[ilugd] Ruby on Rails

2006-10-18 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello all! I've been missing in action for a long time :) It's been busy here, tough life here in Canada! One of my clients wants to develop applications on the ROR platform (Ruby on Rails) I though this would be a perfect place to enquire if people are looking for work in that area. Please

Re: [ilugd] Societification Update

2005-04-17 Thread Mairu Gupta
Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a society finally registered. The Certificate of Registration (Under Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860) No:. S-52370 of 2005 Linux Users Group duh finally! I remember that huge discussion we had at sarai? When tarun gave us

Re: [ilugd] Creative commons or FDL?

2005-04-08 Thread Mairu Gupta
Open-Source Referees Change the Rules http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1783791,00.asp - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu CDs up for grabs

2005-03-01 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Anupam Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The cds didn't exactly arrive in the best of condition but still they are up for grabs on a first come first serve basis.. Anyone who wants a set can come to my place to pick them up.. Don't miss this chance guys! Ubuntu rocks. !! -m

Re: [ilugd] The Future of Open Source?

2005-02-12 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Manik Ahuja [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Have a hard look at this and give me your frank opinion. http://manikahuja.blogspot.com/ OK, honestly, I love how the green background has been fused with the blue on the top. Brilliant choice. Honest. Going to copy your idea. :) -m

Re: [ilugd] Re: Re: [OT][CrossPost] Creative dot (site down)

2005-02-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
Tarun Dua wrote: 3. If anyone has any issues with this arrangement go ahead have creative.linux-delhi.org pointed to another hosting location. Alright, I can volunteer to register a new domain name for creative dot, if needed. Let's get this started ASAP. ! -m

Re: [ilugd] Re: Re: [OT][CrossPost] Creative dot (site down)

2005-02-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Mairu Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tarun Dua wrote: 3. If anyone has any issues with this arrangement go ahead have creative.linux-delhi.org pointed to another hosting location. Alright, I can volunteer to register a new domain name for creative dot, if needed. Let's get

Re: [ilugd] where's the summary?

2004-08-15 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: i saw mairu making copious notes of the IHC meet on saturday, 5:30pm. he promised he'd upload it. haven't seen it yet. i don't remember much details about the meet, else would have summarized. vivek said he'd be summarizing tonight. i've reached home

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of the linux india planning meeting

2004-08-09 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Shehjar Tikoo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Guys, 15 Aug is not a good day for travelling around. On the other hand, in the evening things should be fine. Your views? Shehjar Evening won't be a big hassle. In fact, it'll be fun. Let's not try to begin any talk on this, otherwise it'll end up

[ilugd] 1 million dollars in open source ;)

2004-08-08 Thread Mairu Gupta
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Re: [ilugd] August meet

2004-07-28 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Raj Shekhar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: +1 To the idea of meeting on 25 August evening. Somewhere in the central Delhi would be better. +3 to central delhi. - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

[ilugd] Carpool in PHP

2004-07-19 Thread Mairu Gupta
hello everyone! I was talking in IRC today, and found Tushar. Soon, we realised that we lived near each other. The fact that we were not in touch, and that we had no central connection as far the transport to the meets was concerned, was sad. Tushar wishes to program a PHP project that will let

Re: [ilugd] Carpool in PHP

2004-07-19 Thread Mairu Gupta
which IRC channel u all hang out? can i have the details? Thanx. Shekhar, get xchat or some irc client. come on in at: irc.freenode.net #linux-india see ya ;/ -Shekhar - Original Message - From: Mairu Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 05:49:32 +051800

Re: [ilugd] Re: Linux Delhi July meet

2004-07-15 Thread Mairu Gupta
As for me i am ready to give this presentation if enough ppl are interested. this presentation requires the users to have understanding of sound and music authoring. This means you should have an idea of how sound design is done. Also, it requires understanding of track overlays,

RE: [ilugd] Re: Re: Revolution OS: Movie about open source movement

2004-06-07 Thread Mairu Gupta
Long mail, I guess its time for me to shut up for some time. :-) why can't we all just get over it? is there any logical end to this discussion? come on guys, lock the thread. - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Re: [ilugd] Re: Re: Re: Revolution OS: Movie about open source :(

2004-06-04 Thread Mairu Gupta
Sorry again to re-offend u gods u guys sure love 2 piss others! um gautam, um. - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: ILUG-D: Contact Us]

2004-04-20 Thread Mairu Gupta
I want to know about the substitutes of Coral Draw ,Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Pagemaker for LINUX platform. Sodipodi, Sketch. Where you can find them: Internet Not very huge downloads, a few megs. M - This mail sent through IMP:

Re: [ilugd] april ilug-d meet

2004-04-18 Thread Mairu Gupta
twelve hot chocolate fudges at nirula's ice-cream parlour. sirtaj, the famous KDE developer, had two. all this after a delicious chinese dinner at Yo! China at Priya Complex, in vasant vihar. which was what the partying gang at linux-delhi headed to, after hungrily devouring some hot

[ilugd] The Forum !

2004-03-12 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello everyone Hell, the mailing list integration with the forum is possible. I posted the question a while ago at the phpBB community. http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=1003750 Second, all technical testing is complete, excluding the above. Whatsay ! M

[ilugd] Winmodems

2004-03-12 Thread Mairu Gupta
think winmodems aren't supported under linux in general as there seems to be no standard interfacing API for them. i do remember the motorola 56k internal i once had that did have a driver module which worked, only it wouldn't sustain high speed very long Is the above true ?

Re: [ilugd] substitute for corel draw

2004-03-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
sodipodi, inkscape, and sketch together please. else they'll shy away, and don't make it a complete replacement. then it works. I am a bit confused of the difference between these programs. Could you elaborate? Mostly they are the same. Sodipodi is very powerful with rendering

[ilugd] Linux servers hacked the most

2004-03-02 Thread Mairu Gupta
[quote] DIGIRISK SPECIALIST Mi2g is likely to get right up the noses of open source advocates everywhere by claiming that Linux servers are the most breached online servers available. The London based outfit said that Linux is the worst, Windows servers had got better and BSDs and Mac OSX were

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD kitty.

2004-02-29 Thread Mairu Gupta
Yea, good idea. What is the amount of traffic that ILUGD generates ? Really depends on that. Quoting amit soni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have no intention of initiating WW-III of flames on ILUGD. What is your opinion about adding moolah to ILUGD kitty by supporting linux related GoogleAds

Re: [ilugd] Where is linux-delhi proposed Forum??

2004-02-26 Thread Mairu Gupta
Uh, if we already have a working forum/discussion board why do we need another one? Specially if the other one costs money? Use the one Nishikant had made, save the money and buy him something nice as a token of appreciation -- perhaps a gift voucher at Amazon or something. Hmm, may

Re: [ilugd] Where is linux-delhi proposed Forum??

2004-02-25 Thread Mairu Gupta
hi, where is the much awaited forum? please tell the url for the same. amit Hey Amit The phpBB forum thingi is under research and Manpreet is working on it. Yes, as Nishikant said we already have a discussion forum on the new ILUGD website, which we will integrate with the main

Re: [ilugd] ILUG-D site is down

2004-02-24 Thread Mairu Gupta
I can ssh to linux-delhi.org but when I call up http://www.linux-delhi.org/, I get The connection was refused when attempting to contact www.linux-delhi.org. -Nishi Nishi Now it seems to be working fabulously again. See. - This mail

Re: [ilugd] Re: Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-19 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yes, i have said this earlier, and am saying it again, mairu, and others for the forum, P L E A S E go visit http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi and evaluate what sandip and kishore got rolling a few months ago. Hi LL Already

[ilugd] The forum begins..

2004-02-19 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hi everyone We are just considering to get the forum started, lets see if we can pull it off. We cannot do this without everyone's support. ALmost Everybody has had a say in the discussion, and most tend to agree that trying wouldnt do any harm. If it works, it's great, and if it doesn't, then

Re: [ilugd] The forum begins..

2004-02-19 Thread Mairu Gupta
Here's an interview of James Atkinson, the founder of phpBB. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/1277 Interesting read. Got some points. Guess we'll go ahead with phpBB. M - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/

Re: [ilugd] Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-18 Thread Mairu Gupta
And how will the people respond to forum posting summaries ? Checking and responding to emails is far easier than checking the forum website. See guys, a forum is not a must read for everyone of you, to begin with. It's opt-in. It's for our popularity, and the fact that all good websites have

Re: [ilugd] Re: Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-18 Thread Mairu Gupta
Mairu, If you feel so strongly about this, so far you have volunteered to :- 1. Get the free hosting space and install your favourite forums software on that. It is the ILUG community that decides. 2. Coax Raj to point forums.linux-delhi.org to the newly created forums site. Coax ?

Re: [ilugd] Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-17 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So for example, we might have: 1. Events and other announcements: subject tag [announce]/[event] : topic - announce 2. Jobs/commercial: subject tag [jobs]/[job]/[opening]/[commercial] : topic - commercial 3. General: topic -

Re: [ilugd] Possible additional feature for the list

2004-02-17 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem with forum is that it will try to split the readers - one would either read the mails or read the forum - people dont have time for both. E..no, we'll have a opt-in for the mails, which can have the forum summary of the day

Re: [ilugd] Threads, top posting and [SNIP]'s

2004-02-16 Thread Mairu Gupta
Without getting personal think of Mairu's mail [ilugd] gOTTA play Video yesterday that appeared in middle of [ilugd] how many? thread. Hi Sudev You're not being personal at all. You see, when i was composing my message, i forgot ilugd's mailing address. So i opened up Raj's post for

[ilugd] gOTTA play Video

2004-02-15 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello all I'm not able to play Video CD's on my Redhat 9. Although Kaboodle and XMMS seem to support the raw data format, but dont play it. However, i'm going to download Xine/aptforrpm/Mplayer, which probably will play these files. Which is the most recommended, plays the most variety and

Re: [ilugd] gOTTA play Video

2004-02-15 Thread Mairu Gupta
While mplayer scores on performance, with the newer computers the difference is becoming less and less noticeable. Use xine instead which comes with stock redhat 9. It is good, and there is a KDE frontend (kaffeine i think) which is supposed to look real sexy. - Sandip Thanks guys,

Re: [ilugd] Re: how many?

2004-02-14 Thread Mairu Gupta
I'm just waiting for the slashdot post. Keep us informed about the Slashdot post in case we miss it here, Pankaj. M - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Re: To All Concerned - can we have linux forum/ board

2004-02-13 Thread Mairu Gupta
Umm..Yeah, bloody great idea if everybody agrees to make me the moderator of the Microsoft sub-forum lol Now seriously, a forum is much more responsibility and time taking. The mailing list that we use now is free and requires no server space, however, forums require resources such as hosting

Re: [ilugd] LinuxAsia, last day

2004-02-13 Thread Mairu Gupta
Yeah its gotta be a three cheers for Raj ! You made it seamlessly possible man. Thanks again ;) People we are missing, also thanks to : Arjun Shehjar Not to forget the fisher's, cooper's, and loreta ? what was the name ? Some guys at our stall really digged this chick lol ;)

[ilugd] Posters Posters Posters

2004-02-10 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello All Final call : Ive got one more poster from viskit, that is all. Two posters in all. I'm making one , for LTSP. So guys, if there are any more, send to me latest by 10am. I'm leavin at 10 Good day ! M - This mail sent through IMP:

Re: [ilugd] Debian Again

2004-02-09 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hi! I had said it earlier and irequest again. Can anyone cut debian cds an dbring it to this months meet. I neeed 3 sets of debian 3.* . Prior to last months meet Mairu said he is downloading cds, what happened. If some one is bringing them plz mail to me with the cost of 3 sets.

[ilugd] Final call for poster ideas

2004-02-09 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello everyone It's 10th now. Tomorrow is the meet. I haven't received any ideas for poster design. All i've got is a nice debian poster from Pankaj, which i've printed. I have no idea what to make, so i don't know how to go about it. Now if you guys dont tell me, then i'm not the one to blame..

Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: Stay at delhi]

2004-02-08 Thread Mairu Gupta
LL/Raju For the 2 people, how many days do they require the stay for ? i dont have a whole lot of space at my place, but i can see what i can do, in case nothing is working out. [as ilug-d is the local host for all LUGs, wonder whether our community can help with logistics for the fsf-india

Re: [ilugd] poster

2004-02-08 Thread Mairu Gupta
[quote] at the preparation meet, we decided people at the meet decide on the text they want to see on posters, and will send a soft copy to me, which should really be sent directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] who is mairu gupta, who phoned-in at the meet and said please count him in for all things

Re: [ilugd] The cloth banner

2004-02-08 Thread Mairu Gupta
It's a 6 feet by 3 feet banner. So shall i just go for the satin one only or one each ? And what exactly must be the text ? M - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ ilugd mailing list

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD at LinuxAsia2004 status

2004-02-05 Thread Mairu Gupta
I've got Knoppix latest complete, just in case. - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

[ilugd] I am spam geezz

2004-01-17 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello everyone My other email [EMAIL PROTECTED], the one i was subscribed from earlier, is giving me problems. It comes back to me and says some outblaze spam filter says its spam. Ive researched a bit and found they have been listing a lot of IP's as spam with no reason. I tried but i cant get

Re: [ilugd] January 18th Meet

2004-01-13 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hi Sudev I need carpool. Coming to Faridabad and not knowing the routes can be killing. Mairu Quoting Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have created a event information on the www.linux-delhi.org site. Please update your attendance status so that I can organise the meet in best possible

RE: [ilugd] Knoppix Kicks!!!!!

2004-01-13 Thread Mairu Gupta
I have the latest (downloaded a week ago) Knoppix 3.2 CD. If anybody wants that, i can get it, as it is, im coming to the meet, likely Mairi :! For:BlueSprint Inc. Quoting Gurpreet Singh Sachdeva [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OUTPORT is a very good tool that can be used. --

Re: [ilugd] I got bandwidth

2004-01-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
Forgive me for the error, its Knoppix 3.3. Quoting Mairu Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all I have some bandwidth here with me. The computer remains online for a long time some times doing something or the other. I figured i can get fedora and mandrake from the people here

Re: [ilugd] I got bandwidth

2004-01-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quoting M. Balakrishna Pillai [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 03:08:08AM -0600, Mairu Gupta wrote: Hello all I have some bandwidth here with me. The computer remains online for a long time some times doing something or the other. I figured i can get fedora and mandrake from

Re: [ilugd] cd download

2004-01-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
LL I have already started it :) Just confirm if this is right file : On : http://www.sysresccd.org/download.en.php The one for stablex86, huh ? Mairu Quoting LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mairu, thanks for the offer of downloading stuff using high bandwidth. i recommend and

Re: [ilugd] cd download

2004-01-11 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hello LL : Downloaded and burnt. How many copies do people need ? Mairu Quoting LinuxLingam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: mairu, thanks for the offer of downloading stuff using high bandwidth. i recommend and request the following, and you could bring copies to the next meet. do courier me a

[ilugd] Suse

2003-12-23 Thread Mairu Gupta
Hi all I need the SuSe Linux CD's as soon as i can. Resource ? :) Mairu - This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ ___ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] linuxDelhi Tshirt+Poster dzn

2003-12-07 Thread Mairu Gupta
If you understand what my own inner bliss means, then if any player in the team plays without it, the team will loose most definitely. Quote My inner bliss does not means that you keep on doing what ever you like. Whoever said THAT. Quote I am sure there was no bliss inviolved in it.

Re: [ilugd] linuxDelhi Tshirt+Poster dzn

2003-12-06 Thread Mairu Gupta
Quote: If every one starts following their bliss then what will be the identity of Linux-Delhi?? It will not be a group any more. To be part of a group or tema you have to keep everyone together and also be part of it at the same time. Every community has a goal of his own which can be acheived