[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] 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. And

[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)
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: The goal of the study is to bring out into public a reliable and independent compilation of some instances where FOSS implementation has been carried out successfully in India. http://skoch.in/html/skoch_redhat_world_is_open_awa3.html has a list of projects and there