Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Narendra, Thanks a lot for long list of complains. :) Keep them coming. let me respond to your points in-line. These are much like complains,, but I am working on them also. On Fri, Nov 21,

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
Hi guys, I'm final year CS/IT engineering student from Jaypee Noida. Please find my opinions in-line. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 12:11 PM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ### When you talk about users.. Always keep in mind.. they want comfort and not knowledge . Most of students

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Amit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We know that lots of corporates use Linux on their servers. Of late, due to various reasons, corporates are using Linux for desktops as well. Where can i get the list of such companies, in Delhi NCR, who have

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread narendra sisodiya
I seriously agree with Prakhar. Infact he was able to explain and writing up the points which i was failed to explain. On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi guys, I'm final year CS/IT engineering student from Jaypee Noida. Please find my opinions in-line.

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Its the *single-most* issue that precludes the faculty as well as their | students from learning anything new. \-- That is again a common assumption that students make in this country. You need to take the

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Chirag Anand
I could not agree with Prakhar more... :) The points he has put up, are the things that we face in our colleges everyday, we see it happening but still we cant do anything about it. Like faculty using windoz, some of them do not even know what Linux is. They are teaching students windoz

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, My thoughts below: --- On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Chirag Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can you tell me, that so many FOSS companies are here on this mailing list | but why you do not come to campuses? \-- Most of the time if the student is interested in FOSS and has done *credible*

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Chirag Anand wrote: Can you tell me, that so many FOSS companies are here on this mailing list but why you do not come to campuses?? Or why you do not take freshers (i may be wrong here), but i have seen job openings in LFY...not a single opening for freshers. Please tell me, where do we go

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Parthan SR
Chirag Anand wrote: Can you tell me, that so many FOSS companies are here on this mailing list but why you do not come to campuses?? Or why you do not take freshers (i may be wrong here), but i have seen job openings in LFY...not a single opening for freshers. Please tell me, where do we go

[ilugd] Minutes of tonight's Freed.in meeting: Fri., Nov 21st

2008-11-21 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Here are the minutes of tonight's meeting, the first one for planning Freed.in 2009. From now on, these will be posted only to the Freed general list. You can subscribe at: http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/freed 1. Sponsors: Sun Intel? IBM? 2. Outreach: o Niyam's

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Prakhar Agarwal
All the arguments mentioned are valid and _all_ of them are being implemented day after day by us(students who posted in this thread). The task that starves us is to convince others to join. Students are _expected_ to be explorers but only a handful of them end up being so. This is all about

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Niyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen people installing linux, praising it and then complaining about not being able to play their mp3s and AVIs/MPGs. I know this demand breaches the FOSS philosophy, but its a genuine complaint. How genuine is it? You

[ilugd] First Quarter of year = FOSS Quarter for Delhi

2008-11-21 Thread narendra sisodiya
Just for a quick update so tells what is going on at different nodes.. The first quarter of the year 2009 (January to March) will a FOSS quarter for Delhi. we are going to have 3 major events in this quarter. Hopefully all three event will be successful. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] community, will

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Nalin Savara
A thread which is relevant to many-- though perhaps not technical enough to attract the attention of many here who have walked the path. Niyaz, Chirag, other ILUGD members, please see my replies embedded below... if any more queries, feel free to mail me-- on-list OR if it's off-topic mail me

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Nalin Savara
@Niyaz: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Niyaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen people installing linux, praising it and then complaining about not being able to play their mp3s and AVIs/MPGs. I know this demand breaches the FOSS philosophy, but its a genuine complaint. Buddy, install

Re: [ilugd] Data xfer rates from flash disk in Feisty

2008-11-21 Thread Nalin Savara
Arun Khan wrote: On Friday 21 Nov 2008, Nalin Savara wrote: What kinda comp are you using Parijat ? Is it a laptop by any chance ? If it's a laptop-- then often, all the USB ports are not USB-2-- sometimes in laptops, one or more ports are USB 1 or USB 1.1 -- maybe it's for for older USB

[ilugd] increase the digest size

2008-11-21 Thread anirudh shekhawat
Hi there. I am subscribed to the daily digest of the ilugd-list and i get mails bundled up, not more than 8 mails in a digest.but i was wondering, how can one increase the no. of mails to be bundled up, like i want to get around 15 mails in my daily digest.. regards...

Re: [ilugd] high-end linux laptop?

2008-11-21 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux Lingam wrote: everyone focusses on 'cheap' or 'low-cost' linux laptops, especially netbooks. what i'm looking for is the opposite: the top-most, high-end laptop in the market, that ships with gnu/linux pre-installed, plenty of people sell the sager/clevo variety preloaded with Linux,

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi Chirag, and others, Please find some more from me on this topic below. I hope my mail helps-- and my apologies if I sound harsh or sarcastic-- but better that I tell a bitter truth-- and point you towards excellence-- rather than me be silent-- and let you wrongly think things are bad. Also,

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Nalin Savara
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: --- On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Prakhar Agarwal snip I would also like to thank the students who came forward to raise lot of questions in this thread. We need more students like these who can openly discuss

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Chirag Anand
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:28 PM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] @Chirag: Buddy, here are my 2-cents-- as someone who completed his engineering in 1999-- and has been working since-- whether with a company or running a company:--- (1) 99% companies dont hire a Windows-Guy or

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Chirag Anand
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Chirag Anand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could not agree with Prakhar more... :) The points he has put up, are the things that we face in our colleges everyday, we see it happening

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | SO... (if I may ask) what technologies do you focus on ? \-- FOSS, embedded. I prepared a list years back just in case students wanted info on (not maintained now though):

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Nalin Savara
Hi Chirag, Thanks for reading my mail and thanks for taking the time to write a point by point reply to my mail. Remember-- that to innovate, you need to respect knowledge and display professionalism and a willingness to pursue technical excellence at all costs. I am just not able to figure

Re: [ilugd] OT - Any Mozilla Hackers here ?

2008-11-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Saturday 22 Nov 2008, Nalin Savara wrote: When I press Ctrl + F -- and type a phrase-- many times, it says no matches even if the phrase is there on the page. Maybe it's only searching in the summary? -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/

Re: [ilugd] OT - Any Mozilla Hackers here ?

2008-11-21 Thread PJ
Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip mozilla bug report posted to list] Answers-- as well as pointers on where to look - on the net ? or in the codebase ? Lemme know... For windows users there is bugzilla.mozilla.org for this sort of thing. Search for the bug. If you can't find it,