[Ilugc] Kickstart file specification reg.

2013-07-17 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, How to find the packages that are part of @core and @standard specification in the package section of kickstart file in fedora? Thanks and Regards, Benedict J.N. ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

[Ilugc] Free Benchmark Tool Reg.

2013-01-16 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, My student is doing project work in live migration using xen hypervisor. Is there any benchmark tools available for free download? Kindly help. Benedict J.N.  Listen to advice and accept instruction, and in the end you will be wise(Prov. 19:20)

[Ilugc] Help with GUI for project work required!

2012-03-22 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, Some of our  B.E students are doing project on Network monitoring in fedora 16. They have done most of the coding using shell script and python. They want to put  GUI and have asked for my help. I request you all to suggest suitable solution. Regards, Benedict J. Nicholas,

Re: [Ilugc] FOSS Workshop in Gnanamani Institutions

2012-02-24 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Members, We should be proud that one of our ilugc members has influenced so many colleges in establishing their FOSS labs. Let us appreciate Mr. Bhaskar and his Team  for establishing and promoting FOSS in a such a large scale. His mails are informative and encourages us to do more among

[Ilugc] ISTE Workshop!

2011-10-17 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear friends, IITB is organizing 2-weeks ISTE workshop on Software Development Techniques for Teachers of Engineering and Science  Institute from 5th Nov. to.  4th Dec. 2011(5-6,12-13,19-20,26-27 and 3-4). The topics to be covered- Using Linux Tools, Version Control Systems, LaTeX, Basic

[Ilugc] Time for ILUGC Virtualization Workshop!

2011-08-14 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, Three years back ilugc successfully conducted Virtualization workshop at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences. .http://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/ilugc-virtualization-workshop/ I think it is time now to conduct similar workshop. Regards, Benedict J.Nicholas, Senior

[Ilugc] AU-KBC/NRCFOSS : FOSS LAB SERVER reg.

2011-08-03 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, Recently AU-KBC/NRCFOSS have sent proposal to various colleges to establish FOSS Lab Server for conducting FOSS Lab CS2406 and it costs Rs. 20,000. On another hand, Mr. Bhaskar and team are doing it virtually free of cost for limited number systems and they would have established

[Ilugc] Report on Python Workshop

2011-01-04 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, We have conducted a Workshop on Python Programming covering Python programming and it's Scientific Applications from 20-22nd Dec. 2010, supported by IEEE,IEEE-CS CSI. This was the third workshop conducted in Python in our college for the year 2010 and FOSSEE team deserves our

[Ilugc] Re: Error in Sql

2010-10-28 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear friends, ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) Solution: I also got the same problem. It was because mysqld service was not running. If root user type the following in the command prompt--- chkconfig mysqld on service

[Ilugc] Re: scp command!

2010-10-13 Thread benedict nicholas
 Dear Mohanraj, For copying a folder named ns2 to a remote host with ip 172.16.2.100 root login, scp -r ns2  r...@172.16.2.100:/root scp -r us...@172.16.1.100:/home/user1/ns2    us...@172.16.2.100:/home/user2 Refer man pages for more details With regard, Benedict J.N

[Ilugc] Re: Anna University Syllabus and NRCFOSS!

2010-07-22 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, My suggestion : let us continue to introduce subjects in the curriculum subject to university norms, introduce FOSS alternatives in labs, draw the students towards FOSS usage/projects, try to remove the restrictive clauses like only specific software should be used, and be

[Ilugc] Acer Laptop- Fedora 12 Installed but shutdown results in restart!

2010-03-08 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, Recently I purchased Acer Laptop 5542G and installed Fedora 12 without any issues. When I shutdown the computer, it restarts. Otherwise works fine. Kindly suggest remedial measure With regards, Benedict J.N. Your Mail works best with the New Yahoo Optimized IE8. Get it

[Ilugc] Downloading all Fedora Packages- Suggestions Required!

2010-02-03 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, I would like to download all the Fedora packages and create a local repository. How to download all the 8000+ packages? Kindly help. Thanks and regards, Benedict J.N. The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/

[Ilugc] Wake-0n-LAN(wol) help Required!

2010-01-22 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, I 'am able to use wol from command line to switch on computers remotely one by one. wol -h 172.16.0.99 00:1a:4d:7c:e6:6d  I want to put all the computers ipaddress and hardware address in one file and then use wol. syntax: wol  -f   input_filename //given in the

[Ilugc] FOSSEE Python Workshop Conducted Successfully!

2010-01-19 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, We organized a Workshop on Scientific Computing with Python from 11-12 Jan 2010 and FOSSEE Team, Led by Mr.Asokan Pichai, FOSSEE Consultant and three Research Associates-Shantanu, Puneeth Nishanth conducted all the sessions. 43 students and staff got benefitted, covering 8 engg.

[Ilugc] FOSS subject adoption!

2010-01-12 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear friends, I just want to know some statistical data which I believe NRCFOSS and others can provide me for sharing with my higher-ups who have enquired with me. 1. NRCFOSS's FOSS Elective has been adopted by how many colleges and Universities in  India? 2. Is FOSS subject, a part of

[Ilugc] Help Required downloading fedora through proxy servers using torrents

2009-11-20 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, I would like to download fedora 12 ISO image using torrents in my fedora 10 machine.  I' am connected  to internet through proxy server. Is it possible to download it. Currently I get message as stalled. Kindly help Benedict The INTERNET now has a personality.

[Ilugc] Pycon 2010 Venue!

2009-10-28 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Kenneth and other organizing members of ilugc,   I saw your mail regarding the venue for Pycon 2010 a month back. If you have not already fixed the venue, you could consider our college for the same.   Whatever is your requirement, you could send me and I would take the necessary permission

[Ilugc] Pycon India 2009 Feedback!

2009-09-29 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Members, The Pycon India 2009 held recently at IISC, Bangalore was wonderfully organized and our ilugc members Kenneth and Others had given wonderful Talks. The registration fee was minimal. Food, T-shirt and CD's were given due to the sponsors active contribution. FOSSEE group of IITB

[Ilugc] Fedora 11 download with ktorrent stalled!

2009-06-23 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, I tried to download fedora 11 with bit torrent option in my system loaded with Fedora 10 operating system. Fedora-11-i386-DVD.torrent got downloaded. Then I right clicked the mouse and chose open with ktorrent option. But it is not getting downloaded. Status is stalled. I

[Ilugc] Xen,KVM OpenVZ-Which one Better?

2009-04-05 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, In recently held OSI Tech Days, I attended panel discussion on Virtualization. Novell representative recommends Xen, Redhat Amit recommends KVM and our ilugc member Shuveb talked about OpenVZ. Which virtualization product is better?   Thanks and regards, Benedict

[Ilugc] Virtualization!

2009-03-14 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, Iam new to the area of virtualization of OS. I have fedora 8 installed with Xen kernel. The ultimate aim is to show students live migration. I have some problems with it. 1. Could not install any OS in DomU (Tried CentOS and others through internet) but in vain. 2. How can we

[Ilugc] Re: No college opt FOSS curriculam-ramada...@amachu.net

2009-03-03 Thread benedict nicholas
ramada...@amachu.net Yes. It makes sense when We realize no college opt FOSS as part of their Curriculam. I think you are wrong in saying that no college opt for FOSS as Jaya College has been taking up that elective last few years and now Rajalakshmi Engg. College has 130 students who have

[Ilugc] Problems in Creating Guest VM in Xen!

2008-12-19 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, I am trying to run two virtual machines in fedora 8 using Xen. I have created Dom0 and it runs successfully. Using virt-manager, I tried to create DomU but having problems in specifying the Install Media URL for  centos linux distribution.  Other distribution URL also i tried but

[Ilugc] Re: ILUC Meet on Saturday-- Ashok

2008-12-14 Thread benedict nicholas
Ashok's Request for ILUGC Meet on Sundays I am intrigued as to why the LUG meet is on Saturdays. I have college on all Saturdays and so find it impossible to come to the LUG meets. (I mean it. EVERY saturday. We even have a regular 7 hour timetable !) I do agree to his suggestion of keeping ILUGC

[Ilugc] 3-Day FOSS Faculty Updation Programm Conducted!

2008-12-06 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends, We have conducted a 3-Day FOSS Faculty Updation Program at Rajalakshmi Engineering College from 2nd-4th Dec. 2008. Nearly 27 faculties got benefited from the program. The Team from NRCFOSS led by Dr.S. Srinivasan(readily accepted invitation framed contents) and accompanied by

[Ilugc] Re: Suggestions for light weight linux distribution

2008-11-02 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friend Pankaj,     I believe your problem of xserver in Fedora 9 not working but works with Redhat 9, Fedora 4 etc. is not due to RAM problem.   I have installed in my college Fedora 9 successfully in Intel dot station with 128 MB RAM.   Two years back I faced similar problems when i

[Ilugc] Recommend suitable Linux OS For Intel Dot Station !

2008-09-08 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends,We have in our college around 100 Intel Dot Station with 300MHz,128MB RAM 10GB hard disk. We are trying to convert them intosome flavour of linux. Open Office gcc are the only two packages we are going to use since it is a first year lab. It works well with FEDORA 9 but

[Ilugc] Invitation!

2008-08-25 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends,   We the C.S.E dept. of Rajalakshmi Engineering College are organizing Techfest for students on 27/08/2008. All student members of ILUGC can participate in Open Source event. Usage of Linux Commands, Open source tools, simple network configuration shell scripts for automation of

[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 51, Issue 16

2008-08-07 Thread benedict nicholas
Dear Friends,   This is in reply to the below contents-   we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want it, but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers excited about