Re: [ilugd] Linux for the geek gods?

2008-05-06 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia wrote: > Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use, > beginner distro. And, I remember "lawgon" writing its not much used by > geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D > In response, let me ask the list, what distros do you recommen

Re: [ilugd] Linux for the geek gods?

2008-05-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 07-May-08, at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia wrote: > Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use, > beginner distro. And, I remember "lawgon" writing its not much used by > geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D > In response, let me ask the list, what distros do you recommend for >

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Vikas" == Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Here is what I did on my box to be able to type in Hindi in OpenOffice.org using SCIM. >> >> abbe [~] chateau $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-bridge ~/.xinput.d/${L

Re: [ilugd] Linux for the geek gods?

2008-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use, > beginner distro. And, I remember "lawgon" writing its not much used by > geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D > In response, let me ask the list, what dis

Re: [ilugd] Linux for the geek gods?

2008-05-06 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Pratul Kalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use, > beginner distro. And, I remember "lawgon" writing its not much used by > geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D > In response, let me ask the list, what dis

[ilugd] Linux for the geek gods?

2008-05-06 Thread Pratul Kalia
Recently there was a thread about Mandriva being an easy to use, beginner distro. And, I remember "lawgon" writing its not much used by geeks, as it isn't hack friendly? :D In response, let me ask the list, what distros do you recommend for geeks then? Someone who likes to get his hands dirty, and

Re: [ilugd] Are there any Mandriva users in here?

2008-05-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 07-May-08, at 12:35 AM, Anoop John wrote: > I was wondering if there are any Mandriva users in here? If so, what > is the general feedback about the usability in terms of Hardware > Support, GUI based Configuration Tools, Newbie Friendliness? Is it > something to be promoted or are there any c

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
> distributions. I found, however, the discussion to be very patchy and > none of them seem to give a clear and sureshot way to solve the > problem. A few unclear suggestions that I found did not work for me. Just to say that Ubuntu India has some instructions at (http://www.ubuntu-in.org/wiki/S

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
> > Here is what I did on my box to be able to type in Hindi in OpenOffice.org > using SCIM. > > abbe [~] chateau $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-bridge > ~/.xinput.d/${LANG/.UTF-8/} > > Above will enable SCIM applications-wide, so all your applications are > using SCIM as default input m

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-06 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/5/6 Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I have been following up with Lenovo customer care for past > few days (email and phone) and today I got a call from some > executive from Lenovo Singapore. He wanted to ask why I [SNIP] > He assured me that he would follow it up and keep me posted. If

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Vikas" == Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Vikas> In the past, I have used scim with openoffice to type documents in Vikas> Hindi. The last time I did it was about a year ago when my machine was Vikas> running Ubuntu 6.10 or

Re: [ilugd] Are there any Mandriva users in here?

2008-05-06 Thread Sahil Dave
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Anoop John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was wondering if there are any Mandriva users in here? If so, what > is the general feedback about the usability in terms of Hardware > Support >> hardware support is really good.. (i-386, AMD 64, & others + SATA Hard dis

[ilugd] Are there any Mandriva users in here?

2008-05-06 Thread Anoop John
I was wondering if there are any Mandriva users in here? If so, what is the general feedback about the usability in terms of Hardware Support, GUI based Configuration Tools, Newbie Friendliness? Is it something to be promoted or are there any criticisms against this distro? Cheers Anoop -- --

[ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
In the past, I have used scim with openoffice to type documents in Hindi. The last time I did it was about a year ago when my machine was running Ubuntu 6.10 or 7.04. Since then I have upgraded it to Ubuntu 7.10 and more recently to Ubuntu 8.04. Today when I needed to type a document in Hindi, I

Re: [ilugd] [Ilug-cal-discuss] SVN problem

2008-05-06 Thread Debarshi Ray
> When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM > svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default' > svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request > (http://josm.openstreetmap.de) svn co http://j

[ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-06 Thread Manish
Hello All, Just wanted to share a quick update on my quest to reclaim M$ tax. I have been following up with Lenovo customer care for past few days (email and phone) and today I got a call from some executive from Lenovo Singapore. He wanted to ask why I disagreed with the license and told

Re: [ilugd] SVN problem

2008-05-06 Thread Karanbir Singh
Subhodip Biswas wrote: > Hi ! > When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM > svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default' > svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request > (http://josm.openstree

Re: [ilugd] SVN problem

2008-05-06 Thread justintmoore22
Do you have svn setup with web dav in your apache config? Svn doesn't support http out of the box, you need to integrate it with apache. There is an excellent tutorial on howtoforge.com on this topic that can explain the subject far better than I can :) Justin On Tue, 6 May 2008 9:48 am, Subho

Re: [ilugd] [Ilug-cal-discuss] SVN problem

2008-05-06 Thread Subhodip Biswas
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Debarshi Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/6 Subhodip Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi ! > > When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM > > svn: REPORT request fai

Re: [ilugd] [Ilug-cal-discuss] SVN problem

2008-05-06 Thread Debarshi Ray
2008/5/6 Subhodip Biswas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi ! > When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM > svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default' > svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Reque

[ilugd] SVN problem

2008-05-06 Thread Subhodip Biswas
Hi ! When i am trying to access svn over http i get this : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ svn co http://josm.openstreetmap.de/svn/trunk JOSM svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/!svn/vcc/default' svn: REPORT of '/svn/!svn/vcc/default': 400 Bad Request (http://josm.openstreetmap.de) While when i am doing thi