[ilugd] A radical shift in e-governance

2010-11-30 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
The Hindu has a nice feature on the Indian open standards policy. The examples cited in this article are very relevant. Venky = A radical shift in e-governance On November 12, in a very progressive and sound move, the Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology notified the

[ilugd] [OT][PERSONAL] Need Help To Stay in side/out side of IIT Delhi for 10 to 20 days

2010-11-30 Thread Arulalan T
Dear Friends, This is Arulalan.T from Tamil Nadu who is the founder of Kanchi Linux User Group [1] and sending ODOC via sms through out the Nation. And mentoring for ODOA mail and [Tip] mails from kanchilug to all lugs in India. Greetings.!. Now I came to IIT Delhi today to attend an interview

Re: [ilugd] A radical shift in e-governance

2010-11-30 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
On a slightly unrelated note, you may want to work on data in legacy encodings. Like the voter's database, which is bilingual (en local language), with most probably, the local language in the dated ISCII encoding. (At least, that is the case in Kerala). It ought to be a slightly non-trivial

Re: [ilugd] [OT][PERSONAL] Need Help To Stay in side/out side of IIT Delhi for 10 to 20 days

2010-11-30 Thread Kartik Singhal
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Arulalan T arulal...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody give me suggestion to approach this problem. Also I am finding friends who is staying in delhi to solve this. You can try getting a room in Jia Sarai just outside the IIT campus. Many students taking coachings

Re: [ilugd] Xen: Dom0 vs guest disk buffer/cache

2010-11-30 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 11/29/2010 11:13 AM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: I am configuring a Xen host with 4-5 guest VMs and have a question about allocation of memory for buffer and cache. As I understand it, all guest disk IO is routed through dom0 first. Does this mean that dom0 buffer/cache is used for guest I/O as

Re: [ilugd] Xen: Dom0 vs guest disk buffer/cache

2010-11-30 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Wednesday, December 01, 2010, Karanbir Singh wrote: [snip] However, if its blockdev - domU (eg. a logical vol, or a physical disk ) you wont get any filesystem level caching on the host, but there might still be an opportunity to run with seriously high device buffers ( if you so desire and