Re: [ilugd] e-filint IT returns?

2010-07-13 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Garten test :-D -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Where are the archives?

2010-05-23 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
by mailman too is wrong. The point being, we should be able to find a quick link to the list archives from the mails on the list, and not have to search around for the archives. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense of what

Re: [ilugd] [x-post] please recommend a dot matrix printer

2010-05-13 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
is a nasty and time consuming job, and sometimes, takes as much time as manual typing. That is not an unintended typo. Just emphasising. :-D -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- who knows who has written and where it is to be found

Re: [ilugd] phone as modem

2010-05-08 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
be a bit network and phone / model specific on the web. You will have to change the settings from phone's menu again if you want to access the phone's memory. IIRC, gnokii too has capabalities to setup a ppp connection, but I have not used it. . -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard

Re: [ilugd] Where can I buy a Linksys SPA3102 VoIP Adapter?

2010-04-20 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
a separate clearance for this, is not known (to me). -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com It's not the software that's free; it's you. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-16 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
understandable); or the list has not understood his question (more likely, IMHO). -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] Any experience with troff?

2010-04-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
met people who have written their Ph.D. thesis in troff. And I believe that troff is only a processor, you should be looking at groff instead. flamebaitWhy should anybody use Cobol or C when DotGNU is available? I mean, OpenOffice.org. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard

Re: [ilugd] Window Printer IN linux

2010-03-17 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Kamal Kishore said on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:14:24AM +0530,: How to access windows share printer in linux {Centos,Ubuntu,Opensuse}. http://www.google.com/search?q=access+windows+shared+printer+from+linux -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com With freedom comes

Re: [ilugd] Hindi (Devnagri) In Text Console?

2010-03-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
supported there. I mention ML because ML is one of the more poorly supported languages in other areas, though it is catching up pretty fast, thanks to the SMC team. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all

Re: [ilugd] Kernel problem

2010-03-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
, but on Debian, there are two applications available - initramfs-tools and yaird. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing

Re: [ilugd] Hindi Fonts to Unicode converter

2010-03-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Swapnil Bhartiya said on Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:22:50PM +0100,: Is there any .deb package for fonts to unicode converter for Hindi? Try padmaa plugin for Mozilla. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet

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

2010-03-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
chit. music.nokia.* is a candidate for our Hall of Shame. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. --William Penn ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux

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

2010-03-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Mahesh T. Pai said on Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 03:08:52PM +0530,: The threat itself is about the N 95, but the page I posted mentions Typo. Ought to be The thread... -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
on such assignment is NOT considered FOSS compatible. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Funny how people infriging commercial software licences are called pirates, while huge companies infriging the GPL are called users ___ Ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Issue with Texlive [ Latex ]

2010-03-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
the command line, or a GUI, which has been pointed out. Several editors like Emacs and Vim do have a TEX ide built into them, or as plugins. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com It's not the software that's free; it's you

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
and whatever else, and as a super-dooper-chef, I have created my own flavour of fish molee. The big question is, what prevents you from making same flavour of fish molee? -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]: LAWYER, n

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

2010-03-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
, that is what I think. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Open source text to speech browser plug in

2010-03-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Debian sid; but that ought not to be a problem). -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen hawking ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
of that work on your computer. HTH. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com A closed mouth gathers no feet. ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Building tool chain for cross compiling linux for arm

2010-03-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
suitable links. Or Documents that I can refer. http://www.debian.org/ports/arm/ Please do your homework, at least, google before you ask. Please edit out irrelevant parts of a message before you post. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com Man's most judicious trait

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
that the copyright law allows you. That is why it is called a copyleft license. Look into the various documents on fof.org or gnu.org for more details. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth

Re: [ilugd] OT: Blood needed - Noida - any group

2010-02-15 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
, the tests may take some time, and requirement may be very urgent, so the banks may issue blood which is already tested. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen hawking

Re: [ilugd] Question Regarding RedHat 5.4 Download

2009-11-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Amit Sharma amit_...@yahoo.com writes: working after 30 days? I want to use it without RedHat Support, can i use it after 30 days?   regards, amit What you are looking for is called CentOS. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-15 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com writes: Maybe we can collect outdated distro CDs/DVDs and use them like Lord Vishnu's Sudarshan chakras against the moral police :-) ROTFL!!! -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com Free Software - it is free as in FREEDOM

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
...@gmail.com writes: Dear Friends, Key sections of the FOSS manifesto (Point # 1 on FOSS in education, # 4 on open standards, #5 on encouraging freely shareable, FOSS based -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- who knows who has

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Replying to my own post!!! l-( paiva...@gmail.com (Mahesh T. Pai) writes: And the pink papers are appropriately shocked. Same event, covered in another business paper (not a pink paper). http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2009/03/15/stories/2009031551170100.htm -- Mahesh T. Pai

Re: [ilugd] Is the community lacking documentation

2009-03-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
, the -devel mailing lists. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com It's not the software that's free; it's you. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [ilugd] bsnl evdo card on linux

2009-03-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
of dmesg immediately after you plugin the USB device. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com That men do not learn much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach us. --Aldous Huxley

Re: [ilugd] A draft FOSS manifesto for Indian political parties

2009-02-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
in government and government sponsored and funded institutions. In making this requirement, we keep ihe interest of public, as citizens and users foremost and important than the so called rights of software vendors. Feel free to rephrase as you like. -- Mahesh T

Re: [ilugd] Hall of Shame : http://dit.mp.gov.in//incentive11.htm

2009-01-20 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
is done on this. The hall of shame is not about this list; or members of this list alone. Though I do not speak for the list, I beleive that we owe it to the wider world of FLOSS users out there, who may not care about advocacy. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com A: Because

Re: [ilugd] police: is your wifi secured?

2009-01-18 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
initially. Remember the uphar tragedy? The problem was that the building did not conform to the blue prints they had submitted at the time of intial construction. Somewhere along the line, the building was modified, and permissions were granted. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com

Re: [ilugd] police: is your wifi secured?

2009-01-18 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com free - (adj) able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; free from obligations or duties; not bound to servitude; at liberty. ___ ilugd mailinglist

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

2008-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
circumvention of technological measures. /quote -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com Free Software - it is free as in FREEDOM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives

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

2008-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
those non-free devices. And the free/open devices which cost a significant proportion of my annual income. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com Half knowledge is worse than ignorance. --Thomas B. Macaulay ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

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

2008-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
to, say, Google's products? (OT- I can now open the same file in antiword, all of 167922 bytes.) -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com The next best thing to knowing something is to know where to find it. --Samuel Johnson ___ ilugd

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

2008-10-12 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Fedora gets it, PUT in your own logos / trademarks and build your own distribution. Like RHEL. Or CentOS or Fedora. Or Debian. Or Gentoo. Or Ubuntu. Or Mandrivia. Or Slackware. The last option would be more honest. And will make business sense. Best of luck. -- Mahesh T. Pai Free Software

Re: [ilugd] 10 Examples to Make Your Linux Prompt like Angelina Jolie

2008-10-12 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 10 awesome bash tweaks you can't miss: And I took it in the literal sense!!! :( The various versions of the bash prompt has begun to look boring!!! -- Mahesh T. Pai From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]: LAWYER, n. One skilled

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

2008-10-11 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
redistribution. There are umpteen search engines out there; and it will take you very little time to find the relevant material. And there are alternatives to RHEL, if you want to be a sponger and re-distribute RHEL without a quid pro quo. -- Mahesh T. Pai Man's most judicious trait, is a good sense

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

2008-10-11 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
. That is commonsense, I mean, that is the law. but some people do steal. Several are not caught. Several of those who are caught, are not prosecuted. Several of those who are prosecuted _and_ found guilty, are not punished. So?? Go ahead and steal? -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [x-post] neelam dhawan quitting / fired from microsoft?

2008-06-09 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
the community? Or was it because of the ISO fiasco? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
this post, you certainly access the net, and please google for grub documentation. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event

Re: [ilugd] DUAL BOOT DILEMMA

2008-06-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
a strong suspicion that the above is the correct entry. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

Re: [ilugd] when your pc gets sick! (suggestions?)

2008-05-01 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
and a chance to retain the existing state. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ From The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906) [devil]: LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008?

2008-03-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
computer) during his budget speech. He did mention taxes on customised software too. Now, how does 12% excise on package software work to be more expensive than 12.5 (or more as Rahul puts it) service tax on customised software? Is this not FOSS unfriendly? -- Mahesh T. Pai http

Re: [ilugd] Firefox Strange behavior

2007-12-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
www.foo.com/start.php , I get File preferences content File Types Manage Whoa!!! Something is wrong here cannot add any entries here??? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Converting a non network printer to a network printer

2007-11-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
is connected to be on always. HTH. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in

Re: [ilugd] best MTA for an ISP

2007-11-13 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
configuration files can be split. Split configuration is an option. Can be a convenience to manage huge and unweildy systems. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose

Re: [ilugd] Looking for How-to to do Live Stock figures on Intranet

2007-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives

Re: [ilugd] Linux + AMD support

2007-10-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
on that page, and google for each item, like NVIDIA GeForce6100 / nForce430 linux?? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] Looking for How-to to do Live Stock figures on Intranet

2007-10-25 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/183 I know that this is not exactly what you are looking for, but would give some clue... I can get quotes for Indian companies (NSE) using this. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ REVOLUTION, n. An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment

Re: [ilugd] cheap trick with multiple gmail accounts for concurrent logins

2007-09-09 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
rules for filtering. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September

Re: [ilugd] GRUB Loading: Error 17

2007-09-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
kernel installed in any hard disk on your computer. (grub installed on any removeable media is sufficient. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ With freedom comes responsibility. Do not use unauthorised copies of copyrighted material

Re: [ilugd] GRUB Loading: Error 17

2007-09-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
?q=grub+error+17 -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ ``Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty'' ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
(all lower case). -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ E-mail tips http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
machine. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand Russell ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] List etiquette

2007-08-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
/ -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] List etiquette

2007-08-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
. Day before, yesterday and next two days are holidays for me. HAPPY ONAM to all of you ;) And yes, the subject has been discussed several times. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ With freedom comes responsibility. Do not use unauthorised copies of copyrighted material

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-26 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
-a, which is meant for Hindi 'o', and then I can come back and delete the space. What font are you using? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Buy Free Software -- It gives you freedom! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-26 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mahesh T. Pai) writes: das দাশ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: (snip) meant for Hindi 'o', and then I can come back and delete the space. What font are you using? And, uhhh, u does this happen in any other text editing application, like gedit? (no - not emacs or vi

Re: [ilugd] IRCTC site IE Only??

2007-08-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
be demonstrated. It is not machine dependent (I have tried it on different linux machines running debian and ubuntu). Same OS, same browser, same card, same sites, same problem. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ It's not the software that's free; it's you

Re: [ilugd] IRCTC site IE Only??

2007-08-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
afaict. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Distribute Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in

Re: [ilugd] IRCTC site IE Only??

2007-08-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
if there a significant number of failed transactions from free browsers in his logs. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ E-mail tips http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] Wi-fi card for Debian Linux

2007-08-06 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dunno about good yet, but I got a TP-link wn550g which runs on the well-supported atheros chipset at Nehru Place a few days ago. I'll be trying it out in a while. Do post a report. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Copying an idea is plagiarism

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
a crowd gathered around few machines/laptops. The machines with the biggest crowd around them were running gnu/linux in console mode. ;) -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ If your mail client does not support HTML, click here ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --- Mahesh T. Pai wrote: Once at an IT exhibition, I chanced upon the vacant stall of the local linux User Group. Few stalls away, I chanced upon a crowd gathered around few machines/laptops. The machines with the biggest crowd around them were

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-08 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} -- /style Wonder what /. will say to that. would be telefantasticinspiration. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole

Re: [ilugd] Dell joins Microsoft, Novell in Linux pact

2007-05-09 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
a saying - you will fall into the same pit you dug for others. I guess this is what happened to M$. I suggest that somebody who have enough money to go get a server running SLES from Dell; double quick, with all the sources. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ free - (adj) able

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

2007-05-04 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Viksit Gaur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Freed elicits, atleast in me, notions of a bunch of How come nobody thought that this is a type for `Fred'? g.d.r -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself

Re: [ilugd] Off-Topic: ToyStory for Debian's names

2007-04-28 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
', 'potato', 'etch', 'lenny', 'slink' 'hamm' And what makes this offtopic? ;) -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ E-mail tips http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] wifi cards at nehru place?

2007-04-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
. There is a limited functionality however, and have managed to get obexftp work OCCASSIONALLY. Worst -- THREE out of four dongles ahve a MAC id of 11:11:11:11:11:11 Hope wi-fi thingies do not have troubles. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ A: Because it fouls the order

Re: [ilugd] GFDL licence

2007-04-18 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
feeling like a noob , :) Everyone is a noob at some time in their life :) The important thing is not to hesitate to ask questions. Err.. the ``right questions, at the right forum''!!! -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure

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

2007-04-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
by the iso. MoserBaer and mmore have been acceptable whenever I tried transferring files between machines (sneaker net). -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ It's not the software that's free; it's you. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-31 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
(Logical Volume Manager) -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ If your mail client does not support HTML, click here ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
purchased RHEL. Hope I did not get him wrong. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Copying an idea is plagiarism. Copying many ideas from many authors is RESEARCH. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Freedel 2007

2007-03-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, send an empty message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Getting garbled on gmane. Mind reposting the proper email ID with something like address (at) foo dot bar to prevent gmane from gobbling this up? -- Mahesh T. Pai

Re: [ilugd] [ANNOUNCE] Freedel 2007

2007-03-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mahesh T. Pai) writes: Mind reposting the proper email ID with something like address (at) foo dot bar to prevent gmane from gobbling this up? Never mind. That address works, and sending mail to that address did get me subscribed. -- Mahesh T. Pai http

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
the unnecessary parts. HTH. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ E-mail tips http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] deb vs. rpm

2007-02-28 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
weeks) in some mailing list. That said, does this mail have anything to do with ESR's desertion of RH/Fedora ? (grin) -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself

Re: [ilugd] When is a standard not a standard (sub-titled Microsoft and BIS)?

2007-02-23 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
/index.php?page=20051216153153504 Attempts to fast track this as an ECMA standard has met with resistance, so they are now using the ISI. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --Bertrand

[ilugd] IT in Judiciary

2007-02-22 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
http://www.delhidistrictcourts.nic.in/ejournals.htm -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ This signature is generated on a Debian GNU/Linux system by Signify v1.14. For more information visit http://www.debian.org/ ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Choice of scripting language on http://courtnic.nic.in

2007-02-14 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Saurabh Nanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mahesh, Did you get a reply for this? No. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Free Software - it is free as in FREEDOM ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
in a so called Linux Conf ? Nah. They are not against _linux_ but against GPL. Agsint freedom; against freesoftware. It is is Linux's fault if it is gpl'ed and Free a.k.a swatantra. GOT IT? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ ``Those willing to give up a little liberty

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Linux in Gov't

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, does anyone have info on exactly what is the real development going on at CDAC ? Develop project proposals for government funding?? (sorry, but, the experience of indlinux team makes me sarcastic) -- Mahesh T. Pai http

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
the message direct to the target audience. But you decided, admittedly, 2 years back, that our messages will be on stationery paid for my our competition. Our heartfelt thanks!!! -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ free - (adj) able to act at will; not hampered; not under

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Choice of scripting language on http://courtnic.nic.in

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
worked. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Linux in Gov't

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
- and to spend the allocated funds under the allocated heads of account. That is how government works. And if you dont understand that, you cant work with government -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ REVOLUTION, n. An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Linux in Gov't

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
). May be wrong about CIFT. We are trying to check if there are other projects at the CENTRE which have involved using Linux by government officials. Not sure if the above two organisations count as 'central' organisations. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ It's not the software

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Linux in Gov't

2007-02-07 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Mahesh T. Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: un-realise it, its not my baby. I work out of NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC, BOSS is the child of NRC-FOSS at CDAC. so, what is the difference between [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why did both choose identical names

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 47, Issue 5

2007-02-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
was given to the MS for stating their point and in the ultimate the lug remained the looser. A serious, alert [would be] customer will notice the absence of FLOSS activists in an event which is supposed to be about FLOSS. If s/he is does not notice, s/he is not a worthy customer. -- Mahesh T

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-03 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
is to encouraged; and there is nothing to be ashamed of it. By The Way, ever considered the consequences of lawyers' `code' being as closed as (some) software `code'?? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Encryption: A powerful algorithmic encoding technique employed

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Vishnu Gopal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 2/1/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would it compromise the goals/agenda? An event is different from the sponsorship. It's like the Google sponsored ads that I see towards What counts is the cause; not just the event or agenda for the

Re: [ilugd] PPT / ODI convert to VCD

2007-01-20 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
-Out Any thing better?? camstudio misses out the effects... I find that istanbul and recordmydesktop are available on debian, right now on CLI, so could not test them. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://paivakil.blogspot.com REVOLUTION, n. An abrupt change in the form of misgovernment

Re: [ilugd] apache permissions

2006-10-09 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Vaibhav Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well i sorted out the problem by just giving read permissions to my working directory chmod -R 755 /home/webapps i had already created a alias directory here. anyways thanks for the reply. ah!! You drilled a security hole?? -- Mahesh T. Pai http

Re: [ilugd] error 18

2006-10-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
appearing? Normally, -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ ``Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty'' ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of ISF meeting

2006-10-02 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
to plug in their own laptops. MC to have WiFi connectivity for journalists with WiFi enabled laptops. What about printing and faxing? -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Free Software - it is free as in FREEDOM ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Please add www.airindia.com to the ILUGD hall of shame

2006-09-23 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
) From about:plugins libflashplayer.so, Shockwave Flash 7.0 r25 -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Slander - False Confuse - Unclear Obfuscate- Dubious ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] Please add www.airindia.com to the ILUGD hall of shame

2006-09-17 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
-use rights i can make my own personal copy. If you want to create your own DVD, you can always use lxdvdrip. say `apt-cache show lxdvdrip' from CLI. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making

Re: [ilugd] Using KDE Ark for zip files

2006-09-05 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
newbie to deduce, especially from the error message Utility zip is not in your path.. Just another rough edge that'd baffle newbies trying to adopt Linux.. Oui!!! That is bug #267593 in Debian, and is fixed for kde version 3.5 and later. -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ If your

Re: [ilugd] drive can be shared

2006-08-21 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
for IDE disks or /dev/sda1 for sata disks). -- Mahesh T. Pai http://paivakil.blogspot.com/ Distribute Free Software -- Help stamp out Software Hoarding! ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

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