Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to SPSS

2006-09-19 Thread anandsha
Those of us who attended the recent Freedel know the answer R http://r-project.org anand - Original Message - From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:18 pm Subject: Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to SPSS > > On 19-Sep-06, at 7:07 PM, Nishant Sharm

[ilugd] [Commercial] AE(Trainee) vaccancies at POWERGRID

2006-09-06 Thread anandsha
AE(Trainee) Vaccancies in IT at POWERGRID Looking for B.E/B.Tech/ B.Sc (Engg.) in (IT/ Computer Engg/Computer Science)/ MCA (Full time course) in with 65% marks Advertisement Date 30-Aug-2006 Opening Date & Time of Application Submission 02-Sep-2006 11:15:00 Last Date & Time of Online

[ilugd] [Commercial] Asterisk Consultancy

2006-07-07 Thread anandsha
Companies / Consultants with prior established experience in Asterisk [www.asterisk.org] Open Source VoIP please contact me off mailing list. Anand Shankar Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mai

[ilugd] Digital Signatures vs PGP

2006-06-14 Thread anandsha
Could some one enlighten me on the fundamental differences betweenn PGP and Digital Signatures obtained through a CA. Yes I know that CA is not required under PGP, that it is a Web of Trust Model and that it does not enjoy a legal weight in India at least. What I want to know is the differences

[ilugd] KNOPPIX5.0.1DVD @ ilugd meet on Jun-11

2006-06-09 Thread anandsha
I have the iso file for Knoppix-5.0.1 DVD. I can transfer the 4GB file to any one tommorow to his laptop / desktop. If someone has a DVD Writer and blank DVD-R media we can burn a few copies as well. anand Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD Monthly Meeting, June 2006

2006-06-09 Thread anandsha
From: Baishampayan Ghose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would recommend the showing of Prof. Eben Moglen's keynote in the > RedHat Summit in Nashville this month. It is one of the best Free > Softwaretalks I have seen / heard in recent times. Extremely > inspiring and > highly recommended. > http://ww

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD Monthly Meeting, June 2006

2006-06-08 Thread anandsha
Interested in KNOPPIX-5.0.1-DVD?? Come with Blank DVDs. DVD writers any one?? With the permission of the chair: If we have an audience, we can see Videos of the panel discussion at the World Summit for the Information Society, Tunis on 18 November 2005. Discussion led by Richard Stallman (Free

Re: [ilugd] OOo-2.0.2 Crashes with SCIM

2006-05-05 Thread anandsha
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > OpenOffice crashes while I edit a file with Hindi Text. Using > SCIM as > > input method with INSCRIPT keyboard layout with m17n-hi-inscript > > module > [...] > > Which distribution? SCIM is not very well-integrated and exhibits > probems on several dist

[ilugd] OOo-2.0.2 Crashes with SCIM

2006-05-04 Thread anandsha
OpenOffice crashes while I edit a file with Hindi Text. Using SCIM as input method with INSCRIPT keyboard layout with m17n-hi-inscript module. I was correcting a Matra (Vowel Sign) and pressed backspace. This occurs both on GNOME and KDE. The offending combination is म + े + ं [ U+092E + U0947 +

Re: [ilugd] FC5 System Hangs just after starting HAL Daemon

2006-04-21 Thread anandsha
> Can you enlist the exact steps after which you experience a hang? > Or was this when you system boots up & after starting HAL, it hangs? > > Thanks, > Mayank ...] Ha! Not that this is any help, but I had the same problem, and that too on a machine where Fedora Core 4 installed normally, and

[ilugd] FC5 System Hangs just after starting HAL Daemon

2006-04-19 Thread anandsha
On a recently updated Fedora Core 5 installation, System hangs just after starting HAL Daemon. Started the system in character mode "init 3", to discover this. The system was updated and operated well for a few days. After I applied recent updates, I remember one of them was xorg related, the sy

[ilugd] Minutes of Meeting @ IHC : Student Mentorship Program

2006-02-09 Thread anandsha
We had interesting talks from Klaus Knopper and Mark Shuttleworth at Ilugd meet at India Habitat Centre. Late in the evening after the formal events, ILUGD members met again for a detailed discussion on Student Mentorship Program. I have been given the responsibility to pen a summary, which I a

Re: [ilugd] FC3 GUI Logon Screen Hanging - 2

2006-01-09 Thread anandsha
Alas found a missing link under /usr/lib link libbz2.so.1 to libbz2.so.1.0.2 was found missing leading to the following problems. Making that link brought up the Login screen and I could login to KDE. Login to GNOME proceeded, but a question dialog-box hiding behind GNOME initialisation GUI Bo

Re: [ilugd] FC3 GUI Logon Screen Hanging - 2

2006-01-06 Thread anandsha
Yet again, Ubuntu cropped up with a problem: Ubuntu 5.10, Breezy Badger, Kernel 2.6.12-10-386 Clean upto login screen, after giving logon credentials I got a message: "GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean that you are out of disc space or that your home directory coul

[ilugd] FC3 GUI Logon Screen Hanging

2006-01-06 Thread anandsha
Using Fedora Core 3, Kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3. Of late I started getting the following message: "Could not start the X Server 9your graphical environment) due to some internal error. Please contact your System Administrator or check your syslog to diagonose. In the meantime this display will be

[ilugd] Samba - ActiveDirectory 2003 issues

2005-12-28 Thread anandsha
I have configured FC4 machine with Samba-3.0.20b [rpm downloaded from samba directly: takes care of MIT Kerberos Library] and configured various options. I am able to do the following correctly: a. Join the FC4 machine to ActiveDirectory Domain [Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1] b. obtain cor

Re: [ilugd] Adding Hindi Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu 5.10

2005-11-20 Thread anandsha
OK. Then what component makes it work. That is, if I were to install a new Keymap for a language as yet unsupported, then what?? anand > it`s working here. > > On 11/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed all packages for Hindi in Ubuntu-5.10 including IIIM

[ilugd] Adding Hindi Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu 5.10

2005-11-19 Thread anandsha
I installed all packages for Hindi in Ubuntu-5.10 including IIIMF and /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dev But I am unable to have Hindi Keyboard Layout option in Keyboard Preferences -> Layout -> Add /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dev was not existing in Ubuntu-5.10 partition and I copied this file from my Fedora

[ilugd] Adding Hindi Keyboard Layout in Ubuntu 5.10

2005-11-19 Thread anandsha
I installed all packages for Hindi in Ubuntu-5.10 including IIIMF and /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dev But I am unable to have Hindi Keyboard Layout option in Keyboard Preferences -> Layout -> Add /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/dev was not existing in Ubuntu-5.10 partition and I copied this file from my Fedora

Re: [ilugd] FC4 woes

2005-11-05 Thread anandsha
Default FC4 is heavily updated. Plase make sure yours is updated. I did an installation last week and it required 730MB worth updates!! Check out your hardware with some other distro as well. LiveCD Knoppix or Ubuntu is a good idea. Anand Shankar - Original Message - From: abhishek j

[ilugd] Strange GNOME experience

2005-10-29 Thread anandsha
My 8-year daughter put me in an unforeseen Linux experience. She started doing all sorts of newbie learning in her GNOME login. I did learn some additional tricks. But now, I do'nt know what she did where, the moment you minimise a window, it simply vanishes. Vanish where?? What property got ch

[ilugd] Planning a maiden Linux setup

2005-09-28 Thread anandsha
This issue has been discussed many a times at various fora, but would like to refresh just before attempting one. I am planning to setup a large, maiden linux desktop installation in a Windows Centric Environment. Hard realities at ground (1) 99% users will be first timers, many may not have he

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-25 Thread anandsha
- Original Message - From: Guntupalli Karunakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, September 25, 2005 1:14 pm Subject: Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads > On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 06:47:19 +0530 > Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/25/05, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrot

Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads

2005-09-23 Thread anandsha
- Original Message - From: Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:49 am Subject: Re: [ilugd] Acers laptop ads > On 9/23/05, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wonder how many folks here have read the fine print in the > latest of Acer's >

[ilugd] yum install exits on no Public Key

2005-08-23 Thread anandsha
Yum install exits after the following message. - Total download size: 9.5 M Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec public key not available for xvidcore-1.0.3-0.lvn.1.3.i386.rpm

[ilugd] Linux LAN and BSNL Dataone

2005-08-21 Thread anandsha
I am trying to have 2 Linux machines connected via a switch, and share the BSNL Dataone ADSL Broadband connection. |PC-1: 192.168.1.2 eth0|---|MT800 Modem+Router:192.168.1.1}--BSNL Network--> | 192.168.2.2 eth1| |---{SWITCH}--|PC-2: 192.168.2.3 eth0| It shou

[ilugd] What is Openpkg??

2005-06-30 Thread anandsha
I was looking for an RPM for Kerberos-1.4.1 based on MIT sources. The only I found was at ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/release/2.4/BIN/ix86-fedora3/kerberos-1.4.1-2.4.0.ix86-fedora3-openpkg.rpm While I do a rpm -ivh it gives a dependency error for openpkg and fsl. While installing openpkg it says it i

Re: [ilugd] BSNL Broadband (Dataone) from Linux

2005-05-26 Thread anandsha
- Original Message - From: Ajay Mulwani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, May 26, 2005 2:21 pm Subject: Re: [ilugd] BSNL Broadband (Dataone) from Linux > > > > I would like to know if anyone else in this group is using Dataone > > (from Noida/Gurgaon/Ghaziabad/Faridabad) and how is his/

[ilugd] Subsys Dead, syslog-ng and SELinux

2005-05-10 Thread anandsha
I recently installed syslog-ng successfully on a FC3-SELinux enabled box. Everything is fine except that: # service syslog-ng status syslog-ng dead but subsys locked # ls --context /var/lock/subsys/syslog-ng -rw--- root root root:object_r:var_lock_t syslog-ng The root:object_r:var_lock_t

Re: [ilugd] Redhat 9.0 on SATA

2005-04-12 Thread anandsha
Not supported on RH9.0 to the best of my knowledge. Try FC3 or RHEL4. I am stuck with my recent MSI Motherboard, apparently not supporting Boot from SATA Harddisk, ie I want GRUB on my SATA disk. Hints?? Anand Shankar - Original Message - From: rakesh jaiswal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

[ilugd] Mounting SATA HDD and USB Drives

2005-03-28 Thread anandsha
Default Knoopix 3.7 got confused the moment I added SATA HDD to my system. Earlier it used to mount USB Drive as /dev/uba (Kernel 2.6) or /dev/sda1 (Kernel 2.4) but with SATA it refused to identify my USB Drive. How should I mount SATA and USB drives? Is it /dev/sda and /dev/sdb ? Any pointers

[ilugd] How much RAM ? : dmesg vs /proc/memnfo

2005-03-22 Thread anandsha
I am stuck. I have to establish how much RAM does this Industrial PC running linux has? === dmesg output states RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192k size === cat /proc/meminfo states total usedfree shared

Re: [ilugd] FLOSS Advocacy on a Business Card

2005-03-08 Thread anandsha
- Original Message - From: satyakam goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2005 1:05 am Subject: Re: [ilugd] FLOSS Advocacy on a Business Card > > I know of a Linux Project, which produces A4 size Catalogue for > similar > > purpose. Do u know of any links or any such card

Re: [ilugd] Enquiry about linux

2005-03-03 Thread anandsha
Finally it appears that it is just possible to have as many Linux Distributions as groups of people who think this is the "right" thing for "them". You will agree that your "right" is not my "right". The group's strength here depends on the degree of consensus of what is "right". These are more

[ilugd] Scribus 1.3.0 to Support CTL - Indic Languages

2005-02-16 Thread anandsha
Complex Script Languages Supported in Scribus 1.3.x The Scribus Team and various contributors began work a few months ago on 1.3.x development and the fruits of this are beginning to show. The Scribus Team is pleased to present some early stage screenshots of support for complex non-Latin langua

Re: [ilugd] FC#3 needed

2005-01-08 Thread anandsha
They are also available as CD images on the DVD of January 2005 Digit issue. Anand Shankar Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user

[ilugd] Food for thought on the New Year Eve

2005-01-03 Thread anandsha
I have still not read but a MUST READ for all of us. --QUOTE-- A New Linux Business Model Although Open Source Unix like operating systems have become leaders in the world servers, and initiatives such as the W3C have delivered the de facto stand

[ilugd] Indemnification & Linux vs Windows

2004-10-28 Thread anandsha
Recommended Reads: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/execmail/ http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2004102717385992 Anand Shankar Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Programme for LDD 2k4

2004-09-24 Thread anandsha
I find session on localisation missing in the program. It seems the speaker tripped. I volunteer to do the session in the evening if there is time and someone is interested. Anand Shankar - Original Message - From: Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:59 pm

Re: [ilugd] grub (in pata) can't boot winxp (in sata)

2004-09-21 Thread anandsha
I hazard a guess and I may be wrong! SATA support in Kernel 2.4 was recently backported from Kernel 2.6. Check out for SATA support in your kernel. - Original Message - From: "R.Vijayaraghavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:08 am Subject: [ilugd] grub (in pat

Re: [ilugd] Volunteer, Demo and Speaker Meet

2004-09-21 Thread anandsha
Too far for me!! I would have to travel from Gurgaon to Cp and CP to Faridabad. I can manage South Delhi! anand - Original Message - From: Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 1:59 am Subject: [ilugd] Volunteer, Demo and Speaker Meet > Hi, > > Can the volunt

Re: [ilugd] LDD2k4 poster draft

2004-09-13 Thread anandsha
I would prefer the second one. Could'nt see ILUGD Logo? My disk out of space? > http://kandalaya.org/download/ldd2.xcf.bz2 Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://ne

Re: [ilugd] minutes of the LDD2K4 planning meeting

2004-09-12 Thread anandsha
I hope I should be in a position to volunteer for the Indlinux demo. 99.9%. What should I do for the remaining 0.1% anand - Original Message - From: Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, September 12, 2004 9:34 pm Subject: Re: [ilugd] minutes of the LDD2K4 planning meeting > ---

[ilugd] DTP with Unicode Data

2004-09-10 Thread anandsha
Having adopted Unicode based word-processors for Hindi (MS Office XP and Open Office 1.1.1), we have lots of data getting generated in Hindi. The problem is when some of the users want this to be sent to a publisher for getting it published as a book. First of all, none in the market are having

[ilugd] /dev/null read only!!

2004-09-08 Thread anandsha
Yesterday I landed into this crisis, on my 64MB, P2-233MHz, FC1-GNOME, notebook: System boots fine, but as soon as init scripts start, I start getting lots of "FAIL" all indicating /dev/null : read only filesystem. My god, I never faced this all my Linux experience. e2fsck's show clean filesyste

Re: [ilugd] Looking for a good AMD board for Linux

2004-07-06 Thread anandsha
Here is another alternative: http://www.kobian.com/products.php?productid=457 Mercury KNF2M-L VIA 194a controller Realtek LAN Selectable 2 or 6-CH audio from onboard C-Media CMI9739A AC’97 v2.2 compliant CODEC with 18-bit ADC and 20-bit DAC resolution Onboard Winbond W83627HF LPC bus I/O contr

[ilugd] Looking for a good AMD board for Linux

2004-07-05 Thread anandsha
I intend to purchase an AMD box with AMD Athlon XP 2500+ CPU. The machine is intended to be used as a Linux enthusiast for typical SOHO user. It is not intended for Gaming, Video Editing and other such demanding apps. I prefer the following features on the Motherboard: - 512MB DDR-RAM for 333 M

[ilugd] Knoppix3.4 available

2004-05-11 Thread anandsha
Successfully downloaded and burnt a sparable copy of Knoppix 3.4 How can I make it available to Ilugd? Can not make to to the coming 3rd sunday meet. Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilu

[ilugd] No Bootfloppy: How to boot back into Linux?

2004-05-11 Thread anandsha
I installed PCQLinux2004 on a IBM R40e Laptop, which did not have a floppy drive and had Windows XP installed. There was 6GB of free space, which I used to install Linux (/dev/hda3). After installation, How do I boot back into Linux? I could use PCQLinux2004 in rescue mode and see vmlinuz file

[ilugd] OOo : Howto Batch Export to PDF?

2004-05-03 Thread anandsha
1. Need to convert MS-Word etc file to PDF in bulk. Doing it one by one is a pain. Any way by which we can batch export a collection of MS Word / OOo files to PDF?? 2. Any way to merge 2 or more PDF files together to form a single PDF file? Anand Shankar ___

[ilugd] FLOSS Electronic Auction Application?

2004-03-30 Thread anandsha
Any one aware of any FLOSS Electronic Auction Application?? anand ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[E

[ilugd] Libraries: Mixing Old and New Libraries

2004-03-15 Thread anandsha
I want to install nmap. Got appropirate RPM files and resolved package dependencies. But it still has following dependencies: libcrypto.so.2 and libssl.so.2 I am using Fedora Core 1 and have libcrypto.so.4 and in /lib directory. These 2 files required by nmap, are available in another RH7.2 sys

Re: [ilugd] Resolved: Crisis with Corrupt Open Office File

2004-03-10 Thread anandsha
h 10, 2004 2:13 pm > Subject: [ilugd] Re: Crisis with Corrupt Open Office File > > > anandsha wrote: > > > 1. Got an important file in OO Corrupt. > > > 2. Opened it as a zip file (Had to even fix the zip file) and > > extracted> content.xml 3.

Re: [ilugd] Re: Crisis with Corrupt Open Office File

2004-03-10 Thread anandsha
rupt Open Office File > anandsha wrote: > > 1. Got an important file in OO Corrupt. > > 2. Opened it as a zip file (Had to even fix the zip file) and > extracted> content.xml 3. To recover the file, opened the file in > a browser

[ilugd] Crisis with Corrupt Open Office File

2004-03-10 Thread anandsha
1. Got an important file in OO Corrupt. 2. Opened it as a zip file (Had to even fix the zip file) and extracted content.xml 3. To recover the file, opened the file in a browser(IE). The following error message results: -- The system cannot locate the resourc

Re: [ilugd] LinuxAsia2004 update

2004-02-09 Thread anandsha
I am told, guys in N Place can burn CDs in bulk, at short notice. I spoke to a guy who quoted Rs 35/- per CD along with the media and a paper cover. Anand Shankar - Original Message - From: LinuxLingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, February 9, 2004 10:41 am Subject: Re: [ilugd] Linux

Re: [ilugd] LinuxAsia2004 update

2004-02-08 Thread anandsha
1. I can offer my monitor. I stay at Faridabad. 2. I have IndLinux CD with Hindi and other languages interface. I am not in a position to commit a time schedule though I will be visiting the event sometime. In case we feel somebody can do demos and distribute CDs, I can arrage to have about 10 CD

Re: [ilugd] linux on p1

2003-11-11 Thread anandsha
Bootable CD: DamnSmall Linux I have not checked about installing on HDD, but it should be possible. Anand Shankar - Original Message - From: LinuxLingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 0:08 am Subject: [ilugd] linux on p1 > dear all, > > what's the best approach,

Re: [ilugd] Linux presentation

2003-10-17 Thread anandsha
The new OpenOffice1.1 Windows version has an ActiveX component which will open an OO doc in Internet Explorer. I have,nt tried this as yet, but you could, and tell us HOWTO!! Anand - Original Message - From: Ambar Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, October 17, 2003 0:49 am Subject: R

[ilugd] Python Resources

2003-09-05 Thread anandsha
Interesting Python resources and links: http://www.cetus-links.org/oo_python.html Anand Shankar ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

RE: [ilugd] Re: python perl programming. thanks!

2003-09-03 Thread anandsha
I recall a dicussion which I started on the subject "I want to learn a new programming language: Which one?" in late March 2003, on ilugd, (Unfortunately not on archives). I had Perl in mind when I framed those questions. But this article and my own convictions and study of similar questions at

Re: [ilugd] [semi-OT] python perl programming

2003-09-02 Thread anandsha
Thats the deciding article for me, which made me turn to Python. Anand Shankar - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote http://pythonology.org/success&story=esr eric s raymond on python ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL P