Re: [ilugd] oracle buys sun

2009-04-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: on the other hand, i hope oracle gets inspired by its collection of software to start considering converting its model away from software licenses to services, thereby making oracle software foss. You do realize that

Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Friday 10 Apr 2009, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF text (e.g. in Kpdf

Re: [ilugd] PDF Urdu font problem

2009-04-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: The characters are all here, because if you select and copy the PDF text (e.g. in Kpdf) and paste it into an editor it displays the complete Urdu text beautifully. If you use the same font to write something in a standard

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: Also from what little I understand, these matters are still evolving. As Mr. Duggal of Supreme Court says it The same case presented the same way to 5 different judges may lead to 5 different decisions I have my own take

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-02-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:19 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/freedin-day-1/ http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Foundation is for historical purposes only. I hope Kishore did not actually point out this specific URL. --

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-02-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Kishore Bhargava I didn't actually point to any URL at all, I just clearly mentioned the Fedora Project as a supporter of the community and specifically a supporter of freed.in/2009. Wonderful. You made our day :) -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] LGPL License Option Added to Qt

2009-01-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya pradeep...@gmail.com wrote: QtSoftware has decided to add LGPL license to Qt. Following has more details. and thereby all the fun goes out of the mailing lists -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Anoop John wrote: I had a request recently from a firm in Trivandrum to try to set up their software (Altair Hyperworks) on RHEL 3. I took fedora, assuming that if it worked on RHEL it would on fedora too, and with some minor tweaks in the installation script I was able to set it up on Fedora

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Dinesh Shah wrote: What the kernel version has to do with running a program? It is the libraries that matter while running any binary. Some posters here has already asked the OP to run ldd and find the library dependencies. there are a few applications which do require specific kernel

Re: [ilugd] Binary Compatibility between distros

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Harish Pillay wrote: If you have a distro and your program which is LSB compliant you will not see much problems. Yes, that is what LSB has helped achieve. not completely though. the LSB Application Testing suite checks for symbol usage across what can be called the highest common

Re: [ilugd] Bangalore, 15th April: Candle light vigil for Document Freedom

2008-04-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Linux Lingam wrote: wish our community in delhi was this active. any takers at RKGIT? http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/ has a well reasoned argument on the ooxml issue -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science

Re: [ilugd] [ILUG-BOM] BIS committee votes against ooxml

2008-03-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nagarjuna G. wrote: | India's BIS votes against ooxml. out of 19 members, five of them did not | attend the meeting, one of them abstained, five voted in favor of ooxml, and | the rest voted against. Congratulations to all those who worked long,

[ilugd] [Cross Posted] Mozilla Project Accepted for SoC

2008-03-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/gerv/archives/2008/03/mozilla_project_accepted_for_s.html Mozilla Project Accepted for SoC The Mozilla Project has been accepted to participate in the Google Summer of Code. The student application period opens in a

Re: [ilugd] Share Your presentations of freed.in 2008

2008-03-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mukul wrote: | No Reply till now..:( http://frodo.hserus.net/pipermail/freed/2008-February/000155.html - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer opening at Red Hat (Pune)

2008-03-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There is an opening for a Software Engineer at Red Hat (Pune) in the team that I am part of. The ideal candidate is required to have a good grasp of POSIX standards, FHS guidelines and possess familiarity with LSB guidelines pertaining to

Re: [ilugd] eeepc.in any users here?

2008-03-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikas Rawal wrote: | We have our own HCL MiLeap to compete with EEEPC. For roughly similar | price, MiLeap gives a conventional 30 GB HDD rather than a 4 GB solid | state drive in EEEPC. MiLeap also has a tablet style thing (MiLeap Y) | for about

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008?

2008-02-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | taxing packaged software does not necessarily mean the budget is FOSS | friendly. i would call the budget foss-friendly ONLY IF this tax, or | some part of this tax, is used by the government to fund, support, | nurture, adopt,

Re: [ilugd] FOSS Friendly budget 2008?

2008-02-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | plain htm summary somewhere? The fine gentleman who had passed the PDF link had also expressed the intent to summarize it on his very fine blog ;) ie you-know-whom-to-poke - -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature

Re: [ilugd] Invitation to Hindi, Kasmiri, and Urdu localisation workshop at Sarai: 7-8 Mar.

2008-02-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: | surely you mean internationalisation? afaik localisation is country/ | region specific and not language specific http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Concepts http://unicode.org/cldr/ - --

Re: [ilugd] Open Source Product/Item comparison tool

2008-02-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is there any Open Source tool to compare items where users can select n | number of items and compare them in tabular format. Are you asking for a view aspect of a query run on a database that has the specific

Re: [ilugd] And the winners for FOSS India Awards are...

2008-02-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Top 20 winners for FOSS India Awards were finalised on 15th of Feb during | Open Source India Week's Delhi edition. NRCFOSS sponsored these awards by | taking care of the prize money, which is Rs 5 lakh-- where each winner

Re: [ilugd] Linux Distros DVD and CDs

2008-02-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 narendra sisodiya wrote: | at [EMAIL PROTECTED] , we conduct various Linux workshop and Installathon inside | campus. anybody/company willing to distribute Distro DVDs/CDs via | [EMAIL PROTECTED] IITD students can contact us. Doesn't the [EMAIL

Re: [ilugd] what news of OSIW

2008-02-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | am sure people are attending. what's happening? | how's it going? | haven't been able to stumble across any news from the mumbai and | bangalore segments either. If you wait a wee bit longer, I am sure Rahul's going to dedicate

Re: [ilugd] computer teaching compulsory in haryana

2008-02-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: | the article does not mention whether this is based on muft and mukt | software and world-class open-standards. | anybody knows? If it is the same regime that was around 2 years back then it might not be muft-mukt etc etc. I'll

Re: [ilugd] suggest a CMS

2008-02-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shrinivasan T wrote: | now, I need a CMS - Content Management System. | | Requirement is | 1. multi user | 2. every user can upload files on any format | 3. email notification on new file arrival to all users | 4. search | 5. download link | 6. if

Re: [ilugd] SATA Disk not detected at time of installation

2008-02-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lokesh Bhog wrote: | Please let me know if there are know issues with installing RHEL 3.0 on SATA Disk ST3160215AS 160GB - Has any one tried installing Linux using this hard disk - which version of Linux supports this? RHEL3 Update 5 should have

[ilugd] Thread Hijacking [was:Re: Uptime]

2007-11-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Norat Saraswat wrote: hi all good day i want to a used(6 month) laptop if any one have and want to sell than tellme Now look here Norat, with whatever good intentions you may be having, thread-hijacking [1] is really a bad way to go forward on

Re: [ilugd] archives

2007-11-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: I went to the ilugd website, clicked mailinglists, and then clicked this list and then clicked archives and got nowhere http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi seems to work for me - - is it something else

[ilugd] [OT] Re: [Commercial] Why not enroll in FOSS India Awards?

2007-10-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niraj Sahay wrote: Are you working on any free software or open source (FOSS) project? Do you know anyone who is? For a brief moment I read the $SUBJECT as why *not* in the sense of why one should not enroll :) you might have chosen another

Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: upcoming and/or facebook is another. facebook? i think they got bought over by microsoft. also wonder how easy is it for people to view, add, edit, or comment *without* registering to their service. How about upcoming then

Re: [ilugd] [PLUG] [x-post] foss events list in india 2008?

2007-10-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: am googling since two days, can't find a complete and/or comprehensive list of foss or foss-related events scheduled for 2008. http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/community/events is one road to take, upcoming and/or facebook

Re: [ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Subhodip Biswas wrote: Hmmm .. i agree with the fact that alt+number does have limitation if number of tabs are in two digits. So ctrl+tab or ctrl+pgdn is more efficient. Ctrl+Tab does allow you to flip through the open tabs doesn't it ? How much

Re: [ilugd] Spam Re: Hindi Rendering Problem

2007-10-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 03-Oct-07, at 1:44 PM, Ajay Kumar wrote: Type about:buildconfig without the quotes in firefox's address box. You will see something like the following, and would need to check for the --enable-pango flag. wonderful

Re: [ilugd] Hindi Rendering Problem

2007-10-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Puneet Lakhina wrote: I was trying to view a website in Hindi when i encountered this problem, a website: http://manaskriti.com/kaavyaalaya/kaho_kaise_ho.stm using unicode for hindi text: displays improperly on my Firefox 2.0.0.6. The problem is

Re: [ilugd] ssh on a different virtual console

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vikas Rawal wrote: I would like to run an x-server on a separate virtual console (control+alt+f12), open an x-term there, ssh to the server, and start gnome. That should give me access to two different machines on two virtual consoles (my local

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-16 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 16-Aug-07, at 3:03 PM, Sahil Dave wrote: the free edittion is really good, even i am using it.. but one of my friend wants the spring edition specifically, may be for some official purpose. the spring edition

Re: [ilugd] Mandriva 2007 Spring Edition

2007-08-16 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: a friend of mine 'bought' a Mandriva, spent USD 80 on it, because he wanted a box, manual and support. I was quite happy because that way Mandriva gets some money to support the great work they are doing. Good. That

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer openings at Red Hat (Pune)

2007-08-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Red Hat has multiple openings for Software Engineers at Pune. Provided below are the job descriptions along with TAGs which should be used in $SUBJECT line of the application. Please ensure that you provide the CV in Open Document Format (ODF) to

Re: [ilugd] backing up large weekly data

2007-08-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: what are the best options for backing up 40 to 60 gb of data per month? dvd discs have come down in price, but some of the data-files are individually larger than 10gb (home video) and cutting and storing sliced versions

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package freeciv via yum. freeciv requires libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit) which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question is, why

Re: [ilugd] Bug in RPM or ??

2007-07-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: I'm running Fedora 7 on AMD64 architecture CPU and installed a package freeciv via yum. freeciv requires libSDL_mixer-1.2.so.0()(64bit) which no package currently provides it on my system. So my question is, why

[ilugd] Feedback required on recently released distributions and jack retasking

2007-07-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Those who are using some of the recently released distributions with one of the chipsets mentioned at the end: are there issues with Jack retasking on Linux ? :Sankarshan - From http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/CS-009244.htm Jack Retasking

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-07-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: actually there's a whole bunch of vendors in india who officially sell linux-based hardware. the problem is once the hardware is installed at customers' sites, do they even boot into linux? so would be wonderful to hear of

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Help Desk Engineer openings at Red Hat

2007-07-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Apply online at: https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=2071 Details below Job Code: 2071 Division: Red Hat Location: , IN Travel Involved:10-20% Job Type: Full Time Job Level: 1+ years

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Sr Technical Support Engineer openings at Red Hat, Pune

2007-06-26 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sr Technical Support Engineer * Responsible for answering web based inquiries from customers regarding company software. * Analyzes problems with non-functioning software to identify problem areas and recommend corrective action. * Recommends

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Open position for Technical Support Engineer - Jboss - Pune

2007-06-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Job Title : Technical Support Engineer - Jboss Required Skills and Experience * 2+ years of professional work experience * In-depth knowledge of the Java platform * Proven ability and willingness to learn new open source middleware technologies

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linux Lingam wrote: just heard about 5,000 desktops moved from a proprietory os, to dual-boot with ubuntu. If they are booting into GNOME could someone post a short note to the GNOME Marketing list [1] ? And KDE-India [2] if they are booting into

Re: [ilugd] Thoughts on the Dell ubuntu offering

2007-06-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shams Kazi wrote: The Dell Ubuntu machines have been shipping for a few weeks now. I don't think they are shipping outside the US, but has anybody taken a peek at one, or have any thoughts on the systems?

Re: [ilugd] Weird RPM naming

2007-05-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yashpal Nagar wrote: do you think that you have told a new idea to the subscriber of Redhat to ask from Redhat ? Redhat support i feel is not that easy/informatice as you think. It is most likely that you end up speaking to a person who is

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] System z Solutions Architect opening at Red Hat

2007-05-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A System z Solutions Architect is instrumental in assisting the sales team's selling efforts with specific focus on the IBM System z platform. The SA works closely with the Field Sales Reps to understand and execute sales strategies in the field to

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Software Engineer (i18n) vacancy at Pune, Maharashtra, India

2007-05-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 https://redhat.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=1547 Please apply online only. :Sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Language Maintainer - Marathi position at Red Hat (Pune)

2007-05-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Division: Red Hat Location: Pune, India IN Travel Involved:0-10% Job Type: Full Time Job Level: 2+ years experience Education: Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Category: Engineering Position Summary:

[ilugd] [Commercial] Job Openings at Red Hat, Pune

2007-05-16 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Job Openings for the following position exists at Red Hat, Pune in Global Support Services (GSS) division. Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the appropriate Position Title in the Subject Line Please attach the CV in a text/HTML/Open Document Format.

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft says open source violates 235 patents

2007-05-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lokesh Bhog wrote: In an interview with Fortune, Microsoft top lawyer Brad Smith alleges that the Linux kernel violates 42 Microsoft patents, And who knew that the answer to everything was in the kernel ? :) - -- You see things; and you say

Re: [ilugd] Moving the ILUGD planet to linux-delhi.org

2007-04-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Mathur wrote: I could set up planet.linux-delhi.org, but how do we get the data in? Do you mean beyond using the planet script ? That aggregates data I guess - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I

Re: [ilugd] /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny do not work

2007-03-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 abhishek jain wrote: Hi friends, I have in one of mine companys servers installed RHEL 4.x AS and firewall is disabled, i have a few questions: In case it is of passing interest the URLs below might help:

Re: [ilugd] Free Vs enterprise OSS releases

2007-03-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shiv wrote: Its hard to find someone who has bought Redhat ES or AS call them up for support. Oh dear you just broke my heart :( but why do you think it is hard to find someone who has purchased a subscription for RHEL ? - -- You see things;

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Contact of Khanna Publishers

2007-03-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shakthi Kannan wrote: As on date the examples haven't been implemented in any tool, and are being used only on paper. They are electrical circuit diagrams/examples. Are they unique ? ie for Theory 1 is the Circuit Diagram 1 the one and only one

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Contact of Khanna Publishers

2007-03-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shakthi Kannan wrote: Yes. The circuit diagrams for explaining theoretical concepts are unique, whichever book you take. So this means that Book ABC will use an unique diagram for Theory 1 and book DEF will use another for the same Theory 1 ?

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Contact of Khanna Publishers

2007-03-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shakthi Kannan wrote: No. Same diagram. Pythagorean theorem is the same in all mathematical books. But, examples or problem sets that use the pythagorean theorem is what I am interested in, which is copyright of the author. So how does the

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Contact of Khanna Publishers

2007-03-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shakthi Kannan wrote: Hi, On 3/27/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problems would be reworded Reworded? Same concept as the examples with the language (as in English wording) constructs changed a bit A gross example might

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Contact of Khanna Publishers

2007-03-26 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Shakthi Kannan wrote: I need to re-use the examples given in the book with Free Software tools. The books' copyright doesn't allow me to do that without prior permission from the publisher. Umm... do you want to re-implement the examples in the

[ilugd] OO.o Summer of Code 2007

2007-03-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [Apologies for the wide circulation through the cross post] This page is here to collect the suitable suggestions. So - if you have a task that is challenging enough, and are willing to mentor the task, feel free to add it below. coordinate with the

Re: [ilugd] [PRC] When is a standard not a standard (sub-titled Microsoft and BIS)?

2007-03-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gora Mohanty wrote: Fun and games aside, I think that it is worthwhile for the open-source community in India at large to formulate a coherent position on the use of openly documented, and patent-free standards for any government data, and to

Re: [ilugd] RHEL upgrade

2007-03-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yashpal Nagar wrote: Hi All We have few RHEL 3.0 AS, Taroon Update 8 (32 bit arch) servers which we now wanted to upgrade to RHEL 4.0 ES (64 bit). [snip] Is such cross upgrade Ok? what precautions should i take, can anyone advice.

Re: [ilugd] Custom kernel compilation on Fedora Core 6

2007-03-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote: Karthik Ramgopal wrote: Hi, I am trying to compile 2.6.20 kernel on Fedora Core 6, if you just need a newer kernel, try rawhide, that has pretty much the latest stuff released and built. 2.6.20-1.2986 is there in

Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro

2007-03-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote: Tushar Abraham Mathew wrote: Dear Mr. Singh, we would like to make some clarifications on what you pointed out. BOSS is not intended to be distibuted behind closed doors. Though it was intended mainly for the

Re: [ilugd] gnu/gpl or gnu/gfdl

2007-02-26 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 atul jha wrote: just wanted opinion from the members regarding the License of our e-zine. should it be under gnu/gpl or gnu/gfdl. One of the ways to figure it out would be to ask yourself what freedoms will you allow on the document and then

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

2007-02-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 09-Feb-07, at 5:07 AM, Surjo Das wrote: Sorry for top-posting here as my blackberry mail client doesn't allow to bottom-post. not a valid excuse Blithely ignore that :) Surjo has been doing this on the BLUG list

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007 (Pls read the complete news clipping)

2007-02-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Interestingly, I CANNOT find any news item on the ET website with the title MS takes linux world by storm...can you? I have been reading this thread and as of right now - why don't we just let it go ? Much as we try

Re: [ilugd] FC6 review please ..............

2006-12-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G Karunakar wrote: On 12/15/06, Amit Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now after the install is over.. when i wanted to install more packages.. their package tools failed.. unlike previous versions which had add/remove packages option, there was

Re: [ilugd] FC6 Display Problems

2006-11-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dipankar das wrote: Is there a not so stupid way out from this X fix in FC6? Till i am in X, FC6 is really working nice, and i need it particularly for its Bangla support, that is the best among the distributions i know, so i need to keep this

[ilugd] [Commercial] Positions open at Red Hat

2006-09-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The following positions are open at Red Hat to be based out of Pune. Those interested may please send in the CV in preferably OpenOffice.org format to sankar at redhat dot com with the position code in the subject line Regards Sankarshan

[ilugd] [Commercial] Web Applications Positions

2006-09-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The following full-time positions are available at Red Hat India Pvt Limited. All of them involve a limited amount of travelling. o WEB APPLICATIONS DEVELOPER (Code: WebApp) Using experience with Java technologies, the developer will create web

[ilugd] [Commercial] Desktop Systems Specialist (4 positions at PNQ)

2006-07-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *All CVs to be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if not applied online* Position Summary The successful candidate will join a small but fast growing team that is responsible for all internal support for Red Hat and * has a 93% overall satisfaction rate with

Re: [ilugd] IceWM vs Gnome

2006-07-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sudev Barar wrote: With gnome desktop running and ~20 users online I saw constant load level between 10-20 as reported by top. I thereafter changed the default windown manager to IceWM for all users and now the load level reported by top under

[ilugd] [Fwd: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Job Openings at Red Hat, Pune for Test Validation Technician]

2006-03-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - Original Message Subject: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Job Openings at Red Hat, Pune for Test Validation Technician Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:26:39 +0530 From: Satish Lele [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: GNU/Linux Users Group,

Re: [ilugd] further mails

2006-03-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martand shardul wrote: Please go http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd And you can do this yourself. There would be an option of recovering password just in case you have forgotten it. Hope this helps Rgds SM -BEGIN PGP

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Service Tax Applicability on Open Source Software Services

2006-03-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manish Kathuria wrote: Is Service Tax applicable on open source software services namely installation, configuration and customization ? Please let me know if someone has clarity on this issue. IANAL :) Open Source Software Services *is* a

Re: [ilugd] Mentorship meeting minutes

2006-02-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Mathur wrote: I hereby invoke the First Rule of ILUGD and thank you for volunteering for (a) setting up the web-based reporting format and (b) making CDs with documentation! We can always do with help on the infrastructure side! Raj being a

Re: [ilugd] Mentorship meeting minutes

2006-02-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Mathur wrote: Had a useful meeting yesterday on detailing out the mentorship project. Present were: Good show. - Standard format(s) for project proposals, project monitoring, project reporting, project feedback and project closure. If

Re: [ilugd] cvs help

2006-02-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SWAPNIL wrote: We need maintain our code using CVS how can i get help to configured CVS server also which client OS supported or how to CVS http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/ might be where you would find good stuff. On a side note, sending mails

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [ilug-goa] Google to develop new OS

2006-02-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ahh...the urban legend again Gaurav Mishra wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: praveen pn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Feb 1, 2006 4:28 PM Subject: [ilug-goa] Google to develop new OS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] utility for measuring the total downloads

2006-02-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhinav Jain wrote: Is there any utility on linux/win which can measure the total download , I have an ISP (BSNL/Tata Indicom) which allows me to download only 500MB (according to some plan) and I need to keep a check on the download I have made.

Re: [ilugd] Video files association

2006-01-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monster wrote: How to run video files to which application thay hv to be associated as i hv tried with grip, kmid its not working can any one tell me to which to associate and if there any other application to with and how to run MP3 also... It

Re: [ilugd] Video files association

2006-01-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj shekhar wrote: Multimedia is still a black art in linux - take for example audio .. which one to use- esd ? osd ? oss ? arts ? (did I miss a few ?) As someone who figured out how to use the mplayer just last year, I think the question is

Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: Re: [svlug] How to tell which flavor of Linux is installed?]

2006-01-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mithun Bhattacharya wrote: What I have been saying is that to know specifically which version of a distribution is installed just follow the strategy which the distribution uses to determine version. RedHat : /etc/redhat-release Fedora :

[ilugd] [ilug-cal] [Commercial] Sales Engineers required for full time positions at BLR BOM

2005-12-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Red Hat has the requirement for Sales Engineers (3-5 years of relevant work experience) with demonstrated ability to take on technical consulting assignments and Project Management Skills. Should be capable of learning on the fly and a team

[ilugd] [Commercial] Java Developer required for full time position

2005-12-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Red Hat the requirement for Java Developer (3-4 years of relevant work experience) with demonstrated skills on Application Development using J2EE and related technologies. Should be capable of learning on the fly and a team player comfortable

Re: [ilugd] Removing ^M from text files in vi

2005-12-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: is the tarball made automatically or manually? if manually maybe it is done by someone on a windoze machine? afaik the only way these ^M s can come is if the files are saved as dos text. It might be so that the script

[ilugd] [Commercial] Linux System Administrators [SysAdmin]

2005-11-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Red Hat has the following skillset requirements. Linux System Administrators [SysAdmin] [1] Provides day-to-day technical support to employees for network infrastructure and internal desktop systems software and hardware. Installs, configures,

[ilugd] [Commercial] Positions open at Red Hat

2005-11-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Apologies for the cross post. The following positions are open at Red Hat to be based out of Pune. Those interested may please send in the CV in preferably OpenOffice.org format to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the position code in the subject line

Re: [ilugd] tar -cvf

2005-10-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manish Popli wrote: I m trying to backup the CVS with the command.. tar -cvf /home/manish/cvs_bkp/cvs_bkp.tar /home/cvs/ But i m facing the error.. tar: error exist delay from previous error plz help me out.. what is your current working

[ilugd] An invitation to blog

2004-05-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Hi Raj, This is to extend an invitation to you personally as well as to the members of your LUG for joining up with Planet FLOSS India (http://planet-india.randomink.org/). Based on the concept of other 'Planet' sites, this one aims to be the window towards providing an insight into the lives of

[ilugd] [COMMERCIAL] Looking for people with C++/GFX/3D Lib programming skills

2004-05-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Mr Rajarshi Chakrovorty requires with immediate effect persons with over 3+ years of experience in C++ with proven competence in graphics libraries related to 3D [C++/GFX/3D Lib]. Salary is according to current standards. The job requirements mandate possible overseas travel to client site(s) for

Re: [ilugd] ilug-d's first ad-hoc, on-the-fly supercomputer

2004-04-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- Original Message - From: linuxlingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] dismantle it after a few hours. obviously. elementary my dear watson !! ;-) someone from academia/maths/ has to help demo a cool process on it and then we dismantle it. this is just for kicks raj. could try the Mersenne Prime

Re: [ilugd] Re: Ending the confusion on Mary's name...

2004-04-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- Original Message - From: V.Vivek [EMAIL PROTECTED] well.. as true as it gets.. no that the controversy was defined the end.. Let me add some tit bit of info ;) his name is meiarivan(as far as I know.. ) Or T Meyaraivan - check the Sarai site for more details on this elusive

L10n was [ Re: [ilugd] Re: ILUGD April Meeting (summing up)]

2004-03-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- Original Message - From: Tarun Dua [EMAIL PROTECTED] On the other hand I have a feeling that localization has more to do with the desktop. Not really - L10n is specifically aimed at enterprise class deployments through G2C interfaces -SM

Re: [ilugd] Next Meet (Suggestion Again: l10n)

2004-03-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- Original Message - From: Nirendra Awasthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] How about localization of linux. Lot of peoples are not able to use softwares just because it's not in their mother tongue. IndLinux (http://www.indlinux.org) and few others have been doing effort for localization of

[ilugd] Fw: [FLOSSToday] [Announcement] Scholarship program from Red Hat India Pvt Ltd

2004-03-30 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- Original Message - From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FLOSSToday [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Prof. Venkatesh (Venky) Hariharan [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bhavisha Oza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 6:00 sakal Subject: [FLOSSToday] [Announcement] Scholarship program

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