Re: [ilugd] Minutes of ILUGD October Meet at JIIT

2007-10-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Gaurav Mishra wrote: On 10/25/07, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaurav Mishra wrote: Would be good if you could make a separate twiki page for each meeting e.g. Meet200710 or Meet20071021, and put all presentations there. Otherwise in the months to come this page is going to

[ilugd] Status of linux-delhi.org website

2007-10-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
I will bite and ask again. When will the technical issues on linux-delhi.org be solved and Nishikant be able to move the website to the right domain again? It has been months this way, and it doesn't look nice for the organizing LUG of Freed to be having technical issues for this long. :-P -

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 25-Oct-07, at 5:44 PM, Honey wrote: i use python - and I sleep well Hey if you think then lets make a blogging platform in python... i'll recommend it to thousand of my other bloggers friend. one word of caution, installing python applications is more difficult than that of php

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 26-Oct-07, at 12:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBlogSoftware i recommend pyblosxom btw, the reason why there are such a few python blogging apps is that most python guys prefer to roll their own - you can write a fully fledged blog app using django

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 26-Oct-07, at 12:19 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonBlogSoftware i recommend pyblosxom btw, the reason why there are such a few python blogging apps is that most python guys prefer to roll their own - you can write a fully

[ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Anybody else dismayed by this? Any theories? ILUGD activity http://gmane.org/output-rate.php?group=gmane.user-groups.linux.india.help http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi Linux India activity http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.india.help

Re: [ilugd] Status of linux-delhi.org website

2007-10-26 Thread justintmoore22
Out of curiosity, what are the technical issues? I'd be happy to help if needed. Justin ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 26-Oct-07, at 2:06 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Anybody else dismayed by this? Any theories? heavy handed admin. If you check the two biggest mailing lists in India - chennai and mumbai, and you find that there are no moderators. Sure, threads go offtopic, flames rage, but there is no

[ilugd] Slow tar

2007-10-26 Thread Yashpal Nagar
Hi All On a production Linux box with tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1, i want to nightly backup most of the file system then scping/rsync to another box. How do we use tar with limited resources like some specific cycle of CPU to use e.g20% CPU, with specified I/O or bandwidth limit e.g 50MB/s if anybody

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 10/26/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26-Oct-07, at 2:06 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: notorious 'ilugd rule'. Take the latest freedel conference (or the previous one) - it was a mega flop. Audience on the second day was about 50 (including speakers and volunteers).

[ilugd] Midlets using proxy

2007-10-26 Thread Shamail Tayyab
Hi, I've got a s60 based phone, nokia 3230 with vodafone india connection. The problem is that i am not able to use java based application, like gmail using this connection. Vodafone in. has got a proxy server for all wap as well as http requests at 10.10.1.100:9401 at apn portalnmms . However the

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Yashpal Nagar
I secondly agree to Kenneth, the environment in the list is not conducive. People's attitude about small-2 questions being asked, HOWTOs, questions about other linux distributions like SLES or RHEL are poorly treated to such a level that, person, might not ask any question again after that... :(

[ilugd] ILUG-D activity in last 7 days

2007-10-26 Thread nkapoor
Fri 26-Oct-2007: ILUG-D activity in last 7 days: = New/recent events: 0 Total events: 70 = New Discussion forum postings: 2 Total postings: 960

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Akshay Lamba
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Anybody else dismayed by this? Any theories? No theory, just some number crunching. The % reduction numbers are significant enough to indicate a fundamental change in the organization between 2004 and 2006, in my opinion. (I'm not attempting to commenting on what

Re: [ilugd] quickie! which blog-engine for foss cc-license + more?

2007-10-26 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ,--[ On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:03:38PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [...] | you mean that the python apps mentioned above dont cater for all | those things? Django for example has a separate comments module that | you can plug in, and a

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Vikas Rawal
KG's mail was in a bad taste. To all those who share this feeling: ignore such comments. No point getting into a point by point discussion over such stuff and give more life to it. Vikas ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Sanjay Dutt
Gaurav Mishra wrote: On 10/26/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26-Oct-07, at 2:06 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: notorious 'ilugd rule'. Take the latest freedel conference (or the previous one) - it was a mega flop. Audience on the second day was about 50 (including speakers

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Sudev Barar
On 26/10/2007, Akshay Lamba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 20042006% Reduction Month Count Month Count 1 340 1 113 67% 2 337 2 61 82% 3 541 3 132 76% 4 308 4 142 54% 5 323 5 65 80%

Re: [ilugd] Status of linux-delhi.org website

2007-10-26 Thread Linux Lingam
On 10/26/07, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will bite and ask again. When will the technical issues on linux-delhi.org be solved and Nishikant be able to move the website to the right domain again? It has been months this way, and it doesn't look nice for the organizing LUG of

Re: [ilugd] Midlets using proxy

2007-10-26 Thread Linux Lingam
On 10/26/07, Shamail Tayyab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a s60 based phone, nokia 3230 with vodafone india connection. The problem is that i am not able to use java based application, like gmail using this connection. Vodafone in. has got a proxy server for all wap as well as http

Re: [ilugd] Creativedot on OSI

2007-10-26 Thread Rahul Chopra
excellent...It's time Indian contributions got noticed on the global platform...congrats to everyone involved :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Raj Mathur Sent: 26 October 2007 22:36 To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Subject: [ilugd]

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I normally try to avoid being baited by Kenneth's online fantasies, but in this particular case perhaps some facts to temper the FUD are in order. Response bottom-posted as good netiquette dictates... On Friday 26 October 2007 15:21, Kenneth

[ilugd] Creativedot on OSI

2007-10-26 Thread Raj Mathur
Michael Tiemann (President OSI) has blogged about creativedot.linux-delhi.org, very favourably. I'm afraid I'm being given credit for others' hard work here, but it's still great that all the effort that the team behind creativedot put in (and puts in daily) is getting recognition. Good for

[ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-26 Thread Joe Bloggs
Help! my audio has stopped working Here is the relevant part of my .xsession-errors file: ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned error: No such device ALSA lib

Re: [ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-26 Thread Saleem Ansari
On 10/26/07, Joe Bloggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! my audio has stopped working Here is the relevant part of my .xsession-errors file: ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0' ALSA lib conf.c:3500:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver returned

Re: [ilugd] Midlets using proxy

2007-10-26 Thread Shamail Tayyab
On 10/26/07, Ajay Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shamail Tayyab wrote: Hi, I've got a s60 based phone, nokia 3230 with vodafone india connection. The problem is that i am not able to use java based application, like gmail using this connection. Vodafone in. has got a proxy server for

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Viksit Gaur
Hello hello, Not to fan the flames too much, but this I have to ask about.. --- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as the lack of traffic on the ilug lists is concerned, ilug was shot down by atul chitnis long ago. Uh, what was? it is just a question of the other big

Re: [ilugd] Alsa stopped working

2007-10-26 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:37:54 +0530, Saleem Ansari [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 10/26/07, Joe Bloggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! my audio has stopped working Here is the relevant part of my .xsession-errors file: I think maybe I have to reinstall the drivers? Can anyone point me in

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 10/26/07, Sanjay Dutt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gaurav Mishra wrote: I do not understand why this has suddenly become 'personal'. This is precisely what Kenneth has said in his post, maybe he has been 'politically incorrect' in mentioning Kishore, but personally I see no cause for anybody

Re: [ilugd] Creativedot on OSI

2007-10-26 Thread Linux Lingam
On 10/26/07, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Tiemann (President OSI) has blogged about creativedot.linux-delhi.org, very favourably. the correct url is creative.linux-delhi.org or creativedot.org :-) niyam ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] Creativedot on OSI

2007-10-26 Thread Linux Lingam
On 10/26/07, Rahul Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: excellent...It's time Indian contributions got noticed on the global platform...congrats to everyone involved :-) have posted raj's email as a submission at creativedot. http://creative.linux-delhi.org/?q=node/1482 since most people on

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] in other news, in the year 2009 sandip bhattacharya notes that though the mailing list activity was tending to spiral down, kenneth gonsalves single-handedly and bravely surged the list up with his wonderfully-crafted flame-baits, f.u.d.s, and at-times flagrant messages. bearing the

[ilugd] Announcing Opyum 0.0.3 for Fedora

2007-10-26 Thread Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray
I hereby announce the second stable release of Opyum, the Fedora Offline Package Manager, version 0.0.3. Opyum (pronounced 'opium') provides a set of tools to enable users, who do not have a good network (eg., Internet) connection at their ready disposal, to easily install new packages or update

Re: [ilugd] Online activity declining in linux-delhi/linux-india

2007-10-26 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 26 October 2007 14:06, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Anybody else dismayed by this? Any theories? ILUGD activity http://gmane.org/output-rate.php?group=gmane.user-groups.linux.india .help http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi I'm afraid that shows only one aspect of the

[ilugd] JIITU LUG proposal for freed.in 08

2007-10-26 Thread varun mittal
Hi all, JIITU LUG would like to request the community to consider its candidature for hosting freed.in 08.Attached herewith is the formal proposal from JIITU LUG. We look forward to your guidance,cooperation,feedback, and queries. Regards Varun Mittal [EMAIL PROTECTED] +91 9891903645 Angad

Re: [ilugd] Slow tar

2007-10-26 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 26 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we use tar with limited resources like some specific cycle of CPU to use e.g20% CPU, with specified I/O or bandwidth limit e.g 50MB/s You can limit CPU usage with nice(1). While it sets no bounds on the amount of CPU that is used, it ensure that