[ilugd] Google Summer of Code 2013 - projects on language technologies

2013-04-11 Thread sankarshan
-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/smc I'd request that you help us forward the links to interested students and, mentors. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] MediaGoblin - Our own Media Publishing Software

2013-04-01 Thread sankarshan
be obvious to technically aware users or, hackers. It isn't so obvious at a mass scale (and, neither is it easily localized). I'd request that when creating a tagline, it be kept simple. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [ilugd] Need help in Research Work

2013-02-25 Thread sankarshan
provide. Since you mention SAP ERP, have you had the chance to look at OpenERP and Compiere ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [fosscomm] Migration to GNU/Linux: Suggestions needed

2013-01-10 Thread sankarshan
posts on the LUG-Chennai list about FOSSLabs being set up. Perhaps you can look at the archives and check how to go about. An article was also published at http://www.linuxforu.com/2011/09/baskar-selvaraj-interview-foss-power-in-170-tamil-college-labs/ -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https

Re: [ilugd] Laptop for Fedora any recommendations?

2012-02-07 Thread sankarshan
a look at http://smolt.fedoraproject.org/static/stats/stats.html to figure out what works and what doesn't etc -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] [CrossPosted] Re: LibreOffice In Indian Languages

2012-02-06 Thread sankarshan
. In that case I need to know more about it. Can you connect me to someone? The BoD should provide you with a way to connect to Charles Schulz and Florian Effenberger. Between them they covered NLC and Marketing at OO.o and, now at LibO.o -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org

[ilugd] [CrossPosted] Re: LibreOffice In Indian Languages

2012-02-05 Thread sankarshan
contributions to OO.o swung over to LO.o the moment the repositories and workflows were set up. ps: If you are cross posting for wider audience, stating it in the subject line itself is a good thing to do. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog

Re: [ilugd] Getting started with Linux Kernel Development

2011-12-11 Thread sankarshan
allow you to begin studying and writing a few modules. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [OT]: FLOSS Start-Ups In India?

2011-11-20 Thread sankarshan
-up ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread sankarshan
? If that is the question then yes, if you are converting it to the format supported by the device. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Fedora Repo in RHEL

2010-04-19 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 7:41 PM, subodh subodh.rohi...@gmail.com wrote: Can I use fedora repository to install software in RHEL ?? If yes then how You are probably looking for http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog

Re: [ilugd] How to install Ubuntu 9.10 form Network

2010-04-09 Thread sankarshan
minimum installation via a recipe/manifest and then build on that using package installation methods. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

Re: [ilugd] Open Source tool for Knowledge management

2009-10-20 Thread sankarshan
/Features.html it provides an overview of features you could choose to have. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from Westford, MA, United States ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

Re: [ilugd] Open Source tool for Knowledge management

2009-10-19 Thread sankarshan
and, other features that are good to have. Knowledge Management systems include a wide swathe of software and tools. If you'd like to hone in on the appropriate one, it is best to start with the features you are looking for. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog Sent from

[ilugd] Fwd: [OLPC India] Volunteers needed for deploying OLPCs in Delhi

2009-09-04 Thread sankarshan
Please contact Saurabh directly. /sankarshan -- Forwarded message -- From: Saurabh Adhikari adhika...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 1:31 PM Subject: [OLPC India] Volunteers needed for deploying OLPCs in Delhi To: olpc in...@lists.laptop.org We need a number

Re: [ilugd] Kickstart Problem

2009-08-08 Thread sankarshan
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 7:08 AM, Kamal Kishorekamal...@gmail.com wrote:          I am not able to install through kickstart with PXE. Please help and tell what is the procedure in RHEL5? It is a bit difficult to figure out what you are doing and, what is not working, with the data you have

[ilugd] Forwarded from : [fosscomm] URGENT: Need to lobby with NASSCOM, MAIT and MCIT

2009-07-06 Thread sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
http://lists.fosscom.in/pipermail/network-fosscom.in/2009-July/000346.html I don't recall reading blogs post the fosscomm meet, forwarding the URL to the appropriate mail to the list. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of

[ilugd] [Commercial] Quality Assurance Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune

2009-06-02 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
The following Quality Assurance Engineer roles are in the process of being hired at Red Hat (Pune). Interested candidates may send in their resumes to careers-in at redhat dot com. Please mention in the subject line of the mail the role. *JBoss Operations Network Quality Assurance Engineer*

Re: [ilugd] Remove Membership from ilugd Group.....

2009-05-11 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Asif Zaheer sa_naz...@yahoo.com wrote: Pls remove my member ship from the group ilugd User: Syed Asif Zaheer Email : sa_naz...@yahoo.com. Pls do the need full asap. Self-service appreciated via: http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd --

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

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: The LUGs should now move to provide umbrella for more specialist interest groups like Python, PHP, C/C++, RoR, Databases, Cloud Computing, Security, Application specific software stacks, Policy and evangelize related topics and

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

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: BTW, OpenOffice reads PDF?  I didn't know that! http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of

Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: on the other hand, i hope oracle gets inspired by its collection of software to start considering converting its model away from software licenses to services, thereby making oracle software foss. You do realize that

Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Friday 10 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF text (e.g. in Kpdf

Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF text (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the complete Urdu text beautifully. If you use the same font to write something in a standard

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

2009-03-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: Also from what little I understand, these matters are still evolving. As Mr. Duggal of Supreme Court says it The same case presented the same way to 5 different judges may lead to 5 different decisions I have my own take

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

2009-02-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:19 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/freedin-day-1/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation is for historical purposes only. I hope Kishore did not actually point out this specific URL. --

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

2009-02-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Kishore Bhargava I didn't actually point to any URL at all, I just clearly mentioned the Fedora Project as a supporter of the community and specifically a supporter of freed.in/2009. Wonderful. You made our day :) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] LGPL License Option Added to Qt

2009-01-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeep...@gmail.com wrote: QtSoftware has decided to add LGPL license to Qt. Following has more details. and thereby all the fun goes out of the mailing lists -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published

Re: [ilugd] Fedora 10 Subnet mask changes

2008-12-09 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Raj Mathur wrote: That's not fair on a number of users actually. You will find a large number of people only file bugs when there's a compelling reason for them to continue using a (sub-)system and the bug-fix is something they can't live without, or if they're committed to the bug-fix

Re: [ilugd] Fedora 10 Subnet mask changes

2008-12-08 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: I installed Fedora 10, but when I enter 255.255.255.0 in the subnet mask, it automatically changes to the default gateway address, I am using static IP setting and am not using the new network manager. Why aren't you ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine

Re: [ilugd] Fedora 10 Subnet mask changes

2008-12-08 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Gateway IP is not being masked by subnet mask, it remains the one I entered. But the subnet gets replaced by the default gateway IP. I almost reached to the point of start using F10 insted of Ubuntu, but thanks to the Fedora Team, I am back to Ubuntu for their bugs.

Re: [ilugd] Fedora 10 Subnet mask changes

2008-12-08 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Atanu Datta wrote: Sankarshan, the problem with Bugzilla is that it's been designed with a developer or a general geek in mind. Even Cory Doctorow, featured on RHM [http://www.redhat.com/magazine/020jun06/features/video_doctorow/], in an LJ interview published in November issue says

Re: [ilugd] Fedora 10 Subnet mask changes

2008-12-08 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: With all due respect, Sankarshan, now where does LFY come into picture? Did I post the issue as LFY member? I don't know who you work for and it doesn't matter to me at all. Nope the mistake is mine and I did just point it out in a response to Atanu separately

[ilugd] [Commercial - somewhat] Re: M$ Excel to Open Office Calc Migration

2008-11-25 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
narendra sisodiya wrote: * do we have expert or consultancy which can help/service in migration process. ? Rajesh (cc: ed) does that professionally. -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-24 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Chirag Anand wrote: I agree with everyone here...regarding FOSS companies. The reason that I raised this point is the recession that we are facing today. Nobody is sure of their placements in any company. The only ray of light that we see today is open source projects and FOSS companies. I

Re: [ilugd] List of Corporates using Linux Desktops?

2008-11-21 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Chirag Anand wrote: Can you tell me, that so many FOSS companies are here on this mailing list but why you do not come to campuses?? Or why you do not take freshers (i may be wrong here), but i have seen job openings in LFY...not a single opening for freshers. Please tell me, where do we go

Re: [ilugd] Dell XPS M1330 And Ubuntu

2008-11-05 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a mail from Dell, regarding the same and it says: According to the email received, I understand that you are trying to install Linux operating system on the machine, and you want to know if your warranty will be effected or not. The warranty is for the

Re: [ilugd] Compiling Online With GCC

2008-11-04 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Chirag Anand wrote: We are hosting a programming competition in our college this weekend. We have a RHEL 4 server in our college on which we are planning to upload the code, compile the code there only and matching with the output. The problem is, that we want everyone to do all this from

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: “I don ’t think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop ”

2008-10-31 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: Some interesting reading here: Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop Check out this URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2894tag=nl.e539 And I don't think there is anything new in that. The question for the desktop

Re: [ilugd] [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Email archival without mailing list software

2008-10-30 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Saurabh Nanda wrote: Read my thoughts at http://nandz.blogspot.com/2008/10/email-archival-without-mailing-list.html -- does anyone know of something similar that exists already? I'd tend to think that any company which values the need to archive communication related to projects has set in

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-28 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Linux Lingam wrote: for software has jumped out of tape-reels and floppies, away from cds to more of downloads, and quite soon, will rapidly move away from hard-disks, to the 'hosted computing model' and its ilk. or, in brutally simplistic words, 'software inside a web-browser' available

Re: [ilugd] The Google Cookie Conspiracy

2008-10-23 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
amar akshat wrote: I recently had my paper accepted for publication in IAENG conference WCECS 2008 @ San Francisco regarding Google Cookies. The paper title was Security Mutation Algorithm For Google Print and Google Search Security Deficiency. I had discovered the fact that Google in one

Re: [ilugd] Debian is GNU/Linux, Debian is the most stable and popular Free Linux distribution. It guarntees the four freedoms of GPL and any body can gain commercial benefits by selling the debian ,

2008-10-16 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
M.S.Yatnatti wrote: [snip] In the following article Debian is mentioned as Non-Commercial linux distribution.IN my view it is incorrect. My view is all are free linux distributions in terms of freedom.All can be commercially benefited if some body wants to do open source business.To

Re: [ilugd] Understanding the GNU GPL definition of free software. Is The classification of free and commercial Linux Distribution is incorrect.?

2008-10-15 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Hmm... here we go again :) M.S.Yatnatti wrote: Linux distributions are free. Free means freedom and not about cost. whether they call themselves free or commercial. GPL is all about four freedoms not about cost. FSF suggest the few words to be avoided one among them is commercial.

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-11 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: Dear sir , We have noted your points .Thanks for your feed back.For some persons freedom� of software is looks like fun.When we lose total freedom then only we understand the value of freedom. But FOSS is big community .it will take care of every body's

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Contest To Encourage Students

2008-10-11 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: During the Software Freedom Day discussion @ Delhi, there was a point that how we can work towards further promoting/increasing penetration of Free Software in India. There was a suggestion to start a Contest at student level to encourage them to work on Free Software/

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-10 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: Thanks for your response. I did not asked you to provide me what red hat says in its websites .As you have forwarded me the list. I need your views on the topic .Your logic. I am pretty much surprised as to why you are so eager to obtain, collect, collate

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-09 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
[there is no sane way I could unwrap the word wrap in this mail - apologies in advance] M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD wrote: I really unable to understand why my mails in the list are cobbling.Don't worry about that . In few days I shall have document neatly typed in very proper manner..Do

Re: [ilugd] which mailing list sending/management/archiving software used for ilugd ?

2008-10-08 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Nalin Savara wrote: Can someone tell me which mailing list sending/management/archiving software used for ilugd ? http://www.mail-archive.com/faq.html#newlist would have your answer (perhaps) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public

[ilugd] [Commercial] Software Support Engineer - Level 3 opening at Red Hat, Pune

2008-10-03 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
The role expects the Engineer to resolve complex customer problems on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related Red Hat products. The Engineer is expected to work closely with the Development Engineering Team and the Support Organizations. In this role, the Engineer will analyze upstream development

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Gaurav Mishra wrote: GPL doens`t says that when you use some code , Go spoonfeed the changes back to developers, The code is open all there , And the point made by canonical not to make it upstream for each project is valid and practical. No way some company go behind 1000`s bugzilla to track

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-29 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: [snipped the quotes from Greg's blog] And this response brings me back to my main point of my talk, which most people seem to have missed as they were upset at me pointing out Canonical's lack of upstream contributions. And that point was, and still is: Developers who

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-28 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: So, I am bringing this issue to the lista and have people's opinion as to how much Canonical has contributed and how wise is the decision to use Ubuntu? I'd say that the 'Canonical' aspect of Greg's talk has over shadowed a much more pertinent take-away from it - that

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-23 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: I admire that piece and completely agree with you. Instead of asking new users to relocate, lets put more and more FOSS things on windows. Once they are ok with Firefox, then OO.o...and much more, it won't be much of an issue pulling off Windows base and replace with

Re: [ilugd] Need Fedora 9 DVD.

2008-09-05 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
narendra sisodiya wrote: Again, I do not know, how much it is needed. Will is be benefical to have a repo at Delhi ? It should be adding to the user experience when downloading Fedora from India. So, if one were to look at setting up a Fedora mirror for the public based out of North India,

Re: [ilugd] Need Fedora 9 DVD.

2008-09-04 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
narendra sisodiya wrote: You can also take from IIT D, it has internal repository http://10.10.4.1 Is there a chance that IIT Delhi can be the host to an external mirror for Fedora ? -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of

Re: [ilugd] Google's browser - Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Raj Mathur wrote: Not too late to start supporting the existing developers and projects instead of starting your own incompatible projects, Google! http://tieguy.org/blog/2008/09/01/quick-thought-on-blizzards-thoughts-on-google-chrome/ It is a pretty bizarre “market” where the major

Re: [ilugd] Free Community Linux for Enterprises

2008-08-31 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Smruti wrote: Impressive yet scary. People always had an impression that writing open source software and giving them away for free is not the end. You STILL can earn money through support. But after things like this, is there still a place left for making a buck or two? [quote] Not

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Raj Mathur wrote: In a nutshell, it's a Core2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, widescreen (ugh!) 1280x800 resolution (ugh!), 160GB disk, standard WiFi, Ethernet, DVD writer, card reader, etc. The TechSpecs state that it is a IntelPro 3945ABG - so should be good to go on all distributions. To be absolutely

Re: [ilugd] Meet today - feedback - where does the money comes from in FOSS

2008-08-23 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
abhishek jain wrote: A question arised - what is the motivator behind the FOSS development, is it money, or rather can it be money. There is an existing body of papers on similar themes at http://opensource.mit.edu/online_papers.php?lim=1000 -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature

Re: [ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Quality Engineering - Identity Management openings at Red Hat

2008-07-31 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Raj Mathur wrote: On Thursday 31 Jul 2008, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) wrote: [snip] Sr Software Engineer Identity Management RH having an identity crisis? :) LOL :) It is actually called Identity and Access Management Group ie IAM, but that leads to more such in-jokes -- http

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Quality Engineering - Identity Management openings at Red Hat

2008-07-30 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Red Hat is building out the suite of products including Red Hat Directory Server, Red Hat Certificate System and Red Hat Enterprise IPA. Openings are for Senior Software Engineer, Quality Engineering for Identity and Access Management Group at Red Hat, Pune. Essential Requirements: Candidates

Re: [ilugd] Linux compatibility with Dell Latitude laptop

2008-07-16 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
sonika tyagi wrote: I am planning to buy a laptop. As my institute supports only the dell-latitutes at this moment. I wish to know if Fedora 7 or above (or Red Hat enterprise) works all right with it. Dell-precision is the seond choice I have if 'latitute with linux' option does not work out.

Re: [ilugd] Licences and all that

2008-07-10 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Raj Mathur wrote: Would you be interested in a discussion at the next ILUGD meet on the various types of FOSS licences, what precisely they imply for the developer, distributor and user and how to use them? I would be for one. Can someone please (if it is not too much of a problem) record

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-03 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
shirish wrote: Hi all, You guys are a real riot. I liked the whole thread :) /me ducks from a flame Hmm... curious that you should ponder that your liking a thread would set ablaze the list. But then, this reply can lead to various strange loops of interpretation. --

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-02 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote: I am forwarding a mail I sent to timezone mailing list sometime back. I should have first discussed this on the ilugd list, but it is still not late. Given that you have already posted to the tz mailing list, what do you hope to achieve by posting it to the LUG-D

Re: [ilugd] {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-18 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
narendra sisodiya wrote: Nice to Read .. And one can only hope that Prachi hasn't talked about information that should not be public -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.creativecommons.org -

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

2008-06-10 Thread Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)
and there are a few more with IOSN / APDIP Caveat: I work at Red Hat, but the URL is not meant to be a PR material for my company -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Anoop John wrote: I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. I took fedora, assuming that if it worked on RHEL it would on fedora too, and with some minor tweaks in the installation script I was able to set it up on Fedora

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Dinesh Shah wrote: What the kernel version has to do with running a program? It is the libraries that matter while running any binary. Some posters here has already asked the OP to run ldd and find the library dependencies. there are a few applications which do require specific kernel

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Harish Pillay wrote: If you have a distro and your program which is LSB compliant you will not see much problems. Yes, that is what LSB has helped achieve. not completely though. the LSB Application Testing suite checks for symbol usage across what can be called the highest common

Re: [ilugd] Bangalore, 15th April: Candle light vigil for Document Freedom

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Linux Lingam wrote: wish our community in delhi was this active. any takers at RKGIT? http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/ has a well reasoned argument on the ooxml issue -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science

Re: [ilugd] [ILUG-BOM] BIS committee votes against ooxml

2008-03-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
, worked hard and worked against tremendous odds to make this happen. ~sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4jOVXQZpNTcrCzMRAnDMAKCdnDTQ8uk/Ugn1rfeMv7m/6gTBNwCfVfAt Ri+oMk4R9vtZuhIxxC2SVJg

[ilugd] [Cross Posted] Mozilla Project Accepted for SoC

2008-03-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/03/mozilla_project_accepted_for_s.html Mozilla Project Accepted for SoC The Mozilla Project has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code. The student application period opens in a

Re: [ilugd] Share Your presentations of freed.in 2008

2008-03-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mukul wrote: | No Reply till now..:( http://frodo.hserus.net/pipermail/freed/2008-February/000155.html - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer opening at Red Hat (Pune)

2008-03-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
If interested, do drop a mail with your CV attached (PDF / text / ODF) along with a small portfolio of code to sankar at redhat dot com. Please do put Software Engineer in the $SUBJECT line. Please do not reply to this list. ~sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux

Re: [ilugd] eeepc.in any users here?

2008-03-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikas Rawal wrote: | We have our own HCL MiLeap to compete with EEEPC. For roughly similar | price, MiLeap gives a conventional 30 GB HDD rather than a 4 GB solid | state drive in EEEPC. MiLeap also has a tablet style thing (MiLeap Y) | for about

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008?

2008-02-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | taxing packaged software does not necessarily mean the budget is FOSS | friendly. i would call the budget foss-friendly ONLY IF this tax, or | some part of this tax, is used by the government to fund, support, | nurture, adopt,

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008?

2008-02-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | plain htm summary somewhere? The fine gentleman who had passed the PDF link had also expressed the intent to summarize it on his very fine blog ;) ie you-know-whom-to-poke - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to Hindi, Kasmiri, and Urdu localisation workshop at Sarai: 7-8 Mar.

2008-02-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: | surely you mean internationalisation? afaik localisation is country/ | region specific and not language specific http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Concepts http://unicode.org/cldr/ - --

Re: [ilugd] Open Source Product/Item comparison tool

2008-02-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there any Open Source tool to compare items where users can select n | number of items and compare them in tabular format. Are you asking for a view aspect of a query run on a database that has the specific

Re: [ilugd] And the winners for FOSS India Awards are...

2008-02-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during | Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by | taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner

Re: [ilugd] Linux Distros DVD and CDs

2008-02-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 narendra sisodiya wrote: | at [EMAIL PROTECTED] , we conduct various Linux workshop and Installathon inside | campus. anybody/company willing to distribute Distro DVDs/CDs via | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IITD students can contact us. Doesn't the [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] what news of OSIW

2008-02-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | am sure people are attending. what's happening? | how's it going? | haven't been able to stumble across any news from the mumbai and | bangalore segments either. If you wait a wee bit longer, I am sure Rahul's going to dedicate

Re: [ilugd] computer teaching compulsory in haryana

2008-02-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | the article does not mention whether this is based on muft and mukt | software and world-class open-standards. | anybody knows? If it is the same regime that was around 2 years back then it might not be muft-mukt etc etc. I'll

Re: [ilugd] suggest a CMS

2008-02-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shrinivasan T wrote: | now, I need a CMS - Content Management System. | | Requirement is | 1. multi user | 2. every user can upload files on any format | 3. email notification on new file arrival to all users | 4. search | 5. download link | 6. if

Re: [ilugd] SATA Disk not detected at time of installation

2008-02-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lokesh Bhog wrote: | Please let me know if there are know issues with installing RHEL 3.0 on SATA Disk ST3160215AS 160GB - Has any one tried installing Linux using this hard disk - which version of Linux supports this? RHEL3 Update 5 should have

[ilugd] Thread Hijacking [was:Re: Uptime]

2007-11-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
on a mailing list (LUG list or any other). Take some time to compose a new mail and of course try and be a bit polite :) :sankarshan [1] http://www.answers.com/topic/thread-hijacking -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http

Re: [ilugd] archives

2007-11-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
you are looking for ? - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http

[ilugd] [OT] Re: [Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?

2007-10-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niraj Sahay wrote: Are you working on any free software or open source (FOSS) project? Do you know anyone who is? For a brief moment I read the $SUBJECT as why *not* in the sense of why one should not enroll :) you might have chosen another

Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: upcoming and/or facebook is another. facebook? i think they got bought over by microsoft. also wonder how easy is it for people to view, add, edit, or comment *without* registering to their service. How about upcoming then

Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: am googling since two days, can't find a complete and/or comprehensive list of foss or foss-related events scheduled for 2008. http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/community/events is one road to take, upcoming and/or facebook

Re: [ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
does Tab Mix Plus [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122] help ? - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw www.linkedin.com/in/sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux

Re: [ilugd] Spam Re: Hindi Rendering Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 03-Oct-07, at 1:44 PM, Ajay Kumar wrote: Type about:buildconfig without the quotes in firefox's address box. You will see something like the following, and would need to check for the --enable-pango flag. wonderful

Re: [ilugd] Hindi Rendering Problem

2007-10-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
is that the matras are placed incorrectly, then the adhe akshar appear with a halant and not as aadhe akshar(technically correct but its difficult to read that ways). ैE.g. लेिकन renders as लेकिन Can you take a quick look at the following: http://www.flickr.com/photos/runa-sankarshan/1475000680

Re: [ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikas Rawal wrote: I would like to run an x-server on a separate virtual console (control+alt+f12), open an x-term there, ssh to the server, and start gnome. That should give me access to two different machines on two virtual consoles (my local

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-16 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 16-Aug-07, at 3:03 PM, Sahil Dave wrote: the free edittion is really good, even i am using it.. but one of my friend wants the spring edition specifically, may be for some official purpose. the spring edition

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-16 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: a friend of mine 'bought' a Mandriva, spent USD 80 on it, because he wanted a box, manual and support. I was quite happy because that way Mandriva gets some money to support the great work they are doing. Good. That

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer openings at Red Hat (Pune)

2007-08-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Red Hat has multiple openings for Software Engineers at Pune. Provided below are the job descriptions along with TAGs which should be used in $SUBJECT line of the application. Please ensure that you provide the CV in Open Document Format (ODF) to

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the data-files are individually larger than 10gb (home video) and cutting and storing sliced versions

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