[ilugd] Microsoft's greatest miss

2012-02-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Interesting opinion about how Microsoft's influence in the software world is waning. The hottest new world right now and possibly in the future is mobile computing - mobiles and tablets, and Microsoft is not there at the top in either of them. The result?

Re: [ilugd] ubuntu not supporting to HP laptop - Pavilion dv2700

2010-12-17 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 08:27:26PM +0530, vivek gupta wrote: hey i guess u might be having some problem with grub conflict there has been error with new grub since its heavier version once u log into ur windows partition n relogin into ubuntu grub gets corrupt 2 suggestions if this is the

Re: [ilugd] Server is hacked, pl. advice

2010-12-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 02:52:51PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: On 12/03/2010 06:26 AM, abhishek jain wrote: can anyone here suggest me what should i do, i am not sure how user1 logged into server, further what does the command perl udp.pl 92.114.6.32 0 22 mean which eats up 99.7% of CPU .

Re: [ilugd] Wireless woes

2010-12-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 06:59:07PM +0530, shashwat chetan wrote: Hey guys, I am using a Toshiba NB100 netbook with Ubuntu netbook remix 10.04. Whenever I open the netwirk list to connect to my home network, it shows my network name twice in the list. One of them is the correct one while the

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-20 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 06:05:05PM +, Karanbir Singh wrote: kindle supports epub format'ed books fine given that non-drm'ed epub documents can be converted to pdf. Actually, the regular Kindle (not DX) is pathetic for PDFs. epub formats convert almost losslessly (I believe) to .mobi

Re: [ilugd] [...@iitd:10396] Want to start a Library for FOSS books

2010-11-17 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 07:45:13PM +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote: Well, the Kindle and its brethren are out anyway for me due to DRM. You mean the *Amazon Kindle Store* content is out because of DRM. If you think of Kindle as just a personal electronic device, just like your mobile or

Re: [ilugd] Converting Unicode to PS

2010-11-15 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:16:41AM +0530, Nandeep Mali wrote: On a side note, am I the only one getting these annoying Boxbe alerts whenever I send a mail to the list? In this case it was from Mr. manishchabr...@gmail.com I got them too. Pretty irritating. Subscribing to a public mailing

Re: [ilugd] Print formatted HTML

2010-11-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 04:55:56PM +0530, Rishab Arora wrote: Hi all, I've been looking for a way to print a formatted HTML page (with CSS support if possible) but haven't been able to find much. All I've managed to do is print the source code itself. Is it possible to create a script to

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD meeting: 2.30pm, Sun., 7th Feb., 2010, SIT, JNU

2010-02-05 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM, Yashpal Nagar yashna...@gmail.com wrote: I still remeber the chilly momos of Vasant Vihar... after a great session of Open Source/ Linux. Such meeting are a valuable platform to anyone wheather he is begineer, intermediate or  proficient in the Linux/OSS

Re: [ilugd] how to convert an airtel pdf bill into a spreadsheet using FOSS tools or apps?

2009-11-13 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
rakesh kumar wrote: How can you open this if it is password protected. If there is any tool then please post about that. Remove encryption from the PDF: http://blog.sandipb.net/2009/01/10/removing-encryption-from-legitimate-pdf-files-on-ubuntu/ then proceed as any other pdf. AFAIK, a PDF is

Re: [ilugd] Audio Microphone

2009-09-03 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
. are turned off. They cause more noise than signal. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user

Re: [ilugd] diff with files

2009-08-15 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ abhishek jain [11/08/09 12:19 +0530]: I got the following o/p when i ran rsync --dry-run /home/dir1/public_html /home/dir2/public_html o/p skipping directory /home/dir1/public_html Pl. advice Use the -r (recursive) option with rsync. - Pl -- Sandip Bhattacharya http

Re: [ilugd] NCERT Books online

2009-08-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
are not escaped) - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ 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 http://www.mail

Re: [ilugd] Most Affordable Linux Store Online...

2009-08-11 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
this identical mail thrice within the past few days. Even without the list etiquette guideline, that qualifies as spamming. Three strike policy? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] Warning! Re: openi...@yahoo

2009-07-25 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Raj Mathur wrote: Couldn't it be a genuine recruiter recruiting for Yahoo? It could be. 1. However, there is an often mistaken assumption that somebody mailing from a @yahoo.com domain for an yahoo job is working for yahoo. Especially when the recruiter here is not mentioning any other

[ilugd] Warning! Re: openi...@yahoo

2009-07-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
It is not just the fact that this post violates list guidelines for commercial email. I also wish to inform this list to ignore all mails from addresses like this. Please note that official email address for genuine representatives from Yahoo would have @yahoo-inc.com domain as the *contact*

Re: [ilugd] microsoft violated GPL before releasing linux code?

2009-07-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Yashpal Nagar wrote: On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.comwrote: does this explain microsoft's recent-found love of GPL? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135853/Engineer_Microsoft_violated_GPL_before_Linux_code_release ...Many see open-source software as

Re: [ilugd] [OT]Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

2009-07-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Arun Khan wrote: FWIW, how is this different from other vendors submitting driver code to the Linux kernel to support their product? From what I have read about it, supposedly it improves guest OS Linux performance in MS Hyper-V virtualization and not the other way around. Had they

[ilugd] For amar singh (was) Re: [OT]Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel

2009-07-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Amar Singh wrote: this is my first query so i dont know how to post Well, for one, make this your first lesson - if you are really interested in a solution, *stop* replying to unrelated email to send your queries. You have done this twice already, and it is really irritating to people who

Re: [ilugd] BJP accepts key sections of the FOSS Manifesto

2009-03-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Sunday 15 March 2009 09:35:54 Raj Mathur wrote: Great work, everyone who contributed and specially Venky for taking the initiative. Everything else being equal, a clearly-articulated FOSS policy would definitely sway my vote towards the BJP. Nothing specific against BJP, but do you really

Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution

2009-03-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Monday 16 March 2009 09:29:01 Dhiraj Gaur wrote: most of the emails addressed to it were not received. The problem was detected only in late April after which the Microsoft Outlook Express email software was discontinued and replaced by — Squirrel mail. I am more puzzled by this bit than

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Fights back with FIRE

2009-03-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 01:44:20 Arun SAG wrote: Seems like microsoft is on FIRE BizSparkhttp://blogs.livemint.com/blogs/incubator/archive/2008/12/17 /microsoft-india-launches-bizspark-for-startups.aspx ,DreamSpark I saw a pitch for Bizmark in a blog meet sponsored my Microsoft recently.

[ilugd] Question on tetex/latex/texinfo and pdfs

2009-02-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
I dislike the way computer modern fonts in GNU manuals and other texinfo generated manuals print from generated PDFs. Reading from various mailing lists, this is primarily because of the thin outlines of the computer modern fonts. If i need to replace CM fonts with say bitstream charter or

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: “I don ’t think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop ”

2008-10-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 23:29:22 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 Context is very important. :) - Sandip

[ilugd] Apple a bigger threat than Microsoft (was) Re: apple iphone versus android

2008-10-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Friday 24 October 2008 14:00:23 Linux Lingam wrote: a closed proprietary paradigm won't make a digital handheld in the age of freedom. apple hubris all over again. except this time, the world has learnt its lessons even if apple hasn't. thus we'll be wary of microsoft-like predatory

Re: [ilugd] Apple a bigger threat than Microsoft (was) Re: apple iphone versus android

2008-10-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Friday 24 October 2008 16:21:10 Raj Mathur wrote: On Friday 24 Oct 2008, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: [snip] So the only argument left to fight about against Apple is the philosophical angle, one that has always been the toughest to get across. You have only the philosophical angle

Re: [ilugd] software patents

2008-10-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thursday 23 October 2008 10:09:04 Saurabh Nanda wrote: Whoever wants to argue about the efficacy of software patents should make it a point to read this essay by Paul Graham before forming voicing strong opinions: http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html Nice arguments, but if I

Re: [ilugd] openi...@yahoo

2008-10-22 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 14:24:23 recruit it wrote: Hi All I am from Yahoo. Currently we are looking for senior Linux or unix administrators with the following experience Exp : 6-20 yrs(For Senior Positions) This mail violates commercial mail guidelines of this list. Barrgavi, please add

Re: [ilugd] { Announcement/Invitation } General Meeting cum Discussion on Software Patents at IIT Delhi at 24 oct 2008

2008-10-22 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 17:09:26 narendra sisodiya wrote: On Behalf, of [EMAIL PROTECTED], I invite you all, for a *General Meeting cum Discussion on Software Patents* at IIT Delhi. There will 1-2 presentation on this event. If you want to present something , most welcome. FYI,

Re: [ilugd] { Announcement/Invitation } General Meeting cum Discussion on Software Patents at IIT Delhi at 24 oct 2008

2008-10-22 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 18:11:48 Ajay Kumar wrote: Hi Sandeep, On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FYI, Event added at the ILUGD page on upcoming. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3268/ Can the Sahana Localization sprint be added too

Re: [ilugd] Internal-External HDD: Possible ?

2008-10-20 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Sunday 19 October 2008 17:33:47 M.K.Pai wrote: Guys, Thanks a ton for all the suggestions. If you have several of these internal hard disks available, there is another option - you get external adapters that connect to these bare hard disks. For 3.5 ones, they come with their own power

Re: [ilugd] Open Office 3.0 Online

2008-10-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 23:29:55 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Doesn't Google Docs do that too? Yes, but it's closed source _ Does that really matter for online applications? Even we use Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Flickr etc. which are all closed source? Just

Re: [ilugd] Understanding the GNU GPL definition of free software. Is The classification of free and commercial Linux Distribution is incorrect.?

2008-10-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thursday 16 October 2008 13:33:23 Gaurav Mishra wrote: On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seconded. O moderator where are you? Wait, we don't have a moderator, just a list admin. Then we may need a moderator , trolling is at all time high recently

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 Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 15 October 2008 14:37:31 M.S.Yatnatti wrote: Disclaimer: This is not legal opinion. This is only for debate. This is not even a debate. This is spam. I have had enough of your singular agenda of slandering Redhat and it's distribution policy, regardless of the opinions from

Re: [ilugd] which mailing list sending/management/archiving software used for ilugd ?

2008-10-08 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 16:54:02 Nalin Savara wrote: Hi Folks, How are you ? Hope all well. Can someone tell me which mailing list sending/management/archiving software used for ilugd ? Mailman. See the bottom of http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Also, incase I want to

Re: [ilugd] which mailing list sending/management/archiving software used for ilugd ?

2008-10-08 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 17:27:49 Nalin Savara wrote: Also, whats the difference between distro version versus pristine version ??? distro version - packaged version of a software distributed as part of a distro. pristine sources - the sources offered directly by the

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

2008-10-08 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
I believe that Mr. Yatnatti's arguments on this topic are very much relevant and definitely *not* a troll. His communication style might not please everyone though. :) That said, for all the questions I had raised some weeks back against Redhat's ambiguous distribution policy, this thread by

Re: [ilugd] G.I.S.S. multimedia workshop at Sarai, Sat., 11 Oct., 11am onwards

2008-10-03 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On 10/3/08, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, So, the multimedia workshop is finally confirmed. Please see the outline on the Wiki page at http://wiki.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/GISSMultimedia Workshop. Directions to Sarai, CSDS, are also available there.

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 16:35:56 Gaurav Mishra wrote: And if you think that the Free software awareness Ubuntu has brought doesn`t qualify in being in Free software ecosystem , Then my friend you are wrong , Because then you bring to the conclusion that FSF has no meaning of existence

[ilugd] (Fw) FOSS.IN agenda for this year

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
foss.in is trying to change it's focus (again :) ) this year, and they are planning for something quite ambitious. In a way it is good for events to carve their own niche instead of having the same general outlook in each of them. Any comments? - Sandip

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 19:23:44 Karanbir Singh wrote: Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Launchpad isnt that closed source itself ? Closed source what? Software? Can you point me where I can download it? Exactly. Isnt that a part of what the point is - that their development inhouse

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:09:27 Karanbir Singh wrote: To be honest, I have better things to do than feed foo down clueless fanboys. I am continuously amused by the singular acerbic tone in all your mails. Sure, you don't like to feed clueless fanboys like me. But you sure keep replying

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:09:27 Karanbir Singh wrote: you guys really need to start looking at stuff before commenting on it. if you really dont know what launchpad is, a bit of research would be well in order. eg, components that went into launchpad, and are used elsewhere in

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 22:22:11 Manoj Srivastava wrote: So, it is software that helps to provide a service. That piece of software is non-free. I think that matters. Whether the software runs as a one shot unix like input/output filter, or it generates web pages, or it

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 23:34:27 Atanu Datta wrote: On Wed, October 1, 2008 11:25 pm, Sandip Bhattacharya said: * Any particular reason why nobody from Debian or elsewhere has actually cribbed about RHN not being open source? Because RHN's upstream, i.e., Spacewalk is open source

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 21:39:53 Manoj Srivastava wrote: You are right. Ubuntu has not made my task easuier, or made the lives of my users any easier. If anything, they are an obstacle int he way of people using my code to communicate issues they find in my code from getting to

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 23:54:31 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: Today every company is talking about Cloud computing, but RMS has rejected as a trap and it truly is. How much sense does it make to adopt technologies pushed by some companies which could further lock us in. We are struggling to

Re: [ilugd] RMS Says Cloud Computing Is Trap

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thursday 02 October 2008 00:19:51 Swapnil Bhartiya wrote: I quite agree with RMS. When we work locally at least data is with us. Cloud computing followed by SaaS is a dangerous stuff. There can I am not saying that I disagree with RMS about the software freedom dangers of cloud computing in

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thursday 02 October 2008 00:55:21 Atanu Datta wrote: All GNU documentation, including that of GNU make, are released under GNU FDL. May I know why Debian Free Software Guidelines considers it non-free? http://people.debian.org/~srivasta/Position_Statement.xhtml I am not sure how current

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

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 14:25:47 narendra sisodiya wrote: debian-installer has such a thing built in. http://wiki.debian.org/ScreenShots#debian-instsaller-gui Cool, I was not aware of this fact, never noticed, ( as I am a fedora guy ) AFAIR, Anaconda has screenshot capability for

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 06:18:32 Manoj Srivastava wrote: And Ubuntu's effort in feeding back patches to Debian have not really impressed the Debian developers that much (apart, perhaps, from those being paid by Mark). So, let me get this straight. You find the efforts of full-time

Re: [ilugd] Linux Software Installer Howto

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 15:59:49 Nalin Savara wrote: Is there some script or package--- with which I can package it the way one packages MSI files on windows-- so that the script/installer copies the jar file into appropriate directories-- and creates desktop and Applications-menu

Re: [ilugd] What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:14:50 Arun SAG wrote: I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ I think it is quite an interesting perspective, presented in a ... uh ... very temperate manner. ;) Well, it would be good for the Linux community

[ilugd] Linux criticisms (was) Re: What do you think about this blog ?

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:14:50 Arun SAG wrote: I came across this blog..What are your comments.. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/ With the help of the site above, I came across another - which seems quite a bit less foul and juvenile, and where the author somewhat knows more

Re: [ilugd] LDAP Server

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:12:50 tarun singhal wrote: problem facing in the root.ldif file after adding new entry: uid=root,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com i.e. ldap_add: No such object (32) == file : root.ldif == dn: uid=root,ou=People,dc=example,dc=com uid:

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-09-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 30 September 2008 20:36:02 Arun SAG wrote: yeah sure..sorry for that...By the way here is the link http://lwn.net/Articles/293906/ Strange that you quote that article for the accusation about Ubuntu and the only takeaway that you had was that it is not contributing. Maybe you

Re: [ilugd] Windblows on Software Freedom Day

2008-09-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Monday 22 September 2008 01:00:18 Gora Mohanty wrote: (b) Should Sarai, as an avowedly FOSS organisation, use proprietary software in a public demo? My opinion is no, but again I believe that this should be done through peer pressure, rather than outright banning. The person in

Re: [ilugd] Come join me on Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University OSUM on Open Source University Meetup...

2008-09-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Friday 19 September 2008 00:48:26 Raj Mathur wrote: Who all want to contribute to the ``ILUGD Buy NS A Spelling Dictionary'' Fund? I'm putting in Rs 500 for starters ;) There are more than one active NS on this list. One of them is definitely the candidate. ;) - Sandip

[ilugd] [OT] Re: Come join me on Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University OSUM on Open Source University Meetup...

2008-09-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Friday 19 September 2008 13:05:55 Nalin Savara wrote: It's just a opinion--- based on fact--- but if chat lingo can be used, then why not SMS lingo rather than queen's english ? What exactly is the fact out here? :) - Sandip ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] sms speak in mailing lists (was) Come join me on Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University OSUM on Open Source University Meetup...

2008-09-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Friday 19 September 2008 13:05:55 Nalin Savara wrote: with the next 1 billion internet users expected to access net frm mobile devices, IMHO it's the ones that make sharp remarks abt SMS lingo that need a SMS dictionary--- rather than me. If you had been using a language, then it would be

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

2008-09-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Friday 19 September 2008 12:43:06 narendra sisodiya wrote: 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

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] RedHat/Fedora Crisis

2008-09-11 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Thursday 11 September 2008 20:25:43 Mani A wrote: Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: Fwd: RedHat/Fedora Crisis... We had a long discussion on this in the Ambassador's list https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-ambassadors-list/2008-Septembe r/msg00195.html The article is misleading and has

[ilugd] Linux distro for regular users (was) Re: RPM bundle Packaging System -- was --( Re: Need Fedora 9 DVD. )

2008-09-10 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 07:45:15 Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote: If lack of more no. of packages in repositories are problem, use Gentoo GNU/Linux, which is a source-based distro. And customize your Gentoo GNU/Linux according to your flags. Ok, so Gentoo would also satisfy the condition

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

2008-09-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Monday 08 September 2008 12:21:18 narendra sisodiya wrote: I have a question, Can I use Fedora 9 as a commercial use to develop software. ? has anybody studied its license policies ? Actually generally compaies buy Redhat. Do we any exmple for Free of cost or linux distro in companies ??

Re: [ilugd] RPM bundle Packaging System -- was --( Re: Need Fedora 9 DVD. )

2008-09-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 19:36:41 narendra sisodiya wrote: I am not saying i have a solution , but something new system should come so that common user, who do not have Internet, will NEVER in life say i have a dependancy error and able to install *dreamware* by one click.

Re: [ilugd] RPM bundle Packaging System -- was --( Re: Need Fedora 9 DVD. )

2008-09-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 21:27:19 Karanbir Singh wrote: 1. Choose a distro which has a good default repository of packages. I stopped using Fedora years back because it only had the Ubuntu equivalent of main and everything else had to be managed by downloading from third party

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

2008-09-09 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
On Tuesday 09 September 2008 20:22:18 Harish Pillay wrote: Just so that the perception is not perpetuated, Fedora is not a poor cousin of anything. It is the leading distribution that is completely free (both in libre and beer) and open to anyone to add. RHEL is downstream to Fedora. If

Re: [ilugd] Bengalureans to come out with candles against monopolising knowledge

2008-08-22 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27662916862 Also at upcoming: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3268/ If anyone here uses upcoming, do join the ilugd group at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/3268/ - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] GPG Key Server

2008-08-20 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
something with encryption, nothing can go wrong. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user

Re: [ilugd] which flavour of linux to choose

2008-07-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
on something similar before going the whole Iceweasel way. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-04 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
in unquestionable). As someone else had mentioned earlier, should we be moving every institution of national significance to the capital? Are other cities insignificant w.r.t. the country? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Change of timezone City for India

2008-07-02 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
socially vulnerable a state to even initiate such issues. Who knows when some party comes over asking for breaking up the timezone further and dividing it on the basis of socio-economic reasons. :D - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
the other freedoms given by the licence? What is immoral about it? When you are using the term 'immoral', you mean it is the violation of certain principles/intent of the licence. What violation do you see here? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] FOSS: VAT or service tax [was] Bill Gates got Windows 1.0 source-code from trash-bin

2008-06-30 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Kenneth Gonsalves [30/06/08 20:41 +0530]: software is knowledge. Knowledge cannot be bought or sold. It can only be shared. And you would gladly share for a neat sum of money? In the Gurukul system, knowledge was gladly shared for next to nothing. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http

Re: [ilugd] Advocacy rules

2008-06-25 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
initiative here? Java wasn't discussed till it got finally Open sourced. Even though people have been calling for it to be Open sourced for years, and Sun saying that they are considering it. Ok. I feel I am moving in circles out here, and I would stop now. :) - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http

Re: [ilugd] Advocacy rules

2008-06-24 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
admirable result, would you still spend years promoting it and ending up like an indignant fool at the end? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman

[ilugd] Advocacy rules (was) Re: Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
the interpretation of FOSS principles, or any misleading claims which does so. * Advocacy of non-FOSS is a no-no to me. Announcements showing progress of open sourcing is fine - advocacy is not. What are other's take on these? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] Advocacy rules

2008-06-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
might forget what the acronym ILUGD stands for, and only remembers the lists - ilugd-bsd@, ilugd-opensolaris@, ilugd-linux@, etc. :-P - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] Disk Clean up in kubuntu 7.10 ??

2008-06-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
/$USER. For the entire disk, it would be /. C. Switch to the File Size view. View - View Mode - File Size View. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net

Re: [ilugd] Advocacy rules

2008-06-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
users can actually see a 100% FOSS distro which is completely usable for day to day work, we should strive to be more ideologically pure. It is no longer just words. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-22 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
distros by default. Let me repeat - on the way there != already there. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
/woman (Free not as in beer). People are naturally proud about their work, and they should be, but don't have any illusions about where you stand, and I mean to say this in a good way. / - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
: http://freefreesoftware.org/foss/ FOSS = Free (and) Open Source Software - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Opensolaris distro as a whole (and not just parts of it) is Open Source or not. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http

Re: [ilugd] Java - is it an albatross?

2008-06-20 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
they create as compared to LAMP programmers, and the market would soon take care of this anomaly (and it already is). Please take all my opinions with a grain of salt though, as my last experience with Java apps (though intensive) was quite a few years ago. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http

Re: [ilugd] Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-20 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
the quite strong language used by Angad with respect to how Opensolaris is as Free as the Linux distros out there. - Sandip P.S. Not changing the subject intentionally. Just seeing how long can we have a discussion quite different from the OP. :-P -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] Java - is it an albatross?

2008-06-20 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
-- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ 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 http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux

Re: [ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
good Java programmers/admins are a nightmare for commercial organizations in the first place. I cannot imagine what it will be for organizations like CSIR. But again, it has been a while since I worked with such organizations. Things might have got better since. :) - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya

Re: [ilugd] OSDD Portal - request for comments from community

2008-06-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
of documentation and the one promoted by the organization is closed source and has to be paid for, I would look at its Free credentials skeptically. Has that aspect changed? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
that I am not in any way belittling the contribution of the Belenix team. I admire their contribution to develop community based software. My questions are directed only at the OpenSolaris project. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] is being paid for promoting FOSS bad? [was] shabdanjali ISSUES

2008-06-17 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
in the discussion genuinely believed that JNU was a better venue? Were you open to that possibility? My advise is to warm up the list to your college by holding several monthly LUG meetings, etc. first, and then go ahead and proposing to have such conferences there. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya

Re: [ilugd] OT: ahoo toolbar spyware...

2008-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
assuming you are talking about a Windows machine too. Are you sure you haven't installed any software recently, which could have possibly have the toolbar bundled? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd

Re: [ilugd] BBC on Microsoft standard stalled

2008-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ 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 http://www.mail-archive.com

[ilugd] List rules (was) Re: {X-post} Experience of Prachi Saxena

2008-06-16 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
though I might never participate in such discussions). Let's not commit the classic Indian mistake that permeates every part of our social existence - lets not make rules which we know is likely to be broken and is therefore unforceable. Lets look at more realistic rules. - Sandip -- Sandip

Re: [ilugd] Commercial -Two engineers required at NIXI

2008-06-06 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
One engineer is required for customizing http://cocca.asia/ (Open Source Registry) for .BHARAT other will be required for working and customizing in openNMS software. Wooo. .BHARAT? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] Tinyurl [WAS: Re: Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest]

2008-05-21 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
be at risk. In any case, it would be polite to atleast mention the domain name of the link where tinyurl will redirect you to (ala slashdot). - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-19 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
reasonable? :) Just thinking. If I am the manufacturer, would I care if you accept or do not accept the EULA? As long as you don't violate the terms of the EULA (no matter that you did not accept it). - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
things to the next level, we have to gather enough law cases and other relevant facts. In general, I think, the these laws exist in USA line doesn't impress judges in this country too much. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya http://blog.sandipb.net

Re: [ilugd] up nic registration forms

2008-05-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Manish [14/05/08 20:17 +0530]: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Raj seems to have moved on in life. :-P That was quite some time ago.. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/13673/match=automatically+grab+sender+addresses

[ilugd] Running scripts on interface activation

2008-05-07 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
a clue to go further on this. - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org

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