Re: [ilugd]: pdf writer
Convert to word document or rtf. Open it in Abiword. Then generate latex file and use pdflatex to generate pdf file. I do'nt no anything shorter then this On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 23:21, Bishan Singh Kochher wrote: hi guys, does anyone knows a pdf writer for GNU/Linux. i tried writing a document in openoffice and converting it into pdf, but the links that i had put in my document do not work in pdf. i'm in urgent need of a pdf writer which allows me to create the hyperlinks and the page links for the pdf file i'm creating. thanx, Bishan To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: [OT] Re: : 20Apr ILug Meet
And why are we forgetting, bashing up the meeting organizing people, left right and centre. That's also part of the event. Unless they pay for the snacks etc. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: video in gnome not working
KDE uses a sound daemon called arts and gnome uses esdaemon for sound. Xine audio module has to be told to use /dev/dsp or esd to play On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 09:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I am using Mandrake 9.0. My problem is that my video player Xine is working fine in KDE desktop but in gnome I am able to play Xine which runs a movie from CDROM Drive but no sound output is received. What may be the reason ? Though, I am able to hear all other sounds in Gnome which indicates that soundcard is working in Gnome environment. regards, malkiat To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Re: : t-shirts
In south ex there is a guy who does it for 400 per tshirt for small volume but can decrease it according to the volume. Pankaj kaushal [EMAIL PROTECTED] got quite a few ts from that guy On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 13:05, Shehjar Tikoo wrote: Heck, diverting from the main issue. Nobody's goin to Phuket and no ines using HP transfer prints, first ones too costly and second ones too time consuming,for me atleast, 100-150 bucks would be worth it. Shehjar __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: bootable CD read error
Why do'nt you contact jaswinder. He wrote that piece. get his phone/email address from ilugd site On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 16:38, MALKIAT BENIPAL wrote: pl. guide where I can locate the linux-gazette webpage on grub installation. malkiat Catch hold of a Knoppix CD, boot into it and then try and repair your lilo or grub. For a good article on how to install grub, look for an article on grub at linux-gazette. There's this pretty good article by Jaswinder Kohli. - Prateek To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop!
Re: [ilugd]: gpm works in console but not in X
gpm does what it is needed to do, that is provide mouse support on console. It is not meant to run in XWindow. Cut paste should work in X without gpm. Highlight anything and middle click to paste On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:19, Ajit Ranade wrote: ok, i am feeling a bit lazy and am not rtfm -ing. but can you guys tell me, why does gpm work on consoles but not in X? i am using the plain old fvwm as my window manager. i have a feeling this has something to do with xkbd config. and i have another sneaking feeling that this was discussed earlier in ilugd. begging indulgence, ajit. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Help!!!
mozilla -ProfileWizard to repair On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 18:11, Arshad H. Siddiqui wrote: Hi frnds I've got my Mozilla corrupt. When I click on it, it opens up and then exits aotomatically. How 2 fix it or reinstall which RPM form cd(I've RedHat 8.0). Sound is workin bt when I try 2 play songs frm windows mounted partition no voice comes up any suggestions are welcome. regards Arshad ___ Odomos - the only mosquito protection outside 4 walls - Click here to know more! http://r.rediff.com/r?http://clients.rediff.com/odomos/Odomos.htmodomoswn To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Re: : license for the mailing list
Though copyright should be with author. Until explicitly part of text, any text is considered public domain after public rendering. Which is not exactly FDL To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Re: : license for the mailing list
If you don't explicitly state and assert your right to that text, lawfully it would be public domain AFAIK On Tue, 2003-03-25 at 06:21, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: supreet wrote: Though copyright should be with author. Until explicitly part of text, any text is considered public domain after public rendering. Considered by whom? Not the law. Public Domain is a very specific concept. -- Sanjeev To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one??
On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 08:51, Raj Mathur wrote: IMO programming discipline should be a function of the programmer, not of the programming language. I want a language that lets me make mistakes if I choose to. A language where I can apply the rules of good, structured OO programming (which both Perl and Python let me do), or break them if I so desire (which only Perl lets me do). Software development has become a complex task. If you check out any big enough project, they have a style guide, they try to enforce. Which really indicate that there is no standard for indentation even when there are tools to auto indent. As far as language flexibility goes, python does allow you to write OO, functional and structured programming mixing which ever you want. You can handle several things, the lisp does. Offcourse it also works like java when it comes to object orientation. One language clone called Jython you can write java code in python. You could also write java beans. You could also write functions which resemble BASIC functions. Type checking and casting is automatic and correct in most cases. You can enforce a type to variable as well. Couple of example of what I mean... 1. C (another language that does not enforce discipline on a programmer) permits you to use constructs of the form array[-1]. Now normally negative indices to arrays are taboo. However, you'd be surprised at how often in the Real World this sort of construct is not only used, but indispensable. One example of a large application that uses this construct is Glibc IIRC. 2. Most (all?) OO languages do not permit invocation of object methods that do not exist at compile time. In any ``sane'' programming language a construct of the form $object=new Class; $object-foo() is an error unless Class contains a method called foo. As they say there are more than one way to do things. However this is not an error in Perl. Because of this feature, Perl actually permits to do some creative messing around with class definitions and dynamically generate lots of similar methods for multiple classes at run-time without having to code each one individually by hand. (No, this is not the same thing as templating in C++.) you do write virtual functions in C++. which is a prototype of function to come. Now some people may say that that's a rotten way of doing things, since the code will be unmaintainable. My take is that, firstly, all programming languages contain paradigms, and in order to read another person's code you have to be familiar with the paradigms s/he has used, otherwise you'll be lost in any case. More important, I believe that 25 lines that implement cloning of similar methods are more maintainable in the long term than 5 lines per method for 1000 methods. Unstructured programming may actually be MORE maintainable than structured programming in some cases. To sum up, I'd recommend Python as a great language for learning OO programming and Perl for those programmers who want to have the freedom to be constructive, creative and innovative. Zope and mailman are big applications to prove that python is not just novices language. Python has already been tested with/for in archival, image processing, networking , biotech, etc etc. Being well documented to the extend that each global variable is described makes python a flexible and reliable interpreted language. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves Quote from an IRC channel: Perl, the only language that looks the same before and after PGP-encryption! To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one??
I would second that. First of all python is more newbie friendly and has a more comfortable syntax to read. I am not saying you can't write beautiful code in perl but python defines a certain discplined coding style. Secondly Python is evolving fast. Supreet On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 11:11, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta wrote: On Thursday, March 20, 2003 9:14 PM [GMT+0800=SGT], Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to learn a new programming language, Which one?? python. Unlike perl, python can be read, often even by the authour. Or maybe lisp. -- Sanjeev, who knows neither. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Meeting
Making such an effort is a great thing. But take note that addressing it as Light Weight Process LWP's is not really applicable in linux. (reasons) 1) Kernel is involved in case initialization of thread through syscall clone(2) 2) you see threads as seprate entities in process tree. 3) Resource cost for fork() does not hit the roof compared to clone() I would like to get involved Supreet To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: What about TV Tuner
I think there are many PVR like setups which can be controlled through remote with package called LIRC. packages are Freevo(written in python) MythTV(c++) chack them out. I have tried Freevo before losing the TV capture card. Mine was PixalView and it was nice On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 23:22, Ambar Roy wrote: Mplayer does quite a good job as tv to divx capture as well as tv viewing What kind of CPU does it require? Also is there any Linux sw that can do real time buffering for instant replays and pause/forwarding? I used to use PowerVCR for this with my older board, and it used to work quite nicely on that system. Ambar To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: What about TV Tuner
Mplayer does quite a good job as tv to divx capture as well as tv viewing On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 22:44, Ambar Roy wrote: What are the experience and recommendations of the list about TV tuner card. I plan to buy one and use on gnu-linux. i believe one can also do conversion across medias i.e. VHS to CD etc. The Pinnacle TV tuners give the best quality. And they are quite widely supported on Linux and Windows. I have a Pixelview TV tuner, and I find it ok, nothing great. The following part is completely OT, but still ;) In case you haven't used a TV tuner card, then here are my observations: 1. Linux supports most of them, but the apps under linux leave a lot of room for improvement. 2. The best app that I found for viewing live TV is Dscaler. It is a GPLed tv viewer app that does deinterlacing and a lot of other nifty things. Last time I checked, Dscaler worked only under windows :( 3. For recording, I find Cyberlink PowerVCR quite a good app. It could do real time MPEG 2 compression playback on my older Athlon 1GHz system quite easily at the best sensible quality settings. The program can support better quality for recording than what my TV tuner card can generate. PowerVCR is a commercial app that runs on windows. The app has not been upgraded for over a year now, so there can be better ones available. My new celeron 1.7ghz cpu can't seem to take the load of powervcr! PowerVCR has a mode to directly capture to VCD/SVCD spec MPEG streams, so with a fast computer, you don't need to recompress the video to create VCDs. 4. Under windows 2000/XP, you will need to junk the software that comes with most tv tuner cards, and use third party software and drivers. For drivers under windows 2000/XP check out www.iulab.com and btwincap.sourceforge.net both sites have different drivers. btwincap is oss, but the last time i checked it out, it didn't support dscaler, and the system wud hang when dscaler was run. For viewing don't look at anything but dscaler. 5. Most software for TV tuners don't recognize the indian cable tv frequencies. Use UK cable frequency table in your software. 6. For TV, forget using a antenna. And even for cable TV, the tuner cards require a higher signal than most TVs. My cable walla was quite unhappy with the kind of signal my tv tuner card requires for decent pics. 7. My limited experience with a Celeron 1.7GHz and a Athlon 1GHz CPU tells me that the Athlon 1GHz was much better for realtime video compression. 8. If you wan't to do regular VHS-VCD conversions, then skip the TV tuner card, and get a card with a hardware compressor. You can get cards that are designed specially for this usage. Ambar PS: I haven't checked out anything under linux for some time, if there is any good sw under linux, some1 pls tell me. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [ilugd]: Queries reg GNU/Linux
GNU tools are inpired by design paradigm, unix. Unix was ATT system. So we should say the garden was sown by people at ATT. O but wait, There was something called Multics which was the OS which never got finished which inspired unix platform paradigm . Bla bla . But Von Neumann gave the concept of data and excutive code on same memory system. What I want to drive home as a point is knowledge base of any kind, really does'nt come from one source. And acknowledging that is important. Real contribution of project's like Xwindow, GNU compiler sets and utilities, BSD is not that they produced THE tools, but the just are proof of concept that PEOPLE design software, not demi god's. and offering prayers to linus, RMS, maddog etc etc is last thing is free software one should do. Although they do deserve respect. some thoughts Supreet To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
Re: [LONG] [LIG] Re: [ilugd]: [draft] open letter to indian financeminister
It may not please many, but I could not agree more to what tarun has written. On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 18:57, Tarun Dua wrote: first of all, an excellent response from tarun dua on the draft. --Thanks LL IMHO FLOSS is beyond any mess that any bureaucrat, government, or corporate can make. That is dangerous thinking!!! Look what a mess GOI bureaucrats made with regard to Internet. All this coz' of just a few high profile fraudulent DNR squatting cases 1. The Indian Domain Name Registration business was killed by who else but bureaucrats from GOI. It costs me less to register a .com or a .net domain than a .co.in domain because of the high Total Cost of acquisition of Indian domains. There is no Indian whois ( a premier research institute was one of them which was entrusted with the task of maintaining the whois information, but all of them fail to fulfill their responsibility) and so do the commercial DNR organizations. I am itched because we can't use a standard way to find out about abuse information indian domains. ( Correct me -- I may be wrong ) The country specific TLD .in would have minted money for GOI in the form of royalty if it was an easy DNR process. Because people arount the world would have bought DN's like come.in go.in and so on by millions(look at the existing number of .com's , .biz etc) Typically government would make it mandatory to ask you questions like these for providing a DN to you (WARN: these questions are similar not same as the ones that are/would be/being asked when you want to get a Indian DN .ind.in -- for individuals) When were you born ? Why were you born ? Are you sure you are born yet i.e. show us your birth certificate ? Get 6 copies of the form attested from Zila Tehsi and whatever ? Ditto for various other types of DNs. 2. Look at the early experimental Networks ( ernets, nicnets etc. etc.. ) how well they are serving the needs of our educational Institutions 3. Look at the Telecom mess that also affected the growth of ISP's -- One result is the ISP's in India still don't have much incentive to interconnect with one another and still find it easier to route packets to one another through US based backbones. 4. Internet -- the empowerment-knowledge-freedom it provides is still a mirage to our bandwidth starved country because of difficult laws made by some really clueless people. Not Ranting about Cyberlaws around the world for now the only mess that happens in the FLOSS world, happens from *within* the FLOSS community. it is quite immune and insular to the *outside* world. which is why it is so successful despite governments, despite ruthless corporates, and despite no understanding or awareness of it in the outside world, which is quite paradoxical. FLOSS community is not insular -- rather it is pervasive. It is not despite but because of ruthless corporates that it thrives. why? becuase the FLOSS model is of the cathedral and the bazaar. Its the bazaar model . [snip] Asking the government funds for FLOSS will kill FLOSS, why ?? i) We do not want some politician's son/daughter would be the maintainer for India specific FLOSS projects. the greatness of the cathedral and bazaar model, is that despite even such a horrendous scenario, the madness of the model will ensure its success. people will fork, people will work, FLOSS *ensures* meritocracy, and the bureaucracy despite any thing cannot change that fundamental truth. let them try. i'd love to see them fall. So why push them to try what they are going to mess with in any case. Consider the following scenarios. 1. FLOSS has funding available to GOI sponsered project ( now this the Official GOI-FLOSS project ). The way the government works . This gets entered into the list of approved vendors/lists/ and huge number of paper databases all over the country in Educational Institutions. Now the poor developers from all over contribute code to a semi-govt. org. which makes a mess of it. Even if Linuxlingam decides to fork it. The govt. departments who merely follow the written word in toto without applying an iota of intelligence more to fulfill the rules than for a purpose will use the same project from the GOI-FLOSS thus working to curtail freedom not increase it. 2. FLOSS funding is cornered by elite institutions , research institutions who don't understand what is a bazaar -- they make cathedrals out of it. 3. FLOSS funding starts to get channeled by GOI agencies for NGO's--- FLOSS becomes an epitome of corruption in India-- Corporate funding dries up. FLOSS is dead. These are only a few scenarios I can cook up being a mere outsider --- what will actually happen when India babu goes into floss is Gawd Knows Then these are only economic consequences -- if we have a couple of lenthy laws much worse can happen to the nascent FLOSS Industry. ii) We do not
Re: [ilugd]: Is there any Java IDE ?
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Re: Fw: [ilugd]: need a video streaming server in linux
There so many of them on named helix i saw recently On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 12:51, amit soni wrote: Did my email below reach you people ? ;o) - Original Message - From: amit soni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 10:25 PM Subject: [ilugd]: need a video streaming server in linux Sometime back some1 had mentioned about a fundoo open source video streaming server for linux. What was it ? No not darwin, something else. BTW is real server free ? regards, Amit Soni. To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [ilugd]: problems with XMMS
download xmms-mpg123 package from link given in front page of xmms. Its a well known thing. RH 8.0 does not include mpeg layer 3 support. On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 09:52, bharat bhushan wrote: NAMASKAR sir/madam recently i installed red hat 8.0 now XMMS now cannot play songs in it the playlist does not show the list of songs to play . plz help me. - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, and more signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [ilugd]: Problem with RAM usage with squid
There is a cache_mem argument in squid which manipulates RAM requirements Thu, 2003-02-20 at 20:36, Tushar Gupta wrote: Hi, Is there any mechanism by which I can flush or free up RAM without need to reboot the server Tushar To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [ilugd]: need some help in configuring my .emacs
emacs 21 supports color mode in console as well. To use it, you have to set font-lock-mode variable. It is a toggle variable. M-x font-lock-mode On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 13:30, Sandeep Nanajkar wrote: Hi, I have started using emacs -nw (not Xemacs)of late, can some one send a sample of his .emacs ...so that i can configure the color coding (for java,c,C++ - modes) Ihave tried the following in my .emacs file but the foreground colors are never rendered ;; Turn on global font-locking (global-font-lock-mode t) ;; Set default foreground and background colors (set-foreground-color Black) (set-background-color White) (set-cursor-color Black) (set-mouse-color Black) (set-border-color Black) (cond ((fboundp 'global-font-lock-mode) ;; Customize face attributes (setq font-lock-face-attributes ;; Symbol-for-Face Foreground Background Bold Italic Underline '((font-lock-comment-face DarkOrchid) ;MediumOrchid (font-lock-string-faceFirebrick) ;IndianRed (font-lock-keyword-face Blue) ;Magenta, MediumBlue (font-lock-variable-name-face Red) ;OrangeRed (font-lock-type-face Black) (font-lock-reference-face greenyellow);LimeGreen (font-lock-doc-string-faceGoldenrod) )) (copy-face 'bold 'font-lock-function-name-face) ;; Load the font-lock package. (require 'font-lock) ;; Maximum colors (setq font-lock-maximum-decoration t) ;; Turn on font-lock in all modes that support it (global-font-lock-mode t))) Sandeep Nanajkar Phone:+91(124)6826097 +91 09810350692(cell) +91 (124) 8942629 (residence) To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
[ilugd]: Re: alpha release of Linux access project
On Monday 15 July 2002 12:05, you wrote: Supreet Sethi said: Hi, I have modified the redhat 7.3 distro and it ships in one CD. Installs kde desktop, grub, timezone by default asia/calcutta. Has mozilla 1.0, openoffice 1.0. If anybody is interested in testing the CD can contact me. There could be a 10-20 minute demo of the CD in next meet. gr8 anythin on the localization of the whole distro by default , because this is the feature i am lookin fur... lets say in our local dialect Telugu or in Hindi to start with. i will post a list of packages i am expecting in the distro. cheers S.Goswami On localalization front, I am thinking of adding yudit (utf-8 editor) to help localizations guys to do pot thingy. Mozilla 1.0 already supports hindi (unicode). Second round of LAP would include localization of installer Supreet To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org
