Re: [Ilugc] Programming languages

2013-06-11 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Do not approach learning as an activity that is reactionary or only for solving a problem at hand. Beg to disagree. By having a practical goal, one can learn how to do things practically. Then get

Re: [Ilugc] connect to simpledb from mojolicious

2013-04-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Vanitha Valarmathi meet...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, I am new to amazon web services. I don't know how to connect the simpledb from mojolicious code. Anybody help me. Thanks in advance. You will be better served on the Mojolicious mailing list:

Re: [Ilugc] Inputs solicited for a story

2013-03-12 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Karthikeyan A K mindas...@gmail.comwrote: I haven't seen a non junk certificated candidate yet. But there should be some people who are worth to pay for the certification they have got. But I haven't seen one. That's a huge disappointment. As a general rule,

Re: [Ilugc] e-security laboratory

2013-03-12 Thread Suraj Kumar
[Replying on the list (with you included) because this may actually be of use to others on the list] On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Prof. Partha drpar...@gmail.com wrote: As part of my responsibilities at Kathmandu Univ, where I teach cryptography and security, I plan to set up a lab for

Re: [Ilugc] Re-Engineering tool for Perl

2013-03-12 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 5:39 PM, naga2r...@gmail.com naga2r...@gmail.comwrote: Is there is any good re-engineering tool for perl, which outputs process flow, module structure diagram, read source codes. You mean, like linting? This stackoverflow thread may be of help to you:

Re: [Ilugc] any opensource ide for iphone

2013-03-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 6:25 AM, saravana babu babusaravan...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Any opensource ide for iphone developer If your intention is to develop an app for iOS, unless you need the native OS's features a lot, you can develop a HTML5/CSS3/Javascript based app and get it to run on the

Re: [Ilugc] Inputs solicited for a story

2013-03-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Priyanka Sarkar efyed...@efyindia.comwrote: So the story idea goes like: How important are FOSS certifications when it comes to the job market? Please let us have your insightful suggestions on the same. FOSS is extensively used in Internet-based companies. I

Re: [Ilugc] Becoming perl developer is good for future?

2013-03-01 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:31 AM, arun kumar arun_le...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Thanks in advance IMO, becoming a single-dimensional programmer is a bad idea. A good programmer typically learns to code in multiple languages, understands multiple programming paradigms and over a period of time

[Ilugc] simple 3d graphical network games recommendations?

2013-03-01 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, I'm looking for simple games that can work without the need for GL / 3D acceleration / etc., Should have network multiplayer capabilities and should be fun (but not addictive or nauseating, like FPS games). Any suggestions? Cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory

Re: [Ilugc] what are the FOSS solutions for doctors and hospitals

2013-02-20 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Abdur Rahman sarsarah...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys I want to know as a consultant what all the solutions we can provide to doctors and hospitals using FOSS. and what are the FOSS tools available for them. may be this would help me to start some new services.

[Ilugc] 2D Animations with Synfig

2013-02-16 Thread Suraj Kumar
For those looking to have some fun making 2D animated films using Free Software, check out Synfig: http://www.synfig.org/cms/ Synfig Studio is a free and open-source 2D animation software, designed as powerful industrial-strength solution for creating film-quality animation using a vector and

[Ilugc] [OT] [freelance] Need a Sencha touch developer

2013-02-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, We are on the lookout for a solid Sencha Touch developer on a freelance basis who can bring an existing RESTful JSON web service to life with a beautiful UI for the web and android. Estimated duration of project: 2 months. YMMV. If you are interested in working on this, please get in touch

Re: [Ilugc] Suggestion for Dedicated Server for a Social networking website

2013-02-09 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: Be careful before going with EC2 micro instance. It's not meant to use with sustained processing. It's not a good idea to run website on it. It's rather meant for running applications that need processing power in bursts.

Re: [Ilugc] Suggestion for Dedicated Server for a Social networking website

2013-02-09 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Suraj Kumar su...@careergear.in wrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: Be careful before going with EC2 micro instance. It's not meant to use with sustained processing. It's not a good idea to run website on it. It's

Re: [Ilugc] Suggestion for Dedicated Server for a Social networking website

2013-02-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:42 PM, Kumar send4ku...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks to all. Please do not mind if it is silly questions. Could you please tell way to approach lowendbox or any hosting because I must be specific when I discuss with them ? Whether it will Cpanel as like others

Re: [Ilugc] Mailing List Tool

2013-01-29 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Marikkannan Rajagopal mail2marikkan...@gmail.com wrote: [root@BFUS2 /]# service mailman start Starting mailman: Site list is missing: mailman [FAILED] [root@BFUS2 /]# Where i am going

Re: [Ilugc] Mailing List tool

2013-01-28 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Marikkannan Rajagopal mail2marikkan...@gmail.com wrote: I have mail server in centos with postfix+Dovecot+Roundcube combination..,Now i need Mailing List Tool to design the customise News Letter.,Which one is the best for my requirement.,please

Re: [Ilugc] Suggestion for fancy Dashboard for multiple servers

2013-01-22 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Karthik Reddy 22karthikre...@gmail.comwrote: You could refer to google Maps API and write a small script to display the required output. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/reference +1. IMO, it may be better to own all your data,

Re: [Ilugc] Some shell scripting

2012-12-26 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:01 AM, Mohan R mohan...@gmail.com wrote: I still differ, People who want performance don't consider Python/Ruby. A careful design can make scalability easier by writing it in C and do an glue-scripting, rather than Ruby/Python. When we talk performance, let's talk

Re: [Ilugc] CGI

2012-12-21 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: In fact this alone is sufficient. No need to use bloated Catalyst, Mason or Python CGI frameworks. The creator of Catalyst no longer recommends Catalyst. They have created Mojolicious - a kickass web

[Ilugc] [Commercial] Customizing Moodle to integrate SCORM content

2012-12-17 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, We are looking for freelance consultants or agencies with proven abilities in developing Moodle modules to integrate a set of Flash based SCORM content. The emphasis is on scaling - to handle ~3000 concurrent requests and hence we're looking for people with NoSQL experience and preferably

[Ilugc] Secure/Trustable running of command on untrusted box

2012-12-01 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, I have a completely untrusted remote (sand)box (stranger has root on it). I'd like to trigger running a program on that box and like to get the triggered program's output from that box. My problem is in trusting the output of this program since it (or the layers above/below it) could have

Re: [Ilugc] explanation of yday's code

2012-10-24 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Higher level languages are weakly typed. Perl, Javascript and such awesomely practical languages* are weakly typed... but not all higher level languages are weakly typed. Ex: Go, Haskell, etc.,

Re: [Ilugc] Tutorials for puppet

2012-09-08 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan bala150...@gmail.com wrote: Here is one the example works I could achieve with Chef. I have lots of homework to do, as you example was Greek and latin to me :-( The meta-description of all that Gourav has explained above (and

Re: [Ilugc] dialer software

2012-09-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:14 PM, snegan textma...@gmail.com wrote: aim using linux mint 13 aim having 3g usb modem aim connecting by network manager but i need dialer that want support Not sure what you mean by dialer. I'm assuming you want to be able to use your 3G USB modem to connect

Re: [Ilugc] FreeSWITCH and India based servers

2012-08-29 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi Arun, On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.comwrote: I am trying out a FreeSWITCH based VoIP system. There is a considerable, around 1.5 seconds lag on the audio. Some improvement was seen when the server was switched from an Amazon EC2 small instance to an

Re: [Ilugc] Foss based solutions providing Organizations in TamilNadu

2012-08-29 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Friends. We are planning to interview the people who do business in TamilNadu based on Free Open Source Software. They will be published in ILUGC site and in Kaniyam. Reply here if you know such Commercial

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Tech Talent Search

2012-08-29 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Balajee - Gmail balajeesesha...@gmail.comwrote: Forget LinkedIn: Companies turn to GitHub to find tech talent Because engineers and designers can post their work for all to see, more and more companies are realizing they can see what people can actually do,

Re: [Ilugc] Tools for simulating network issues

2012-06-25 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 later.

Re: [Ilugc] Query: Tools for monitoring servers

2012-06-25 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, K.C. Ramakrishna kcramakris...@yahoo.com wrote: 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.

[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

Re: [Ilugc] Net Traffic Log

2012-06-24 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Harisankar P S mai...@hsps.in 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

[Ilugc] [OT] Evolution (was: Re: Older PC's)

2012-06-16 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com wrote: Not really. Our brain has been having upgrades, may be every second, through the process of evolution :) I understand I'm taking the topic even more farther into the woods. Hence the edit to the subject

Re: [Ilugc] IP address and netmask

2012-06-16 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Manokaran K manoka...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Suraj Kumar su...@careergear.in wrote: On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: We should learn 3 special network blocks

Re: [Ilugc] IP address and netmask

2012-06-11 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: We should learn 3 special network blocks , 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16 which are not globally unique. This is not technically mandatory anymore. CIDR replaced the class-based network

Re: [Ilugc] Pen input device for Linux

2012-04-01 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 9:21 AM, prasannatsmkumar prasannatsmku...@gmail.com wrote: I am in need of a device which will show what I write on a pad in computer screen - this will help while I read or draw some thing and want that in digital form. Is there any such device that works with Linux?

Re: [Ilugc] Please suggest Linux server

2012-03-08 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:05 PM, freeos freeos...@gmail.com wrote: As of now we have thinclients with Windows 2003 server. Before adopted with this setup, we had checked using one thinclient. While testing, we felt that it was ok. After place 15 thinclients by connecting with IBM X3400

Re: [Ilugc] Need Help on Storage

2012-03-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Yuvaraj yuvali...@gmail.com wrote: I have a slight issue on our server. I have added some extra storage on an Infortrend Raid – the disks show up on boot up and is assigned by the system. Given this is a hardware raid controller, you probably noticed the

Re: [Ilugc] block facebook squid

2012-03-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Mohan Sundaram mohan@gmail.com wrote: If NAT is enabled, then you'll need to redirect DNS requests to a local DNS server which either denies access by dropping those requests. Messing with the World's DNS is a Bad Idea, IMHO. Keeping track of such

Re: [Ilugc] [OT?] A fully Free Software powered song

2012-02-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Roshan George ros...@arjie.com wrote: Ha ha, I like this. Mind telling us your workflow? How exactly did you combine the different tools to make this song? The tools used are hydrogen (drum machine), zynaddsubfx (additive/subtractive/pad synthesizer), qsynth

[Ilugc] [OT?] A fully Free Software powered song

2012-02-04 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hello, Its a saturday and I was futzing around. I got a bit sentimental ;) and recorded a little song where the drummer, the musicians, the studio engineer and just about everyone is a piece of living Free Software. http://soundcloud.com/sunsonian/lets-jam-while-we-can cheers, -Suraj

Re: [Ilugc] [Hardware] Config for Low end Linux desktop

2012-02-03 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Vijai Ganapathy vijai.ganapa...@gmail.comwrote: Budget is really tight as all the money coming from my pocket. I was thinking about below configuration. 1. AMD Athlon II X2 260 + Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P + HDD + 4 GB Ram As you may have already found out, hard

[Ilugc] GNU/Linux Users Group - Trichy

2012-01-30 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, Please welcome our shiny new mailing list for GNU/Linux Users Group Trichy: http://lists.glugt.in/ Folks in Trichy (or not) can join us and help the community. We're still gathering volunteers for setting up the website and for participating actively in meetings, etc.,. Please do spread the

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]small form factor device

2012-01-08 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Manokaran K manoka...@gmail.com wrote: My requirement is to run a web app on the h/w. It need not have a monitor and keyboard connected to it. It only needs to connect to the customers network switch/router. If its an app the customer will use from their own

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

2012-01-06 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Arun Venkataswamy arun...@gmail.com wrote: Happened 3 days back: Guy from reputed engineering college walks into my office. He actually comes here with my friend's reference. He wants to do an internship. Asked him about his project thinking he wants to do it

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]small form factor device

2012-01-06 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Manokaran K manoka...@gmail.com wrote: Am looking for a small form factor device which I plan to install in clients premises and maintain through SSH over the internet. It should have 4GB RAM and 500GB HDD and a decent CPU. You need to define Decent CPU. For

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

2012-01-05 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:23 PM, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: 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

Re: [Ilugc] My thin client experience

2011-12-30 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Rajagopal Swaminathan raju.rajs...@gmail.com wrote: Just hope you are running a 64 bit version on the server otherwise your other 4 GB RAM would go waste. Wondering how many Thin clients are going to access this server. Of course, I'm running a 64-bit PAE.

Re: [Ilugc] My thin client experience

2011-12-30 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:48 PM, vijayaraghavan seshan msvraghavan2...@gmail.com wrote: regarding Italc im curious about the tool. If possible can you elaborate the advantages of this open source tool http://italc.sf.net/ -- and if this isn't enough info, you can try it yourself by

Re: [Ilugc] My thin client experience

2011-12-30 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Raja Subramanian rajasuper...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Suraj Kumar su...@careergear.in wrote: Of course, I'm running a 64-bit PAE. PAE is for 32 bit systems. If you are using a PAE kernel then your kernel is still 32 bit but it can

[Ilugc] My thin client experience

2011-12-29 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi, Thanks to all the folks who gave useful feedback to help me find a suitable thin client for my business' needs. I just finished taking iTalc on a test drive. iTalc is quite literally a beautiful educational tool. I wanted to use the power of computers to visually explain concepts but yet

Re: [Ilugc] SMS

2011-12-28 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Arun Prakash arunprakash@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Help me guys to know more about this sms thing! If you need two way interaction, you must have to go for payed gateways. One such is here. http://www.smsgupshup.com/business They provide API's and they

Re: [Ilugc] SMS

2011-12-27 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Kannan kanna...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Guys... I want to send, receive bulk sms for my application! As per TRAI rules we cant do that by our normal mobile number. What is the way to get that facility?Anyone using it? Actually my need is to send, receive bulk

Re: [Ilugc] hi

2011-12-21 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:17 PM, kala. aim kala@gmail.com wrote: college information system using touch screen this is my home project idea.i would like to implement this in anyone of opensource lang.if u know anything about this means plz help me Touch screen is mostly a matter of

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]free hosting

2011-12-17 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 12:14 PM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: by the end user? If you mean by the person choosing to host with such services, partly yes - to the extent of 'selecting' which predefined OS stack we'd like to use. Cheers, -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry

Re: [Ilugc] free online workflow management system for e-magazine

2011-12-17 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:18 AM, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: I would think, a simple bug tracker like mantisbt would just suffice, initially. Author could create a bug and attach his document. From there on, the team can jump in and do everything you have mentioned over that particular

Re: [Ilugc] Quest updates Sudo Unix management tool

2011-12-17 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose the sudoers file(s) can be distributed other ways too. Absolutely - puppet, chef, cfengine, cfengine2, et al do a good job in free ways. -Suraj -- Career Gear - Industry Driven Talent Factory

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]free hosting

2011-12-16 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:39 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: a VPS as I understand it is a share on a server which as far as the user is concerned is a full server with root access. The only thing one cannot do in most VPSs is install a new distro. One can upgrade to a new

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS for Organization chart

2011-12-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:40 PM, freeos freeos...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea about free software for organization chart which includes templates? Install dia It has templates for a host of other things besides org

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS for Organization chart

2011-12-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:40 PM, freeos freeos...@gmail.com wrote: Any idea about free software for organization chart which includes templates? Install dia It has templates for a host of other things besides org

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]free hosting

2011-12-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:34 AM, 0 0...@0throot.com wrote: I find dotcloud.com very interesting - it may not be open source, but supports many open source stacks. Its an interesting system. I wonder how they protect their system from malicious users, considering they provide a service

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]free hosting

2011-12-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:03 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.comwrote: On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:24 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote: dotcloud is a VPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server and due to its inherently 'compartmentalized' nature it allows a hosting service

Re: [Ilugc] [OT]free hosting

2011-12-14 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Suraj Kumar su...@careergear.in wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 8:03 AM, kenneth gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 18:24 +0530, Suraj Kumar wrote: dotcloud is a VPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial X (some code tidbits)

2011-12-11 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Perl cannot be run interactively like Python. You have to run it one script at a time. The Perl interpreter's inbuilt debugger comes close to it. You can add the '-d' switch like 'perl -d myscript.pl'

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial VII (perl tricks)

2011-12-10 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Balachandran Sivakumar benignb...@gmail.com wrote: He is not demeaning anything. He has an opinion that he is expressing. You talk like Mr . Kapil Sibal. I use Perl is my job and I Thanks for that excellent piece of non-ad-hominem attack. :) have used

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial VII (perl tricks)

2011-12-09 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: I have not yet understood how map() works. It is a functional programming concept. map is a means of transforming (mapping) an array into another array. The arguments to map are: 1. function which will

Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [FSFTN] Inaugural of Punnagai, Community Computing Center (Mylapore)

2011-12-09 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hi Shrini: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: The Punnagai Community Computing Centre is an attempt to take the wonders of the world of IT to those people who till now have had no opportunity to be a part of it. This includes students whose schools do

Re: [Ilugc] Tamil e-magazine for Foss

2011-12-09 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Pratap Chakravarthy prata...@gmail.comwrote: I beg to differ. During my college days me and couple of my friends were toying with a DOS program, where a handler routine will be hooked up with keyboard interrupt signal and try to capture key press. Instead of

Re: [Ilugc] Control Linux Server Using Twitter

2011-12-07 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 7:01 AM, R Rajendhran rajendh...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear all, I have found an interesting article at the following links, which may be useful for sysadmins. The author found a new way to monitor Linux servers using Twitter.

Re: [Ilugc] Call for speakers - December meet

2011-12-03 Thread Suraj Kumar
I waited around to see if there are other interesting topics, but since nobody has posted one, here is my proposal: On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Topic Description Duration About the speaker Links to read If there is sufficient interest, I'd

Re: [Ilugc] Comparing programing languages [was: perl OO]

2011-12-03 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Natarajan V raja...@gmail.com wrote: From a hiring perspective, am not sure why people are obsessed with the mastery over the syntax of the languages. This also creates a problem, when you frame a question that is applicable for PERL and not very applicable

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl tutorial 0

2011-12-01 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Though perl is not as good as python in many ways for some reason perl has a very strong developer community around it. It has got a certain way to obtain copious documentation in UNIX man page format.

Re: [Ilugc] [TIP] perl beginning

2011-11-30 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Girish Venkatachalam girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com wrote: Is this is the reason people in India prefer Python over perl? I dunno. Not just India, world over, perl is not as widely used as, say, Java or Python because perl, for writing anything significant,

Re: [Ilugc] Anything available in India ? Smallest Linux Computer

2010-07-04 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 1:29 AM, narendra sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: Hey, Do anybody know any smallest Linux Module which can be purchased in India. There is the NanoNote, BeagleBoard and many other small footprint mobile computing devices by IDA systems:

[Ilugc] Oilsville: a new open source game

2010-04-19 Thread Suraj Kumar
Hello, I hacked up a game to illustrate Peak Oil[1] and christened it Oilsville. My hope is that people will now be able to grasp the phenomenon of peak oil - how any finite resource (or even a renewable resource stripped faster than it is being replenished) will reach a peak in how much volume

Re: [Ilugc] Query on Gromacs Installation

2010-03-25 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Gowriishankar Raju rgsanbioi...@gmail.com wrote: How to choose the Gromacs version to be install in Ubuntu? Is any special Gromacs versions available for ubuntu? And what is the purpose to install FFTW? Shall i use the latest version of FFTW to install?

Re: [Ilugc] OAOD (Boot-up Manager)

2010-03-22 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Dhastha Gheer dhasthagh...@gmail.comwrote: Application: Boot-up Manager What it is: Boot-Up Manager is a Perl-Gtk2 application to handle runlevels configuration of any debian derivative system. With this program the user will easily start and stop boot-up

Re: [Ilugc] Password as an argument in SSH

2010-03-21 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Mohan L l.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: If you are new to the great technology Hadoop/MapReduce and want to getting started with Hadoop, the bad news is : It is little bit difficult to setup Hadoop cluster for beginer. For the ones who have a bit more $$ and less

[Ilugc] [commercial] Scripting, Automation, Operations training offered

2010-03-19 Thread Suraj Kumar
Is your organisation plagued with operational issues with your GNU/Linux servers? Do you often feel that your team of developers can gain a little bit more fundamentals of GNU/Linux, Shell scripting or automation training? Do you want to build resilience, fault tolerance and intelligence into your

[Ilugc] [Pointless Statistics] Peak Linux

2010-02-13 Thread Suraj Kumar
http://bit.ly/linpeak The number of registered Linux users on counter.li.org has peaked[1] in 2005. If the charms of Open source and Free Software still apply and with growing population of tech savvy crowd, I see no reason why the registrations on counter.li.org must go down. This is, of course,

Re: [Ilugc] OT: Fwd: Bridging the gap between rural india and wikipedia

2009-02-20 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Parthan SR parth.technofr...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, hearing something similar to what I have been with (through my employer) for the past 2 years :) We operate Rural Telcenters, or Technology Enabled Rural Kiosks, all over Karnataka and few [snip] their utility

Re: [Ilugc] OT: Fwd: Bridging the gap between rural india and wikipedia

2009-02-16 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, --- On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Suraj Kumar su...@sunson.in wrote: | There is an NGO worker in this library. \-- Just make sure that this *person* is easily approachable by everyone in the village

Re: [Ilugc] Google vs Yahoo, again!

2008-06-25 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:04 AM, Mano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves given that the cost of running one's own mail server is so low, I dont see why people bow to the big G What if the low cost host is snooping on my mails! Or he/she does not

Re: [Ilugc] Search Yahoo!

2008-05-30 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Thiagarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But , when it comes to image search , my vote goes to google. That is quite interesting. I find the wisdom of the crowds - flickr based image search - much better for most things. Where it doesn't work is for celebrities /

[Ilugc] [JOB] Yahoo! Search Technology - Content Operations

2008-05-23 Thread Suraj Kumar
Ever wondered what it takes to build a searchable database out of the wondrous World Wide Web? Does it excite you to write software that will manage a five-figure number of machines? Do you believe your software should do the actual work while you spend your valuable time

[Ilugc] [JOB] Yahoo! Search Technology - Content Operations

2008-05-23 Thread Suraj Kumar
(Sent once a few hours ago but I guess its lost in transit. So resending...) Ever wondered what it takes to build a searchable database out of the wondrous World Wide Web? Does it excite you to write software that will manage a five-figure number of machines? Do you believe your

Re: [Ilugc] RE: requirement for Open Source Web Designer, Web Developer in open web group

2008-05-22 Thread Suraj Kumar
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Ravi Jaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /me wonders if the omission of python was deliberate Certainly not, we didn't mentioned it, it mean not we omitted it. !! Alright :) So I assume you'd also like to explore the Catalyst framework[1] for Perl and YUI[2] :)