Re: [ilugd] [Ilugc] Off-topic: Bitcoin's Potential for Social Change

2013-05-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Supreet Sethi supreet.se...@gmail.comwrote: Bitcoin is evil. Comparison to FOSS movement is ill thought out. Although there is political channelling of thought which is common between the two, the actual implementation is bitcoin is marred by several questions.

[ilugd] Codeweavers is giving away free copies of Crossover for 24 hours

2012-10-31 Thread Anupam Jain
Get it here - http://flock.codeweavers.com/ -- Anupam ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] A Gnome Text Editor Joke

2012-09-19 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 19 Sep 2012, Anupam Jain wrote: Gedit? Remind me to murder you the next time we meet. Must... stop... these... atrocities... Really? I thought the joke was notepad at all.. Awk-ward

Re: [ilugd] Generic Web based UI

2012-09-05 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Varun Mittal varunmitta...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I have an idea of implementing a generic web based UI which will harness the power of HTML5 and the new web technologies. I am trying to develop an API which will enable app developers to make

[ilugd] [OT] Shared geek office space in Delhi

2012-05-19 Thread Anupam Jain
like to invite others who might be interested in sharing that space for coworking on your own projects. Please contact me offline at my email id. Thanks, Anupam Jain ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

Re: [ilugd] ISPunity: featured in efytimes.com

2012-05-12 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/11/2012 10:33 AM, Shiv wrote: - Original Message - From: Balwinder S Dheeman bdhee...@gmail.com To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, 10 May 2012 6:50 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd]

Re: [ilugd] MySql Bug

2012-02-09 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Rakesh Kumar kumar3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am facing a problem in MySql that even if i set 'NOT NULL' constraint while creating a table, mysql allows null values in the database. Is it true with every mysql distribution or is an error in my server? I

[ilugd] Any haskell programmers around?

2011-12-20 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, I was wondering if any haskell programmers frequent this joint? Perhaps it would be a good idea to organise a meetup. -- Anupam ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Sony Vaio overheats with Ubuntu Linux Oneiric Ocelot

2011-10-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Vivek Kapoor subs...@exain.com wrote: On 10/18/2011 11:55 AM, Anupam Jain wrote: Hi all, I recently bought a Sony Vaio (VPCSB16FG) laptop which I converted today to a dual boot setup by installing Ubuntu Oneiric. However, when booted into Linux, the laptop

[ilugd] Sony Vaio overheats with Ubuntu Linux Oneiric Ocelot

2011-10-18 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, I recently bought a Sony Vaio (VPCSB16FG) laptop which I converted today to a dual boot setup by installing Ubuntu Oneiric. However, when booted into Linux, the laptop overheats and the fan noise becomes unbearable, so much so that I had to shutdown the machine to prevent any potential

Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Android-India mailing list

2011-09-01 Thread Anupam Jain
2011/9/1 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org snip Time to root the phone and uninstall the cr*p, I guess. Do let the android list know how that goes! -- Anupam ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Humble Indie Bundle 3

2011-08-01 Thread Anupam Jain
Just an FYI for all the Linux gamers out there who might otherwise miss this. The Humble Indie Bundle 3 http://www.humblebundle.com/ is currently ongoing! You can pay *whatever you want* for 5 (now 6?) great games + some freebies. Now the games are not quite FOSS but allowing the customer to set

Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-17 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Sharad Birmiwal said on Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:00:20AM -0400,: The reason is because apt-get invokes a program called http to download packages. Here is what I tried. While I do find the thread interesting, and

[ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-15 Thread Anupam Jain
of an interactive shell. Again, the experiment above proves that this is not true. --8- Thanks, Anupam Jain ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] What happens in BASH when you do Ctrl-C (hint, it's not simply sending a SIGINT)

2011-07-15 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ankit Chaturvedi ankit.chaturv...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I originally posted this question on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6624622/what-happens-in-bash-when-you-do

Re: [ilugd] [OffTopic] Preview of the new website

2011-06-07 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Shamail sham...@inbox.com wrote: On 07/06/11 1:47 PM, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: On Tuesday 07 Jun 2011, Shamail wrote: I've been working on a project from some time, http://tunesdiary.com Its now open for preview, please have a look at it and tell

[ilugd] Linux in your browser

2011-05-17 Thread Anupam Jain
From slashdothttp://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/05/17/0242244/Boot-Linux-In-Your-Browsertoday: *Fabrice Bellard http://bellard.org/, the initiator of the QEMUhttp://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page emulator, wrote a PC emulator in JavaScript. You can now boot Linuxhttp://bellard.org/jslinux/ in your

[ilugd] An interesting read - The great Microsoft blunder

2011-03-21 Thread Anupam Jain
Clicking through the links of some of the blogs I read, I found myself on this (old) page - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1952997,00.asp, it cracked me up so I thought some others on this list may be interested. It's an interesting perspective on the cost of IE's ineptness to MS. Come to

Re: [ilugd] [LUG@IITD:12464] What competition can do !!!

2011-03-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:38 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves law...@thenilgiris.com wrote: On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 05:10 +0530, A. Mani wrote: See http://lwn.net/Articles/430098/ It is a GPL violation. it is not The main

Re: [ilugd] Dharna against Dreamspark

2010-10-17 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: You may be correct in your context. But we have started our discussion for school and college education which must be delivered in via FOSS tools. This is an interesting discussion. I think Dreamspark

Re: [ilugd] Dharna against Dreamspark

2010-10-16 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:46 PM, vinay singh vinnip...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FOSS lovers from Meerut. You know Meerut is a place where the first freedom revolution started in year 1857 so now its time for us to fight for software freedom. Meerut where there are more than 35 technical

Re: [ilugd] Dharna against Dreamspark

2010-10-16 Thread Anupam Jain
Mohit expressed: People are busy showcasing pride in sending mails from their gadgets. Who cares for software freedom? How is the brand of my cellphone relevant? If you are questioning my loyalty to free software, rest assured sir, I'm as much holding my breath for a mukt cellphone platform as

Re: [ilugd] Calling all Apache Solr/open-source search engine users in Delhi/NCR

2010-08-19 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: Hi, Seeing as how search has now become an integral part of many websites, and is among the most interesting areas of still-emerging technologies, at least IMHO, I think that it would be interesting if we could have a

Re: [ilugd] India's $35 Tablet- The Everything Killer

2010-07-30 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Arun Khan knu...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: DDR3 will be a cost effective option. To the best of my knowledge DDR3 costs a bit more in the Mumbai channels - right now at least.

[ilugd] [offtopic] Need ideas and help. A website on the political situation in India.

2010-07-05 Thread Anupam Jain
Everyone, This may not be completely off-topic - true freedom depends on individuals making well informed decisions. I have decided to start a website which will provide a sort of score card for all political parties and political individuals based on an objective and fact based criteria.

Re: [ilugd] [ilug]Need Mysql Help

2010-06-22 Thread Anupam Jain
-- Anupam Jain ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] linux compatible tv tuner card

2010-06-03 Thread Anupam Jain
[ Ahh clumsy fingers hit reply instead of reply all. Copying the list. ] On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to record some videos from a camcorder to a linux

Re: [ilugd] Tutorial and sample codes for ANN, GA and Fuzzy Logic toolboxes in Scilab

2010-03-29 Thread Anupam Jain
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 2:39 PM, bipul pandey pandeybi...@gmail.com wrote: Till now, i have using Matlab for Artificial Neural Networks, Genetic Algorithms and Fuzzy Logic. But, after using Java and other some open source creations, i wanted to completely replace matlab with some equivalent

Re: [ilugd] evolution+multisync+openSyncML to Nokia over bluetooth

2010-03-05 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: One manufacturer actually uses the Linux kernel and refuses to give out the code. May I ask, what is the name of this manufacturer ? Probably

Re: [ilugd] M$ open source

2010-02-11 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:53 AM, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: See: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=5822utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=feedutm_campaign=Feed%3A+zdnet%2Fopen-source+%28ZDNet+Open+Source%29alertspromo Excerpts: What Microsoft has done with the library is an open

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Now Big Brother wants your DNS...

2009-12-04 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Arun Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Friday 04 Dec 2009, narendra sisodiya wrote: what happend to openDNS ? It is still there :D... anyway I prefer my own cacheing DNS servers on the intranet as well on my laptop. OpenDNS will direct you to it's own search

Re: [ilugd] FTP error while running script in cron

2009-11-30 Thread Anupam Jain
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi I have facing a strange problem while uploading data file using FTP in cron. I have made a script to upload 40GB approx tar.gz file to a FTP location. When I run the script in console, it works fine and uploads the

[ilugd] Reviews of Ubuntu Karmic?

2009-11-25 Thread Anupam Jain
Hey all, I just upgraded my Ubuntu Jaunty system to Karmic and it was amazingly smooth - no interruptions at all, the updater finished in a few hours while I continued working normally and asked for a reboot when it got done. All the settings, themes etc. remained the same as before. Please post

Re: [ilugd] IBM and the indian debacle

2009-11-22 Thread Anupam Jain
The problem here is not IBM but the sadly misinformed and dangerously callous college authorities.. Some good old Satyagraha is in order here.. In the short term though, the best solution for you would be to opt for an open source project using either an open source IBM technology (say Eclipse)

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-10-15 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Thursday 15 Oct 2009, Gora Mohanty wrote: I am not averse to the idea of working together, through sites similar to LinkedIn. However, I am very much opposed to what seems to have become de riguer for such social

[ilugd] TV Tuner card setup in Linux

2009-10-13 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, I have a Frontech USB TV Box TV Tuner Pixel View / Pinnacle (model number JIL-0613) and I am trying to configure this in Ubuntu 9.04. It doesn't do anything at all when I plug it in. dmesg says - [276474.856095] usb 2-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 21

[ilugd] Configured a 23 inch 1920x1080 LCD screen on Ubuntu (or Kubuntu)

2009-10-01 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, I got a 23 inch LCD for my laptop and configuring it was more trouble than I would have imagined (aren't monitors supposed to just work?). But I finally managed to figure out the steps and documented them here

Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?

2009-10-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Vivek Kapoor subs...@exain.com wrote: On Wed 30 Sep 2009 11:25:20 PM IST , Sameep sam...@tuxwire.com wrote: On 30-Sep-2009, at 10:05 PM, Anupam Jain wrote: I think it's time someone created something similar to Apple's Time Machine based on one

Re: [ilugd] Faster way to take backup?

2009-09-30 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Devendra Gera g...@theoldmonk.net wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Amit Sharma wrote: Hi, I would like to share the following backup script being used by me. Works Fine. Just in case some one needs it. My /home is 40 GB abd tar.gz file comes to 20 GB and takes

Re: [ilugd] KDE 3d compositing problem with Firefox drag drop

2009-09-12 Thread Anupam Jain
Everyone, I apologise for the late response and thanks for your replies. I have simply decided to make peace with the problem as it is only a minor niggle in an otherwise wonderful and stable production system (I've already experimented enough by installing KDE on it instead of Gnome, though that

[ilugd] KDE 3d compositing problem with Firefox drag drop

2009-09-08 Thread Anupam Jain
I am running KDE4.2.2 on Kubuntu 9.04. Over the past few days I have noticed that dragging text/images in firefox freezes my machine for a few 2-3 seconds followed by a KDE message indicating that Compositing was too slow and has been disabled. I am running an underpowered Dell Vostro 1400 laptop

Re: [ilugd] proprietary binaries from gcc-drived compiler? (was: Re: NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop)

2009-08-28 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Raj Mathurr...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: However I wonder about the proprietary compiler itself. if it's based on GCC, it needs to be licensed under GPL, even if it's distributed in-house. So any developer who works

Re: [ilugd] proprietary binaries from gcc-drived compiler? (was: Re: NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop)

2009-08-27 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:26 AM, Pawanpee...@hotpop.com wrote: Nalin Savara nsn...@... writes: [about Nalin's work:] This is a proprietary compiler based on gcc-- which compiles to generate code targetted at a MIPS microprocessor used in a consumer electronics device. Going off on a

Re: [ilugd] proprietary binaries from gcc-drived compiler? (was: Re: NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop)

2009-08-27 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:25 AM, Gora Mohantyg...@sarai.net wrote: On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:56:12 +0530 Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] However I wonder about the proprietary compiler itself. if it's based on GCC, it needs to be licensed under GPL, even if it's distributed in-house

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-26 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Karanbir Singhmail-li...@karan.org wrote: Hi, Firstly, I dont think you understand Open Source as a whole, and Linux in specific. On 08/25/2009 11:55 AM, Nalin Savara wrote: I had been exposed to more specific overtures of Microsoft to policy makers etc--

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-20 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: On 08/20/2009 12:57 PM, Sanjay Arora wrote: Doesn't it have to be open source ? Isn't that the nature of the beast? GPL license in this case? Could you please point out where they post the source tree's and the

[ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Anupam Jain
I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html/textbooks.htm. Great initiaitive by the Govt. though their website is a bit messed up in Firefox. Please spread the word! -- Anupam

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:03 PM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know how many of you know about this but all NCERT books are now available online through the NCERT website http://www.ncert.nic.in/html

[ilugd] Another cool KDE app - yakuake

2009-07-07 Thread Anupam Jain
Hate to sound like a fanboy but this app for KDE is great.. http://extragear.kde.org/apps/yakuake/ (install using sudo apt-get install yakuake-kde4) It's a drop down konsole that neatly makes seamless the gui and commandline experience on Linux. -- Anupam PS: Oh and in case you have not

Re: [ilugd] Why Desktop Linux sucks and how we can fix it..

2009-07-02 Thread Anupam Jain
Nice presentation. It's time we starting paying real money for real quality software. http://www.kde.org/support/support.php http://www.gnome.org/friends/ http://contributing.openoffice.org/donate.html Someone who can afford to pay 20$ for a silly iPhone game, ought to feel obliged to pay for

Re: [ilugd] KDE 4 Plasma, Dolphin, Gnome Docky, Okular, Kompare, Pidgin, OO, Thunderbird, Netbeans, Firefox, Mysql Workbench.. Thank you all!

2009-06-20 Thread Anupam Jain
On 6/19/09, KM kamaleshwar.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Nandeep Mali wrote: On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Anupam Jainajn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] An SVN client like Tortoise - Command line works well on Linux so not so much of a problem How about: - RapidSVN (by Tigris) - QSvn

[ilugd] KDE 4 Plasma, Dolphin, Gnome Docky, Okular, Kompare, Pidgin, OO, Thunderbird, Netbeans, Firefox, Mysql Workbench.. Thank you all!

2009-06-18 Thread Anupam Jain
This needs to be said.. My Linux experience has improved several orders of magnitude over the past few weeks thanks to the hard work by the authors of these wonderful FOSS programs, all running on Linux (Kubuntu Jaunty in my case). It's not that I suddenly discovered them recently, but that things

Re: [ilugd] test

2009-05-28 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Pawan pee...@hotpop.com wrote: Nalin Savara nsn...@... writes: You yourself know that a single or 2-3 abbreviations in 500-800 words of messages I sent today is no big deal. Er...it is a big deal if you are trying to preach, and it stands out so

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-15 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Thursday 14 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: [snip] On a related note: KDE might not be as stable and smooth as Gnome right now but application wise it is showing potential! Installing the kdegames package brings in some

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-15 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:10 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Fri, 8 May 2009 11:52:54 +0530 Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 17:23:27 +0530 [...] Could you start a Wiki page on http

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-08 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 17:23:27 +0530 Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Well that's my point about informality. Meetings should be just meetings with a specific agenda but without presentations and presentors. A BOF

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-08 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Gaurav Mishra gauravtec...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: Well that's my point about informality. Meetings should be just meetings with a specific agenda but without presentations and presentors. A BOF

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: Dear anupam, if i read your need correctly, you wish to view and comment on documents in a collaborative environment. Hence the need to read comments in pdf. You mention you've asked people to move from msoffice

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: snip I would actually like to initiate a discussion on the future of ILUG-D as interest in the LUG has been steadily waning, both in terms of participating in the LUG's activities, and in attendance at meetings. Typical

[ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
Hey all, What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does not show the text. For the time being I am using PDFEdit to manually navigate the tree and extract the

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:18:30 +0530 Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] That said, instead of caring about more participation, we should be looking at more holding relevant events. The point about asking for more

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: Sankarshan, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: The LUGs should now move to provide umbrella for more specialist interest

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Open Linux Tech Center - Freelance open.linux.cen...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.sqlite.org/ is another alternative to mysql... sqlite doesn't quite fit the same niche as mysql. But there are other alternatives like Postgres (http://www.postgresql.org/) and

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009, Nalin Savara wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:48 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:22:49 +0530 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I think this is a

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD (society) as a funding umbrella for FOSS development

2009-03-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Andrew Lynn lynn.and...@gmail.com wrote: This is to seed discussion on a proposal to add a function to the ILUGD society: That of a funding umbrella for community FOSS based development Background: (Personal opinion) (1) The FOSS community is made up of a

Re: [ilugd] freedom pdf readers

2009-03-12 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: dear all, hopefully, someone will soon realize the huge gaps to cover for a full drop-in replacement. http://pdfreaders.org/ DjVu (http://djvu.sourceforge.net/), both the format and the viewer, are under GNU GPL. And

[ilugd] Interesting article - Microsoft: Litigate on FAT, and you'll be the next Unisys

2009-03-08 Thread Anupam Jain
From http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9594 Until now, Microsoft has never pursued any vendor with patent litigation who has used Linux and FAT32 in a consumer electronics product. According to Open Source evangelist and SAMBA developer Jeremy Allison, on a recent comment on Glyn Moody’s open

Re: [ilugd] [x-post][OT]? Response to Misleading News Article - Netbook Security

2009-03-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com wrote: H! I have posted a rebuttal about a misleading article about netbook security @ http://dineshah.wordpress.com/ The links to original articles are there in the post but I am including here as well.

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-04 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Talking about copyrighted material but a little OT. On one of the ISO 27001 related mailing lists I am subscribed to, where most of the people are auditors, copyrights are given very high respect/priority.

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-04 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 04 Mar 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: The way I see it, foss is all about being reasonable, and having an appropriate level of respect of other peoples time and effort. The free/cc licenses are meant to allow

Re: [ilugd] Offline wikipedia...

2008-12-02 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 2:24 AM, shantanu choudhary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Here is the link to a project http://code.google.com/p/offline-wikipedia/ . I have been working on this idea from last two months or so.Although in this ever-connecting world via internet, this idea seems

[ilugd] Weird function key behaviour on HP Mininote running Ubuntu

2008-11-27 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, I have Ubuntu 8.10 running on an HP Mininote PC. Yesterday I noticed that the keys double-mapped to the numpad keys were not functioning properly. For example - 'P' usually turns into '*' while the function key is pressed but now pressing 'P' would echo '*' whether the function key is

Re: [ilugd] Superbug In Trash?

2008-10-16 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Vivek Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/16/2008 09:10 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I unhide the hidden .Trash folder of that partition and found the deleted data there and cut paste into another folder of the same partition. But I c

Re: [ilugd] Superbug In Trash?

2008-10-16 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Vivek Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/2008 12:09 AM, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Vivek Kapoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip file using $ dd if=/dev/zero of=file.big count=1024k bs=50 This will create 50MB

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today every company is talking about Cloud computing, but RMS has rejected as a trap and it truly is. How much sense does it make to adopt technologies pushed by some companies which could further lock us in. We are

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am disagreeing is with the FOSS world not attempting to even touch the technology because the closed source business model is the only one we see. The technology is really attractive, and there is no doubt that

Re: [ilugd] 'Newbie' Linuxes have me stumped!!

2008-09-25 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Tanveer Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:02 PM, gajendra khanna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg should allow you to do the reconfiguration. If the xorg.conf has the display you want (maybe not the default

Re: [ilugd] Mother tongue based programming languages

2008-09-24 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Abhishek Choudhary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip facts about Hindawi Development of a generic framework which allows members of a multi lingual team to code in their respective local languages is a worthy achievement on it's own. Congratulations to the Hindawi

[ilugd] Reboot a frozen system using REISUB

2008-09-18 Thread Anupam Jain
http://fosswire.com/2007/09/08/fix-a-frozen-system-with-the-magic-sysrq-keys/ The next time your linux system freezes and even Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing, try typing in REISUB while holding down Alt and SysReq! Found this via some cool ubuntu cheat sheets here -

Re: [ilugd] Mail authentication

2008-09-10 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 Sep 2008, Sudev Barar wrote: 2008/9/11 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good time to start using PGP :). Lets have a key-signing party this software freedom day :). Yes. But I am using gmail for

[ilugd] FTP Server for linux based embedded device

2008-08-22 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, I am looking for suggestions on a small FOSS based FTP Server for a small embedded device running linux. I have been tinkering with TinyFTP till now but it does not support passive mode which is a deal breaker for my application. Plus it does not seem to be very well supported. Vsftpd

Re: [ilugd] Sify Vs Linux

2008-08-20 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, As most of you are aware of my problem with Sify. The problem has not been solved yet. While I can access the Internet using Windows, I cannot do the same with GNU/Linux distros. Should I not file a

[ilugd] Ubuntu Hardy and Intel 965GM graphics chipset

2008-08-11 Thread Anupam Jain
Just thought I'd share this little tip I discovered while trying to get Ubuntu Hardy working on my laptop (Which has an Intel 965GM graphics chipset) in the hope that it helps someone else in a similar situation. On my machine atleast, the default maximum video mode supported by Hardy was

[ilugd] Interesting article

2008-08-05 Thread Anupam Jain
Quoting the first paragraph - If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.

Re: [ilugd] Bash script to get maximum directory depth

2008-08-02 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:56:43 +0530 Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:45, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:32:13 +0530 Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[ilugd] Bash script to get maximum directory depth

2008-07-29 Thread Anupam Jain
Hi all, Does anyone know of a way to get the maximum directory nesting, starting from the specified base, using standard Linux commands only (no php/perl/python etc.)? e.g. if the directory structure is as follows - d1 -d2 --d3 ---d4 -d5 --d6 I need a shell script which will give me the answer

Re: [ilugd] Bash script to get maximum directory depth

2008-07-29 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anupam Jain wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a way to get the maximum directory nesting, starting from the specified base, using standard

Re: [ilugd] Bash script to get maximum directory depth

2008-07-29 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:28, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 12:11 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Java - is it an albatross?

2008-06-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:02 AM, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 22:44, Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tomcat is not a production capable server. Umm why exactly? These unqualified statements arent really helpful. http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/PoweredBy

Re: [ilugd] Java - is it an albatross?

2008-06-22 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 20 Jun 2008, Anupam Jain wrote: [snip] Tomcat is not a production capable server. And standalone jsps cannot hope to compare with stadalone php pages so it's not a fair comparison. The fact remains - a production

Re: [ilugd] Java - is it an albatross?

2008-06-20 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 18:32, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +++ Puneet Lakhina [20/06/08 17:34 +0530]: Shorter learning curve argument doesnt hold, I dont see why for an average person it would be easier

Re: [ilugd] Notetakers Annotators in Linux

2008-06-18 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Angad Singh wrote: [snip] On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have plenty of excellent open source s/w for the purpose: http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal.htm

Re: [ilugd] [ILUG-BOM] X-post - survey of FOSS success stories

2008-06-11 Thread Anupam Jain
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: The goal of the study is to bring out into public a reliable and independent compilation of some instances where FOSS implementation has been carried out successfully in India.

[ilugd] Wikipedia dump anyone?

2008-06-01 Thread Anupam Jain
Does anyone have a recent dump of wikipedia articles (downloadable at http://download.wikimedia.org/) in any format? It's a great resource for when you are traveling with no internet access :) -- Anupam ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]

2008-05-20 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 May 2008, Gaurav Mishra wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:10 AM, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: French guys consolidated a guide for this http://tinyurl.com/5ltdvl Please don't post tinyurls

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-17 Thread Anupam Jain
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 7:43 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17-May-08, at 12:11 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: have exchanged a few emails with the editor of Express Computer as well. he, well, for lack of a better word, expressed, his views on the topic, and wondered why buy a

Re: [ilugd] Where do I get tar.gz for these libraries

2008-05-16 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tanveer Singh writes: Tanveer One question though, in windows if application A is playing something, and I Tanveer start application B which plays some

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