Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 05 May 2009 23:06:56 +0530 Amit Sharma amitsharm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently I have seen lots of posts and their replies regarding ILUG-D elections. I am sure there will be lots of members like me who want to know What are these elections for? Its Benefit(s)? Elected

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: snip I would actually like to initiate a discussion on the future of ILUG-D as interest in the LUG has been steadily waning, both in terms of participating in the LUG's activities, and in attendance at meetings. Typical

[ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
Hey all, What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does not show the text. For the time being I am using PDFEdit to manually navigate the tree and extract the

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह
Gora and Gang, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: I would actually like to initiate a discussion on the future of ILUG-D as interest in the LUG has been steadily waning, both in terms of participating in the LUG's activities, and in attendance at meetings.

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: The LUGs should now move to provide umbrella for more specialist interest groups like Python, PHP, C/C++, RoR, Databases, Cloud Computing, Security, Application specific software stacks, Policy and evangelize related topics and

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह
Sankarshan, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: The LUGs should now move to provide umbrella for more specialist interest groups like Python, PHP, C/C++, RoR, Databases, Cloud Computing,

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:18:30 +0530 Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] That said, instead of caring about more participation, we should be looking at more holding relevant events. The point about asking for more participation is that it makes it worthwhile for both the presenter, and the

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:54:31 +0530 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com wrote: [...] At least I can think of few possible reasons why it's advantageous for these smaller groups to come under LUG umbrella. 1. Keep the FOSS community united 2. Get benefit of the LUG experience

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2009 15:18:30 +0530 Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: [...] That said, instead of caring about more participation, we should be looking at more holding relevant events. The point about asking for more

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: Sankarshan, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:48 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/5/6 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) dines...@gmail.com: The LUGs should now move to provide umbrella for more specialist interest

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह
Anupam, On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: At least I can think of few possible reasons why it's advantageous for these smaller groups to come under LUG umbrella. 1. Keep the FOSS community united 2. Get benefit of the LUG experience and infrastructure to

Re: [ilugd] FOSS and Indian Political Party Websites

2009-05-06 Thread Mohit Singh
Even if we ignore these parties, some or the other out of these will be required to form the ruling national coalition and its better if groups like us create some standard interface and mechanism to communicate with the IT related people in these parties. At least, we may help them avoid stands

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Linux Lingam
have you tried installing acrobat reader under linux, maybe even under wine? it may save you the trouble of installing win or mac. regards n On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Anupam Jain ajn...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all, What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with

Re: [ilugd] FOSS and Indian Political Party Websites

2009-05-06 Thread Mani A
Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: Congress Party website is www.aicc.org.in which is PHP based. Best viewed with IE 5.5 .. CPIM website has an election 2009 site http://vote.cpim.org which is ASP based. The server is Apache and for www.cpim.org as well, the ASP part is not

Re: [ilugd] FOSS and Indian Political Party Websites

2009-05-06 Thread Mani A
Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: Congress Party website is www.aicc.org.in which is PHP based. Best viewed with IE 5.5 .. CPIM website has an election 2009 site http://vote.cpim.org which is ASP based. The server is Apache and for

Re: [ilugd] FOSS and Indian Political Party Websites

2009-05-06 Thread Mani A
Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Mohit Singh gmohitsi...@gmail.com wrote: Congress Party website is www.aicc.org.in which is PHP based. Best viewed with IE 5.5 .. CPIM website has an election 2009 site http://vote.cpim.org which is ASP based. The server is Apache and for

Re: [ilugd] Request for ILUG-D Elections FAQ please

2009-05-06 Thread Amit Sharma
Gora Mohanty wrote: On Tue, 05 May 2009 23:06:56 +0530 Amit Sharma amitsharm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Recently I have seen lots of posts and their replies regarding ILUG-D elections. I am sure there will be lots of members like me who want to know What are these elections for? Its

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does not show the text. For the time being I am using PDFEdit to

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons

[ilugd] M$ trying to fragment ODF

2009-05-06 Thread Mani A
Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office Excerpts from http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html The technical details are all on Rob’s blog, but in summary, when opening an ODF spreadsheet (.ods file) using Office 2007, it simply removes all existing formulas

Re: [ilugd] M$ trying to fragment ODF

2009-05-06 Thread Nalin Savara
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office Excerpts from http://homembit.com/2009/05/microsoft-now-attempt-to-fragment-odf.html The technical

Re: [ilugd] M$ trying to fragment ODF

2009-05-06 Thread Nalin Savara
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Mani A a.mani@gmail.com wrote: Summary: Never even try to use M$ Office Excerpts from

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Linux Lingam
Dear anupam, if i read your need correctly, you wish to view and comment on documents in a collaborative environment. Hence the need to read comments in pdf. You mention you've asked people to move from msoffice fileformats to pdf. Maybe it's too late to recommend another workflow, but here's

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: BTW, OpenOffice reads PDF?  I didn't know that! http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of

[ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Inder Bagga
Hi, i 've downloaded gcc from softpedia with name , gcc-4.4.0.tar(1).bz2so, now i don't know how to install this.. -- Best Regards, Inder Bagga ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, --- On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Inder Bagga breakmyc...@gmail.com wrote: | i 've downloaded gcc from softpedia \-- Why? --- |  so, now i don't know how to install | this.. \-- Which distro (Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/...) are you using? Please use your distro package manager to

Re: [ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Vinay Yadav
hey first decompress the package read Readme file or install instruction usually following command will help you ./configure make make install it seem you still not install gcc so 'make' will not going to work better you should download rpm package of GCC (if you are using red hat base linux) and

Re: [ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Inder Bagga wrote: Hi, i 've downloaded gcc from softpedia with name , gcc-4.4.0.tar(1).bz2so, now i don't know how to install this.. Bad move. Please use your package manager to install the C development environment, unless you really need

Re: [ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Inder Bagga
I'm using fedora10, actually i've tata indicom's wireless modem which i 've tried to configure , but it doesn't work..so as an alternative i've downloaded from softpedia On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Shakthi Kannan shakthim...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, --- On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 11:04 AM,

Re: [ilugd] What's the syntax to install any software

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Vinay Yadav wrote: [snip] better you should download rpm package of GCC (if you are using red hat base linux) and run rpm -i gcc.rpm And if you are using Debian package download dpkg package of gcc and run dpkg -install gcc.dpkg Please don't give incorrect