Re: [ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/08 9:38 PM [LONG] Comments inline... On Thursday 19 Jun 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: +++ Andrew Michael Lynn [19/06/08 14:26 +0530]: Requirements: Collaboration, Content-management, an Open Lab note-book, project management and workflow 1. OS

Re: [ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/08 9:38 PM snip IMHO, my perceived biggest problem in organizations like CSIR is vendor/platform lock-in which causes expensive sustainability issues later. Having options which are nimble are as important as options which are so called enterprise

[ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
At Freed.in/2007, Samir Brahmachari presented his ideas on Open Source Drug Discovery - which proposes to use the principles of open source to scientific pursuit: specifically to the drug discovery process applied to neglected tropical diseases like tuberculosis. Prof. Brahmachari is now the

Re: [ilugd] [Freed] [LONG] Re: Plan for Freed.in 2008

2007-12-27 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 13:45 +0530, Saurabh Nanda wrote: 1. Free knowledge! a. Using free formats e.g. ODF, PDF, etc. b. Using non-free formats e.g. .DOC, etc. 1a. Free knowledge using free formats i. Using free tools - e.g. OOo ii. Using non-free tools - e.g.

Re: [ilugd] [OT] $share_fedora_8_iso if $planning_to_download $living_near_DELHI_metro_station

2007-11-09 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Rakesh Pandit [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/08/07 11:55 PM Hello folks, I was planning to download Fedora 8, but have a very weak connection at home. Any one Near Indrapuram Ghaziabadh (Shipra Mall) or near any metro station also planning to download one please drop a mail off-list. keeping this

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-16 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/16/07 4:51 PM On 16-Aug-07, at 4:46 PM, mehul wrote: my friend paid to download the paid-for version - but he couldnt do the download because he hadnt yet learnt to use wget - so he told them and they shipped the dvd to him. There are GUI ways too,

Re: [ilugd] Anyone with an experience of CDS invenio

2007-07-27 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/26/07 12:10 PM On 26-Jul-07, at 10:52 AM, Vikas Rawal wrote: snip actually i had never heard of invenio. I had compared dspace, railroad and greenstone. Railroad is dead, greenstone not mature enough and I had good reports about dspace. Only the java

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-28 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/28/07 10:44 AM On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 05:51 +0530, Anant Narayanan wrote: [...] Perhaps you could expand the topics of interest posted for the RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships to include areas such as multimedia tools? Um, they are in there, though somewhat down

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Varun Mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/02/07 7:55 AM hello everybody, how can I connect two computers so that they function as one with increased processing power something of kind of parallel processing. varun mittal If you would like to share the kernel - create a single image or shared memory

Re: [ilugd] OpenSuSE and Intel 865G chipset

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
ananda rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/05/07 8:11 AM Dear Forum I bought an HCL machine which comes with an Asus P5P800-VM motherboard. This MB comes withan Intel 865G chipset. I tried installing OpenSuSE 10.1 on this machine. After a few hiccoughs I was finally able to get into the graphical mode.

Re: [ilugd] vcd cutter

2006-12-26 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
-Original Message- From: मयंक जैन (M ayank Jain) [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:57:10 +0530 Subject: Re: [ilugd] vcd cutter On 12/20/06, अभिनव सहाय [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any software for linux that

[ilugd] Problem with OpenGL on linux (FC6) on AMD64 with ATI Radeon 200

2006-12-05 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
I have not been able to get 3D (OpenGL) running with either x86_64 or x86 versions of FC6, using both the opensource and proprietary ATI drivers, on a HP dx5150. 2D works out of box. relevent info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci ... 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS480

Re: [ilugd] Fedora core 6 DVDs/CD?

2006-10-29 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
-Original Message- From: Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 03:08:53 -0800 (PST) Subject: [ilugd] Fedora core 6 DVDs/CD? Hi all, I was wondering if anyone attending the ILUG-D meet tomorrow could bring along a copy of the FC6 DVD/CDs? I

Re: [ilugd] Urgently Need FC5 DVD!!

2006-09-24 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
-Original Message- From: Sahil Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:44:50 +0530 Subject: [ilugd] Urgently Need FC5 DVD!! [..] i urgently require a DVD of Fedora Core 5, ASAP. Are there any good distributors or

Re: [ilugd] hummingbird

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
Exceed is a X-emulator from Hummingbird. Very pricy. We replaced Exceed with Cygwin - which has an X server, if you go beyond the default install, and should serve the purpose. Andrew -Original Message- From: Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list

Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to SPSS

2006-09-19 Thread Andrew Michael Lynn
We use both Octave and Scilab at JNU. Octave is more robust but has a command-line interface and a sharper learning curve. It interfaces with gnuplot to produce graphics - itself not easy to use beyond simple ine graphs...:) Scilab is faster to learn, easier to use, has a GUI interface, very