[ilugd] request for High resolution posters

2007-09-15 Thread hariharan veerappan
hi, anyone having the high resolution poster, send it to me. Hariharan.V. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gma

Re: [ilugd] scope of the conference

2007-09-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 16-Sep-07, at 10:34 AM, Sudev Barar wrote: >> what is the scope of the conference - meaning target audience. Will >> the audience be mainly newbies to foss, or will it be mainly people >> who are developing in or for foss? > > Which conference? Are you meaning Freed.In? yes -- regards Ken

Re: [ilugd] scope of the conference

2007-09-15 Thread Sudev Barar
On 16/09/2007, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the scope of the conference - meaning target audience. Will > the audience be mainly newbies to foss, or will it be mainly people > who are developing in or for foss? Which conference? Are you meaning Freed.In? -- Regards, Sude

[ilugd] scope of the conference

2007-09-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, what is the scope of the conference - meaning target audience. Will the audience be mainly newbies to foss, or will it be mainly people who are developing in or for foss? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ __

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Request for LUGI seminar

2007-09-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 15-Sep-07, at 1:02 PM, Vikas Rawal wrote: >> >> OpenLX is not GPLed nor is it OpenSource > > On their website they prominently announce it to be the "First > Enterprise Grade GPL Linux from India for the World"!! are you sure the word GPL is there - it was there some time back and then it w

[ilugd] Reason no. 799996543287.21 to switch to open standards

2007-09-15 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Here is yet another instance of what is wrong with closed-source software and standards, and the companies that espouse them. For a change, it is not everyone's favourite bugaboo, Microsoft, but a kinder, gentler, fruitier company: http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/14/new-ipods-reengineer.htm

Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-15 Thread Linux Lingam
:-) thanks everyone for responding. inspired by karanbir, i found a quick and easier solution to implement: just buy one apple macbook pro for each gmail account. thus can log in concurrently, as gmail gets fooled into thinking i'm not the same person, but several different people logging into se

[ilugd] RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowship announcement

2007-09-15 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hello everyone, It gives us great pleasure to announce an initial list of proposals that have been accepted for the RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships programme. Here is the current list of fellows for the 2007-2008 cycle: o Sawood Alam, et al: Urdu localization of GNOME 2.20 o Sachin Joshi,

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Request for LUGI seminar

2007-09-15 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 13:02 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > > > > Mr. Sudhir Gandotra, CEO, Indserve Infotech Pvt. Ltd., the creators of > > > the first enterprise grade GPL Linux distribution from India - OpenLX > > > Linux (www.openlx.com) > > > > OpenLX is not GPLed nor is it OpenSource > > On

Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-15 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
On 9/9/07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:13:58 +0530, G Karunakar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > [This is not a response to OP; I am just responding to solutions that > open up the X display; there are alternatives to doing this] > > > typically you can do

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
> Ack. Not commenting on the script itself, but this is dangerous. > Depending on the shell, filename will be rewritten immediately > due to the '>' redirection, and thus this will end up making > the file blank. Also, Google for "Useless use of cat". Ooops!! I did '> filename' without thinking

Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-15 Thread Sriram J
On 9/14/07, vivek khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Andev Debi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > doesnt it sound like using an atom bomb to kill a > > bird?? > > heard of a word called "humor" > > I think sarcasm would be more appropriate here. __

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 12:57 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: > > chars in Unix. I found the way to do it using vi, but couldnt find a way to > > like do for a number of files all at once. Any solutions?? > > Following will work if ^ does not appear elsewhere in the file (other > than with ^M at the end

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Request for LUGI seminar

2007-09-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
> > > Mr. Sudhir Gandotra, CEO, Indserve Infotech Pvt. Ltd., the creators of > > the first enterprise grade GPL Linux distribution from India - OpenLX > > Linux (www.openlx.com) > > OpenLX is not GPLed nor is it OpenSource On their website they prominently announce it to be the "First Enterprise

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread आशीष Ashish
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Saturday 15 Sep 2007, Puneet Lakhina wrote: | Hi, Hi, | I have been copying text files between Windows XP and Unix (AIX) Systems | over the last few days at office and i find ^M characters at the end of | each line. I figured after googling t

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
> chars in Unix. I found the way to do it using vi, but couldnt find a way to > like do for a number of files all at once. Any solutions?? Following will work if ^ does not appear elsewhere in the file (other than with ^M at the end of each line). cat filename | cut -d^ -f1 > filename If ^ appe

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 15-Sep-07, at 12:39 PM, Puneet Lakhina wrote: > Why is it that the two OSes use different new line characters. And > is there > a way for me to prevent it at the source end i.e. at Windows level > only. I > use notepad in windows. try pnotepad - it will have an option to save as unix --

[ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Puneet Lakhina
Hi, I have been copying text files between Windows XP and Unix (AIX) Systems over the last few days at office and i find ^M characters at the end of each line. I figured after googling that this was due to the fact that windows and unix use different characters for new line. Now I had to replace th

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Request for LUGI seminar

2007-09-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 14-Sep-07, at 8:31 PM, Angad Singh wrote: > Mr. Sudhir Gandotra, CEO, Indserve Infotech Pvt. Ltd., the creators of > the first enterprise grade GPL Linux distribution from India - OpenLX > Linux (www.openlx.com) OpenLX is not GPLed nor is it OpenSource -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associa