Re: [fsug-tvm] network manager disappeared in Ubuntu

2011-04-25 Thread Rajiv Nair
Run "killall -9 nm-applet" And then run "nm-applet &" from terminal. You should get your network manager icon back. -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Ca

Re: [fsug-tvm] Advice on purchase of new netbook/ tablet

2011-01-19 Thread Rajiv Nair
You might wanna check out this indian startup called notion ink. http://notionink.in They've been getting rave reviews from all around the world http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/05/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-preview-video/&category=classic&postPage=1

Re: [fsug-tvm] CET's FOSS Mirror is up

2011-01-19 Thread Rajiv Nair
Awesome. How much bandwidth do you guys have? -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subsc

Re: [fsug-tvm] how to install java plugin for mozilla under ubuntu

2010-11-24 Thread Rajiv Nair
I think your apt sources.list might be slightly outdated. Run "sudo apt-get update" and try installing it again -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl S

Re: [fsug-tvm] Query

2010-10-29 Thread Rajiv Nair
I used to use Gtk-Gnutella as a Limewire replacement. But that was after limewire overtook kazaa as the widely used p2p client. Now that limewire is facing a law suit or something i dunno whether it still works -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human dis

Re: [fsug-tvm] Cannot Play DVD"s From "Central Home Entertainment" in Ubuntu, Any ideas?

2010-09-02 Thread Rajiv Nair
Did you try popping it into a proper DVD player hooked up to a TV or even a Windows machine? Might help us narrow it down. -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

Re: [fsug-tvm] GNU/Linux neeeds Internet Connection

2010-08-29 Thread Rajiv Nair
I agree with Sasi sir. Attached screenshot shows how boring my life has become. Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is the only law".

Re: [fsug-tvm] Mysql

2010-06-18 Thread Rajiv Nair
http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/06/12/1450207/MySQL-Outpacing-Oracle-In-Wake-of-Acquisition That should address your concerns -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not f

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Why use Ubuntu , according to Dell

2010-06-15 Thread Rajiv Nair
@David Can you send that write-up into this list. Start a seperate thread for it so that constructive debate can happen around this :) Regards, Rajiv R Nair -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Go

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: Oru Mani Vartha @ Manorama News 'shouts' against free software

2010-06-15 Thread Rajiv Nair
Welcome to the concept of FUD :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is

Re: [fsug-tvm] Oru Mani Vartha @ Manorama News 'shouts' against free software

2010-06-15 Thread Rajiv Nair
Would be an interesting challenge though. Considering manorama plays a vital part in any open letter effectively reaching the general public, due its HUGE reader base. Any open letter campaign to point out a mistake by a media powerhouse of this size would need careful strategic planning and loads

Re: [fsug-tvm] Oru Mani Vartha @ Manorama News 'shouts' against free software

2010-06-15 Thread Rajiv Nair
Time to bring out another open letter? -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-

Re: [fsug-tvm] Why use Ubuntu , according to Dell

2010-06-10 Thread Rajiv Nair
I always thought that the new MS slogan is a "self-goal". Because in a "Life without walls", you dont need windows ;) -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Ca

Re: [fsug-tvm] LinuxForYou "FOSS Yellow Pages" Article

2010-06-07 Thread Rajiv Nair
http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/redesigning-ubuntu-behind-the-scenes-on-10-04/ That should set some light into it. -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl

Re: [fsug-tvm] Anything equivalent to this in Ubuntu???

2010-06-05 Thread Rajiv Nair
Check out hydrogen. Its pretty good and you have downloaded drum packs. To install run sudo apt-get install hydrogen -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. -

Re: [fsug-tvm] How to kill a process (when it is not responding)

2010-05-22 Thread Rajiv Nair
- To kill wvidial completely do a "sudo killall -9 wvdial" - To release rfcomm run "sudo rfcomm release /dev/rfcomm1" Regards, Rajiv -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm"

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Rajiv Nair
@nishandh For a person who complains quite a bit about un-user friendliness of error messages and stuff, your mails are pretty hard to decipher. I'm referring to lines like - "It didn't negate that it was the rule from the days of billboard" - "would take into consideration some extra automatic

Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog

2010-05-14 Thread Rajiv Nair
As a "silent" mod who's only "contribution" is to filter spam out of the list, this is my take on this entire thread. This is just my opinion and should not be attributed to any other moderator. As moderators we try our maximum to NOT put our "mod" caps on to kick and ban people. People in this li

Re: [fsug-tvm] Microsoft Ad in Ubuntu Wiki

2010-05-03 Thread Rajiv Nair
Microsoft ads used to appear in linux.com too. :D -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" htt

Re: [fsug-tvm] suggest an easy graphical way to mount an iso image..

2010-01-11 Thread Rajiv Nair
Ignore the above mail. Archivemounter should do it :D -- Rajiv R Nair -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups

Re: [fsug-tvm] suggest an easy graphical way to mount an iso image..

2010-01-11 Thread Rajiv Nair
If you run ubuntu, save the attached file onto your desktop. Double click and select "Run in terminal". Should be pretty straight forward from there. Its a 2 min hack job of mine and its far from perfect :D -- Rajiv R Nair -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.or

Re: [fsug-tvm] Someone disables "cp" command to prevent copying in lab

2010-01-11 Thread Rajiv Nair
>> I would like to request you to reply with different hacks as work-arounds . Please mail in possible ways and definitely the most shortest, longest and obfuscated types will definitely be appreciated. << && >> it was to get the opinion of everyone else about what the folks in our lab are doing

Re: [fsug-tvm] Someone disables "cp" command to prevent copying in lab

2010-01-11 Thread Rajiv Nair
>> Lol who is their right mind would want to google to find an alternative to cp ? << A person who thinks, atleast for a minute before shooting out a mail to a mailing list. -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. I

Re: [fsug-tvm] Someone disables "cp" command to prevent copying in lab

2010-01-11 Thread Rajiv Nair
http://www.java2s.com/Code/C/File/Copyafile.htm Next time JFGI ;) -- Rajiv R Nair -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm

Re: [fsug-tvm] Video editing on a GNU/Linux system

2010-01-08 Thread Rajiv Nair
Its a problem with the link. Here you go http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/openmovieeditor-and-blender-more-nle-delights Regards, -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not fi

Re: [fsug-tvm] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-12-15 Thread Rajiv Nair
Please refrain from sending Invitations to social networking sites to this mailing list. Regards, Rajiv -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, s

Re: [fsug-tvm] Query regarding torrents in Ubuntu

2009-12-09 Thread Rajiv Nair
Make sure "DHT" is on in transmission. I think its off by default -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom

Re: [fsug-tvm] from sree

2009-12-06 Thread Rajiv Nair
Please ensure to use meaningful subject lines while sending out mails to this list :) Regards, Rajiv R Nair -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this grou

Re: [fsug-tvm] fdisk and jaunty problem

2009-12-05 Thread Rajiv Nair
Run "sudo fdisk -l" -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You recei

Re: [fsug-tvm] Ubuntu Related Queries

2009-11-21 Thread Rajiv Nair
Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm to be able to set gdm back as your default desktop manager. -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is

Re: [fsug-tvm] Don't Use Facebook :) From RMS' home page...

2009-11-19 Thread Rajiv Nair
my +1 was for aashiks reply. Bad bad gmail didnt refresh properly Regards, Rajiv On 11/20/09, Rajiv Nair wrote: > ^^ +1 > -- > Rajiv R Nair > > "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human > disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion g

Re: [fsug-tvm] Don't Use Facebook :) From RMS' home page...

2009-11-19 Thread Rajiv Nair
^^ +1 -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this messag

[fsug-tvm] Re: Seminar on FOSS and Technical Education at MBCET

2009-11-04 Thread Rajiv Nair
As a former student all i can say is Wow!! -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedo

[fsug-tvm] Re: Problems with Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-31 Thread Rajiv Nair
*listed. Typo :-( -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freed

[fsug-tvm] Re: Problems with Ubuntu 9.10

2009-10-31 Thread Rajiv Nair
@Mahesh Run an md5 checksum against your disc and verify with the checksums listen on the web. -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" --~--~--

[fsug-tvm] Re: hardy to jaunty upgrade

2009-10-10 Thread Rajiv Nair
You can upgrade your ubuntu release from the Alternate-CD. But your hardy install needs to have all updates till date installed before you pop-in the jaunty alternate CD. Regards, Rajiv R Nair --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" h

[fsug-tvm] De Icaza a traitor?

2009-09-25 Thread Rajiv Nair
http://www.osnews.com/story/5/RMS_De_Icaza_Traitor_to_Free_Software_Community Flame on!! -- Rajiv R Nair "Every one of us is precious in the cosmic perspective. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan" --~--~-

[fsug-tvm] Re: HELP me with Compiz installation In Fedora core 8

2009-03-21 Thread Rajiv Nair
Could you run "lspci | grep vga" and paste the output here? -- Rajiv R Nair *Vi veri veniversum vivus vici* --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the