Re: [PLUG] GNUnify 2015

2015-02-27 Thread Vivek Khurana
You cannot compare apple to oranges but can demand sweet apples for sure. If quality is more important than quantity then make big in terms of quality. Year after year I have seen Gnunfy to shrink down from National level event to college event to event of nearby colleges only. Leave everything

Re: [PLUG] [Android] PDF reader that lets you flip screen (not page)

2013-01-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
write one regards Vivek ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Dept of IT seeks public feedback on couple of drafts

2012-01-05 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Mayuresh mayur...@acm.org wrote: If somebody is interested: http://mit.gov.in/content/social-media-framework-guidelines-government-organisations-draft-public-consultation http://mit.gov.in/citi-eng-fram-for-egov Both are past the expiry date :) regards Vivek

Re: [PLUG] Scripting for folder size and content.

2011-10-03 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Oct 3, 2011 11:03 PM, Shashank Airani shashank.air...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, looking for a scripting which will send an email alert to the owner for the folder size and if possible on some file types. I am looking for this on UBUNTU your requirement is not clear. What are the

Re: [PLUG] The World's Easiest Arch Linux Manual

2011-08-06 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Swapnil Bhartiya swapnil.bhart...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, As we started publishing manuals on Muktware a few months ago. We just published a detailed Arch Linux manual. The manual is targetted at those users who want to try it but fail to do due to lack of easy

Re: [PLUG] Alternative to skype

2011-06-08 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Dnyanraj Mali dnyanraj.m...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone tried DimDim? DimDim has not updated the opensource version for long time... plus dimdim has stopped new user registration after being acquired by salesforce regards Vivek Regards, Dnyanraj +91 9823

Re: [PLUG] Alternative to skype

2011-06-06 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi As we all know something happened to skype... (overtaken by someone) so now what other alternatives do we have for the same? Ekiga ? regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!!

Re: [PLUG] Nokia to adopt Windows, What's the fate of MeeGo?

2011-02-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan nil...@itech7.com wrote: meego is not dead. meego is mee-gone :) regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] GNUnify '11

2011-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Shahid Farooqui shahidfaroo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi... GATE is scheduled on 13th February, most of the 3rd and 4th year engineering student will be busy in preparing GATE, Is is not possible to reschedule the GNUnify??? Gnunify is not some local college fest,

Re: [PLUG] GNUnify '11

2011-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Shahid Farooqui shahidfaroo...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Vivek, For your kind information GATE is not a city or college level test, GATE is very renowned admission test conducted by IIT across the country, Its a national level test and well know among the

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro

2010-10-15 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Any linux distro is fine. I have worked on Ubuntu, Fedora and some others running the SAP client. User is concerned with the SAP client and not the base OS. You may choose one depending on your hardware. You

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro

2010-10-14 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:44 PM, madhu khodave madhukhod...@sify.com wrote: Hi Friends I want to discuss about which Linux distro is best suited for SAP Client Office appllications If Any body already work on this please suggest ur choice Any. Choose the one you are most comfortable with

Re: [PLUG] Open Office does not check spellings

2010-08-18 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Dnyanraj Mali dnyanraj.m...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, when i write into my open office writer it does not check for spellings. even if i deliberately make mistake run the spell checker it does not give any error. I tried to install new dictionary from

Re: [PLUG] Practical shell Implementation of the login command.

2010-07-26 Thread Vivek Khurana
2010/7/26 अमेय साठे aakreet40-p...@yahoo.com: Hi, I have searched the manual pages and the internet for examples on login command,in vain :(.   I tried the login command in following manner and got the succeeding output. -- $ login -fp remote Password: Login incorrect

Re: [PLUG] What are the most viable backup options for linux

2010-07-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Chaitannya Mahatme chaitan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I wanted to install an automatic backup and restore for my laptop. I wanted a solution which would take incremental backup of my primary partition every week or so. In case of disk failure I should be

[PLUG] mukt.in 2010 : Call for papers

2010-03-28 Thread Vivek Khurana
Hi all, It's that time of the year when we all come together and help all the humans to get rid off the proprietary software, yes my friends it's time for mukt.in. We feel great pleasure to present you mukt.in 2010. This time with a totally new concept and a new home. Previous editions have

Re: [PLUG] Suggestion or Ideas for including LINUX based event(competition) for a College EVENT

2010-02-15 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:26 PM, Abhishek Sharma emote2abhis...@gmail.com wrote:  I would appreciate suggestions and ideas from all. Take some linux boxes and screw them. Ask teams to troubleshoot the boxes. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!!

Re: [PLUG] Tool for image editing

2010-02-09 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Nikhil Kala nikhilrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Is there any tool available under linux platform for image editing? I know GIMP and Inkscape tools but I am looking for little bit easy to use tools for image editing on linux. krita on kde ? regards VIvek

Re: [PLUG] Tool for image editing

2010-02-09 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Nikhil Kala nikhilrk...@gmail.com wrote: btw, GIMP can not do more than 8 bit colour depth. Here is a para from http://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html -- When can

Re: [PLUG] Good folder syncronization utility

2010-02-08 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Kapil Agrawal kapil@gmail.com wrote: Hi , I need to syncronize my folders on my ubuntu box with a remote server, so that I can access these from any location.  I can only access that server through ftp. Please suggest if anyone has experience using such

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: Your message to plug-mail awaits moderator approval

2010-02-07 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 5:22 AM, narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: May I ask, why are you putting my message for moderation ? Looks like spam filters at work :) regards Vivek -- Forwarded message -- From:  plug-mail-boun...@plug.org.in Date: Sat, Feb 6,

Re: [PLUG] Which technology suit for ERP system .NET , JAVA or PHP

2010-01-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Hemant Shinde hemant28shi...@gmail.com wrote: lot of people says that php is not secured and java is secured. what does that means. Security will depend on how your application is accessed. So please post the usage scenario for anyone to comment. second there

Re: [PLUG] R - Environment for statistical computing and graphics

2010-01-19 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Just came across this hope can be useful to others. http://www.r-project.org/ R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and

Re: [PLUG] Mobile browsing tool on linux

2010-01-11 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Nikhil Kala nikhilrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, I was trying install and use Samsung PC studio on wine platform under linux OS. But it is not working. Is there any alternative tool available for Samsung PC studio OR Sony PC Suit under linux OS? Did you

Re: [PLUG] Creating ISO image for VPS

2010-01-07 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Rajeev Karajgikar rajeevkarajgi...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All: I have a linux server with some desired configuration. I want to be able to create new copies of the same server within VPS using custom ISO images. I want to create a custom ISO image of a running

Re: [PLUG] Kernel get crashed while installing VirtualBox 3.1.2 on RHEL 5.3

2010-01-07 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Prakash Gore prakash.g...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello,I am trying to install VirtualBox 3.1.2 on my Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3. I have an rpm VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.2_56127_rhel5-1.i386.rpm. when I am trying to install rpm with# rpm -ivh

Re: [PLUG] Connecting to the Internet

2009-12-26 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I 'm a newbie who loaded Ubuntu Karmic Koala. I have a BSNL internet connection through my phoneline with a DataOne Broadband modem. Can anyone tell me how to attach the machine to the internet? Do you

Re: [PLUG] IBM and the great indian debacle

2009-11-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Chetan Kumar cheta...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 8:14 PM, anirudh singh shekhawat shekhawat.anir...@gmail.com wrote: mandatory for their students to work on it. This is the only part that I would personally worry about. All else is standard

Re: [PLUG] Airtel gprs on kubuntu 9.10

2009-11-14 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui saf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I ubuntu when I connect my mobile to pc via usb, it automatically detect and configure the network connection. I'm using kubuntu 9.10. It does not work like that. How I can configure it via network

Re: [PLUG] high cpu utilization

2009-11-09 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Kapil Agrawal kapil@gmail.com wrote: But its a not so good hack, nor a right fix. Right thing would be that I put my thd_w in sleep till there is no data in the queue and once thd_r pushes some data in queue the thd_w should wake up to consume. But I am not

Re: [PLUG] ICC Broadband Ubuntu

2009-11-08 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Owais Lone loneow...@gmail.com wrote: Hey everyone. My cousin got a new ICC Broadband connection. It's a Wide Area Network. Network Manager and PPOECONF are unable to connect. My cousins Vista is also unable to connect(Authentication Failed) but Windows XP

Re: [PLUG] calculator software in Linux

2009-09-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Suraj Swami suraj.g.sw...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am an engineering student. And I was thinking if there is any software for calculator which could have functions like matrices, solving quadratic equations. Or basic that stores past calculations and ans.

Re: [PLUG] calculator software in Linux

2009-09-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Shridhar Daithankar ghodech...@ghodechhap.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 13:41:27 Suraj Swami wrote: Hi, I am an engineering student. And I was thinking if there is any software for calculator which could have functions like matrices, solving

Re: [PLUG] Front end and report generator for Postgres

2009-09-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Rajiv Gore ra...@wsieng.com wrote: Can some one please inform me about front end for creating forms in Postgres and also report generator in Postgres. What sort of reports you want ? You can use jasper reports to generate very extensive reports from huge

Re: [PLUG] Usb speakers in linux

2009-09-15 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui saf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, i'm having USB speakers and i'm using ubuntu 9.04. Speakers are not working, how should i configure them? Which model of speakers. Please post the last 10 lines of dmesg output after you connect the

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Optionally using google calendar to also mark PLUG events?

2009-09-12 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:13 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: The problem is I'm looking for a hosted solution. Do you know of such a solution.  Needs to be free as in beer as well as free as in open-source. Lots of them, from phocalendar to Darwin calnder server. Just search sf.net

Re: [PLUG] Fwd: [india-gii] Microsoft taking over Maharashtra's future

2009-08-23 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Aditya Godboleaag.li...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone volunteering to teach? At a rough estimate about 20 people would be required to work on this full-time. A few more to install and administer the systems. I guess with enough people volunteering, we could approach

[PLUG] Fwd: [india-gii] Microsoft taking over Maharashtra's future

2009-08-19 Thread Vivek Khurana
Anyone aware of this ? [Message forwarded from india-gii list] -- Forwarded message -- From: Arun Mehta arun.me...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:09 AM Subject: [india-gii] Microsoft taking over Maharashtra's future To: india-...@lists.cpsr.org Is the Mumbai/Pune open

Re: [PLUG] 8 GB RAM support

2009-08-18 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Manishprol...@gmx.net wrote: Which current Linux desktop flavor can support 8 GB RAM? AFAIK, Ubuntu supports only 4 GB (3GB like XP?? -- not sure). Inputs, pointers will be highly appreciated. You need to upgrade the kernel. Install the kernel with bigmem

Re: [PLUG] 8 GB RAM support

2009-08-18 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Manishprol...@gmx.net wrote: - Original Message - From: Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com To: Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List plug-mail@plug.org.in Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [PLUG] 8 GB RAM support On Tue, Aug 18,

Re: [PLUG] help for setup of virtual machine

2009-08-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:34 PM, mihir tailortailor.mi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi PLUG members ! One of my friends has recently started classes for teaching C. He has a pretty decent rig and now he wants to use that pc for setting up a lab for his students to practice C programs on. he is on a

Re: [PLUG] open ports in webserver

2009-08-05 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 3:02 PM, sunil varpe varpesun...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi , I am a very sorry for not given specific querry, I just want to update my files in web server from outside. what type of technical settings i should do in my webserver.So i can easily access / monitor my server

Re: [PLUG] SOLVED Re: [OT/commercial/x-post] Looking for professional help to integrate LDAP auth (Mac OSX, Linux and Windows XP)

2009-08-01 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Arun Khan kn...@yahoo.com wrote: On Monday 20 Jul 2009, Manas Alekar wrote: Done it (all preferences moved to Trash bin); the problem, as stated before, still persists. You mean you moved /Library/Preferences to Trash !? If not try moving

Re: [PLUG] Mailing list moderation

2009-07-19 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Rahul Sundaram sunda...@fedoraproject.orgwrote: Hi, Plug's mailing list moderation is hyper sensitive and unnecessarily blocks mails with random things like suspicious header where this is nothing suspicious whatsoever. I suggest whoever is the list owner

Re: [PLUG] seeking recommendations for order processing software

2009-06-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Atul Neneatul.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A friend is looking for recommendations for free and open source order processing software for a small, web based and seasonal business. I googled, but there are too many confusing options. For example I found: 1.

[PLUG] Need ubuntu dvd

2009-06-05 Thread Vivek Khurana
Hi! Anyone got ubuntu 9.04 cd/dvd ? Please bring me a copy during tomorrow's plug meet. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! ___ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List

Re: [PLUG] Need help for our school

2009-06-04 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Vidya Valley School (Office) i...@vidya-valley.com wrote: To PLUG members,  We have been running our two school labs on MS Server. But we wish to convert to Linux.  We will have one lab with a Linux File server (and domain server?) with up to 50 PCs on

Re: [PLUG] Need help for our school

2009-06-04 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Mandar Vaze mandarv...@gmail.com wrote:  Why dont you drop in the PLUG meet on 6th June, 4Pm @ SICSRC. We can discuss your problem... :) I don't think it is the school's problem, it is their requirement  :) I thought they had a probelm when the OP asked

Re: [PLUG] Any open-source software for documentation.

2009-05-21 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 2:20 PM, Suraj Swami suraj.g.sw...@gmail.comwrote: Hello , I am looking for an open source software by which the employees of my company can do documentation work of their research work. Some of the features that I am looking for as follow. The employ can enter all

Re: [PLUG] squid with auth and group base access

2009-05-15 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Ashish Gangani ashish.gang...@vyomlabs.com wrote: Hi All, I required to setup a squid with User base access control for more then 150 concurrent user. I have to setup a group base access also and it will also give me reports like sarg. If any one

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Help Desk software in Open source

2009-05-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Nikhil Kala nikhilrk...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, Does any one know any open source software which is used for help desk purpose. I am looking for feature like, 1) Ticket raising feature by user 2) acknowledgment to user after his problem or query has

Re: [PLUG] Talk on CodeIgniter a PHP framework @ plug meet.

2009-04-03 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Gaurav Pant gaurav...@gmail.com wrote: Seems the heat this time of the year has got me. Yup it will be 4th April Saturday @ PLUG Meeting. Hehe, first time I saw heat getting on twice... :) regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!!

[PLUG] [X-Post]Web Honeypot alpha released

2009-02-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
Hi! all, Sans Internet storm center has released the alpha version of web honeypot project under GPLV2. This project aims at creating capture points to identify harmful traffic in the internet. The project works inline with Dsheild project to aggregate the details in Dsheild project and provide

[PLUG] gnunify site not loading

2009-01-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
Hi! I cant find any plug member on IRC so thought would drop an email on the list. We are not been able to load gnunify.in, it throws socket timeout. regards Vivek -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! -- __

Re: [PLUG] Front end for Postgres

2009-01-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Rajiv Gore ra...@wsieng.com wrote: Ours is an Excise registered unite and every month we have to file excise return . I want to use Postgress to store the data . We will feed data pertaining to receipt of raw mtl and sales of finished prducts along with

Re: [PLUG] Need a PHP Editor

2008-12-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
Try eclipse with php extension. regards Vivek On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Vedarth Kulkarni vedar...@gmail.comwrote: I am using UbuntuI am in need of of a PHP Editor which auto completes the tags and auto completes the words. --

Re: [PLUG] Code camp

2008-10-06 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:11 AM, Aditya Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For problem statement 1, we would be writing an eclipse plugin. For that we are planning ot organise a workshop on writing eclipse plugins on 18th Oct, where the prerequisite would be core java. Is it possible to

Re: [PLUG] web browser based project management software

2008-06-27 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for Valuable information . So I want to know which is the best for PMS ? ( You opinion ) dotProject or project-open or anything for 0-200 users . 1. For IT Company Open-proj 2. Non-IT Company Open proj can be

Re: [PLUG] web browser based project management software

2008-06-26 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for a web browser based project management software that has PERT/CPM charting feature (like in M$ Project). Apps. like ProjPier,

Re: [PLUG] [x-post] neelam dhawan quitting / fired from microsoft?

2008-06-07 Thread Vivek Khurana
[top post] had to do a top post as nothing in the original email deserves to be quoted. I dont understand the importance of M$ MD being fired, in context of FOSS. Did she supported FOSS ? Is she against FOSS ? or did she supported ODF against OOXML ? This mailing list is neither pro nor anti M$

Re: [PLUG] Frontline Article

2008-05-17 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 11:02 AM, ഓം [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any enthusiastic CEO will always ask himself what is the **Bottomline** :-) I wonder if anybody has yet started doing Doctoral Studies in Economics of Free Software, that would be very interesting... There are people (outside

Re: [PLUG] Interestingly Real Challenge...

2008-05-17 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 6:51 PM, ഓം [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. This is just a curiosity... but how many of free software evangelists who are for some reason required to use Windows OS ( even for just a sneak peak) for some specific purpose (in भारत) care to buy a Liesensed OS? I have 3

Re: [PLUG] OSI Board Member from Pune !!

2008-04-15 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:04 PM, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We now have a new OSI board member from Pune !! Harshad Gune from SICSR has been elected as a board member of OSI. Read the press release here: http://opensource.org/pressreleases/board-election-2008.htm

Re: [PLUG] Database migration tool

2008-03-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to migrate one database to another another database. I want a tool that can let me configure mapping for conversion (like table mapping, datatype mapping,.. etc) Yup there are tools but

[PLUG] [cross post][ANN] FreeBSD 7.0 released

2008-02-28 Thread Vivek Khurana
Hi! All, FreeBSD engineering team has announced release of Freebsd 7.0, first major release in last two years. More at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html . New features of freebsd 7.0 can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/relnotes.html This is what onlamp.com has

Re: [PLUG] FOSS for Maths meet at BP

2008-02-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:50 AM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that is the just the same way GNU GPL locks people down from exploiting their's own innovations so what is different? GNU wants to have source code of your innovations back to them... Forcing you to give back to the place

Re: [PLUG] FOSS for Maths meet at BP

2008-02-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:08 PM, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ಓಂ wrote: Yaaa... next time edit wiki before you start arguing against something.. like some government agencies do.. :-) Wikipedia edits have public timelines and changes can be verified easily FYI. A simple

Re: [PLUG] FOSS for Maths meet at BP

2008-02-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:59 AM, आदित्य (Aditya) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ಓಂ wrote: that is the just the same way GNU GPL locks people down from exploiting their's own innovations so what is different? GNU wants to have source code of your innovations back to them... Forcing

Re: [PLUG] Self Analysis

2008-02-22 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:07 PM, ഓം [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has any measurable figures ever been taken about all the efforts that go on every year? I know this may raise questions but this has bothered me for quite some time. What is the efficacy of all the (hu)man hours that get spent

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Anyone going for FOSS event in Delhi.

2008-02-20 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 11:06 PM, Ramakrishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 6:56 PM, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is Moblin? Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything :D just kidding

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Anyone going for FOSS event in Delhi.

2008-02-20 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 2/20/08, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 20, 2008 8:58 PM, Vivek Khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/20/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 42 is the answer. the question is the answer, the answer is the question... so in the end there is only 42

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Anyone going for FOSS event in Delhi.

2008-02-20 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 2/20/08, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vivek Khurana wrote: | the question is the answer, the answer is the question... | so in the end there is only 42... It indeed is a strange loop. But we digress

Re: [PLUG] [OT] Anyone going for FOSS event in Delhi.

2008-02-20 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 2/21/08, shree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vivek Khurana wrote: hmm... i think he liked Freebsd... i read somewhere that he had a mac book and used it to write... that says it all, MacOSX is based on Freebsd... At last BSD's are the only oses which come close to 42... regards VK

[PLUG] more photos

2008-02-16 Thread Vivek Khurana
hey, Few more gnunify pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/vivekkhurana/ regards VK -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

Re: [PLUG] teeshirt sharing idea

2008-02-14 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: actually, jokes apart, you guys are stumbling across a great idea. why don't you publish the source files of the design of the teeshirt on your site. so anyone can paint or print or iron-on the design to their teeshirt

Re: [PLUG] PLUG teeshirts for freed-managers done!

2008-02-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Feb 14, 2008 4:29 AM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The easiest way is... write Pune Linux Users' Group with permanent marker on your favourite T-shirt in your favourite colour... BTW, my favourite colour looks *transparent* when watched with *Open Eyes* Aha the standard transparent colour

Re: [PLUG] PLUG teeshirts for freed-managers done!

2008-02-13 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:25 AM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cai I get one too??? :D Now that you said i remembered I too need one as I am wearing the 4-5 year old Plug-T which has developed few holes here and there and the caller (whatever you call that part) is no more in it's

Re: [PLUG] Postgresql problem.

2008-01-11 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 11, 2008 2:40 PM, pankaj patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, problem solved! I login as superuser. Then su postgres. Then I tried command 'initdb /var/lib/pgsql/data/'. And everything is done. Well that is what service postgresql initdb would have done. regards VK -- The

Re: [PLUG] Postgresql problem.

2008-01-10 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 11, 2008 6:49 AM, pankaj patil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to start service for postgresql on fedora 8. But isn't starting and giving following msg. postgresql failed. The error was: /var/lib/pgsql/data is missing. Use service postgresql initdb to initialize the cluster

Re: [PLUG] Linux Phones - more questions

2008-01-06 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Jan 6, 2008 5:18 PM, Mayuresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. When the phone is a part of a LAN (using whichever technology - wifi, bluetooth, usb LAN), is it possible to operate (receive and make calls, SMS etc.) entirely from a(ny) computer terminal on the network? Nope. When connected over

Re: [PLUG] Linux based phones.

2007-12-25 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Dec 26, 2007 5:25 AM, Pranav Peshwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Does anybody have any experience of using Linux based smartphones available in the (Indian) market ? Google gives a lot of results, but i would like to know real life experiences. Also,

Re: [PLUG] Kingfisher - linux

2007-12-24 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Dec 24, 2007 8:46 PM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not think strict norms apply to inflight entertainment. The PA system yes but not entertainment. Most times that I have flown on international routes, I have noticed that the in flight entertainment (when available) do not work

Re: [PLUG] Happy DiwaLinux !

2007-11-14 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Nov 9, 2007 6:07 PM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks.. nice way to SayLiberate *DiwaLinux* i sincerely wonder why you created an email id as *Linux Lingam* and not *GnuLinux Lingam* :-) I sincerely wonder why you are Guru.is.On.vi and not Guru.is.On.Emacs or Guru.is.On.Openoffice or

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-04 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Nov 4, 2007 6:02 PM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are genuinely serious problems unless you are careful coding recursion... But think of scenarios where you can use recursion and you will find that recursion is not a very easily implementable for most purposes... and even when you

Re: [PLUG] Linux and recursion [OT]

2007-11-04 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Nov 5, 2007 12:05 AM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/4/07, Vivek Khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 4, 2007 6:02 PM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coming to the topic... using recursion successfully should qualify you for spot close to the top if you could get it right because

Re: [PLUG] Linux and recursion [OT]

2007-11-04 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Nov 5, 2007 9:34 AM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your very **kind** words... At this time I would like to keep all the *mathematical* proofs (if any exists) to myself... huh ? Well there are mathematical proofs for whatever I mentioned in original mail. Please feel free to pick

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-03 Thread Vivek Khurana
\ Try writing smallest code snippet for any given program output... you will realise it is not easy to write a *small* program that meets and does what it is expected to do... It is assumed here that only those programs which catch and handle exceptions properly will be compared... so this

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-02 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Nov 2, 2007 5:38 PM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually I think we need not worry much about M$, because they will dig their own resting place as the time passes... for all we know they may have started in that direction with launch of Vista... Not really, if you carefully look at the

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

2007-10-31 Thread Vivek Khurana
on searching for 'foss' events in 'india' i get a list of two events, foss.in and the chennai event. the bangalore barcamp is not listed. And how come bangalore barcamp is a foss event ? No every technology event is a FOSS event. regards VK -- The hidden harmony is better than the

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-10-31 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/31/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Many (nearly 50% or more) points mentioned in the petition are of highly argumentative nature... that's my sincere opinion... The best thing an *international* body like ISO could do is to make Microsoft work for getting it's standard to the level and

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

2007-10-30 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/31/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with your goals **probably** reached how about avoiding *x-post*ing? technicalities... are ... If i edit subject line, it becomes a new thread! if i say reply-all, it will bounce from other bunch of lists where I am not subscribed to.. so people who

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-10-30 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/31/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quite frankly I do not understand how stopping somebody else from applying for a new standard or protocol for exchange of information help me improve or attain my freedom Well read the online petition it clearly defines the pitfalls to be faced

Re: [PLUG] Uninstall Jre from Ubuntu.

2007-10-27 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/28/07, Ameet Gholap [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am using kubuntu 7.10. I downloaded jre binary from sun site and installed it. But I found that java applet sites still do not work in firefox. So I want to uninstall the jre. Btw sun jre is available as a ubuntu package.

Re: [PLUG] Re: JDK for CS Ubuntu Poll

2007-10-15 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/15/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry for cross posting . Please give your opinion at CS LUG poll . Which is best JDK for Computer Science students ? With consideration for Live CD and limited space and speed . * free-java-jdk * Sun PUt Sun

Re: [PLUG] we need web space for CS Ubuntu

2007-10-11 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/11/07, Gaurav Mishra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now We need web space to host this . -- Sourceforge do allow hosting iso`s AFAIK] Nope, most likely they will reject the iso hosting. regards VK -- The hidden harmony is better

Re: [PLUG] EJB training

2007-10-09 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/10/07, samir joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am need of in depth EJB training.Please let me know where can i get it. Did you try Spring ? regards VK -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! -- __

Re: [PLUG] FOSS.in 2007

2007-10-06 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 10/5/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just want to know who are going to attend FOSS.in . As PLUG do we have any plan for stall at event or some BOF session ? Maratha BoF ? Jai Maharashtra VK -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! --

Re: [PLUG] LAMP Help

2007-05-17 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 5/17/07, Rohan Dighe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello friends, Well, i need a help from all the web developers out there... i am starting to learn web development in linux and i am on the lookout for help in various regards.. what IDE's are good for doing php development under linux? i

Re: [PLUG] flv player

2007-04-12 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 4/12/07, Rajiv Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to play down loaded flv files in Kaffeine. I am unable to hear the sound though video is seen. How can I fix it. Try VLC, it can play flv files properly. -- The hidden harmony is better than the obvious!! --

Re: [PLUG] Linux, DB server optimization professional/hobbyist?

2007-02-17 Thread Vivek Khurana
On 2/18/07, Santosh Dawara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLUG, If your working on optimizing Linux server installations for Databases, I would like to sync up and exchange notes. If your a consultant in the same area - do send me your client list. I am testing databses performance under

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