Re: [ilugd] Android users here?

2010-12-20 Thread Shantanu Goel
Re: Google contacts/syncing/privacy Contacts syncing in Android is not limited to Google Servers. There are lot of different services it can sync with (e.g. gmail/facebook/twitter/funambol servers, etc). Just a contacts sync adapter is needed. This is for ease of use so that you can contact your

Re: [ilugd] Gaming hardware - compatibility?

2010-09-03 Thread Shantanu Goel
Does anybody here use gaming hardware - like joysticks / steering wheels? Would there be any compatibility issues? Yes, I've used various logitech gamepads, my PS3 gamepad, my PS3 guitar hero guitar controller with Ubuntu without any issues. Thanks Shantanu --

Re: [ilugd] Gaming hardware - compatibility?

2010-09-03 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Shantanu Goel said on Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 11:59:37AM +0530,:   Yes, I've used various logitech gamepads, my PS3 gamepad, my PS3   guitar hero guitar controller with Ubuntu without any issues. What is a guitar controller

[ilugd] iptables + selective proxying of connections

2009-04-07 Thread Shantanu Goel
Hi I need some help on iptables if anyone knows about it here. I have a linux based router and 3 machines (A, B, C) that connect it to access the internet. I need to selectively route a couple of these machines through proxy server(s) while keeping the 3rd machine's connection untouched. I am

Re: [ilugd] Definition for Computer Literate Person

2009-02-10 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:17 PM, narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: wow... good question... Let us set a definition of Computer Literate. *Computer Literate is a person who can install (reinstall) GNU/Linux Distro, (like Ubuntu or Fedora) on his system and he should be

Re: [ilugd] [Very-old-topic] Distro having best compatibility with MS related products

2009-01-15 Thread Shantanu Goel
~Connect to Windows Terminal Server for remote operations tsclient comes in almost all distros. Can be used easily. ~Mail Exchanging (Mail server is MS Exchange) and all other clients are Outlook Dont know about this. ~Intranet website has issues with Firefox(Well, honestly doesn't work on

Re: [ilugd] google selling unlocked android G1 in india

2008-12-08 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [roach-bite] hope to see quite a few of you toting a google android G1 at the http://freed.in event on feb 20 and 21.[/roach-bite] here's the link to

Re: [ilugd] Offline wikipedia...

2008-12-01 Thread Shantanu Goel
Nice!!! :) BTW, I have used some offline wikipedia solutions on my windows mobile phone a couple of few years back (Don't remember their names now but they were quite popular). Did you happen to look at them? Don't also remember whether they were open source or not but might give u a few ideas to

Re: [ilugd] Compiling Online With GCC

2008-11-04 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [ilugd] Compiling Online With GCC

2008-11-04 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Shantanu Goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure there should be some kind of solution there for network compilation of local code. When I was in college, a person had made a small project for this. BTW, anyone has any ideas on whether distcc would work

Re: [ilugd] Suggestions for an ipod alternative

2008-10-30 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Bibek Paudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, My friend recently broke his ipod. We are trying to get a new portable music player. We don't want to pay Apple to develop DRM infected products. Something, that would come with Rockbox (or some other free

Re: [ilugd] L4Linux

2008-10-29 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Mani A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: L4Linux is a port of the Linux kernel to the L4 µ-kernel API. It is a (para-)virtualized Linux running on top of a hypervisor, completely without privileges if wanted. L4Linux runs in user-mode on top of the µ-kernel,

Re: [ilugd] Hardware for Software??

2008-10-29 Thread Shantanu Goel
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I read this article: *Title:* Windows 7 will be MS' answer to Vista's faults *Link*: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3649393.cms** It is mentioned between the lines that Microsoft is working

Re: [ilugd] apple iphone versus android

2008-10-24 Thread shantanu goel
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my conclusion: the human hand was designed to also unclench its fist, open its palm, and give and receive. a closed proprietary paradigm won't make a digital handheld in the age of freedom. apple hubris all over again.

Re: [ilugd] apple iphone versus android

2008-10-24 Thread shantanu goel
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 02:56:44PM +0530, shantanu goel wrote: I have some concerns about the open-ness of android. I've been reading that barring the kernel part, most of the things developed over it are licensed under

Re: [ilugd] How to see , what svn updates are available using command line..

2008-10-23 Thread shantanu goel
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 4:50 PM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I want similar functionality in svn, So that i can see what updates are available... any pointer... svn --show-updates -- I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, U can't prove anything - Bart

Re: [ilugd] Important : In support of Raj Thackeray...

2008-10-23 Thread shantanu goel
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2008, sumit...left d stone age. wrote: Dear Ballu bhai After all the 'Raj Thackeray issue', I have realised that we should support him in the following ways please read this and spread this message

Re: [ilugd] [OT] The Google Cookie Conspiracy

2008-10-22 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:56 PM, amar akshat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SirI shall be rather very proud to acknowledge you that I was certified by EC Council at a program in Delhi. Don't want to undermine your credibility or anything but a 5 day certification program (with dozens of modules and

Re: [ilugd] [OT] The Google Cookie Conspiracy

2008-10-22 Thread shantanu goel
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, come out now and admit it. You really are Ankit Fadia, are you not? Hahaha, that was a good one Gora. I recently met a group of final year students from a delhi engg. college who had attended a 2 day workshop with

[ilugd] android source released

2008-10-21 Thread shantanu goel
http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-open-source-cell-phone.html -- I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, U can't prove anything - Bart Simpson http://blog.shantanugoel.com http://tech.shantanugoel.com ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] [OT] The Google Cookie Conspiracy

2008-10-17 Thread shantanu goel
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 12:46 PM, amar akshat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All 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

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 shantanu goel
[all content snipped] Please Mr. Yatnatti. if you must continue the debate (which btw is more of a monologue), please, please, please, puhll DO NOT create new threads, by combining all sorts of sources together to form one incoherent and painfully long statement. I'm not asking you to stop

Re: [ilugd] Open Office 3.0 Online

2008-10-15 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:43 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone was asking about making presentations online (can't find that mail thread right now so making a new chain). I just came across this site http://www.ulteo.com that will give online access to Open Office 3.0.

[ilugd] Open Office 3.0 Online

2008-10-14 Thread shantanu goel
Hi Someone was asking about making presentations online (can't find that mail thread right now so making a new chain). I just came across this site http://www.ulteo.com that will give online access to Open Office 3.0. What's more is that it gives access to many other open source apps online, e.g.

Re: [ilugd] Open Office 3.0 Online

2008-10-14 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:26 AM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you seen opengoo ( http://demo.opengoo.org ) , slimey ( http://slimey.sourceforge.net/slimey/slimey.html ) ?? ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Mailing List Software - MailMan - Hacking and Coding (not Cracking!!!)

2008-10-08 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People... Any folks around here who've fooled around with mailing list software ? Need some hints. Specifically; I want to know--- (1) I assume that for each of the various types of transactions, the processing will

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Airtel blocking IRC - Undernet

2008-10-08 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Arun SAG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just use webbased irc guyswww.mibbit.com On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Shiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Ive noticed that Airtel is

Re: [ilugd] Openmoko, Symbian, Android

2008-10-06 Thread shantanu goel
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 1:42 AM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues on how these compare on mobiles? Particularly Openmoko and Android? Would the C/C++ thingy be a negative mark for Openmoko? I Actually, as far as I'm concerned, that is a good thing (ability

Re: [ilugd] Cross compile for 32 bit, missing libdbus-glib-1.so

2008-10-03 Thread shantanu goel
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 7:57 PM, shantanu goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm cross-compiling an application to 32 bit arch. My app uses dbus-glib bindings. My base system is Ubuntu Hardy 64, so I use the -m32 flag with gcc to compile but it gives me an error of missing libdbus-glib-1.so

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

2008-10-03 Thread shantanu goel
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 11:18 PM, M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Praveen, Thank you for participating in the debate.Are you educating the open FOSS community that any body can club all individual GPL software into one Mega software collection under one umbrella

[ilugd] Cross compile for 32 bit, missing libdbus-glib-1.so

2008-10-02 Thread shantanu goel
Hi I'm cross-compiling an application to 32 bit arch. My app uses dbus-glib bindings. My base system is Ubuntu Hardy 64, so I use the -m32 flag with gcc to compile but it gives me an error of missing libdbus-glib-1.so. All other libs are present as I've already installed gcc-multilib, ia32libs

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread shantanu goel
BTW, Canonical/Ubuntu started a new upstream report today (though I don't know how much to read into this as of now): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/UpstreamReport https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+upstreamreport -Shantz -- I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, U can't

Re: [ilugd] { Idea } Taking ScreenShot While installing Linux OS

2008-09-30 Thread shantanu goel
2008/9/30 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can somebody make a script based on this command to take screenshot while installation of any Linux OS * Press Ctrl+Alt+F2 * mount a external drive or any unused partition * xwd -root | xwdtopnm | pnmtopng Screenshot1.png * You need to modify

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread shantanu goel
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People... A QUick question; for some basics. Assume I have a ubuntu (or ubuntu studio) linux install. Also, assume that I have a JAR file--- in which there's a class exposing a main() function--- which runs

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread shantanu goel
I did visit build.opensuse.org and read some pages on that site. Based on my first glance there are quite a few open loops in my understanding of the same. If you have used build.opensuse.org; then can you please take a moment to talk a bit about the steps you went through, to build a

Re: [ilugd] In Debian Lenny, VLC can't play AVI

2008-09-29 Thread shantanu goel
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Kumar Appaiah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Swapnil Bhartiya writes: I recently installed Debian Lenny (network install), but I am unable to play DivX or avi files. It could play mpeg files though. Also, can someone please share his working source.list list for

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Openmoko availability in India

2008-09-24 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Sharninder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have few queries regarding openmoko , May be somebody can answer! (probably Deepank) How can i order openmoko , What will be the service terms for the openmoko phone ?, Is anybody on list using the openmoko phone ? How

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Openmoko availability in India

2008-09-24 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. I have tried Openmoko 2008.8, Qtopia and Debian on it. I have used the Qtopia edition as a regular phone. Battery life isn't great. But, it will be fixed in the next release. Did you try out doing any development

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Infiltrating the world of Windows and Mac with FOSS, getting them hooked on free software and eventually tempting them to try the OS itself, might just be a more effective way to get the masses in. (notice how the

Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
2008/9/23 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Sandeep Gupta [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: 2008/9/23 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Can we code in Hindi???* My answer is NO, and even if we able to code then also it will be of NO use. I do not know ,

Re: [ilugd] Free Software Day Celebrations

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
Secondly, I was looking at the Barcamp website which Narendra mentioned. India has quite a lot of eveents happening at different places. It has a Delhi chapter also and its being held in the 1st week of october. But i did not understand about the event. I mean what all would be happening

Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
Yes, You are getting the point. BigBang of programming has occured many year before,, We cannot revert or translated whole Internet and Technology to all 50+ local languages of India, So the only Practical and Fast solution is to go with currect software language and with English. [ we Indian

Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:01 AM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Narendra, I think that you just concluded something (on similar lines) to we should stop teaching maths, physics, chemistry etc to anyone in non-english medium schools because anyways most of the content available

[ilugd] Android ([was] Please don't feed the trolls)

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
Anyway did you hear about the launch of Android today? Swapnil rant/ No A2DP? No Video Capture? I guess they really really want to compete with iPhone (pros as well as cons withstanding).. BTW, am waiting ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Android ([was] Please don't feed the trolls)

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
://tech.shantanugoel.com On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:26 AM, shantanu goel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway did you hear about the launch of Android today? Swapnil rant/ No A2DP? No Video Capture? I guess they really really want to compete with iPhone (pros as well as cons withstanding).. BTW, am waiting

Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
2008/9/24 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:21 AM, shantanu goel [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:01 AM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Narendra, I think that you just concluded something (on similar lines) to we should stop

Re: [ilugd] Android ([was] Please don't feed the trolls)

2008-09-23 Thread shantanu goel
Also, Google has promised to open-source Android, but it is not open source at the moment. What I wish for is to get a true open system where I can program natively and not have to learn java.. [...] No need to wait: http://openmoko.org Regards, Gora When I wished about the true open

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-22 Thread shantanu goel
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 22 Sep 2008, shantanu goel wrote: [snip] Now, instead of straightaway taking a call, my question is as to the why behind the particular pic in question. Is it because Linux was not able to fit the bill technically

Re: [ilugd] hi ballu bhai kya hal hai

2008-09-22 Thread shantanu goel
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holy OMG ...This goes as the weirdest email in ILUGD history I though it was some highly secure, encrypted message from Mars sent by some aliens. Who is Ballu here ;-) If anyone of you watch Prison Break, then you'd

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-21 Thread shantanu goel
Well, the questions are manifold here... Free Software or Software Freedom Day does not (and should not) restrict the propagation of the idea of freedom on any platform, be it windows or linux. Freedom inside jail is better than no freedom at all. I think the question put forth by Linux Lingam is

Re: [ilugd] ubuntu-studio questions

2008-09-19 Thread shantanu goel
(2) The boot-menu shows winXP as the last option. how to change the default order of OSes shown in on-boot menu ? Easy Way: sudo editor-of-ur-choice /boot/grub/menu.lst and then change the order acc to your preference Another way(easy or difficult, u decide :) ): sudo apt-get install

Re: [ilugd] Licence schemes for the Ideas !!!

2008-09-19 Thread shantanu goel
2008/9/20 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey, I got a idea that can we GPL our ideas ?? Like normally I use to get a large number of ideas which I will not able to implement in this life. But I want somebody should implement those ideas. But I do not want that somebody should use them as

Re: [ilugd] ubuntu-studio questions

2008-09-19 Thread shantanu goel
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Nalin Savara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thanks Shantz; I really 'preciate your suggestions- they're of great help, will do that. What about getting Ubuntu Studio to remember the WLAN settings ? Quick Ques to Shantz: Do you use Ubuntu Studio ? I don't use

Re: [ilugd] ubuntu-studio questions

2008-09-19 Thread shantanu goel
I dont use ubuntu-studio But man... have you seen the look of it ? If you think iPod is sexy, then chk out ubuntu studio... it is like ipod on rohypnol !!! Well, actually I don't think iPod is sexy :P About the looks, anyways for that you don't need to install ubuntu studio, just install

Re: [ilugd] How to use Fedora 9 for Commerical use

2008-09-09 Thread shantanu goel
Thanks for this info, But, I was having impression that , you can not attach a GPL packages with your peice of code for which will be shiped as binary blobs, you have to open your source code also .. As per my knowledge , you can use LGPL in that case. What I understand is that you can provide

[ilugd] Pidgin-Gtalk: Getting around corporate firewalls and monitoring software

2008-09-08 Thread shantanu goel
Hey Guys If you have faced the issue of pidgin not connecting to gtalk at your work place, well it could be that your company is trying to snoop into your conversations. This is a simple way to allow pidgin to connect to gtalk in a corporate environment by bypassing the monitoring firewalls that

[ilugd] Shantz Xwinwrap - The Moving Wallpaper fun continues

2008-09-04 Thread shantanu goel
Hi Guys I just joined ILUG-D recently and it seems to be a fervent community. Although I wouldn't call my self a linux expert, I do like to tinker around with it a bit. Hope to have a good time here. Meanwhile, thought of letting you know about my latest venture. XWinWrap is a small utility