Re: [ilugd] desktop specifications

2007-02-01 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 11:40 +0530, Vikas Rawal wrote: Does anyone at ilugd have an experience of installing ubuntu edgy/dapper on a machine with core2duo? My brother, a recent convert to linux, has bought a new machine and was trying to install it. Apparently the live CD does not load fully.

Re: [ilugd] Installing 'remington' keyboard layout on Ubuntu Edgy

2007-02-01 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 13:03 +0530, Ashish Shukla wrote: Hi, One of my distant friend is running Ubuntu Linux Edgy. He wants to install Remington keyboard layout in Edgy. Any ideas, how ? The keyboard layout will be available in Feisty, but any ideas, how to get it in Edgy. I don't have any

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Vishnu Gopal
Anyone who doesn't compromise my goals for an event. It's like this: you give me this much money and you get this much. Yup, I will. If Rajindar da Dhaba wants to sponsor the next whatever, I say lets go for it =) Vish On 2/1/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01-Feb-07, at 1:16

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Vikas Rawal
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:34PM +0530, Vishnu Gopal wrote: I'm not sure what's wrong, is the money somehow tainted? In the all the events I've organized the sponsors don't have much of a say on *how* the event is organized, or what is actually said/done at the event. Just that they want

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Raj Shekhar
Vishnu Gopal wrote: So maybe LA is to LinuxWorld as FOSS.in is to LCA? LCA is http://linux.conf.au . Live and let live, even the suits/managers have got to talk about something :-) That is fine. We are not talking about disrupting the event, but just making the speakers aware that the

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Vishnu Gopal
On 2/1/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:16:34PM +0530, Vishnu Gopal wrote: I'm not sure what's wrong, is the money somehow tainted? In the all the events I've organized the sponsors don't have much of a say on *how* the event is organized, or what is

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 01-Feb-07, at 2:29 PM, Raj Shekhar wrote: Maybe if the LA organizers are aware of the negative impact of involving MS they would think about it harder the next time around. they are aware as evidenced by their increasingly desperate mails to lug lists -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:34, Vishnu Gopal wrote: [snip] Anyways, feel free to take this off-list/IRC, don't want this to degrade to a Is Microsoft good/evil conversation. I find the discussion quite interesting, and would like to keep it on the list itself. Anyone else? Regards, --

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Anant Narayanan
Anyone who doesn't compromise my goals for an event. It's like this: you give me this much money and you get this much. Yup, I will. If Rajindar da Dhaba wants to sponsor the next whatever, I say lets go for it =) But won't it be weird if Santa's Dhaba sponsors the food fest at Banta's Dhaba?

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 01-Feb-07, at 3:24 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: Anyone who doesn't compromise my goals for an event. It's like this: you give me this much money and you get this much. Yup, I will. If Rajindar da Dhaba wants to sponsor the next whatever, I say lets go for it =) But won't it be weird if

Re: [ilugd] Installing 'remington' keyboard layout on Ubuntu Edgy

2007-02-01 Thread Ashish Shukla
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:54:25PM +0530, Gora Mohanty wrote: Where is the keyboard installed in Feisty? My guess would be SCIM. If so, it can easily be installed in Edgy, provided that he has installed SCIM. He should just copy the file from Feisty to the appropriate place in Edgy. If you can

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Openlx Linux
On 1/31/07, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Economic Times (at Bangalore) today, there is an article on page 6 titled MS takes linux world by storm When asked about its participation in Linux Asia, Microsoft said that the company will try to educate clients and

Re: [ilugd] desktop specifications

2007-02-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Vikas Rawal wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 12:21:16PM +0530, Sudev Barar wrote: On 01/02/07, Vikas Rawal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone at ilugd have an experience of installing ubuntu edgy/dapper on a machine with core2duo? My brother, a recent convert to linux, has bought a new

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Karanbir Singh
Raj Mathur wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:34, Vishnu Gopal wrote: [snip] Anyways, feel free to take this off-list/IRC, don't want this to degrade to a Is Microsoft good/evil conversation. I find the discussion quite interesting, and would like to keep it on the list itself.

Re: [ilugd] Installing 'remington' keyboard layout on Ubuntu Edgy

2007-02-01 Thread मयंक जैन (M ayank Jain)
On 2/1/07, Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of my distant friend is running Ubuntu Linux Edgy. He wants to install Remington keyboard layout in Edgy. Any ideas, how ? The keyboard layout will be available in Feisty, but any ideas, how to get it in Edgy. I don't have any Ubuntu box

[ilugd] Need Php Programmer

2007-02-01 Thread XpoSoft Systems
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Re: [ilugd] Need Php Programmer

2007-02-01 Thread Padure Radu
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Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread ­Honey ­
I think that ms have quiet larger resources they can provide a unique platform to Linux other Foss.But they can't do so. so why they are here the only point of contradiction well i post this topic on my blog

Re: [ilugd] Installing 'remington' keyboard layout on Ubuntu Edgy

2007-02-01 Thread Ashish Shukla
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0530, मयंक जैन (Mayank Jain) wrote: Hi Ashish, Hi Mayank, You can install Remington Hindi layout using... 1) You can extract the latest hi-remington.mim from the devel rpm of Fedora - download m17n-db-hindi-version-rpm from

Re: [ilugd] Installing 'remington' keyboard layout on Ubuntu Edgy

2007-02-01 Thread मयंक जैन (M ayank Jain)
Hi Ashish, On 2/1/07, Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:57:57PM +0530, मयंक जैन (Mayank Jain) wrote: You can install Remington Hindi layout using... 1) You can extract the latest hi-remington.mim from the devel rpm of Fedora - download

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Akshay Lamba
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Re: [ilugd] Need Php Programmer

2007-02-01 Thread विवेक ऐय ्यर விவேக் ஐய்யர் Vivek Iyyer
On 2/1/07, XpoSoft Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Need Php Programmer with min. experience of one year. R N Yadav Dear Mr. Yadav, Please mark your commercial posting as [commercial] in the subject line. Please follow list guidelines [1].you posting does not seem to

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 15:10 +0530, Raj Mathur wrote: On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:34, Vishnu Gopal wrote: [snip] Anyways, feel free to take this off-list/IRC, don't want this to degrade to a Is Microsoft good/evil conversation. I find the discussion quite interesting, and would like

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2007-02-01 Thread Sudhir Gandotra
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Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007 ?

2007-02-01 Thread Naresh Narang
--- Anant Narayanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But won't it be weird if Santa's Dhaba sponsors the food fest at Banta's Dhaba? Sounds very much like sleeping with the enemy; Microsoft has got no business in a Linux event. Everyone is familier with this -

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Sudev Barar
On 02/02/07, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TOP: Firstly of all I agree with you that M$'s participation was not reason of LUG-D opting out. [SNIP] First of all, I was at all ILUG-D meetings to discuss participation in LA2007, and, frankly speaking, if people had a strong enough opinion

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 02-Feb-07, at 1:17 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: I will end up with taking exception to opinions expressed in various fora that people chose to participate in LA2007, or not to do so, based on *their* assumptions about ILUG-D involvement I am one of those people. I never considered any

Re: [ilugd] desktop specifications

2007-02-01 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Vikas Rawal wrote: Does anyone at ilugd have an experience of installing ubuntu edgy/dapper on a machine with core2duo? My brother, a recent convert to linux, has bought a new machine and was trying to install it. Apparently the live CD does not load fully. Ubuntu fora have some discussion

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of the last ILUG-Delhi meeting, on Jan. 28th

2007-02-01 Thread rahul
This is shocking. What promises are we talking about here? we offered everything that was minuted in the minutes of the meeting? Rahul Member, FOSII and Editor, LINUX For You -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gora Mohanty Sent: Friday,

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread rahul
Hi, I would request you to give us a day to revert with our side of the story. We are right now in the middle of 2 mega events (LinuxAsia and EFY Awards)--so please bear with us for not commenting on this issue in detail. We appreciate feedback from the community both +ve and -ve but these

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 02 February 2007 13:02, rahul wrote: Hi, I would request you to give us a day to revert with our side of the story. We are right now in the middle of 2 mega events (LinuxAsia and EFY Awards)--so please bear with us for not commenting on this issue in detail. [snip] That's fair