[Ilugc] Forgot System Password

[Venkatraman S]

I have the system login password for the lone user in my computer with
Ubuntu 14.04LTS. I tried various solutions after a quick round of googling,
but of no avail.

Any previous experiences or quick help would be awsum, as the system
contains some critical data.

Regards,
Venkat
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Re: [Ilugc] Accessing Bug Database

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Shakthi Kannan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> --- On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Venkatraman S 
> wrote:
> | Was wondering if there any open source projects whose bug database can be
> | accessed (i.e, read-only)?
> \--
>
> Michael Hoye (mhoye AT mozilla dot com) provides a dump of the Mozilla
> Bugzilla database. The temporary location from where you can download
> the same is at:
>
>   http://people.mozilla.org/~mhoye/bugzilla/


Perfect! Thanks SK.

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] Accessing Bug Database

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:39 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote:

> >
> > Well, I do not want the webaccess, i.e, I do not want to browse;
> > but the database schema access.
> >
> > I want to check out a few trends and do some analysis.
> >
>
>  is this something like this
> http://developer.github.com/v3/search/#issue-search-example you are
> looking
> for .
>

Not a rest api, but the connect string of the database :)

Looking for something like the database that connects to Bugzilla.
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Re: [Ilugc] Accessing Bug Database

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:18 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Venkatraman S  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Was wondering if there any open source projects whose bug database can be
> > accessed (i.e, read-only)?
> >
>
> yes , pick any of the projects from Github or other public repos there
> issues/bugs are readable , also you can check
> https://openhatch.org/search/where they list bugs from various open
> source projects .
>
> still it would help if you can explain briefly what you want to achieve.
>

Well, I do not want the webaccess, i.e, I do not want to browse;
but the database schema access.

I want to check out a few trends and do some analysis.

Regards,
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[Ilugc] Accessing Bug Database

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

Was wondering if there any open source projects whose bug database can be
accessed (i.e, read-only)?

Regards,
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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Filing taxes for freelancing work

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Manokaran K  wrote:

> If your billing is in INR and if it exceeds 10 lakhs per annum, then you
> have to register for and pay service tax. Not necessary if its in forex.
>


Not sure what you mean by the last line. So if you received in forex, then
no need of ST?

-Venkat
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[Ilugc] [OT] Canon BJC 1000SP Printer

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

I have a Canon Bubblejet printer (model#BJC 1000 SP).  You need to get a
new cartridge, but otherwise it was working fine when it was last used a
few years back. No breaks. The box, CDs etc are intact.

Would this be of use to anyone? Kindly email me in private if yes.

Regards,
Venkat
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Re: [Ilugc] Convert Apache .htaccess to Lighttpd

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Arun Khan  wrote:

> On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Kannan  wrote:
> > *Hi Guys, *
> > *
> > *
> > *Can anyone help me converting this Apache .htaccess to Lighttpd URL
>
> Consider nginx  if you are switching the web
> server software.
>


+1. Nginx is kicka$$. The ease of setup+configuration will remove/avoid a
lot of pain.

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Wanted "Used Tablet" for Kids Linux learning

[Venkatraman S]

I had a chance to attend an OLPC meeting early this year and must say that
it was a pretty nice 'kit'.  I had an OLPC with me till early this month
and had to pass it on to a village where it is going to be used.  I wish i
had brought it to one of the ilugc meets!

Having said that, i must concur with the idea that kids should resort to
tablets/pc/mobiles only on an experimental basis to know that 'they exist'
and venture out in the wild to know the 'nature'. Avoiding the web/pc is
not a possibility in this digital age, but the primordial instincts should
make us see the sunlight too.

Venkat
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Re: [Ilugc] question about django

[Venkatraman S]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:22 PM, mani maran.r wrote:

> -- Forwarded message --
> From: "mani maran.r" 
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:20:42 +0530
> Subject: question about django
> To: kanchilug 
>
> i have a very urgent doubt, i'm doing project in django
> it needs to support tamil unicode.
> whenever i insert words in tamil. it throws error.
> what to do?
>


https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/translation/
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/i18n/

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Re: [Ilugc] Software from Kenneth Gonsalves

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:23 PM, Prem Kurian Philip
wrote:

> >From his email to me:
>
> "I did start a project for an address database for India. That is village-
> taluk-district-town-city-state information that all can use - the software
> is practically ready, but some how I forgot about it. Maybe you could be
> willing to help out in this?"
>
> Would any of you have access to this software?
>

I am not sure whether he got it(i.e, derived) from OpenStreetMap..taking a
wild guess.

-Venkat
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[Ilugc] Fwd: [BangPypers] Fwd: Python Software Foundation: Python Trademark at Risk

[Venkatraman S]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Sriram Narayanan 
Date: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 4:59 AM
Subject: [BangPypers] Fwd: Python Software Foundation: Python Trademark at
Risk
To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India 


Fyi
-- Forwarded message --
From: "Dmitrijs Ledkovs" 
Date: Feb 15, 2013 3:17 AM
Subject: Python Software Foundation: Python Trademark at Risk
To: , , <
debian-le...@lists.debian.org>

Dear All,

Full article:
http://pyfound.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html

There is a company in the UK that is trying to trademark the use of
the term "Python" for all software, services, servers... pretty much
anything having to do with a computer. Specifically, it is the company
that got a hold on the python.co.uk domain 13 years ago.

According to our London counsel, some of the best pieces of evidence
we can submit to the European trademark office are official letters
from well-known companies "using PYTHON branded software in various
member states of the EU" so that we can "obtain independent witness
statements from them attesting to the trade origin significance of the
PYTHON mark in connection with the software and related
goods/services." We also need evidence of use throughout the EU.

Further instructions on how to submit letters of support are in the
blog article linked above.

Please help defend python trademark.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.


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Re: [Ilugc] Old Computer to give away ++ Taken

[Venkatraman S]

This has been taken by Basker of LinuXpert.

Thanks to those who responded ; and apologies to those who
wished for and to whom i couldn't give.

Regards,
Venkat

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Venkatraman S  wrote:

> Just to be clear...this is 'Free' ..
> Prefer someone who can collect it by Friday end of day..
> First Come First Serve Basis, as i cannot reserve it and need to clear the
> stuff asap.
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Venkatraman S wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got an old Computer(CPU+CRT Monitor+UPS) that i want to give away.
>>
>> This was bought in Apr'2000 and has been actively used till Jun 2005 and
>> then the usage dropped till it went kaput in early 2010. This was my FIRST
>> computer and my BE project and all my personal projects were done on this.
>>
>> *Specs:
>> *Intel P3 733 Mhz , 64 MB RAM
>> NO Hard-disk
>> Has a CD and floppy drive.
>> UPS is dead (but you can prod and see).
>> 17" inches CRT monitor - was last seen working.
>>
>> I would expect that the computer works perfectly once you setup a
>> harddisk and then install a bare-bones inux (like archlinux?).  Would be
>> ideal for someone who wants to experiment.
>>
>> Pickup has to be arranged by you. Pickup Location : Virugambakkam
>>
>> Please drop me an email if you want it.
>>
>> Venkat
>> http://twitter.com/venkasub
>>
>
>
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Re: [Ilugc] Old Computer to give away

[Venkatraman S]

Just to be clear...this is 'Free' ..
Prefer someone who can collect it by Friday end of day..
First Come First Serve Basis, as i cannot reserve it and need to clear the
stuff asap.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Venkatraman S  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I got an old Computer(CPU+CRT Monitor+UPS) that i want to give away.
>
> This was bought in Apr'2000 and has been actively used till Jun 2005 and
> then the usage dropped till it went kaput in early 2010. This was my FIRST
> computer and my BE project and all my personal projects were done on this.
>
> *Specs:
> *Intel P3 733 Mhz , 64 MB RAM
> NO Hard-disk
> Has a CD and floppy drive.
> UPS is dead (but you can prod and see).
> 17" inches CRT monitor - was last seen working.
>
> I would expect that the computer works perfectly once you setup a harddisk
> and then install a bare-bones inux (like archlinux?).  Would be ideal for
> someone who wants to experiment.
>
> Pickup has to be arranged by you. Pickup Location : Virugambakkam
>
> Please drop me an email if you want it.
>
> Venkat
> http://twitter.com/venkasub
>
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[Ilugc] Old Computer to give away

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

I got an old Computer(CPU+CRT Monitor+UPS) that i want to give away.

This was bought in Apr'2000 and has been actively used till Jun 2005 and
then the usage dropped till it went kaput in early 2010. This was my FIRST
computer and my BE project and all my personal projects were done on this.

*Specs:
*Intel P3 733 Mhz , 64 MB RAM
NO Hard-disk
Has a CD and floppy drive.
UPS is dead (but you can prod and see).
17" inches CRT monitor - was last seen working.

I would expect that the computer works perfectly once you setup a harddisk
and then install a bare-bones inux (like archlinux?).  Would be ideal for
someone who wants to experiment.

Pickup has to be arranged by you. Pickup Location : Virugambakkam

Please drop me an email if you want it.

Venkat
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[Ilugc] DKIM Key Vulnerability

[Venkatraman S]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/dkim-vulnerability-widespread/

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] Databases and open source

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think everyone knows mySQL.
>
> It is a popular brand like Linux. How many know Postgres?
>
> How many SQLite?
>
> Like the debate between emacs and vi or between Linux and BSD there
> are people who prefer
>  Postgres to mySQL.
> And I wonder how one can talk about mySQL in that many tracks as there
> is really not much to talk about.
>

There is a difference between Opinion and Facts. You haven't quoted any
Facts in here,
and hence i presume you should have tagged this as 'Opinion'.

It is much better to say that X is better than Y due to A, B, C and let the
group discuss
about the intricacies.

This one is just a blunt thought.

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Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments India 2012

[Venkatraman S]

On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

>
> We are happy and please to let you informed that the global photography
> contest Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 (WLM) kicks off today, while India
> participates along and competes with other 35 nations. On behalf of the
> core team and Wikimedia India chapter, we are inviting you to participate
> in the month long contest, which runs from *1st of September to 31st of
> September*.
>

This is awsum. I am going to upload almost *all* the pictures clicked by me.

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] Kalyan Varma: Free art is profitable

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Arun Venkataswamy wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Shrinivasan T  >wrote:
>
> > Found a nice video on how releasing the photographs for free and in
> > creative commons can bring lot of money.
> > http://kalyanvarma.net/about
>
>
> Nice info.
> Thanks for sharing.
>

Yup - this thing works, if not for the money, atleast it gives you the
satisfaction.
I recently was approached by BBC Worldwide for one of my clicks - gave it
away for free.

-Venkat
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Re: [Ilugc] Fwd: [ilugd] [commercial] Welcome to GNU Coreutils Tips service

[Venkatraman S]

Sounds similar to what Girish/Bharatthi did a few years back in this DL.

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] Info about dear Kenneth

[Venkatraman S]

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wanted a more precise reason. Got it from Bharathi.
>


Which is?

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] PIPA and SOPA Co-Sponsors Abandon Bills

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:

>
> does anyone have a writeup on how SOPA / PIPA impact people in India ?
>
>
Not exactly , but a good intro : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhwuXNv8fJM

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[Ilugc] [X-POST] Selenium Simple Test

[Venkatraman S]

This does look super-simple! Linky :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPostUOAEI

-Venkat
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[Ilugc] Akash Tablet 60$

[Venkatraman S]

Looks extremely interesting : http://www.akashtablet.com/features.html
Anyone from Amritsar in this group who can get a hands on this and post
some review?

-V-
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[Ilugc] Fwd: [chennai.rb] [ANN][COMMERCIAL][XPOST] Gentle, interactive, online Ruby training with tests

[Venkatraman S]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Sidu Ponnappa 
Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Subject: [chennai.rb] [ANN][COMMERCIAL][XPOST] Gentle, interactive, online
Ruby training with tests
To: bangalore...@googlegroups.com, puner...@googlegroups.com,
chenna...@googlegroups.com, m...@googlegroups.com,
kerala...@googlegroups.com


Hi everyone,

We went live with the public alpha of our online Ruby training
program, RubyMonk (http://rubymonk.com) last night.

We are on the Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/)
front page and would really appreciate your upvotes.

In just 90 minutes after the launch last night, 698 people
solved at least one exercise, with a total of 8404 exercises
solved!

Here are some of the interesting things about RubyMonk:

* Has book style content built around real code that you get to write
* Tests - all the code that you write has tests run against it (so you
get used to Red/Green early on)
* Problems and Exercises - learn ruby by studying content in a linear
manner, or by solving problems that cut across multiple chapters

It's early days yet, and much of the workflow is rather rough, but
we'd greatly appreciate your feedback so we can make it better.

Thanks,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
http://sidu.in

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Re: [Ilugc] ankit fadia

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Roshan George  wrote:

> That's what
> happens and it isn't worth the 180 s it'll take you to compose a protest
> email.
>

How do you find the time spent on composing emails?
I hear he has a keyboard which types even before he thinks ;)

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] Which is best IDE

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:36 AM, ashwin kesavan wrote:

> true linux geek feel commnad line is lot better than GUI. I think you
> are a or aspiring Linux geek which is why you are asking in this M/L.
> So one more reason to use vim.
>

Who decides the virtues of a true geek? A geek, IMHO, creates all the
required tools beforehand
(for posterity) which he can use when needed. Remember, most geeks are lazy
;)

Extreme Programming teaches you to complete the task by adhering to the
simplest
philosophies and there is nothing wrong in using an IDE. Using an IDE is a
matter of
decision -
#choose one which has the features that you are looking for;
#doesnt create too much boiler plate code which you cannot understand;
#if paid, then doesnt leave a hole in your wallet for the features solicited
#..etc

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Re: [Ilugc] How to make ILUGC list user friendly?

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

>
> I am seeing a lot of people FEAR to shoot a mail to the list.
> It seems that the newbies should have thick skin to write to our list.
>

Expecting others to change is a 'nice' way of living in the world ;) I dont
think we should
expect others to behave as per our wishes.  Newbies need not have a thick
skin, but they
should feel that this list is a grandpa, to whom they can approach easily
and get their queries
clarified.

I have consistently seen that a selected few do not have the naiveness while
posting
which is taken as being disrespectful.  The problem *is* with the former;
for they being
in the list for a long time should not take the liberty in 'owning' this
group; and should rather
help in 'promoting'  -- do understand that being curt in replies is
dangerous thing - and is often
understood as being disrespectful. Btw, i see the same behavior by those
*few* across mailing lists too;
so i have kind of lived that.

Been in this group since 2004-05, i have posted very less and i am always
flabbergasted with
the noise-to-signal ratio(!!).

Code of Conduct should be 'freindly' - like a marketing campaign, and not a
checklist.

-V
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[Ilugc] [OT]Online Payments

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

Please correct me if i am wrong in here ...anywhereI wanted to
understand the online payments arena better:

Simply put : i am launching a new service and i want my customers to pay me
via credit card OR paypal account.
The money can either go into my bank account directly OR into my paypal
account(from which i can withdraw later).

So this is what i have understood so far:
1. i can accept creditcard or pp payments using paypal using their websites
payment 
standard.
This costs around 5$ for every 100$ worth of transactions.
2. I can accept the same using authorize
which would
transfer the money to my bank account. This costs approx 20$ per month +per
txn fee) and before that the setupfees. Lets say this costs 20+100*0.10 =30$
per month. (is it possible to link a bank account in India to this? - i
guess they call this as merchant account?

Now, i understand these 2 services, but how do
chargify,
cheddargetter and spreedly
work? I mean, do these also provide the same feature
of accepting payments online or are these just billing services(like a
ledger to keep track of payments).

Help?

-V
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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Oracle 9.0.1.0.0 for x86 Linux - restoration of corrupted file in installer CD2

[Venkatraman S]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 1:15 AM, Arun Khan  wrote:

> In a client's copy of the Oracle 9.0.1.0.0 installer, the file
> "complete_oltp.0.0.jar" is corrupted in the 2nd CD.
>
> I need a copy of it  to restore an Oracle insallation.  Please contact
> me offlist if you happen to have.
>

Also, parallely did you try contacting Oracle Support?
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[Ilugc] Fwd: Devops Weekly #25

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Probably those interested can subscribe to this NL.
Disclaimer : i am not related to this.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Devops Weekly 
Date: Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 2:04 AM
Subject: Devops Weekly #25
To: venka...@gmail.com


DEVOPS WEEKLY
ISSUE #25 - 11th June 2011

It's Velocity and devopsdays next week and I'm guessing a fair few readers
will be going along. While you're enjoying all the glorious content take a
moment to think of everyone who can't make it - and blog and tweet like
crazy so we can keep up.


News


It turns out Puppet Labs employ a User Experience Designer, responsible for
making the command line, API's and the Puppet DSL as nice to use as they can
be. Too many designers miss the potential of command line utilities so this
is greta news.

http://www.puppetlabs.com/blog/what-is-user-experience-in-puppet/

R.I.Pienaar (of mcollective fame) has been very busy this last week. First
releasing Hiera, a new hierarchal data store aimed at representing key value
data about infrastructure. The following two blog posts go into details
about how this can be used with puppet to keep manifests particularly clean
and reusable.

http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/05/hiera_a_pluggable_hierarchical_data_store.php
http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/06/puppet_backend_for_hiera.php
http://www.devco.net/archives/2011/06/11/puppet_backend_for_hiera_part_2.php

I've mentioned the growing #monitoringsucks movement in the last few issues.
John Vincent has written a good blog post summarising what's going on and
what he'd love to see come out of the group. The project now has repos for
tools, metrics best practice, irc logs and any blog posts written on the
subject.

http://lusislog.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-monitoring-sucks.html

Selenium is a handy tool, but running it in headless mode has often been
troublesome. This blog post demonstrates using PyVirtualDisplay, a Python
wrapper for Xvfb and Xephyr, to run your tests. If you're using Python this
looks very useful.

http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2011/06/python-headless-selenium-webdriver.html

I found this article on the IBM Integrated Service Management Blog.
Describing devops as "simultaneously reassuring and terrifying" it's a
really interesting, and positive, insight from an experienced outsider. The
car analogy is a nice thought as well.

https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/59c1123b-0353-458e-a719-b002d84108d5/entry/devops_should_i_have_known_what_that_is1?lang=en_us


Tools
=

Log.io looks an interesting tool for visualising log files in realtime in a
browser. It's a node.js application that you can host yourself, and it can
harvest log files from multiple machines and let you build up views of what
you want to see.

http://logio.org/

Vagrant is spawning a number of useful plugins, and snap is the latest. It
provides the ability to take snapshots of virtual machines and then restore
back to them, and it usefully supports multi-vm vagrantfiles.

https://github.com/t9md/vagrant-snap

chef.vim is plugin for vim using chef fans. It provides the ability to jump
between attributes and recipes and easily open recipes, templates and files
in your cookbooks.

https://github.com/t9md/vim-chef


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Re: [Ilugc] [Commercial] Linux & Open Source Jobs Site Announced

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On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
wrote:

>
> they speak english in US???
>

s/US/United states/

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Re: [Ilugc] [cross-post] Ruby on Rails vs Drupal - for new website

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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Hameed  wrote:

>
>  I would like to know which of these frameworks - RoR or Drupal - should be
> chosen for developing a new website.
>
>
Have you considered Django?

 A google search on the topic gives results pointing more towards Drupal
> (as probably the internet is dominated by PHP/Drupal developers) and am
> finding it hard to decide.
>

Interesting stats!

 Could someone give me pointers. Once website development starts, changing
> the framework later on would prove to be very expensive and I want to avoid
> such a situation. Hence, need your expert opinions.
>

The motivation behind choosing a framework/language is driven by many
factors; one of the primary being the
availability of developers; followed by the ease of development and
maintainence.

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Re: [Ilugc] [kanchilug] Re: [Tip] Change to the previous working directory

[Venkatraman S]

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Roshan Mathews  wrote:

> > pushd/popd are cool but a bit obscure ... "cd -" is straightforward !
> >
>
> `cd -' is what I use while typing in the shell, mostly because it is
> easier for me to remember where I came from, instead of a stack of
> directories.   There is also a `dirs' command that shows the current
> directory stack, which is automatically called when you do a `pushd'
> or `popd'.
>

I generally create env vars for frequently used dirs,
for eg. root of source tree, static files dir, locale files dir

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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] JUGChennai - Web 2.0 with Kevin Nilson - 14-May-2011 Tenth Planet

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:51 PM, rajmahen...@gmail.com <
rajmahen...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Title : Web 2.0 with Kevin Nilson
> Speaker :  Kevin Nilson
> Date 14-May-2011  Saturday
> Time: 10AM to 1PM
> Topic:
> Scaling CometD to the Masses
>  HTML5 Web Testing  (If time permits )
>  Venue: Tenth Planet Technologies Pvt. Ltd,P.T.Lee building,.,6th
> floor, #807, Anna Salai, opp. to LIC, Chennai-62, Next to DBS
> building, Look for ICICI Lombard big
>

Are you planning to record the event?

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[Ilugc] [X-POST] Python@Google in Google I/O

[Venkatraman S]

Was watching Python@ Google talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKQS8EDG1P4
Didnt know Python turned 20 in Feb this year! (Born in Feb 1991). Belated
wishes honey ;)

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Re: [Ilugc] Two days training programme in MIT

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Baskar Selvaraj wrote:

>
> The event is for invite-only for System Admins / Lab Assistants / Technical
> staffs who are handling FOSS labs in various engineering colleges.
>
> This was already announced in the list a month back.
>
> http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/pipermail/ilugc/2011-April/065235.html
>

Would be nice if you can conduct for other mortals(like us :) )

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Re: [Ilugc] Two days training programme in MIT

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On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Roshan Mathews  wrote:

> On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 08:54, Baskar Selvaraj  wrote:
> > A two days Free training program on FOSS lab setup and administration was
> > organised by Anna University, MIT Campus for system admins / lab
> technical
> > assistants of engineering colleges.  It was held on 6th and 7th May 2011.
> > The 2 days session was handled by me.
> >
>
> Fantastic work, Baskar.  Are these events invite-only, or only for the
> students of specific colleges, or can anyone attend them?  If they are
> open, could you announce them before the actual event?
>

+1 and same Qs as above (^)
This is commendable. Kudos.

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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] for gmail users

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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Venkatraman S  wrote:

>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves 
> wrote:
>
>> http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
>>
>
> 1. Have a look at 'People You May Know' in Linkedin.
> 2. Search for 'Helvetica' (any font) in Google.
> 3. and check this :
> http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html
>

Mother of ALL : xkcd in 3D today!
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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] for gmail users

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:

> http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
>

1. Have a look at 'People You May Know' in Linkedin.
2. Search for 'Helvetica' (any font) in Google.
3. and check this :
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/autocompleter/index.html
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Re: [Ilugc] Introduction to MongoDB

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Raja Subramanian wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Swapnil 
> wrote:
> > How about sending it ONLY to the poster and not the entire list? That
> > way archive won't be messy.
>
> How about including this logic into the mailing list engine itself
> so top/bottom posts do not get accepted!!!
>

Please dicusss etiquette in a different thread. You are killing
mongly...Ouch!
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Re: [Ilugc] How Video Streaming Works

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <
raju.rajs...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, from UML perspective etc., a little later.
>

Thanks for the insights; gave me enough ideas to dive deeper.
I did not ask for UML :)

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Re: [Ilugc] How Video Streaming Works

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 7:45 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

>  On Thursday 17 March 2011 08:45 AM, Venkatraman S wrote:
> >
> > Can someone explain how video streaming works - i am mainly interested in
> > how the server works when you click along the timeline of the video. Does
> > the server span threads/processes to fetch the frame from a specified
> moment
> > - how is the load sharing(/scalability) achieved! Do these need custom-OS
> > for efficient file traversals?
>
> What?
>
> What do you want to know?
>
> None of your assumptions are correct.
>

I never assumed anything above - i asked honest questions as i wanted to
know more about this space .


> At any rate read the relevant RFCs. But you don't seem to be
> interested in the low level
> protocol semantics.
>

And in this case you are not assuming :)
When i talk about file-traversals  or custom-OS, i think i was talking about
UML diagrams and not btree or some other
file structure (!!).


> Actually video streaming is fairly straight forward if you consider
> only the higher level protocol.
>

Would like to know the network level  details as much as possible; more than
network level,
i am interested in how the webserver acts with the mpeg file that resides on
the server.


> Of course there is more than what meets the eye but this should do for
> the moment.
>

I got the drift, but no concrete course. But you gave me some keywords which
i can try searching.
But, having done my homework, my above question remains still unanswered.
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[Ilugc] How Video Streaming Works

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

Can someone explain how video streaming works - i am mainly interested in
how the server works when you click along the timeline of the video. Does
the server span threads/processes to fetch the frame from a specified moment
- how is the load sharing(/scalability) achieved! Do these need custom-OS
for efficient file traversals?

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Re: [Ilugc] Minites of Meeting - Feb 2011 Meet

[Venkatraman S]

On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Natarajan V  wrote:

>
> Shrini suggested that we can organize a Gimp Workshop. We would
> require more volunteers as well.
>
>
If we are doing this, then i would suggest that let the group be informed
well in advance,
so that personal priorities can be suitably scheduled. I would definitely be
interested,
but am in bangalore and would need notice in advance.

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Re: [Ilugc] [Announcement] Delhi/NCR Python Users Group India - Started

[Venkatraman S]

Why are we having so many mailing lists spread all across?? I mean, dont you
think
this space require consolidation, and given that the objective of this py
mailing list is to just talk tech stuff
w.r.t python in NCR region, then cant we have one python ml across india and
then have the local subgroups
to coordinate activities/meetups? So members of the local groups are
automatically a member of the parent group.

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Re: [Ilugc] learning a new language

[Venkatraman S]

How to train your brain to flip to a new language
:
http://www.bitesizeirishgaelic.com/blog/self-learning-non-widespread-languages/

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[Ilugc] Fwd: Computer vision research internships at Google Bangalore (India)

[Venkatraman S]

Stumbled on this in one of the MLs. Hope it helps some of the students in
this list.

-- Forwarded message --
From: 
Date: Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:03 AM
Subject: Computer vision research internships at Google Bangalore (India)
To: ee-j...@mailman.stanford.edu


Jobs, Employment, and Career Opportunities in Engineering from Stanford.
---


Computer Vision Research Internships at Google Bangalore (India)

I have multiple openings available for summer internships at Google
Bangalore this year. The internships will be research oriented but with a
strong practical aspect to them. Projects will focus on problems relating
to image processing, pattern recognition and computer vision. Interns will
participate in cutting edge research and development in advanced video and
image processing systems, and the work will impact highly visible
Google products used by millions of people every day. Potential research
topics include image enhancement (super-resolution, de-blurring and
de-noising), image and video compression, temporal video analysis, 3D
reconstruction, segmentation and recognition.

Graduate students (PhD/MS/M.Tech) as well as strong undergraduates, with
a publication record and/or experience in computer vision, image processing
and pattern recognition areas, are preferred. Candidates must be passionate
and excited about their work, and eager to contribute to the state of the
art. Candidates must have strong programming skills, preferably using C/C++
on a Linux environment.

Interns placed in Google Bangalore get competitive compensation, free
furnished accommodation, and daily pick up and drop off service. Interested
students may directly contact me at kwa...@google.com.

Vivek Kwatra
Research Scientist
Google Research
Mountain View, CA (*visiting Google Bangalore in summer 2011)
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Re: [Ilugc] [BCC] [OT] Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebrations @ Chennai on Jan 15th , 2011

[Venkatraman S]

Anyone planning to attend this and has the Wikipedia dump? (Please contact
me offlist, so that i can collect it from you)

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Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Free as in Freedom

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Oreilly's OpenBook : http://oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/index.html

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Re: [Ilugc] problem installing RT

[Venkatraman S]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Roshan Mathews  wrote:

>
> > http://bit.ly/fbe0Ov
> >
> Hey Satya, please don't shorten URLs you post to the list.  It's a
> nuisance to open an "anonymous browser" window and paste just to see
> if it is safe.  But, it's totally your call. :-)
>
>
And its an 'unwanted' extra hop :)

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Re: [Ilugc] [EXCHANGE] Netgear WGR14 v7

[Venkatraman S]

Community,

Do you see the benefits of this idea of 'sharing/selling'?
A simple 'ad' has sparked so much interest on hacking the router etc.

Good work.

-V-
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Re: [Ilugc] [Slightly OT] Allowing exchange/second-hand sale?

[Venkatraman S]

Freecycle is nice - but you have to give them away for 'free'.

I am not sure why some members are against the idea, but since i do not
believe in law of numbers,
(even if one opposes, the group shouldn't go that away), i would suggest
that a new group be created
and things be sold/swapped in there. I do see the usefulness of such a
group.

Or else, a new forum be created in the ilugc website(is this still working -
which is the official one?)
which lets this happen.

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Re: [Ilugc] Looking for idea

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally very smart people are born from an electronics background.
>

So Gandhi was not smart?
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Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:15 AM, JAGANADH G  wrote:

>
> Refer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search
>

Not sure whether you have heard of Powerset which was gulped by Microsoft.
http://blizzardzblogs.blogspot.com/2008/05/powerset-mathematical-pun.html

OTOH, word sense disambiguation is a NP-hard problem.

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Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:03 AM, JAGANADH G  wrote:

>
> If somebody brings semantic search (fullfledged ) in to practice that will
> be a Google Killer ;-)
>

Define 'semantic search' plz.
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Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
wrote:

> > Try throwing the keyword "Apple" in Google and DuckDuckGo and feel the
> > difference !!
>
> excellent example
>

I do not think so; people do not generally search for single terms, and even
if they do,
how many times do you think people google for apple with the fruit in mind,
most of the
cases it is 'apple' as in a company.

Cognitive sciences and psychology affect technology a lot; and companies
which take
advantage of this would be the winner.

Google is a verb now ; any search engine to enter into this space and gain
the marketshare has to have a
significant value add, and i do not see any of the existing ones to be
comparable with that
of Google. There can be search engines related to niche areas which present
data in a
different way - but note that here the stress would be more on the
'presentation layer' as the UI has to be
tweaked according to the audience's interest(for eg. patents, lawsuits,
genomes, census data)
(generation of suitable metadata for indexes etc is implied).

DDG is good, but not great. Do I like it? Yes(esp the Duck).  Will I use it?
No.

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[Ilugc] Fwd: [BangPypers] PyCon India videos up

[Venkatraman S]

FYI:

-- Forwarded message --
From: Noufal Ibrahim 
Date: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 1:57 PM
Subject: [BangPypers] PyCon India videos up
To: Bangalore Python Users Group 



Thanks to Sriram and others, I've managed to get the videos up onto
blip.tv.

The videos are at

   http://in.pycon.org/2010/blog/37-pycon-india-2010-videos-are-up.

Please spread the word.

Thanks!
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[Ilugc] [X-POST]Using HTML/Javascript

[Venkatraman S]

Couldnt resist this : http://raphaeljs.com/scape/

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Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Venkatraman S]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Roshan Mathews  wrote:

> You can 'trust' that your data is safe.  In which case you must read
> "Reflections on Trusting Trust":
> http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
>
>
Recommended read for all.
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Re: [Ilugc] Good Django web hosting in India

[Venkatraman S]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Arun SAG  wrote:

>
> I am planning to host a django website in an Indian server. I am not
> looking
> for VPS or dedicated server as i believe it must be costly. The hosting
> provider must be running nginx. He must support adding extra batteries to
> django on request. The latency must be less to Indian users. Please help me
> in picking up the best.
>
>
Tried GAE?
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Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Venkatraman S]

any thing that is on the web is NOT secure. there is nothing called PRIVACY.

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Re: [Ilugc] creating a FOSS alternate for Teamviewer

[Venkatraman S]

Good idea.  But now i think, the need of the hour is a good
del.icio.usclone; more important than 2G scam investigations ;)

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Re: [Ilugc] India Pin Codes

[Venkatraman S]

Blog : ZIPScribble Map for India http://goo.gl/2c9Ud

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Re: [Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Parin Sharma wrote:

> DuckDuckGo is a search engine, like Google.
> http://duckduckgo.com
>
>
Poor Google - their shares are going to plummet today!

The duck looks 'bechara' to me, especially when half of its neck is missing.
Though the bow tie is kicka$$ :P
On a side note - is this related to Cuil by any chance? Cuil vanished!

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Re: [Ilugc] India Pin Codes

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Roshan George  wrote:

> > Nevertheless, if you are interested/curious in knowing what i was upto:
> > ZIPScribble Maps for the State of Andhra Pradesh in India :
> > http://goo.gl/YsNO6
>
> That _is_ pretty neat. Perhaps you could write to India Post? They do
> allow you to check which PIN code corresponds to which area on their
> website. It's a long shot, though.
>

Thanks.

The problem is not a lookup with India Post, but getting ALL the data so
that we can
do more fun with that. For eg. now, i am doing a TSP for whole of India with
the
zipcodes; for problems of this magnitude, we *cannot*  lookup.

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Re: [Ilugc] India Pin Codes

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Roshan George  wrote:

>
> There have got to be better places to ask this question.


Well, there are OSM guys in this forum, and i opined that there light would
help me trudge this predicament.


> Anyway, just
> google 'india pincodes xls', go to the citehr link, use a bugmenot
> address and download the spreadsheet.
>

Not credible data.

Nevertheless, if you are interested/curious in knowing what i was upto:
ZIPScribble Maps for the State of Andhra Pradesh in India :
http://goo.gl/YsNO6

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Re: [Ilugc] India Pin Codes

[Venkatraman S]

It is quiet funny that data of such basic nature is not available freely!!

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[Ilugc] India Pin Codes

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

I was wondering whether anyone in the group has the list of all the Pincodes
in India.
If you have any other information along with it (like, cityname, long ,
lat), then it would be all the better;
but if you have vanilla pincodes alone - even that would do.

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Re: [Ilugc] graphical view of postgresql database

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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
wrote:

>
> can anyone suggest a neat tool for a graphical view of a postgresql
> database?
>

Graphviz? (django-graphviz does it for Django apps)

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Re: [Ilugc] zimbra and exchange

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves
wrote:

>
> 1. zimbra is too slow
> 2. search feature is missing - or does not cut it.
>

Agree to both the points. 'too' factor is really excruciating sometimes.

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Re: [Ilugc] Talks about FOSS in Barcamp

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On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

>
> I handled the session "Making Money with Free Open Source Software"
> Shared some thoughts on the business models available in FOSS.
>
>
Can you share the slides if you did have one.

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Re: [Ilugc] India Map by State for Viz

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Just an FYI : such maps are called as Choropleth Maps.
http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html

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Re: [Ilugc] India Map by State for Viz

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
wrote:

>
> [1] http://maperitive.net/
>

Broken link or the site is down?
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Re: [Ilugc] India Map by State for Viz

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On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Arulalan T  wrote:

> For mapping countries , you can use CDAT which has
> created meteorological  field.
> Its a python library. More over its desktop application.
>
> http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cdat
>
> http://www2-pcmdi.llnl.gov/cdat/screenshots
>
>
The maps dont look 'neat'; also looks like there is significant learning in
generating the maps.
I am looking for something as simple as Google's. Any other options?
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[Ilugc] India Map by State for Viz

[Venkatraman S]

I was wondering whether there is anything similar for India(which allows us
to show viz by state):
http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/intensitymap.html

(The above does at the country level)

Also, is there anything similar for mapping countries, other than that of
Google?

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Re: [Ilugc] [OT][spam] Martin Fowler's talk in Bangalore, Chennai, Pune

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:40 PM, openbala wrote:

>
> And I agree to your point - any self-respecting developer should read
> his book and follow his blog[1]
>

I would rephrase this as  "any OO phile/maniac" should read his book/blog.
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Re: [Ilugc] OSM - Neat and Useful Viz

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On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Roshan Mathews  wrote:

> > Some neat viz that i spotted recently :
> > http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/hacking-india-is-beautiful/
> >
> That's fantastic!
>

Also, you might want to check out Many Eyes. You can upload datasets or use
any
of the existing uploaded datasets and 'see' the data from many of the
charts/viz that
they have provided.

I downloaded all movies since 1930 from Freebase and put it in Many Eyes and

the resulting viz : goo.gl/lXdzI

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[Ilugc] OSM - Neat and Useful Viz

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Some neat viz that i spotted recently :
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/hacking-india-is-beautiful/

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[Ilugc] [X-POST] Firesheep

[Venkatraman S]

Neat stuff : http://codebutler.com/firesheep

Solution : http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/25/firesheep/

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Re: [Ilugc] [ EVENT ] Two day Workshop on Google Technologies by TamilNadu GTUG

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Arun Prakash wrote:

>
> GTUG is very happy to organize this State Level event. The
>

Whats GTUG ??

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[Ilugc] [x-post] Fwd: Django Linky

[Venkatraman S]

Why django suckserr...rules

http://djangocon.blip.tv/file/4112452/
http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/object-lesson-how-respond-criticism/

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Re: [Ilugc] ILUGC : the most active and helpful LUG in India

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On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Long ago there was a person by name leave it.
>

Who?  The M$ guy?

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[Ilugc] HOWTO: Payments from Websites?

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

I always wondered how some sites have this payment buttons which takes us to
the VISA/MASTERCARD panel and let us pay and also lets us record of this in
our application.
Is there any simple tutorial of how this can be done?

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Re: [Ilugc] mysql optimization

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Deepan Chakravarthy  wrote:

>
> I need some help in creating the best possible table schema for the
> following condition.
>

My Try:
 #Users - username,userid
 #Groups - groupname,groupid
 #Usergroups - userid,groupid
 #GroupQs  - groupid, groupQid,groupQQuestion
 #UserAnss   - userid, groupQid, userAnswer

Where Users,Groups,Usergroups,GroupQs ,UserAnss are the tables and the comma
separated list in front of the table name is the columns.

As for the queries, if you are using django-orm(or any other ORM) then it
should be pretty easy.

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Re: [Ilugc] Google App Engine (possible OT)

[Venkatraman S]

2010/7/15 சிவகுமார் மா 

>
> The question is how open Google will be with its implementation? How secure
> / safe the data would be?
>

I run my site http://www.mapatree.org/ on GAE and haven't faced any problems
till now. The site is developed in Django. There are small changes in syntax
when one develops a solution on GAE, but these can be quickly learnt and the
solution can be deployed for *free*.

The only expense for me w.r.t Map-A-Tree was buying the domain - GAE helps
in minimizing your costs a lot (jargon alert : 'lean enterprise').

Toads would fall from the sky when GOOG removes this *free* usage.

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Re: [Ilugc] Open source software system for book publishers

[Venkatraman S]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Zico  wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Immanuel Jeyaraj  >wrote:
>
> > try latex... if he wants GUI then try Lyx...
> >
>
> Latex Lyx What this suppose to mean?
>
>
You are asking about Software to 'manage' , he is suggesting something to
'type/print'.

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Re: [Ilugc] [Tip] Convert YouTube FLV files in Linux

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:01 AM, jemenisuresh wrote:

> If you downloaded a Flash FLV file and want to convert it to an audio
> or video file, do the following:
>

I find ffmpeg to be much powerful than mplayer. Creating thumbnails from
videos etc and also converting them is a breeze.
And also, python binding is available (pyffmpeg)

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Re: [Ilugc] Projects for students

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Manokaran K  wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Venkatraman S  wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Manokaran K 
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > A server installed in the bus can update passengers about the expected
> > > arrival time to their destinations!
> > >
> >
> > You mean RFID ?
> >
> >
> Interesting idea. A system that uses an RFID sensor installed in bus
> shelters can sense the arrival of buses (fitted with RFID transmitters) and
> appropriately update its bus location database. But I think it would be
> much
> more complex and the location information will be of a lesser resolution
> than a GPS!
>

This is already being/was done in India. I think buses in bangalore were
fitted with some sort of tracking device - but am not sure whats its state
of operation now.
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Re: [Ilugc] Projects for students

[Venkatraman S]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Manokaran K  wrote:

>
> A server installed in the bus can update passengers about the expected
> arrival time to their destinations!
>

You mean RFID ?
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Re: [Ilugc] Projects for students

[Venkatraman S]

http://www.mapatree.org/ needs some contributors.

1)  Mobile App Developer : to develop the mobile version of the site. (to
allow easy additions to the map). This component will be release in the OSS
arena - so i am looking for an app in such a way that it can be easily
reused in apps which require easy additions to maps.

2) A good UI(HTML/CSS skils) designer would help in revamping the site.

For further details, please go through the site and then contact me.

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Re: [Ilugc] HTML 5 Introduction

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Shrinivasan T wrote:

>
> http://www.html5rocks.com
>


Can find some more related articles in : http://hacks.mozilla.org/

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Re: [Ilugc] Linux in CGHS

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Just to add : saw Macs all over the place in Sundarpandian hospital(Bone and
Joint, Anna Nagar). Was even more surprised!

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[Ilugc] Linux in CGHS

[Venkatraman S]

Hi,

My dad used to work(now a pensioner) for the Central Govt; and recently he
suffered from an injury and i had to take him to CGHS - Central Govt Health
Scheme. CGHS is basically a small hospital/clinic wherein they do
preliminary investigation before sending them to a more specialized
hospital.

I went to the CGHS clinic in KKNagar(Chennai) and was surprised to see that
some of the operations have been computerized; and the doctors were using a
computer running on Linux (guess it was Red Hat). [Also, they were running a
browser based app which was developed by NIC.]

Just wanted to share.

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Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Rahul Sundaram  wrote:

> On 06/10/2010 12:12 PM, Venkatraman S wrote:
> > finally HTML5 which
> > has a cool fileupload drag-drop interface and many more. Hope you get the
> > point.
> >
>
> Don't understand what you are referring to?  HTML5 doesn't define any
> such interface.  It might have tags but I don't understand the reference
> even then.
>
>
http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/12/uploading-files-with-xmlhttprequest/

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Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
wrote:

> On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:05:03 Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
> > I meant that going to the Net for help in the form of mailing lists,
> > forums and so on is useful only after we do our homework and
> > are really sure that we have run out of options.
> >
>
> different people have different learning processes - one process does not
> work
> for all. It is like finding the way to some new place - some people keep
> asking
> for directions and are soon there. Others refuse to ask anyone for
> directions
> and may never reach. Some people are only comfortable if they learn on
> their
> own and hate being instructed - others prefer to get instructions.
>

Right. I learn more from #irc and stackoverflow.  IMHO, most people cant say
or are afraid to say 'I dont know' or 'can you help me'.  Humility
helps...and it helps a lot :) 'Asking' shouldn't be done without any
homework.

In this particular scenario, video streaming is not a simple arena to get
into and understand all the nuances of it, given that there is a raging war
on the video formats. I find it easy to 'ask' and also it lets me learn
different aspects of it. For eg. i was just about to get into mplayer and
learn more when someone brought about the point of 'last rev' which i had
completely forgotten.

Another instance: I had a simple Q on file uploads using progress bar and i
'asked', and i was surprised with the replies and the subsequent research
that i did. for eg. flash based or not, whether the django dev server would
run on it or not, whether flash based version is the ideal or not or whether
it 'actually' shows the 'actual' progress or not, and finally HTML5 which
has a cool fileupload drag-drop interface and many more. Hope you get the
point.

I would rate *humility *and *curiosity *as the 2 biggest virtues that every
person/programmer should have. No one likes to be instructed, but at the
same time, if they had the curiosity, i don't think anyone would ever be
instructed.

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Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

[Venkatraman S]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ffmpeg is also a nice tool. It is usually more buggy when compared to
> mencoder in the sense that it does not handle standards gracefully and
> the quality of audio is usually poor.
>
> I dunno about its ability to grab frames. It is pretty good at capturing
> video
> from X11.
>
> Your mileage may vary. There are no canned answers to such questions.
>
> Which in other words means "I dunno." ;)
>
>
No probs. I got this response from the django group (posting just for
gyaan).
I actually liked the way how easy it is to get a frame from a video in 4
lines!

8<

I would recommend using ffmpeg over mplayer for this purpose. ffmpeg
actually has releases, where as there hasn't been a release of mplayer
for over 3 years - the mplayer devs got frustrated at packaging it,
and now recommend users to use tip of svn.

Also, mplayer is based on the same libraries as ffmpeg, so you get the
same end results.

Oooh, theres also a python wrapper around ffmpeg, and their example on
their frontpage does precisely what you asked for:

http://code.google.com/p/pyffmpeg/

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Re: [Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

[Venkatraman S]

On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Girish Venkatachalam <
girishvenkatacha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Venkatraman S  wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Say, a user uploads a video in my website, then how can i generate a
> > thumbnail version of the video on the go?
> >
>
> ImageMagick can do that.
>
>
Someone suggested ffmeg [http://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-doc.html ]
Have you done any comparison between the two in terms of performance(speed
and CRU load) ?
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[Ilugc] Generate thumbnails from videos

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Hi,

Say, a user uploads a video in my website, then how can i generate a
thumbnail version of the video on the go?

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Re: [Ilugc] BOSS Linux Advertising

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On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Vamsee Kanakala  wrote:

> While that is also true, most end users are not dumb either, so if we can
> sell them the concept of Linux in a simple manner, they will understand it.
> People don't exactly know what "Intel Inside" means, but they know it stands
> for a proven piece of technology that runs their PCs.
>
> If we can convey to people that Linux is free, open and secure and why they
> should care about it in a simple manner, I think even end-users respond to
> that. It's quite similar to why some people pay more to get greener cars: if
> they know the benefit, they'll go the extra mile. But I agree with your
> larger point though - if somebody is going to have to pay for educating
> consumers on a massive scale, a commercial entity that aligns with those
> interests is one of the more viable options.
>

Quiet true. I have been able to tell people regarding Linux and its single
biggest merit when compared with Windows - 'security'. Even the n00bs
understand the relative non-virus nature of Linux.

Also, along similar lines, i was able to get a client of mine to convert to
Linux(webfaction) from Windows(hostgator). He understood the licensing part
the low cost associated with running of the servers and its maintenance.

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