggerated to me. Most OSes provide one way to do things and are somewhat locked-down in my opinion, and that includes

[Ilugc] What Killed the Linux Desktop, by Miguel de Icaza

2012-08-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] [OT?] Fwd: [racket] on-line programming languages course

2012-08-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
In case you haven't seen the forwarded message below already. I think there are some 15 people in Chennai (don't know them), and some 45 in Bangalore who have already registered. Registrations close this Monday, so if you're interested sign up. Maybe someone can organize a study group in Chennai

Re: [Ilugc] Need Steve Wozniak

2012-08-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Karthikeyan A.K mindas...@gmail.com wrote: So to turn things in a right way I have a plan. But I need crazy people who are crazy about electronics like Steve Wozniak,if you are one please FWIW, there is a recent course available, with online textbook, video

Re: [Ilugc] issues with top and bottom posting

2012-07-04 Thread Roshan Mathews
+1 On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:02 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-03 at 21:47 +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: If a person wishes to answer a question, he chooses the easiest way or his own way to reply. When we ask him to change the way he replies, he gets the

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:36 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: [...] If one looks at the sites of redhat, fedora, suse, debian, mandriva, one finds plentiful mention of the word linux. But the word is missing in the sites of two 'popular' distros - android and ubuntu. FWIW,

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:56 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-02 at 14:55 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: [...] If one looks at the sites of redhat, fedora, suse, debian, mandriva, one finds plentiful mention of the word linux

Re: [Ilugc] why it is important to promote linux

2012-07-02 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: congratulations - I am sure you went through each of these links to find out where they were on the site, in what context they were there, whether they were put there by the authors of the site and how visible they

Re: [Ilugc] talk on 18th

2011-12-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
Learning Perl the Hard Way http://greenteapress.com/perl/ Looks interesting. On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 13:08, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Another reminder. We have a perl talk on 18th Sunday. -- http://about.me/rosh ___

Re: [Ilugc] talk on 18th

2011-12-04 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 08:23, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote:  Just a gentle reminder:  http://ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2011-November/068653.html  Please make it if you find it useful to attend. Do we just show up with the money in hand? Or else you can set up

Re: [Ilugc] Indian GNU/R Group Invite

2011-11-28 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 03:39, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Please join if interested in R: https://groups.google.com/group/r-group-india There is also the somewhat active Bangalore R Users at https://groups.google.com/group/brumail Weirdly enough, R is also called GNU S. --

Re: [Ilugc] Need Advice, Linux/FOSS Gurus from India

2011-11-21 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 14:07, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Linus' interview made me think if there really is lack of Linux gurus? So, I am thinking of a sub-section in Muktware where we profile/feature one Linux/FOSS expert from India every week. What's your opinion?

Re: [Ilugc] Ubuntu Community Appreciation Day

2011-11-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 07:05, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: I suggest you study the history of Ubuntu propaganda - there is a long thread on this in this list (search for 'african spaceman'). It is unfortunate but true that Ubuntu does not follow the norms for healthy

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl script for downloading using HTTP

2011-11-17 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 13:33, Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com wrote:          Just learning Perl. This really helps. The language seems to be using too many symbols :) Thanks They're called sigils - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigil_(computer_programming) -- http://about.me/rosh

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] Interview of Linus Torvalds; He Also Speaks Of Sad Situation Of India

2011-11-04 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:26, Vigneshwaran vigneshwaran2...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Ravi Kumar Tenneti rktenn...@gmail.comwrote: In continuation to Senthil's mail, I would like all the members of ILUGC to go through the Macaulay's speech in British Parliament in

Re: [Ilugc] [Petition] 'Restricted' Boot Window8

2011-10-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 20:58, r. siddharth rsiddharth.m...@gmail.com wrote: You may sign the petition by going here : [redacted] For more information on this, you may go here : [redacted] Your mail got flagged as spam. Even if it had not been, I wouldn't have clicked on a shortened link

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Fwd: Announcement: db-class.org enrollment starts today

2011-09-29 Thread Roshan Mathews
Not sure if this has been mentioned before, but there is also: ai-class.com and www.ml-class.com and then on reddit.com you can find /r/aiclass, /r/mlclass and /r/dbclass Anyone taking these courses? Roshan On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 16:17, ijeyant...@gmail.com ijeyant...@gmail.comwrote: Hello

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Arduino Boards

2011-09-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 17:41, Bharathi Subramanian bharathi.l...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to buy few Arduino Boards. I gone thru some Indian sites, the cost of the boards are 10% to 20% higher then the Singapore price. Any suggestions on low cost and reliable boards? I have been meaning

Re: [Ilugc] [slightly OT] free dns service

2011-08-27 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:47, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: model. I do not mind paying for my commercial usage, but would like to ask members for options for free dns for my free sites. https://pointhq.com/ -- http://about.me/rosh

Re: [Ilugc] How to make ILUGC list user friendly?

2011-07-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 05:26, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: The people who took offence were some do-gooders who where trying to educate people how to answer questions - but the interesting thing is that *they* did not make the slightest effort to answer the question. Wow,

Re: [Ilugc] complete reference for linux

2011-07-08 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:22, balaji sivanath starbala2...@gmail.com wrote: Suggest me such kind of book or pdf. http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Linux Open Source Jobs Site Announced

2011-06-09 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:27, Raman.P raam...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Coimbatore LUG rox                 s/rox/rocks You can't assume that. KG is quite old. Maybe that was the name of his pet dinosaur. Or is that rex? -- http://about.me/rosh ___

Re: [Ilugc] dvorak and emacs

2011-06-09 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:38, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 11:27 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: (global-set-key (kbd C-u) ctl-x-map) but this also does not work. Any clues will be appreciated. clarification: I simply put the above lines

Re: [Ilugc] dvorak and emacs

2011-06-08 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:08, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: (global-set-key (kbd C-u) ctl-x-map) but this also does not work. Any clues will be appreciated. clarification: I simply put the above lines in .emacs. I have a feeling that this is not enough - it needs more

[Ilugc] How much GNU is there in GNU/Linux?

2011-06-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
Found this via Hacker News: http://pedrocr.net/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux Discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2605470 -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [kanchilug] Re: [Tip] Change to the previous working directory

2011-05-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:22, Tha.Suresh jemenisur...@gmail.com wrote: Can you post on pushd and popd which i feel is better than cd. pushd/popd are cool but a bit obscure ... cd - is straightforward ! `cd -' is what I use while typing in the shell, mostly because it is easier for me to

Re: [Ilugc] Two days training programme in MIT

2011-05-08 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 08:54, Baskar Selvaraj bas...@linuxpert.in wrote: A two days Free training program on FOSS lab setup and administration was organised by Anna University, MIT Campus for system admins / lab technical assistants of engineering colleges.  It was held on 6th and 7th May 2011.

Re: [Ilugc] Store buffered videos in ubuntu

2011-05-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 17:01, Navaneethan navaneetha...@gmail.com wrote: How you are getting videos in your system ? From http://www.youtube.com/static?gl=UStemplate=terms Content is provided to you AS IS. You may access Content for your information and personal use solely as

Re: [Ilugc] too much policing?

2011-04-27 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 14:59, Manokaran K manoka...@gmail.com wrote: I might be wrong but of late I get a feeling that the number of users policing the list is more than the number actually discussing anything! Is the theory that the former is stifling the latter true or just a post hoc

Re: [Ilugc] too much policing?

2011-04-27 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 15:52, Akilan R akila...@gmail.com wrote: +1. While suggestions for new rules and discussions on list rules are welcome; asking people not to enforce existing rules are not. If we all pull together as a team, the information purification directives will help us create a

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 13:14, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: Aladdin, who were the sole copyright holders of Ghostscript invented the dual licensing model.  You claimed that Aladdin had a deal with FSF.  I don't see any evidence of that. You didn't see any evidence to the contrary

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 13:57, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/22/2011 01:19 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 13:14, Rahul Sundaram  wrote: Aladdin, who were the sole copyright holders of Ghostscript invented the dual licensing model.  You claimed that Aladdin

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 15:13, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/22/2011 02:27 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote: You didn't ask for citations or evidence, you asserted that the opposite was true.  Your ambiguous language and tone made it look like you knew what you were talking about

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 15:55, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/22/2011 03:28 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote:  In that case you were only unaware of the deal, which you post facto decided to call an informal agreement, despite it being characterized as a written promise. I don't see

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 15:38, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 15:28 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: Now, unless you have something to add based on facts you are aware of, you are just trolling.  Please don't do that, it just wastes everybody's time

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-21 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 19:02, Vanitha Kumar vanithak.2...@gmail.com wrote:  In other words, Can we make use of *readily available* *FREE software* to *make money* Producing open source software: * Qt had it's code dual licensed, they sold commercial licenses. Then TrollTech was bought by

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS - for making MONEY

2011-03-21 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 01:50, Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/21/2011 08:33 PM, Roshan Mathews wrote:  * Ghostscript had a deal with FSF to make the latest-but-one version GPL, but they sold the latest version with a commercial license. There was no deal with FSF.  They were

Re: [Ilugc] factorial

2011-03-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 11:17, Vijay Kumar B. vijayku...@bravegnu.org wrote: Use lookup tables. If you are using 32 bit ints to store numbers, you need a lookup table till 12. That's a pretty fantastic answer! -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC

Re: [Ilugc] problem installing RT

2011-01-09 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 09:58, satyaakam goswami satyaa...@gmail.com wrote: I press enter, and after a few minutes the question appears again for the next module. This has been going on for some days now as I do not have the time to keep watching and pressing enter. Is there an easier way?

Re: [Ilugc] New Year Resolution

2011-01-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 16:38, Kumaran R kuma...@techie.com wrote: Hi, TLDR. Let's all resolve not to spam mailing lists! -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] How to solve the 500 internal error in a rails app

2010-12-22 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 22:22, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: I have a rails application hosted in debian with apache. https://groups.google.com/group/chennairb https://groups.google.com/group/bangalorerug -- http://about.me/rosh ___

Re: [Ilugc] Regd: dbconfig-common creating schema

2010-12-21 Thread Roshan Mathews
Maybe you're sending HTML mail which is getting eaten up. See if you can send a plain text email. Roshan On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 16:15, vellingiri velling...@bksystems.co.in wrote: ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

2010-12-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 19:28, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: Are you sure? I used to be as paranoid. What if I strongly encrypt  my data using a secure public key crypto algorithm? (openssl? GPG?). Will it not 'secure' my data? http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-techm=129236621626462

Re: [Ilugc] Hi

2010-12-15 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 07:57, Krish hari279...@gmail.com wrote:              I'm very new to ubuntu. I just installed ubuntu10.4 in my laptop Dell Inspiron 1545. I don kno anythin about it. But i love to learn it. Pl suggest me any sites so that i can read and learn Pl help

Re: [Ilugc] please help me

2010-12-07 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 17:21, ramesh kumar grkram_...@hotmail.com wrote: ubuntu 10.04 LTS repository configuration ?  ubuntu 10.04 LTS version in 8  repository  DVD in local configuration method please help?? You want to set up your system to install packages from the DVD that you have?

Re: [Ilugc] installing apache linux

2010-11-25 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:57, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 18:50 +0530, balaji sivanath wrote: Google is there to reply for you in seconds do you get commission for recommending google? Very unlikely, Google wouldn't be paying individuals, although

Re: [Ilugc] OSM - Neat and Useful Viz

2010-11-21 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 19:41, Venkatraman S venka...@gmail.com wrote: Some neat viz that i spotted recently : http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/hacking-india-is-beautiful/ That's fantastic! -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Lock the hardware eject button of the cdrom !!!

2010-11-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 18:26, chandan gupta gupta.chand...@gmail.com wrote: any command to disable keyboard? Ctrl-S to stop. Ctrl-Q to start. -- http://about.me/rosh ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Lock the hardware eject button of the cdrom !!!

2010-11-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
2010/11/20 விக்னேஷ் நந்த குமார் viky.nan...@gmail.com: On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: Ctrl-S to stop. Ctrl-Q to start. It doesn't work for me (Ubuntu 10.10). Anyways, I've noticed in some systems (earlier versions of GNU/Linux) that pressing Ctrl+S

Re: [Ilugc] PHP to GUI Applications

2010-11-20 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 00:15, Vinodh Rajan vin...@virtualvinodh.com wrote: Apart from PHP-GTK is there any other framework to create GUI applications using PHP ? Why do you want to do that? Is it because you're already a PHP programmer? Anyways, google-d and found this:

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Print a row of 25 hyphens

2010-11-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 01:33, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Tha.Suresh jemenisur...@gmail.com wrote: Print a row of 25 hyphens $ alt+25- In bash, by pressing ALT+n and then a character x, x will be printed n times Isn't there a way to type say

Re: [Ilugc] how people are gaining money using opensource softwares

2010-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 07:18, Yogesh Girikumar yogeshg1...@gmail.com wrote: , for eg. canonical ltd. provides ubuntu os for free of cost even they are shipping cd for free,there is a team to work who is paying them. how they run the organization without getting penny amount from people. I

Re: [Ilugc] how people are gaining money using opensource softwares

2010-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:36, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: typical example: a friend was asked to quote for some complicated network setup. The windows people had quoted something like 8 lakhs for software and 1.5 lakhs for installation and configuration. My friend quoted 0

Re: [Ilugc] how people are gaining money using opensource softwares

2010-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:56, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 11:39 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: RedHat makes money (and profits) by selling Open Source software, and support. redhat does not sell software http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ -- http

Re: [Ilugc] how people are gaining money using opensource softwares

2010-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:39, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: There must be other companies which make money from Free and/or Open Source software, but it would be hard to imagine that (m)any of them have greater revenues than those generated by the largest grossing closed source

Re: [Ilugc] how people are gaining money using opensource softwares

2010-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:22, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 12:17 +0530, Roshan Mathews wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:56, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: redhat does not sell software http://www.redhat.com/rhel/ can you be more

Re: [Ilugc] TechMeets #1 - This Saturday 10 AM

2010-10-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 18:55, Vatsala Dorairajan vatsala.li...@gmail.com wrote:   1. Please let us know whether you will be coming   2. Please spread the word (hashtag #techmeets)   3. Please add your questions on either (or both) topics at:    http://bit.ly/tmc-cctalk    

[Ilugc] [OT] PyCon 2011 - IIT / Anna University?

2010-10-04 Thread Roshan Mathews
are interested please join there. Are there any students/staff here from IIT-M, and/or Anna Univ who can help us get a feel of using your university as the location for the event? If you can help, please join ChennaiPy and say hi. Regards, Roshan Mathews -- http://roshan.mathews.in

Re: [Ilugc] Mailing List Guidelines: Monthly reminder

2010-10-03 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 23:36, ashwin kesavan ashwin@gmail.com wrote: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc.tam http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc.tamil http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc.tamil/ -- http://roshan.mathews.in/

Re: [Ilugc] Linux magazine US

2010-09-28 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 22:27, nara...@atpdocs.com wrote:   Why don't you all subscribe to Linux magazine. ..69$ US   ...a small contribution to wonderful Linux.I am a su bscriber. There is also Linux Weekly News: http://lwn.net You can subscribe at $42, $84, or $168 a year. I don't

Re: [Ilugc] usb flash drive

2010-09-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 06:36, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: I went into a shop to buy a USB flash drive. The guy had various kinds sony, mosser bauer etc. Asked him to recommend. He said Sony - I looked at it - system requirements: windows/MAC. Then looked at Mosser Bauer -

Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Small command line Tips

2010-09-03 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:17, Gowthaman Basuvaraj gowthaman.basuva...@gmail.com wrote: I find ALT + . (dot) last parameter of previous command the Most useful Wow, this is absolutely fantastic. How did you come across this? -- http://roshan.mathews.in/

Re: [Ilugc] Getting started in ruby

2010-08-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:57, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: it all depends on what is meant by a 'scripting language'. I had always thought that a scripting language is one where there is no need to compile the code in order to run it. Some people use this definition:

Re: [Ilugc] Choice of Python Framework

2010-08-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
Hi, You might want to ask this on http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers too. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:12, Rajesh kumar rkrajeshkuma...@gmail.com wrote: I am on process of developing a webapplication in python. The application has a huge amount of logics to be performed, lot of

Re: [Ilugc] [உபுண்டு_தமிழ்] கட்டற்ற தமிழ்க் கணிமை கூடுதல்

2010-07-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
2010/7/13 Rahul Sundaram methe...@gmail.com: Can we please have a ilug-c-tamil mailing list and direct announcements in Tamil to that list instead of mixing languages like this in a single mailing list?  It is rude to Ilugc members who might have speak Tamil and violates common netiquette to

Re: [Ilugc] Topic List for Monthly Meetings

2010-06-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 14:37, Deepa Armugam dee...@infinite.com wrote: Please remove my ID from this linux community as am not a part of this linux community,, I actually logged into post a job Its filling my inbox unnecessarily.. LOL, this has to be the funniest post to

Re: [Ilugc] hi

2010-06-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
+1 On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 13:35, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Saturday 12 June 2010 18:48:52 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: If you want LUG to get responses from busy people responsible for businesses and so on(the people that know what they are talking) then you have to

Re: [Ilugc] Breaking blocked access in my office

2010-06-09 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:52, Pothuraju, Naga Deepak naga-deepak.pothur...@capgemini.com wrote: Well..you guys came really hard on me, but never mind cuz I was kind of expecting this as it happens frequently on this list. First of all let me make my intentions clear - It was to learn not

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Chennai DevCamp

2010-05-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 17:21, Balaji Damodaran damodaran.bal...@gmail.com wrote: We are planning to host a BarCamp style unconference specifically targeting the developer community called the DevCamp This is great news! It's about time that we had something like this in Chennai. Roshan

Re: [Ilugc] Day Against DRM - May 4th

2010-05-03 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:09, Selvakumar Rajeswaran selva_...@yahoo.com wrote: pls post an expansion for DRM. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=DRM Roshan Mathews ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] LINUX BOOKS

2010-04-16 Thread Roshan Mathews
a net connection, you can find a PDF version online for offline reading. Roshan Mathews ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] help me...

2010-02-08 Thread Roshan Mathews
? This is an unmoderated group, your mail has already gone out to all subscribers. Now, with my mail, we've hijacked this thread, which is rather unfortunate. Anitha, you should reply to Vamsee's mail, since filtering is too vague to understand what you're saying. Roshan Mathews

Re: [Ilugc] tmux

2010-02-04 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:26, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: just installed tmux - voww!!! Context: http://niallohiggins.com/2009/06/04/tmux-a-bsd-alternative-to-gnu-screen/ I haven't used it, the link above was from a web search. Why do you prefer it to GNU Screen?

Re: [Ilugc] Bangalore Facebook Developers

2010-02-01 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 21:06, Karthikeyan S karthik...@gmail.com wrote: Facebook developers meet using Google Groups :) WOW. 'Tis good. There are people who are interested but are too paranoid to use facebook. Just saying. ___ ILUGC Mailing List:

Re: [Ilugc] RE: [kanchilug] OT: GSoC 2010 is on!

2010-01-28 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:41 PM, steve st...@lonetwin.net wrote: On 01/28/2010 03:22 PM, Suresh Kumar Subramanian wrote: What is google summer code? Don't worry about it. If you had to ask in this manner, it's not for you. Tut tut. Suresh, the link [1] in the email you replied to, has the

Re: [Ilugc] What data structure in python should I use

2010-01-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Eknath Venkataramani eknath.i...@gmail.com wrote: I have a txt file in the following format: [snip] and I need to extract confident , ashahvasahta from the first record, consumers,  upabhaokahtaa from the second record... i.e. word in english and the first

Re: [Ilugc] What data structure in python should I use

2010-01-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Eknath Venkataramani eknath.i...@gmail.com wrote: I am unable to use the dictionary because of the format and the variable number of meanings for each english word You've made a jump there. What variable number of meanings? You just had a bunch of strings

Re: [Ilugc] What data structure in python should I use

2010-01-14 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Eknath Venkataramani eknath.i...@gmail.com wrote: By variable I mean:  the word confident' has 8 probable meanings while consumers has only three. So I can't split the file on the basis of number of lines for each record. Simplest things will be to just

Re: [Ilugc] TERMINAL DIRCTORY NEEDED

2010-01-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Saravanan S dearsarava...@gmail.com wrote: You have added one extra '' manually, that is clearly visible. LOL, your friend Google did those auto formatting work. LOL http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2010-January/054665.html Also, do calm down. You're

[Ilugc] Bash auto-completion magic

2010-01-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
Girish Venkatachalam mentioned this in the passing [1] about three months ago, but I just discovered the magic of bash autocompleting my mercurial command today. Check out: /etc/bash_completion /etc/bash_completion.d/mercurial - rm [1]

Re: [Ilugc] Bash auto-completion magic

2010-01-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Roshan Mathews rmath...@gmail.com wrote: Check out: /etc/bash_completion /etc/bash_completion.d/mercurial I seem to be missing something. What is the connection? I

Re: [Ilugc] [TAMTRANS] simulator

2010-01-06 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Asokan Pichai paso...@gmail.com wrote: Again apologies for using roman script: There is always: http://quillpad.in/tamil/ and http://www.google.com/transliterate/ Choose one which suits you. (kuRi)muRai -- is more appropriate for a method.  iyakkakkuRi for

Re: [Ilugc] Gnu/Linux Calender 2010

2009-12-30 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:20 PM, praveen kumar pravin1...@gmail.com wrote: we created the Gnu/Linux calander 2010 and we planed to print it. Image Link: http://picasaweb.google.com/kanchilug/GnuLinuxCalender2010# Nice work. Looks very good. -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im

Re: [Ilugc] [X-POST]: Reading an image file

2009-12-28 Thread Roshan Mathews
to it. Alternately, if someone can put in a few details regarding this in a little more 'easy-to-understand' way, that would be helpful. There is no binary mode in Unix, or rather the default is binary mode. It would be easier to know what you're talking about if you post your code. -- Roshan Mathews http

Re: [Ilugc] shell script - changing directory

2009-12-28 Thread Roshan Mathews
./script try $ source ./script or $ . ./script This might be a hack, so look around for better solutions. Also, why does it show an error when i change DIRECTORY=~/Desktop/TODO/Final_yr_project Maybe ~ isn't expanded in scripts? -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im

Re: [Ilugc] Hai from Lifna...........new member

2009-12-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
time. Please do so from now on, instead of mailing the group. Please read the mailing list guidelines, and hang around for a while to see how things are done around here. Enjoy your stay. Regards, Roshan Mathews ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http

Re: [Ilugc] Hai from Lifna...........new member

2009-12-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Thursday 24 Dec 2009 2:51:50 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: We usually send our holiday greetings to Kenneth Gonsalves law...@xxx it is considered one of the most serious breaches of internet etiquette to expose

Re: [Ilugc] Hai from Lifna...........new member

2009-12-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Thursday 24 Dec 2009 4:29:32 pm Roshan Mathews wrote: And yet, http://www.google.co.in/#q=lawgon%40thenilgiris.com shows that it hasn't really been something you have normally obfuscated. *I* am entitled

Re: [Ilugc] Hai from Lifna...........new member

2009-12-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
did it, as you might know by now. As for your attempted defence, I have seen that the most common defence in rape cases is - 'she is a woman of loose character, so no big deal'. Sounds familiar no? Dunno, that seems more in your line. -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im

Re: [Ilugc] Student LUG's

2009-12-23 Thread Roshan Mathews
with Kashmir cut off. http://ilugc.org/ isn't the lug site. -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] Founder asks for help saving MySQL from Oracle

2009-12-13 Thread Roshan Mathews
links now, but someone had claimed that the free alternatives are where Oracle was 20 years ago. Anyways, I'm way out of my depth, it's still fresh in my mind since I happened to read up on this while checking out some new music yesterday. -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im

Re: [Ilugc] a safe way to rm -rf *

2009-12-10 Thread Roshan Mathews
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: cd /var/lib/mod_tile/default rm -rf * How about `rm -rf /var/lib/mod_tile/default/*' ? - rm ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with

Re: [Ilugc] IBM and the indian debacle

2009-11-24 Thread Roshan Mathews
to the real world, get used to it, or subvert it. :) [1] http://web.media.mit.edu/~mres/scratch/scratch-cacm.pdf -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject

Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC Monthly Meet - Nov 14th 3PM

2009-11-12 Thread Roshan Mathews
take your issues with each other off-line. cheers, - steve PS: Why are you getting so worked up about something not directed at you ? Ah, the irony. :) -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in

[Ilugc] [OT][x-POST] New programming language: Go

2009-11-10 Thread Roshan Mathews
Just picked this off the news: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html There's a youtube techtalk vid too. Opinions? -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in

Re: [Ilugc] Any ruby guys around

2009-11-09 Thread Roshan Mathews
wanted to find out if there are any ruby (not necessarily rails) folks in chennai. http://googlegroups.com/group/chennairb/ http://googlegroups.com/group/bangalorerug/ -- Roshan Mathews http://teamtalk.im ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ

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