Re: [ilugd] Perl Developers In India

2010-03-10 Thread Nishant Sharma
Me too please regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. http://in.yahoo.com/ ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] DoT wants verification of Internet users online

2009-10-26 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, Found this news on Rediff: http://business.rediff.com/report/2009/oct/26/verify-internet-users-online-says-dot.htm Although, I could not find anything on DoT's website, here is what mentioned in the news: quote Aiming at preventing the misuse of Wi-Fi connectivity by unauthorised users,

Re: [ilugd] Advice needed: which notebook

2009-10-02 Thread Nishant Sharma
I would like buy a notebook. I think even a netbook will do. Please let me know the most economical gadget given my needs which are Whats important: a. X should preferably not need closed-source hacks b. I'd prefer networking that just works with the standard kernel c. as long a

[ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-20 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, Today's Dainik Jagran Delhi edition carried a half page advertisement about workshop for government officials on BOSS GNU/Linux. URL for details mentioned was http://bosslinux.in/workshop It also had invitation from hardware vendors for getting their hardware certified for BOSS GNU/Linux.

Re: [ilugd] NRCFOSS CDAC BOSS Linux Workshop

2009-08-20 Thread Nishant Sharma
Doesn't it have to be open source ? Isn't that the nature of the beast? GPL license in this case? Could you please point out where they post the source tree's and the build scripts ? Just browsed through their website. From the URL

Re: [ilugd] DSC for signing / e-filing

2009-07-20 Thread Nishant Sharma
I had no choice but to use Windows/IE combo to download the certificate.  Once the certificate was installed I could export it and use it with FF on Linux. After a lot of digging, calling, e-mailing, found that (n)codesolutions use the same Aladdin's eToken software and they provide

[ilugd] DSC for signing / e-filing

2009-07-15 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, I am contemplating applying for a DSC from one of the GoI authorised CAs. Problem is that all of them provide PKI Client for Windows or Mac. Only NIC-CA provides a Debian package for Aladdin's eToken PKI Client and its token/Smart Card Reader is supported under Linux. None of the other

Re: [ilugd] Linux + LDAP+ Terminal Server

2009-07-01 Thread Nishant Sharma
If i create a user by useradd command and then login via FreeNX then it is working fine, but now i am not able to figure out how FreeNX will use FDS to authenticate users that are in FDS database and not in /etc/passwd file. First things first. Are you able to login to the server

Re: [ilugd] reliance NetRoaming Broadband+ 3.1Mbps on linux ubuntu?

2009-04-04 Thread Nishant Sharma
01. to monitor my net-use, i was told i have to register at the reliance site. when i registered, the web-engine asked for my name and data-card number, and then sent the password to my data-card number. there's no way i can check the data-card number for an sms. it's not a voice and data

Re: [ilugd] Mail authentication

2008-09-10 Thread Nishant Sharma
Scenario - A sent an email to a B and D. B has tampered with the text of email and forwarded to C. C comes to D with a print copy of email from B. How can D show C that the original email by A and forwarded email by C are modified. D has shown C the original from A but C is not

Re: [ilugd] A Basic LDAP Question

2008-08-29 Thread Nishant Sharma
For large multi-site organisations, is there any norm as to how many LDAP servers (Masters + Slave) should be on the network, primary application being network authentication and authorisation. Point in perspective being, is it a good practice that every physical and geographically

Re: [ilugd] mobile braodband connection ??

2008-07-23 Thread Nishant Sharma
tata indicom supports linux,jus editing d wvdialconf would do d trick,but tata indicom is noway close to broadband...It can jus open webpages.. Isn't it possible to connect two USB modems and aggregate their bandwidths. Considering a single CDMA modem can provide speeds of upto 144kbps,

[ilugd] pvrcinemas.com: Hall of shame?

2008-05-05 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, I had tried many times in the past to book tickets on http://pvrcinemas.com using Firefox/Iceweasel on Debian, but it never worked for me. Yesterday I had sent a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I have received following reply from them: Dear Mr. Sharma, Greeting

Re: [ilugd] pvrcinemas.com: Hall of shame?

2008-05-05 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Niyam, --- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pvrcinemas' site sucks, never works under gnu/linux. i've been regularly checking since circa 2001-end or so. Well, it works only when you change browser identification to MSIE. I tried that on Konqueror, but that is not a solution that we

[ilugd] OOXML approved as international standard

2008-04-02 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, The evil has happened :-( http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/04/02/ooxml_iso_approved/ “Subject to there being no formal appeals from ISO/IEC national bodies in the next two months, the International Standard will accordingly proceed to publication.” Do we stand any chance if an appeal

Re: [ilugd] OOXML approved as international standard

2008-04-02 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Nishant Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The evil has happened :-( Here is the press release by ISO: http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1123 -N -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net Forgot the famous last words? Access your message

Re: [ilugd] Common home with multiboot

2008-03-26 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about having /home as a separate partition, and using that partition as /home in each of the distros? I have it the same way. Problem arises when you have different versions of KDE/Gnome and older version refuses to recognise some

[ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008?

2008-02-29 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, I was just wondering if this budget is FOSS friendly indirectly. Excise duty on packaged softwares is raised to 12%. Now, considering most of the FOSS deployment in India is provided as a service either by individual consultants or companies, which invites a service tax of 12.5%. Any

Re: [ilugd] Broadband Connection

2007-06-29 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Ayush Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to ask everyone that what is the actual download speed they get on their broadband connections? I actualy get 30-32 kB/s on a 256kbps BSNL Dataone connection in Sukhrali village Gurgaon, which is fair. Sometimes there are short bursts to

Re: [ilugd] Broadband Connection

2007-06-28 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Surjo Das [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BSNL Dataone Rocks !!! +1 Apart from few glitches in begining, no problems since past 1 year - 256kbps unlimited data transfer at 900/- per month. Mostly the faults were in the line (cable cuts caused by digging for sewer line) and not in their DSL

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-26 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but alas, i don't know of a single personal or stereo or other oggplayer hardware available in india. MPIO (www.mpio.com) players support OGG format. They are imported by a Lucknow based company called Nabroco (www.nabroco.com). I have one MPIO but

Re: [ilugd] wifi cards at nehru place?

2007-04-21 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- PJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also want to avoid ndiswrapper and binary blobs for religious reasons. Anyone got a non-evil card recently that they can recommend? Or am I doomed anyway I use Zyxel Zyair B-220 USB dongle. It works with Debian's default kernel driver zd1201 and can work in

Re: [ilugd] nokia website for hall of shame?

2007-03-29 Thread Nishant Sharma
http://nokia.co.in am sure loads of other ilug-d users must have faced similar problems. +1 It does not work for me on Firefox, but konqueror is able to show the pages and follow the links. Also it used to complain for newer version of flash when i had checked it long back. Nishant --

Re: [ilugd] nokia website for hall of shame?

2007-03-29 Thread Nishant Sharma
http://nokia.co.in am sure loads of other ilug-d users must have faced similar problems. +1 It does not work for me on Firefox, but konqueror is able to show the pages and follow the links. Also it used to complain for newer version of flash when i had checked it long back. Nishant --

Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to SPSS

2006-09-19 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Akshay, --- Akshay Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for an OSS alternative to SPSS. I with R and PSPP. GNU-R, PSPP, Octave, Gnuplot are statistical analysis/graphing tools available in the FOSS domain. Octave is equivalent to matlab, while GNU R is just like S and S-PLUS.

Re: [ilugd] OSS alternative to SPSS

2006-09-19 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how does octave compare with scilab? I have neither used octave nor scilab personally, I so can not comment on this. regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net

Re: [ilugd] Wireless data card

2006-08-25 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Ram, --- Ramnarayan.K [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Reliance: Huawei card and it does not work on linux (as yet) its presently unsupported You would like to go through following links and see if it works for you: http://spo0nman.blogspot.com/2006/08/huawei-ec321-cdma-on-linux.html

Re: [ilugd] Help on setting Up Relaince CDMA wireless Modem for Internet Connectivity

2006-08-11 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Ram, Is it Sierra Wireless Aircard or a Huawei card? I came to know that Reliance has stopped shipping Sierra Card because of the cost factors. I was able to use Sierra card on Debian and Ubuntu but have never tried Huawei card. You may like to read my experience with Sierra Wireless Aircard

Re: [ilugd] AMD64 Motherboard

2006-07-08 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we do this onlist?? Yes, sure :-). In fact I realised it after pressing the send button and then out of laziness did not send it to the group :-(. Nvidia MoBO with AMD64AthlonX2 processor. I am running Ubuntu (closest to Debian) I believe it is

[ilugd] CDs required: Fedora Core 5

2006-07-06 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi all, Do someone has full set of 5 CDs for Fedora Core 5, preferrably in Gurgaon or South Delhi. Thanks in advance. regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net __ Yahoo! India

Re: [ilugd] L0L on W3C

2006-06-02 Thread Nishant Sharma
Well, it worked without a hitch for me, perhaps I have my browser encoding set to UTF8 by default. If the hosting is I couldn't see the fonts in konqueror while http://bbchindi.com is displaying flawlessly. I guess, the site is not in Unicode. Firefox is able to display it properly as I have

Re: [ilugd] Nokia phone and Reliance connect

2006-04-06 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I already have this but no help. ANother poster mentioned GPRS but Reliancee is CDMA. -- This is the Nokia's Windows INF file. You may try these init strings mentioned here under [3G] here:

Re: [ilugd] Configuring Evolution to fetch mails from MS Exchange

2006-01-12 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi! We have MS Exchange at the backend. Using evolution, I'm able to view/reply to emails that still remain in my virtual folder (mailbox @ the server) BUT am not able to download them locally to my disk. AFAIK, it is the limitation of Exchange Protocol which doesn't allow you to synch

Re: [ilugd] Linux and Laptops -- Help required

2006-01-12 Thread Nishant Sharma
Everyone has its own pros and cons, your choice may depend on its use. Toshiba may give value for money. Toshiba _MAY_ give value for money. I had hard times trying to use in built SD Card Reader, IrDA and ACPI suspend on Debian Sarge but failed. WLAN works fine as its using Intel's cards.

Re: [ilugd] Connecting to VPN in office

2006-01-12 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Tanveer, How to do it in Linux. Is there a ready VPN client You can use vpnc. The only issue is that re-keying is not supported. So, your VPN is connected for 8 hrs at a stretch and then you will have to reconnect it. regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel.

Re: [ilugd] Removing ^M from text files in vi

2006-01-11 Thread Nishant Sharma
What can be the possible reason for this how can i stop this from happening how to get back my code without ^M? In vim do :%s/^M//g ^M is not literal, use CTRL-g CTRL-m to get ^M. regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net Send instant messages

Re: [ilugd] Removing ^M from text files in vi

2006-01-11 Thread Nishant Sharma
^M is not literal, use CTRL-g CTRL-m to get ^M. Sorry for the typo, CTRL-v CTRL-m will give ^M. regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net Send instant messages to your online friends http://in.messenger.yahoo.com

[ilugd] creative.linux-delhi.org throwing mysql errors?

2006-01-04 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi!! http://creative.linux-delhi.org/ is throwing these errors on the home page: warning: Missing argument 4 for _image_insert() in /services/www/creativedot/modules/image/image.module on line 719. warning: Missing argument 5 for _image_insert() in

Re: [ilugd] hello

2005-10-18 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Abhay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know what your views are about Hindi computing and I am no authority to speak about it either but imho Hindi in itself is like an orphan child who has no one to take care of. I oppose your views on calling Hindi an orphan child. It depends on

[ilugd] Tuxpaint hindi translation woes

2005-10-13 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hello all, I've translated some strings for Tuxpaint. I am running Debian Sarge updated till date with ttf-devanagari-fonts and kde-i18n-hi packages installed. Here is the screenshot of the interface: http://nishants.net/hindi/tuxpaint.html As you can see, fonts are not being rendered

Re: [ilugd] Tuxpaint hindi translation woes

2005-10-13 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://nishants.net/hindi/tuxpaint.html [...] link.broken Works from here :-/. Shall I send you the image as attachment? regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net

Re: [ilugd] Hello

2005-10-13 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps - where is the half akshar key in this keymap - Type the Akshar then press D, it will put a Halant to that Akshar and when you type further, automatically it puts it correctly :-) regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel.

Re: [ilugd] Tuxpaint hindi translation woes

2005-10-13 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Guntupalli Karunakar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya its using Raghu, try with Gargi I don't have Raghu on my machine but Gargi and Lohit. This snap is from Bill's machine. seems there is problem with conjuncts, will have to see what toolkit tuxpaint is using. gtk2.x qt 3.2.x or above

Re: [ilugd] Tuxpaint hindi translation woes

2005-10-13 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Gora, --- Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the looks of it, the font is not being rendered correctly, i.e., the renderer lacks Unicode or OpenType support. the UI needs to support Unicode and OpenType. From the list of dependencies you had for tuxpaint, I cannot figure out

Re: [ilugd] Tuxpaint hindi translation woes

2005-10-13 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Nishant Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, what is SDL? It is Simple DirectMedia Layer :-) regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net __ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find

Re: [ilugd] 17 plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-11 Thread Nishant Sharma
Any recommendations for one which isn't mind-blowingly expensive and gives a decent resolution? I'm currently using Not sure about the cost but at our workplace we are using NEC Multisync LCD 1770NX. http://www.nec.com.au/products_detail.aspx?view=234

Re: [ilugd] long BLUG meet outside Bangalore.

2005-10-11 Thread Nishant Sharma
Okay let us have show of hands on outside meet on the following options: 2: Two nights Rs2000 B: Himalayan splendour I vote for 2B. Shall we change the subject of the thread now! regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net

Re: [ilugd] How should I begin?

2005-09-16 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- ramana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just this morning I saw these results and sent the mail ;-) Congrats!! :-) Give us a little more details about your achievement. regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel. http://www.nishants.net

Re: [ilugd] Hijacked Thread: D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-23 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi! --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here are my few bits for the cause. 1. What kind of GNU/Linux materials are required that could help environmental organizations work better ? What are For environmental organizations there are various GIS packages available like GRASS,

Re: [ilugd] Hijacked Thread: D00d3tt3z on ILUG-d?

2005-08-23 Thread Nishant Sharma
Correction: I've friends in few research institutes, who use legacy softwares that are told to them by their seniors, colleagues or project investigators and they've been also told that GNU/Linux is *NOT* suitable for them. This is the case when GRASS is considered to be one of the most advanced

Re: [ilugd] Reliance R-Connect Card

2005-06-03 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hello all :) --- Nishant Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wanted a feedback if anyone has used Reliance R-connect Voice Data Card for GNU/Linux. How is the performance and Although its 1.5 months to this post, here I answer my question myself :-) Got a card and it took just 15

Re: [ilugd] Configuring WiFi and Sierra Aircard on IBM Thinkpad X40

2005-05-18 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi! Linux. I tried the steps as mentioned in the Guide to the Sierra Wireless Aircard 555 for Linux on the Sierra I haven't configured it yet but you can try this one: http://centerclick.org/aircard555/ regards, Nishant -- Peace, Love and Compile the kernel...

[ilugd] Reliance R-Connect Card

2005-04-15 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hello All, Just wanted a feedback if anyone has used Reliance R-connect Voice Data Card for GNU/Linux. How is the performance and is the Call/SMS software is ported to Linux. Thanks in advance. regards, Nishant -- In the begining was the command line... Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your

Re: [ilugd] Reliance R-Connect Card

2005-04-15 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Amit Goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: R-connect Voice Data Card for GNU/Linux. How is the performance and is the Call/SMS software is ported to Linux. I am using it on Dell Inspiron with WINXP Professional. It is superb card, I have no doubts in performance on Windows for this card.

Re: [ilugd] strange ftp problem

2005-04-10 Thread Nishant Sharma
vivek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: because squid is a http proxy and NOT ftp proxy. for ftp proxying Squid is a HTTP proxy server acting as a HTTP-FTP gateway for HTTP clients, not a FTP proxy for FTP clients. http://www.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/199802/0204.html That is why