[ilugd] Online writing style and diction checker

2008-07-07 Thread Raj Mathur
Hi, Put together a interface for online checking of writing style and identification of commonly-misused words/phrases using standard GNU/Linux tools. If you do any writing in English you may want to run your documents through this: http://etc.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/diction2.cgi Feedback

[ilugd] People from Faridabad?

2008-07-07 Thread Pratul Kalia
Hi I was thinking of doing some FOSS related stuff, maybe a meetup or an installfest in Faridabad, and I would like to know people who are on this list, living in Faridabad, and interested in something of the sort. Since I am in college myself, we could get good support from colleges and schools

Re: [ilugd] People from Faridabad?

2008-07-07 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/7/7 Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I was thinking of doing some FOSS related stuff, maybe a meetup or an installfest in Faridabad, and I would like to know people who are on +1 [SNIP] PS: Forming a LUG is also on the cards. Dont know if this is good idea. I'd rather have college LUG's

Re: [ilugd] Online writing style and diction checker

2008-07-07 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
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Re: [ilugd] Online writing style and diction checker

2008-07-07 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:36:18 +0530 Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Feedback welcome. BTW, anyone know a command-line tool for converting openoffice documents to plain text? [...] Don't know of a pre-built tool per se, but the Perl module OpenOffice::OODoc, in particular,

[ilugd] 10 steps to secure Linux Desktop

2008-07-07 Thread Linux Chic
Sometimes, the easiest means to security are those that are the easiest to forget. Suggestions might appear to be of pure common sense, but maybe you'll see a means of security you never thought of before. If you're a new Linux user, these tips are a great place to start to ensure that your

[ilugd] Linux Kernel Map

2008-07-07 Thread Linux Chic
The Linux kernel is one of most complex open source project. There are lot of books on it, however it is still a difficult subject to comprehend. The Interactive Linux kernel map gives you top-down view to the kernel. You could see most important layers, functionalities, modules, functions and

Re: [ilugd] People from Faridabad?

2008-07-07 Thread Pratul Kalia
[SNIP] PS: Forming a LUG is also on the cards. Dont know if this is good idea. I'd rather have college LUG's -- Regards, Sudev Barar Its not possible to have college LUGs here in Faridabad, as we barely have 5-6 people from each college. Rather, teaming up together would be a better idea

Re: [ilugd] Online writing style and diction checker

2008-07-07 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 07 Jul 2008, Shashishekhar S wrote: Feedback welcome. BTW, anyone know a command-line tool for converting openoffice documents to plain text odt2txt - http://stosberg.net/odt2txt/ Thanks, that does the trick! OOo writer support added. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur

[ilugd] Looking for Performance Benchmarks

2008-07-07 Thread Anand Shankar
Do we have any performance benchmarks to compare performance of complete PC systems? In commercial world people have various benchmark tools such as Sysmark, webmark etc. But most of them look like application performance benchmark. Need to know raw performances as a single mark, which can be

Re: [ilugd] Looking for Performance Benchmarks

2008-07-07 Thread Raj Mathur
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2008, Anand Shankar wrote: Do we have any performance benchmarks to compare performance of complete PC systems? In commercial world people have various benchmark tools such as Sysmark, webmark etc. But most of them look like application performance benchmark. Need to know

Re: [ilugd] Looking for Performance Benchmarks

2008-07-07 Thread Sharninder
On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do we have any performance benchmarks to compare performance of complete PC systems? In commercial world people have various benchmark tools such as Sysmark, webmark etc. But most of them look like application performance