Re: [ilugd] [ilugb] Open Source Web Based Chat

2009-11-03 Thread Alok G. Singh
Mibbit [1] can be embedded into your website as a widget, if you are looking for something quick. Footnotes: [1] http://www.mibbit.com/ -- Alok Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill. ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Migration to Ubuntu in Delhi

2009-10-27 Thread Alok G. Singh
Amit Sharma wrote: Just a question. Why Ubuntu? Why not openSUSE? The Ubuntu community. I use Debian myself but I would not expect first time users to be able to manage on debian-users. -- Alok ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] [Commercial] Migration to Ubuntu in Delhi

2009-10-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
Oui, à la fois, monsieur :) -- Alok History tends to exaggerate. -- Col. Green, The Savage Curtain, stardate 5906.4 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] dedicated server - opteron or Core2quad

2009-06-02 Thread Alok G. Singh
Karanbir Singh wrote: however for this sort of a workload, the opterons at the same specification level as the Core2 would be a better performing setup. Even the newest Xeons ? I thought differently. Would you have any benchmarks to share ? -- Alok

Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: Re: [TAG] Version control for /etc]

2008-02-12 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 12 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was looking at version control mechanisms to handle /etc on the machines here. Personally, I use RCS to version /etc. No setup required and there's Emacs integration as well. -- Alok The only thing worse than X Windows: (X Windows) - X

Re: [ilugd] Reading standard input in a bash script

2008-01-29 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 29 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing it this way now. I read whatever there is on the standard input into a variable : read -d ^d VAR You could just read from stdin: read -d ^d 1 See the I/O redirection [1] chapter of the Advanced bash scripting guide for more details. It

Re: [ilugd] PHP and CSS editing using emacs

2008-01-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 26 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am having problems editing php and css files in emacs. nxhtml-mode [1] is by far the most complete web development mode. You need emacs 22 to use it though. If you are using Windows, use the EmacsW32 [2] from ourcomments.org -- it has nxhtml packaged.

Re: [ilugd] ps and grep

2008-01-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 17 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puneet I tried ps -elo pid,args|grep myprocess\\!(grep) The argument of grep is a regular expression (type 3 language), and there is no way you can do this in a type 3 language. Even 'grep' also matches 'grep' text when you pass '-v grep' argument to

Re: [ilugd] ICICI Netbanking and Firefox 2.0 (or where to get Firefox 1.5)

2007-12-30 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 31 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm, interesting. Why is this happening with me? Consistently. The last time I summonned up the energy to actually find out what was wrong, I installed that iceweasel extension which allows you to see the headers [1] and the webdeveloper extension. But

Re: [ilugd] ICICI Netbanking and Firefox 2.0 (or where to get Firefox 1.5)

2007-12-30 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 31 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow! Did you document it anywhere? If not, do you remember what the problem was and how you fixed it? No, I didn't write it down anywhere and I have only the vaguest recollection of the whole episode. But I do know that the problem was what it usually

Re: [ilugd] Slow tar

2007-10-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 26 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we use tar with limited resources like some specific cycle of CPU to use e.g20% CPU, with specified I/O or bandwidth limit e.g 50MB/s You can limit CPU usage with nice(1). While it sets no bounds on the amount of CPU that is used, it ensure that

Re: [ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-11 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 12 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or is it that the shortcut in Firefox for moving between tabs on Windows is Ctrl+Number Key while on Linux (Ubuntu) its Alt+Number Key. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard -- Alok Silent gratitude isn't very much use to

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Firefox Already Running Problem

2007-10-09 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get around this? Like opening this new page as a new Tab or something. I don't know how this would translate to Windows, but to open stuff in a new tab, I would use, $ iceweasel -remote 'openURL(http://google.com,new-tab)' Or, if

Re: [ilugd] Shell script help

2007-09-01 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 1 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: for f in *.cpp; do gc++ $f; done; mv *.cpp /data/jay/success mv *.out /data/jay/success You would probably be better served by using a Makefile to compile your code. I would certainly help when your programs are split over more than one compilation

Re: [ilugd] Google earth and open proj on XGL

2007-08-29 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 25 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have an ATI card, which is not supported by the FOSS Radeon driver, you can stick with AIGLX itself. Time to get another laptop? As suggested, use AIGLX. AFAIK, XGL is no longer being developed. You could also try gcj instead of sun-java.

Re: [ilugd] Google earth and open proj on XGL

2007-08-29 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 29 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could also try gcj instead of sun-java. I've had some (but not all) applications work with gcj-4.2. It appears that you just need: export AWT_TOOLKIT=MToolkit to fix your Java blank window problems with Sun Java. -- Alok Remember that there is

Re: [ilugd] Google earth and open proj on XGL

2007-08-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 25 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you have an ATI card, which is not supported by the FOSS Radeon driver, you can stick with AIGLX itself. Time to get another laptop? As suggested, use AIGLX. AFAIK, XGL is no longer being developed. You could also try gcj instead of sun-java.

[ilugd] Emacs and Indic scripts (was: [Indlinux-hindi] Description of Hindi phonetic rules for aspell)

2007-07-22 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 22 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For complex script rendering, see [1]. Cool, I'll soon compile emacs-unicode-2. But does it work with only CDAC fonts, or also with free font like Lohit Hindi, hmm... ? TIAS, I guess. From the wiki page on complex script rendering, it seems that all

Re: [ilugd] [Indlinux-hindi] Description of Hindi phonetic rules for aspell

2007-07-21 Thread Alok G. Singh
The screenshot of Emacs rendering Devanagari text on my box is below: http://flickr.com/photos/wahjava/857367020/ Do you get similar kind of rendering with CDAC fonts or better than this ? Here is a an old screenshot [1] that I dug out. This is emacs-mtty, but I don't think it matters much

Re: [ilugd] [Indlinux-hindi] Description of Hindi phonetic rules for aspell

2007-07-19 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 19 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm able to get 'devanagari-itrans' input method working, with devanagari characters getting rendered in minibuffer, but the main editor buffer still shows boxes. Anybody has any idea how to make emacs render devanagari text ? It's just a question of

Re: [ilugd] [X posted] Why DVD/CD fail

2007-04-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 3 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any comments on Indian CD/DVD's behaviour as said in the article? For data archiving this is important. Found the link from /. MoserBaer and mmore have been acceptable whenever I tried transferring files between machines (sneaker net). That's about

Re: [ilugd] calendar of foss events

2007-03-14 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 14 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to get a feed for this ? Or even a shared Google calendar ? i will set up a feed when i find out how to do that - maybe now is the time to tackle that oft postponed task. No idea what a google calendar is