Re: [ilugd] Shocking and Sad news.

2012-12-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
Shocked! Vikas ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Xen/VirtualBox/Intel IOMMU HOWTO

2012-08-20 Thread Vikas Rawal
Covered are: - Basic Xen setup - Compiling and installing a custom kernel for the i915 GPU Hung issue - Extracting a disk image from a VirtualBox VDI - Creating and running a Xen DomU with the image Very well explained. Thanks. I was wondering if you would recommend a desktop user of

Re: [ilugd] [Off-topic]R expert

2011-11-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
We can form one as there are plenty of people, but given the quality of the R mailing lists ... does it make sense? Language can be a reason. ...OK, we have a workshop on R in Kolkata at JU (9,10 Dec'11). I will form one after that.

Re: [ilugd] UID, Aadhar and Open Source

2011-11-21 Thread Vikas Rawal
IMHO, the use of open source, or the lack thereof, is a smaller problem here: The lack of even a sham at protecting individual privacy is a definite problem. Personally, as far as I am concerned, it cannot be soon enough that the IUD^W UID money-grab comes to an end. Too bad that it

Re: [ilugd] Comparison of txt2tags and other light mark-up Languages

2011-11-11 Thread Vikas Rawal
If you don't care about the advanced features, org-mode is a superb lightweight text markup system. I wonder if there are others on ilugd who use org-mode. Any interest in discussing uses of org-mode in the next ilugd meeting? Vikas ___ Ilugd

Re: [ilugd] motherborad

2011-09-22 Thread Vikas Rawal
this mother not boot with centos 5.6 and 6.0. please help how to slove the problem. oops. English language on this sub-continent is doomed. Vikas ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Best pre-paid 3G option in Delhi

2011-07-14 Thread Vikas Rawal
On a related note, anyone suggest an el cheapo mobile phone with 3G, The cheapest solution would be to by el cheapo phone (without 3G) for voice calls and use Nokia 5800 for internet. Since that will reduce the load on Nokia 5800, the battery will survive somewhat longer. All this, if you

Re: [ilugd] [LONG] Re: Large Debian installations in India

2011-04-01 Thread Vikas Rawal
L1 and hopefully L2 support will be handled within the organisation. T and I have been working on documenting standard procedures, and in the past 2 months or so most of them have been handed over to the client's support team, along with some scripts that make life easier for them Do

Re: [ilugd] Nokia xpressmusic 5800 as Bluetooth modem

2011-03-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
Trying to use my Nokia XpressMusic as a Bluetooth modem under Debian GNU/Linux with no luck. I have, in the past, used blueman with network-manager, to connect Nokia 5800 to my debian laptop. Bluetooth setup on my laptop is currently broken and I have not had the time to look into it. But I

Re: [ilugd] Hijack program run by other pseudo terminal

2011-01-20 Thread Vikas Rawal
Hi, Is it possible to hijack process/program which is running on some other pseudo terminal(e.g. pts 0) to the current terminal(say pts 2). I don't want to hijack program of some other user, but I want to interact with the program which I ran some time before like say(20 mins back) and

Re: [ilugd] Command line Email Client

2010-08-29 Thread Vikas Rawal
If you run Debian you can choose between mutt and mutt-matched. mutt-patched. Vikas ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] any prog similar to nokia pc suite

2010-08-21 Thread Vikas Rawal
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Vikas Rawal vikasra...@agrarianresearch.org wrote: http://wiki.kandalaya.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/SynchroniseNokia5800Linux I tried. When I try to add user for a group, I get new window, with cancel and apply button, but there is nothing to select like

Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
As an aside, monitors designed only to view HD movies suck big-time. Don't coders and techies use monitors anymore? With wide-screen monitors, I end up wasting a lot of screen space even when I am only word processing on something like openoffice. In a 4:3 monitor, one could see a lot more of

Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
Imagine editing a word document in 1080X1920.. portrait mode :) Won't it be great? We can see a whole page!! Vikas ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd

Re: [ilugd] 21 monitor in portrait mode?

2010-04-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
But the less than 80 character wide limitation isn't a limitation set by our body it was a limitation set by the older displays. Reading wide displays is surely more difficult that reading shorter width displays. This, as far as I know, is a well accepted fact in publishing industry.

[ilugd] [Commercial] Website design

2010-02-23 Thread Vikas Rawal
who would want to follow up. Vikas - Forwarded message from Chandan Mukherjee chandan.mukher...@gmail.com - Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:15:16 +0530 From: Chandan Mukherjee chandan.mukher...@gmail.com To: Vikas Rawal vikasra...@agrarianresearch.org Subject: A request Vikas, Following

Re: [ilugd] Nokia 5800 and Linux

2009-11-02 Thread Vikas Rawal
Bought myself a Nokia 5800 (yes, it's the XpressMusic series) phone recently and was trying to get it to play nice with Debian. Finally managed to backup contact information from the phone into a directory, and did a little HOWTO on it for posterity. Feedback welcome.

Re: [ilugd] Audio Microphone

2009-08-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
I am trying to pick up some pointers on how to set up audio and recording (microphone) settings. I want to use Skype and it works but the audio quality and volume of output is very low. And more irritatingly the microphone pick up is very low. Even wihen I use headset and external mic there

Re: [ilugd] Audio Microphone

2009-08-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
As I said in comparison the win machines is able to do Skype conversation without need of external speakers or mic. The only way I am able to have minimum volume conversation is by use of external headphones and mic (and that too set at max for mic) I have had trouble in the past with my

Re: [ilugd] Survey for Free / OSS Companies

2009-08-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
Will appreciate if many of you do so, there is some purpose behind this, pl email me offline for knowing that. I find it strange that you do not want to make the purpose of the survey public. Why should anyone participate in a survey whose purpose is not publicly known? Vikas

Re: [ilugd] Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

2009-07-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
A limitation of the present setup is that it sends e-mail only from a particular gmail account. I was able to solve the problem with some help from postfix-users list and from the postfix documentation. There were two parts of the solution. Mutt needed to be be told to force use of envelope

[ilugd] Mutt, postfix setup for multiple e-mail accounts

2009-07-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
On my laptop, I use mutt with postfix for sending e-mails, and fetchmail for receiving them. Postfix is setup to relay mails through gmail. I am the only user on the computer and all mails originating from the computer are sent from my account. A limitation of the present setup is that it sends

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
dimdim is a sophisticated web-conferencing solution, under gpl, but also under various other licenses: http://www.dimdim.com/opensource/dimdim_gpl.html looks like it's geared to take on webex, adobe, and everybody else in the web-conf arena. For the record, the facility to display the

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
Till then one could use a VNC client for that single purpose. Like TightVNC which is under GPL. Yes. But the fact that you can just display your screen on other people's web browser is simpler and more convenient. The fact that it works on windows but not on linux is sad. But you are right,

Re: [ilugd] dimdim anyone?

2009-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
i thought the video-demo showed it working under the macOS as well. you sure it doesn't work under linux? from http://help.dimdim.com/activekb/questions/48/Can+Mac+and+Linux +presenters+share+their+desktop%3F The Screencast (Desktop Share) option is available on Windows Presenters Mac .

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

2008-11-25 Thread Vikas Rawal
One major feedback from excel users who tried calc is that calc does not have pivot tables. I have not tried OO3 yet. Probably, it is supported in it. Pivot tables have been there for some time. I have used them on OO2 and on OO3. Vikas ___

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-10-04 Thread Vikas Rawal
You could try changing the screen resolution and see if that helps. If your resolution is set to 120 dpi you will get huge fonts. [snip] To sum, so far, debian lenny has worked much better on this machine than ubuntu 8.04 did. There are a few minor issues with the debian

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-10-03 Thread Vikas Rawal
Time to switch to a more current distribution like Debian then? :) [snipped] -- Raju I actually took Raju's bait and installed debian testing on the laptop. And this mail is to thank him and record the preliminary results of the shift. 1. Debian (testing/lenny) installed without any issue.

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-09-14 Thread Vikas Rawal
Upgrade may have upgraded the kernel subversion as well. Try the above kernel command line with kernel 2.6.24-18-generic only. It was useful anyway. In that one session when your solution helped me connect to the internet, i installed ndiswrapper. And from the drivers that came with the

[ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-09-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
I just got myself a dell vostro 1310. It came with windows vista but I promptly removed it and installed ubuntu. Among the basic things that are not working yet, the three most important ones are 1. Wired network 2. Wireless network (broadcom card, will need ndiswrapper) 3. Sound Ubuntu

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-09-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
I have same chipset in my desktop an with kernel version 2.6.24-18-generic I have added following kernel command line to make it work pci=routeirq Please try the above and add it at boot and see if it resolves the issue. Could you please explain what does this command do. I tried and it

Re: [ilugd] help with setting up ubuntu on dell vostro 1310

2008-09-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
Time to switch to a more current distribution like Debian then? :) I agree. This machine, however, is for someone else who has is somewhat familiar with ubuntu and would not want to try other distributions. And my take is, the jump from windows to ubuntu has been a big one for someone with a

Re: [ilugd] asus eeepc 4gb with linux spotted in delhi

2008-09-03 Thread Vikas Rawal
Niyam and others, Also look at Acer ASPIRE ONE. Perhaps a better deal at 21K. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

Re: [ilugd] Google's browser - Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Vikas Rawal
Anyone know why Google prefers to start applications competing with existing FOSS projects (and then freeze them) rather than collaborating with and strengthening the existing applications? They hit Openmonko hard with their Android announcement and then tarpitted the developers, so now both

Re: [ilugd] Google's browser - Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Vikas Rawal
And that is why I'm concerned about their apparent policy of drawing developers from other, equally critical FOSS projects into their fold by announcing competing applications. I'd be much happier if they just continued to support existing projects and bringing them up to their standard

Re: [ilugd] Any experiences with Acer Aspire One?

2008-08-28 Thread Vikas Rawal
can't find the subnotebook on google, can u post a link? http://www.acer.co.in/products/product_explore_view.asp?pid=121model=Aspire%20onecid=11 Also, google for 'acer aspire one' Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Any experiences with Acer Aspire One?

2008-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
Acer has recently introduced in India a sub-notebook pre-loaded with Linux (a fedora-based distribution called Linpus lite). The machine runs on an Intel Atom processor, has 1 gig RAM, 120 GB HDD and an 8.9 screen. I am considering picking up a piece but would be interested if anyone has any

Re: [ilugd] Any experiences with Acer Aspire One?

2008-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
I have had mine for about 10 days. Overall I like the machine for my purposes. The battery lasts about 2 1/2 hours, the screen is awesome, not a bit of problems connecting with the internet. I also have used my Verizon modem on the machine and it works just fine. I use Outlook 2003 and

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
After 3 stalwart years of service my IBM notebook has finally decided to give up the ghost, and I'm on the lookout for a new one. Within those 3 years I realised that my use of the notebook was intermittent at best, so don't plan to spend that much on the new box. Currently looking at the

Re: [ilugd] Buying a laptop, suggestions

2008-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
In particular, after the recent reorganisation of their service system, it sucks. The whole thing is not subcontracted to various companies all over Delhi. Sorry for the typo. It should have been: The whole thing is now subcontracted to various companies all over Delhi.

Re: [ilugd] Online writing style and diction checker

2008-07-09 Thread Vikas Rawal
,--- Raj Mathur writes: [...] | Feedback welcome. BTW, anyone know a command-line tool for converting | openoffice documents to plain text? There is also http://stosberg.net/odt2txt/ Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] top 100 best (useful) opensource apps

2008-06-26 Thread Vikas Rawal
i found this a great read, but do look out for exact licenses of each app. the list is quite diverse and comprehensive. something new for all to discover and learn, hopefully. http://ubuntulinuxhelp.com/top-100-of-the-best-useful-opensource-applications/ regards niyam Each to their own

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-08 Thread Vikas Rawal
Vikas I got it. Vikas Yes, I am able to launch gedit and type in gedit. But if I launch Vikas ooffice, I can only type in Hindi. Are you able to type in Hindi, in ooffice, hmm...? Oh sorry. I can only type in English. Quoting from your previous post: - 88

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-08 Thread Vikas Rawal
Vikas Rawal writes: Vikas Tried but no luck. Still only English in ooffice. Hindi works in gedit. Oops, sorry I forgot to mention that I also have 'language-support-hi' which all hindi language support language packages with it. Try installing that and then try ooffice

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-08 Thread Vikas Rawal
Oops, sorry I forgot to mention that I also have 'language-support-hi' which all hindi language support language packages with it. Try installing that and then try ooffice in that terminal (with . /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-bridge and appropriate enviroment variables exported). I

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
abbe [~] chateau $ export |fgrep IM This is what I get. declare -x GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge declare -x QT_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge declare -x XIM=SCIM declare -x XIM_ARGS=-d declare -x XIM_PROGRAM= declare -x XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM Vikas ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
- 88 abbe [~] chateau $ export |fgrep IM - 88 Ashish, There seems to be some problem because of scim XIM support module does not get loaded. I was trying to follow instructions at http://www.scim-im.org/wiki/faq/general/why_xim_apps_does_not_work The output for the

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
- 88 abbe [~] chateau $ export |fgrep IM - 88 Perhaps one problem in my setup was that skim was also installed. I have not removed it. The output of your commands now is as follows. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ . /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-bridge [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:48:52AM +0530, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: abbe [~] chateau $ dpkg -l |awk '/(s(c|k)im|m17n)/ ! /uim/ { print $2 }' libm17n-0 libm17n-dev libscim8c2a libskim0 m17n-db scim scim-bridge-agent scim-bridge-client-gtk scim-bridge-client-qt scim-gtk2-immodule

[ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
In the past, I have used scim with openoffice to type documents in Hindi. The last time I did it was about a year ago when my machine was running Ubuntu 6.10 or 7.04. Since then I have upgraded it to Ubuntu 7.10 and more recently to Ubuntu 8.04. Today when I needed to type a document in Hindi, I

Re: [ilugd] SCIM and openoffice on Ubuntu hardy

2008-05-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
Here is what I did on my box to be able to type in Hindi in OpenOffice.org using SCIM. abbe [~] chateau $ ln -s /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim-bridge ~/.xinput.d/${LANG/.UTF-8/} Above will enable SCIM applications-wide, so all your applications are using SCIM as default input method.

Re: [ilugd] Problem with mounting external disk on debian etch

2008-04-09 Thread Vikas Rawal
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 10 usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using address 11 tail -f /var/log/messages does not say anything more. fdisk -l does not show the disk. See if you can mount /dev/sda or /dev/sdb The machine simply required a restart which I had not

Re: [ilugd] Delete thousands of folders and files

2008-04-07 Thread Vikas Rawal
Don't have root access, so I have to improvise. The fastest solution which I have discovered till now is Konqueror. Would mv to .Trash be as fast? Deleting a file/directory on nautilus moves it the trash bin. I do not know what a delete on konqueror does. But there has to be a command line

[ilugd] Problem with mounting external disk on debian etch

2008-03-29 Thread Vikas Rawal
It is disgusting that I can't handle a simple mounting issue!! I am trying to mount an external usb disk on a debian etch server but somehow it just won't recognise the disk. On plugging out and plugging in the drive, dmesg | tail only shows usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 10 usb 1-3: new

Re: [ilugd] Problem with mounting external disk on debian etch

2008-03-29 Thread Vikas Rawal
Plug in all cables if the drive enclosure has multiple cables, try another usb port (if you have multiple sets of ports on your box). If neither works, get an enclosure with external power :) The present enclosure has external power. So that should not be the problem. I have, for the

Re: [ilugd] [LIG] [LONG] [RANT] Ubuntu and Quality Control

2008-03-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
Before something like that happens, it would be better if Ubuntu just withdrew gracefully from the list of Linux distributions. Let a hundred flowers bloom :) Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-05 Thread Vikas Rawal
in the first place you should have returned the cd to dell and got a refund for the price you paid for vista. Has anyone on this list managed to get a refund from any of the major laptop companies. They all package Windows OS with their laptops. Would be interested if anyone has managed

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

2008-03-04 Thread Vikas Rawal
they've got a site here: http://www.eeepc.in/ 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 30K. I have not seen either

Re: [ilugd] Setting up your laptop/desktop as an access point

2008-03-01 Thread Vikas Rawal
beyond iwconfig eth1 node master. I need DHCP and preferably WPA. I found these two links useful. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Adhoc https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetConnectionSharing Best, Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Setting up your laptop/desktop as an access point

2008-02-28 Thread Vikas Rawal
iwconfig eth1 mode ad-hoc essid 'sandip' channel 11 (or whatever) Sorry for a dumb question. How does one turn it off (that is, stop using it as AP)? This sounds quite interesting. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] port forwarding

2008-01-19 Thread Vikas Rawal
that ssh port is open. Port scan on the router does not show the corresponding port to be open (is it supposed to?). I will be thankful for any pointers. Vikas Rawal ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

[ilugd] Belated, but may still be of interest: Knowledge Commons workshop

2008-01-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
Announcement of a workshop on knowledge commons, including a session on FOSS, to be held at IIT today. May be of interest to some on this list. Vikas Rawal *** Dear Friends, Knowledge Commons is organising a workshop on 18th January in IIT, Delhi (Details later) on the larger issue

Re: [ilugd] Linux webcam

2008-01-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
WHICH MAKE IS THIS CAMERA PL. TELL ME AND IF POSSIBLE SHOP NAME ALSO . The make is Quantum. Raj's first post on this thread gave detailed specifications. It is widely available from any number of shops in Nehru Place. Vikas ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Linux webcam

2008-01-09 Thread Vikas Rawal
Cost: Rs 650 Just for the record, last week I bought it from Nehru Place for Rs. 475. It works pretty much straight out of the box. Works fine with skype. With Ekiga, there was some lag in the video but I have not tested it much. In fact the driver CD provided with the

Re: [ilugd] GPRS usb modems

2007-12-18 Thread Vikas Rawal
Have used the Tata Indicom PCMCIA card, and have been using a Reliance USB modem for the past few months. I see no major differences in connectivity from various places in India. Reliance USB has been pretty reliable, except for their delays in sending bills. I was in a Reliance store

[ilugd] GPRS usb modems

2007-12-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
I would like to know about experiences of people regarding compatibility of GPRS data cards/usb modems with linux. I understand that Tata Indicom has usb modems that support linux. They say so on their website. But I am not too keen to buy a Tata Indicom connection because of limited

Re: [ilugd] GPRS usb modems

2007-12-17 Thread Vikas Rawal
In my view BSNL GPRS is much cheaper. Rs.100p.m. for Postpaid connection and Rs.199p.m. for unlimited GPRS in home circle. If you intend using GPRS then best option in my view is to have a GPRS capable handset with USB datacable and a BSNL CellOne connection. A decent GPRS capable handset

Re: [ilugd] (long mail - a report) Linux FOSS workshop at Acharya Narendra Dev College (Delhi University) formation of College LUG

2007-12-13 Thread Vikas Rawal
Second, I do not produce alternative solutions for running ATMs. If I did, I would in fact want to work with a bank that ran it ATMs on my platform. Huh again? There are other ATM OSes, but the Microsoft based ones are more popular ,current and featured. Now would you as an

Re: [ilugd] (long mail - a report) Linux FOSS workshop at Acharya Narendra Dev College (Delhi University) formation of College LUG

2007-12-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
After all, in principle, they could go to another vendor who will host their website on their platform!! its about a service, not a religion. I don't understand. But it does not bother me too much. I call it quits here. Vikas ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] (long mail - a report) Linux FOSS workshop at Acharya Narendra Dev College (Delhi University) formation of College LUG

2007-12-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
After all, in principle, they could go to another vendor who will host their website on their platform!! Would you stop using banks because their ATMs are based on Windows? It is obviously an incorrect analogy. First, you are comparing decision-making of a corporation with that of an

Re: [ilugd] (long mail - a report) Linux FOSS workshop at Acharya Narendra Dev College (Delhi University) formation of College LUG

2007-12-11 Thread Vikas Rawal
I don't think so. Large corporations have strict guidelines and specifications that their vendors need to follow. These may include: * software with exact version * coding guidelines * documentation guidelines * brand guidelines for logo placements, selection of fonts, selection

Re: [ilugd] amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod

2007-12-02 Thread Vikas Rawal
oh! great. okay, here's my standing offer to the entire ilug-d community. i'd be glad to join anyone who wishes to go out ear-pricking for speakers or gear. will carry some of my reference sample sounds and files which can highlight flaws in even the most sensitive gear. you could start by

Re: [ilugd] Arichuvadi [WAS: Re: amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod]

2007-12-01 Thread Vikas Rawal
the target audience is anyone who wants to learn any Indian language. Unfortunately we are a foss organisation, so cannot use non- free stuff - so we are in the soup. I am strongly tempted to use wav or something which the janata can use. But if we do that - aren't we throwing in

Re: [ilugd] Arichuvadi [WAS: Re: amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod]

2007-12-01 Thread Vikas Rawal
this and every other mailing list on how the faithful are happily listening to mp3 and wav files I suddenly wondered why not us too? How do you get your ogg files? Aren't they encoded from wav files? That is, how do you directly generate ogg files? I do not know much on this but I

Re: [ilugd] DeepaMehta is GPL

2007-11-26 Thread Vikas Rawal
I prefer orgmode in emacs22. incidentally orgmode can export to freemind as well. Very interesting indeed. Thanks for pointing out. BTW. I am unable to set it up for exporting to freemind. As specified, I copied the *.el files to the orgmode directory, and added the following to .emacs

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
There's nothing really wrong with that distribution cycle. In fact, time based release cycle is a good balance between features and quality. If you're not able to keep pace with the releases, know that they are supported for 18 months. And the LTS (like Dapper Drake) are supported for 18

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
LTS is Long Term Support - therefore, LTS (U/Kubuntu 6.06 is supported upto 2009 (36 months) for security (and other) updates fro the desktop edition, whereas the server edition is supported upto 2011 (5 years). What does support refer to? That Ubuntu provides security patches etc. for this

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
For me, the configuration takes about a week. To have a list of packages, I usually Upgrading takes a few hours if you have a good/cheap internet connection. I understand that you can use the alternate-ubuntu-cd to upgrade without needing to download everything while upgrading. I haven't tried

Re: [ilugd] Cannot upgrade ubuntu from fiesty fawn(7.04) to Gutsy Gibbon(7.10)

2007-11-10 Thread Vikas Rawal
meanwhile, i personally stay away from the 'upgrade distro' route, and just do a fresh install on another partition. this way i can jump back and forth between different versions of ubuntu until it's time to let go of *either* one. I would never be able to manage that!! Ubuntu comes with a

Re: [ilugd] Google's Open Source Mobile Platform

2007-11-06 Thread Vikas Rawal
in infinite wisdom Amit Karpe spoke thus On 11/07/2007 01:43 AM: Hi all, Google's Open Source Mobile Platform : Where does it mentions that the Android will be open source? Android built on Linux, made available as open source via the Apache v2 License. from

Re: [ilugd] Planning to purchase a laptop

2007-10-30 Thread Vikas Rawal
Hello, I am planning to purchase a Compaque Presario Notebook V6608AU next week. It has AMD Turion 1.9 GHz processor, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7150M intergrated graphics with upyo 287 MB TAG, 1 GB RAM, 160 GB HDD, etc.. I would like to use linux with it but I am not sure whether the graphics

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Vikas Rawal
KG's mail was in a bad taste. To all those who share this feeling: ignore such comments. No point getting into a point by point discussion over such stuff and give more life to it. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Eben Moglen in Frontline

2007-10-23 Thread Vikas Rawal
We seem to have missed this rather interesting interview. http://www.flonnet.com/fl2420/stories/2007101950761.htm Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Need help choosing a processor Intel or AMD

2007-10-11 Thread Vikas Rawal
Wonder if we could have a site that will allow a user to customise a system in such a way that, as you add/change components, you get to see meters on how the cost changes, how its performace changes, and how its compatibility with linux changes. Wonder if any such thing exists already!! Vikas

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Latest bug from M$

2007-09-26 Thread Vikas Rawal
Excel 2007 Multiplication Bug http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/24/2339203 Forwardng below a message from the r-help mailing list which gives many links on why Excel is a terrible thing to use for statistical work. -- Forwarded message -- From: John Kane [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] Installing Linux on an External Hard Disk

2007-09-23 Thread Vikas Rawal
I have thought of a solution on which I want to get some views. I have spare USB External Hard disk lying around in my desk. So i thought maybe I can install Linux on this and boot from this USB drive when I want to use Linux. See this:

Re: [ilugd] irctc works with firefox/sarge

2007-09-20 Thread Vikas Rawal
Hoorah! I booked some tickets yesterday and irctc.co.in worked just fine. Interesting. The site now works for me too, on ubuntu. BTW. What mode of payment did you use? In the past, when they still had the earlier version of the site, I was unable to pay through by SBI account. Vikas

Re: [ilugd] Name /contact details of chairperson of this Group

2007-09-19 Thread Vikas Rawal
Myself is Ajay Tripathi working in National Internet Exchange of India .I would like to know the name /contact details of chairperson of this Group.Wewould like to sponsor some events.My contact details are attached . money growing on cyber trees :) Vikas

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
chars in Unix. I found the way to do it using vi, but couldnt find a way to like do for a number of files all at once. Any solutions?? Following will work if ^ does not appear elsewhere in the file (other than with ^M at the end of each line). cat filename | cut -d^ -f1 filename If ^

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Request for LUGI seminar

2007-09-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
Mr. Sudhir Gandotra, CEO, Indserve Infotech Pvt. Ltd., the creators of the first enterprise grade GPL Linux distribution from India - OpenLX Linux (www.openlx.com) OpenLX is not GPLed nor is it OpenSource On their website they prominently announce it to be the First Enterprise Grade

Re: [ilugd] Why different newline characters?^M Character

2007-09-15 Thread Vikas Rawal
Ack. Not commenting on the script itself, but this is dangerous. Depending on the shell, filename will be rewritten immediately due to the '' redirection, and thus this will end up making the file blank. Also, Google for Useless use of cat. Ooops!! I did ' filename' without thinking as I

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
My machine specs match and this is going out using Ubuntu on wireless. You need to blacklist bcm43xx driver and use ndiswrapper to install the original windows inf file. See my blog at blog.sudev.in for details. Thanks Sudev. I will try to implement your tips next time I am in Kolkata, and

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
Also, he paid for the Vista along with his PC. The philosophy is not to force and convince people for using Linux/Ubuntu. If a user can afford hefty sum for the Operating System, he can use that. Linux and FOSS started for free availablity of OS and software, and share the knowledge. There

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-11 Thread Vikas Rawal
I think Ubuntu can resize and re-partition Windown NTFS partitions, but I am not sure about Vista. Ubuntu will ask you during install. I was recently trying to use Ubuntu to resize an NTFS partition created by vista, only to find that ubuntu could not resize it. Vista, as I mentioned in an

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Wireless Router

2007-09-09 Thread Vikas Rawal
Another question that I have is how do i go about installing Ubuntu on this laptop. Should i format the drive,install ubuntu and then install the Vista Home Preimium that comes along with it. The pre paritioned configuration has a recovery partition also.Whats that bit for, and does it

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
Which version of OOo is this? (dpkg -l *openoffice* |grep ii) will tell you (sorry do not know synaptic well enough). If you have good bandwidth, you can add some newer repository to get a newer version of OO.o. (Some Ubuntu guru would be able to confirm this). There are serious problems

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
The suggested solution is to download openoffice rpms, use alien to create debs, and then install using dpkg. I think, I will something like this. But, earlier, I have seen that to worsen the situation, though that was for the compiled 'mplayer' or 'lame' in place of the ones from the

Re: [ilugd] Hindi and Ubuntu 7.04

2007-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
Would it not be simpler to just grab Debian Sid's packages instead? Somebody will have to try it out and report if it works. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next

[ilugd] Linus Torvaldes on APC Mag

2007-08-27 Thread Vikas Rawal
An interesting interview, for those who may have missed it. http://apcmag.com/7012/linus_torvalds_talks_about Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in -

[ilugd] Linux for the Handset

2007-08-25 Thread Vikas Rawal
http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2590177877.html Here is an article for those interested in linux based mobile phones. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event:

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