Dear Friends, This is in reply to the below contents- we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the > big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want it, > but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers > excited about foss - and very very few of these ever write code.
In my college, its the reverse, the faculty is highly qualified to take up FOSS related subjects and management is also interested but it is the students who is not selecting the elective paper(democracy followed in choosing elective). I tried last year to take this elective paper but the student community prefer data mining & datawarehouse. Reason not because of interest but because 1) Easy to clear 2) Local author books aka guide books available 3) Notion that anything related to Linux is difficult. In fact I corrected anna university FOSS elective paper. I found the syllabi good and the recommended textbook is also of good quality. Need of the hour is not only awareness among faculties but with students also. bye, Benedict J.N. Lecturer --- On Thu, 7/8/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ilugc Digest, Vol 51, Issue 16 To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 7 August, 2008, 12:00 PM Send ilugc mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of ilugc digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure (Kenneth Gonsalves) 2. Re: [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure (Bharathi Subramanian) 3. Re: [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure (Kenneth Gonsalves) 4. Re: 2 day FOSS workshop for faculty in the Kongu region (Prakash Srinivasan) 5. RE: One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHEREIS) (Sivakumar Gopalan) 6. RE: Booting from USB external HHD (indianathan n) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:16:47 +0530 From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 07-Aug-08, at 9:46 AM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > R&H is an entirely Linux oriented facility. We use Linux across the > entire facility, both on the server side as well as on the desktop coolness - could you tell us what software you use for your various operations? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:23:47 +0530 (IST) From: Bharathi Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > R&H is an entirely Linux oriented facility. We use Linux across the > > entire facility, both on the server side as well as on the desktop > > coolness - could you tell us what software you use for your various > operations? This is an forwarded mail from ILUG-Goa, Plz mail to OP: Aditya Wasudeo <adityawasudeo at yahoo dot com> for more info. Bye :) -- Bharathi S ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:23:05 +0530 From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 07-Aug-08, at 10:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 07-Aug-08, at 9:46 AM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote: > >> R&H is an entirely Linux oriented facility. We use Linux across the >> entire facility, both on the server side as well as on the desktop > > coolness - could you tell us what software you use for your various > operations? oops - this was a forwarded message. Bharathi can you get a reply from him on this? -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:59:32 -0400 From: "Prakash Srinivasan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] 2 day FOSS workshop for faculty in the Kongu region To: ILUG-C <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the > big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want it, > but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers > excited about foss - and very very few of these ever write code. Recently [last week] we conducted a TTP in Anna University, Trichy. The same thing happened here also. Very few only came out of all trichy surrounding areas. In other words, I can say, the no of speakers were more compare with participants. I would like to share an participant's feedback with all of you. "In our college we have an allowance scheme like if I will participate this type of workshop, then our college will give 500/- for me. I came just for getting my allowance". How is it. But at the same time some others were really interested in FOSS and Linux. Its happening in all the TTP. The staff's only argument is, "why we want to learn a topic from out of syllabus". Still FOSS is an elective paper. They will not take it as seriously until it will be one of the main subject in their curriculum. Otherwise FOSS will be just optional. So try to make it as a compulsory paper to the final year students. -- =============================== With Regards, Prakash.A.S, visit http://electronica.org.in is a Open source site for Embedded system learners. =============================== ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:22:13 +0530 From: "Sivakumar Gopalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHEREIS) To: "ILUG-C" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just a thought. Here is the difference between whereis, locate and which whereis - can find any file, but looks only in standard locations. locate - can find any file from any location, however there should be a locatedb update run frequently to have accurate results. which - can find executables which are in the path variable. Rgds, Siva. ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:43:29 +0530 From: "indianathan n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Ilugc] RE: Booting from USB external HHD To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sir, Old mother board BIOS will not support USB booting. In this case, one alternate way is using booting floppy. First boot machine through booting floppy then start the OS avail;able in external drive. One more thing in external HHD is booting configuration compiled with syslinux. When making USB boot drive syslinux makes an HHD number blongs to HHDs and CD Drives available in PC. If you try to boot other type of machines it may fail. for example, Your machine has PATA HHDs, then your pendrive device in the machine is 'sda' but in SATA HHD used PC it may vary. Puppy Linux have an universal installor, makes USB as super boot disk. which is format your usb disk/drive as endless file format.MBR will not depend device number. Ubuntu will not accept this format. Padhu, Ooty. -- Knowledge is power ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ilugc mailing list [email protected] http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc End of ilugc Digest, Vol 51, Issue 16 ************************************* Unlimited freedom, unlimited storage. Get it now, on http://help.yahoo.com/l/in/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/tools/tools-08.html/ _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
