Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 11:54 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 28-May-07, at 11:18 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: [...] > > 1. Conversion between audio/video formats: [...] > apart from this one, my recommendation is that if sarai has the funds > it would be better to stick to proprietary stuff for a

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 28-May-07, at 11:18 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > [...] >> could you say what exactly sarai uses multimedia for? > > The list at http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/CM_Multimedia > is roughly in order of priority, namely: > 1. Conversion between audio/video formats: This is only top- >priority

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 10:53 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [...] > could you say what exactly sarai uses multimedia for? The list at http://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/CM_Multimedia is roughly in order of priority, namely: 1. Conversion between audio/video formats: This is only top- priority b

[ilugd] Eben Moglen lecture on software patents

2007-05-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hello all, Below is an announcement for a lecture/discussion at IIC, Delhi at 10.30am on Sat., 9th June, by Eben Moglen. He will speak on software patents, which is of particular significance in light of the recent noise by Microsoft about the infringement of software patents by FOSS. If you have

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 28-May-07, at 10:44 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: >> Perhaps you could expand the topics of interest posted for the RGF- >> Sarai >> FLOSS fellowships to include areas such as multimedia tools? > > Um, they are in there, though somewhat down the list. Personally, I > feel > that this will take a

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 05:51 +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote: [...] > Perhaps you could expand the topics of interest posted for the RGF-Sarai > FLOSS fellowships to include areas such as multimedia tools? Um, they are in there, though somewhat down the list. Personally, I feel that this will take a l

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Anant Narayanan
Gora Mohanty wrote: ... > Having said that, there is a fair amount of support within Sarai > for free software, and it is possible (a) to ask (ask, mind you, and > not in any way demand) that the production folk at least try out > the latest, greatest FOSS equivalents, and (b) for Sarai to fund >

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 02:18 +0530, Ravi Shanker wrote: [...] > I would suggest not to force them to jump in FOSS, because if they do, > their production will be effected, and chances are more that they would > want to get back.. a bad name to FOSS then. Nobody is forcing anyone into anything. Hell

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 00:09 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: [...] > so the real challenge for a creative person is not to be this 100% > helpless, dependent slave of tools and just lie wounded on the canvas. > the real challenge of creativity is to find ingenious solutions to > bottlenecks or roadblocks

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Ravi Shanker
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 00:09 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > > > > Dear Niyam, > > Thanks for the offer to help. I knew that you had done some work > > on multimedia, but was not aware that you had this much expertise in > > it. I would have definitely asked for help from Vivek Khurana, and > > you,

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Linux Lingam
> > Dear Niyam, > Thanks for the offer to help. I knew that you had done some work > on multimedia, but was not aware that you had this much expertise in > it. I would have definitely asked for help from Vivek Khurana, and > you, in any case. ummm... in some places digital creativity in a tru m

Re: [ilugd] Centos - 4.x - VAIO notebook heating up

2007-05-27 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
The exact functionality you are looking for is provided in the Linux kernel as frequency scaling. You have four basic governors available (if they are compiled in the kernel/loaded as modules). $ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors conservative ondemand powersave u

Re: [ilugd] Centos - 4.x - VAIO notebook heating up

2007-05-27 Thread PJ
abhishek jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, the fans are not working at all, Not in windows either? If it works in windows and not in linux, then it's due to propViaotary oddities, and you'll have to dig into how acpid or apm handles fans. > Pl. tell me how to make them alive again, or shoul

Re: [ilugd] Centos - 4.x - VAIO notebook heating up

2007-05-27 Thread abhishek jain
On 5/27/07, PJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > abhishek jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > else has now started making mine notebook got heated up , i mean it is > > heatin up from base. > > Sony vaios generally need a lot of tweaking to get to play nice with > linux. > Their hardware tends to