[ilugd] Gargi College launches Gargi Linux Users Group

2009-01-18 Thread Linux Lingam
over the next few weeks and months, expect large-scale migration to linux and foss at gargi, not just in departments, but also on the personal desktops and laptops of students. also expect a growing list of contributors to the foss-ecosystem and to creativecommons-attributed authored works.

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-18 Thread Anand Shankar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: what's your experience with dimdim? -- niyam bhushan From Linux / FOSS perspective: Webcam detection and control is through Adobe Flash 9.0. :-( . I have a Webcam with USB Video Class support. I could not use it

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-18 Thread Anand Shankar
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Sunday 18 Jan 2009, Deependra Singh Shekhawat wrote: How about just AD. Can one mimic that using Linux, with all AD features? Say we get rid of Samba 4 (which is not an option due to its development status), is it

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-18 Thread satyaakam goswami
I have a Webcam with USB Video Class support. I could not use it with DimDim. Webcam is otherwise detected and works out of the box. I installed Adobe Flash 10, but was still out of luck. This was abt 3mths back. I didnt check of late. Another vital difference with webex is that you can

Re: [ilugd] Gargi College launches Gargi Linux Users Group

2009-01-18 Thread PJ
Linux Lingam linuxlin...@... writes: over the next few weeks and months, expect large-scale migration to linux and foss at gargi Cool. I just finished translating a press release about a similar rollout for a hospital here in Holland. It is saving them half a million euros in licencing alone.

Re: [ilugd] police: is your wifi secured?

2009-01-18 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
OT for the list, but... Shiv shiv_j...@yahoo.com writes: equip the armed forces with night vision goggles, ability to pull up blueprints of all major buildings ellectronically, ability to The big question is, how to make buildings stick to the blue prints they had when they came up

Re: [ilugd] police: is your wifi secured?

2009-01-18 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net writes: Bah! Window-dressing for the abject failure of the police, and military in Bombay. Gora, (and others) COnsider this scenario - The police goes around parked cars, trying to check their security (or rather, lack of it), and leave a note to the owners when