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[Semi OT]:Linus Torvalds, Visual Basic Fan

Posted: August 31st, 2009, 10:05pm BST by Kaustubh Naik

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Just came across this article which got my eye-brows raised for a second! http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000648.html -- Kaustubh Naik Ponda-Goa

Re: Tighter Security Urged for Businesses Banking Online

Posted: August 26th, 2009, 3:07pm BST by Anil Seth

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... How do we get all banks to support these platforms? Regards anil

Tighter Security Urged for Businesses Banking Online

Posted: August 26th, 2009, 2:24pm BST by yadav_arvind

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An industry group representing some of nation's largest banks sent a private alert to its members last week warning about a surge in reported cybercrime

Re: Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 23rd, 2009, 10:24pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Aww... well, you've had a good run, hope you can get back to it soon! Cheers, Ed.

Re: Karmic Koala Alpha 4

Posted: August 23rd, 2009, 10:23pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Left thumb or right thumb? ;-P Seriously, though, that's impressive - and, until I find out a bit more, a little scary. Maybe a LOT scary. How does 9.10

Karmic Koala Alpha 4

Posted: August 23rd, 2009, 4:47pm BST by tony.desa

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Just installed the above version after a whole night's downloading (@256 Kpbs). At first sight the interface seems to impress. The log in screen is different -

Re: Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 22nd, 2009, 11:35pm BST by Nelson Lobo

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HI Ed i have been quite (very) busy. lots of work, new syllabus, research activities, projects. Did not write any articles lately. best Nelson ... -- visit

A tool to display a book - like googlebooks

Posted: August 21st, 2009, 11:13pm BST by Richard D'Souza

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I am looking for a tool(webkit, plugin) to display a book as a series of images on a website, through which one can scroll through - something like google

Re: Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 10:47pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Like how... stay at home, washing your hands?? ;-P We haven't seen posts from you recently, Nelson... how about some of your articles that have been

Re: Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 8:38pm BST by Nelson Lobo

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Yippee.... we 9schools and colleges) are given 2 days of extra holidays. Time to enjoy more. ... -- visit linux cd & dvd store at

Re: Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 3:09pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... I guess so, because I have yet to find these govt advisories in the mainstream media :-( ... The TOI advertises N95 masks in their "Reader Offers" ... talk

Re: Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 2:51pm BST by Dhaval Giani

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... Actually, the government has issued some advisories advertising facts and dispelling myths (such as that the N95 masks help). It just is the media which is

Off Topic: Countering the swine flu (H1N1) hysteria

Posted: August 20th, 2009, 2:42pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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I came across these very common-sense articles in news feeds (actually, shared by Arvind Y) and although very off-topic for ILUG-Goa, decided to post the links

Postpone meeting to next Sat (not coming)

Posted: August 19th, 2009, 3:08pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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People, Four of us "regulars" at meetings will be unable to come this Saturday (22nd is the 4th Sat of the month), so we were wondering - does anyone have any

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 19th, 2009, 8:34am BST by Frederick Noronha

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... Augusto, it would depend on (1) how many graphics your text has, and how complex the layout is (2) whether you or someone is willing to invest time to

Omeka... for scholars, museums, libraries, archives, and enthusiasts

Posted: August 18th, 2009, 2:56am BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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Frederick Noronha http://omeka.org/

Ubuntu Developer week announcement!

Posted: August 18th, 2009, 2:54am BST by Shrinivasan T

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Friends. Ubuntu developer week has been announced. Interested people take a look here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek There is also a nice brochure

DTP tools on Linux

Posted: August 18th, 2009, 11:53pm BST by Onkar Ainapur

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Hi All, Here are some more tools for DTP on Linux. One has to pay to use them and may be are not Open Source. Demos can be downloaded after registration. Visit

FossNews-26

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 8:32pm BST by Shrinivasan T

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Friends. FossNews 26th issue talks the following topics. 1.Linux - The New 'Hot' Job Skill 2.How To Setup OpenVZ under RHEL / CentOS Linux 3.OpenOffice.org

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 4:18pm BST by Frederick [FN] Noronha * फ्रेड

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Ease of use primarily for DTP. Scribus, when I used it last, was also prone to crashing (unlike Lyx). FN 2009/8/17 Arvind Yadav ... -- FN

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 3:32pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... That is the classic argument used by the MS fanboys. The learning curve is steeper in moving from XP to Vista or Win7 than it is to move to some Linux

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 3:12pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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... i'm not answering for fred.. but maybe he means to say because of the learning curve involved / or help available for the same? since i dont do any DTP. i

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 3:08pm BST by Augusto F. Fernandes

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Hi Frederick, I do very much agree that LaTeX and LyX and far more superior. Scribus will be best if anyone is migrating from windows based program. I have had

Tiny Core Linux

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 3:08pm BST by Augusto F. Fernandes

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Hi Everybody, Can anyone help me how to install packages from the source files in TC (Tiny Core Linux)?. I had downloaded the source tar files of Wvstreams and

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 3:07pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Could you please explain your reasoning as to why Windows would be a better platform, as I see no reason for it. The job can very well be done in Linux

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 17th, 2009, 12:31pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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thanks all for the help. company has decided to wait until they get BSNL broadband. they essentially work on standalone machines and their software has been

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 4:45pm BST by gaitonde_un

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... I do not know. I used Scribus twice (maybe thrice) so far. Have not used any Windows software for similar purpose. ... I agree. Since I am an old user

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 4:45pm BST by gaitonde_un

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... I do not know. I used Scribus twice (maybe thrice) so far. Have not used any Windows software for similar purpose. ... I agree. Since I am an old user

Re: FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 11:06am BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... There are some templates available (under Free/Open licenses) which may be helpful: http://www.scribusstuff.org/content/show.php/Blue+Dream?content=101689

Re: FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 11:06am BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... There are some templates available (under Free/Open licenses) which may be helpful: http://www.scribusstuff.org/content/show.php/Blue+Dream?content=101689

Re: FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:41am BST by Vidyadhar Gadgil

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... Interesting and commendable initiative. But it is essentially running text with some visuals included. As such, layout features are totally unused. Even in

Re: FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:41am BST by Vidyadhar Gadgil

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... Interesting and commendable initiative. But it is essentially running text with some visuals included. As such, layout features are totally unused. Even in

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:40am BST by Frederick Noronha

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I've even seen people (specially self-publishers) use Microsoft Word for books. Which, to say the least, is painful! FN

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:40am BST by Frederick Noronha

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I've even seen people (specially self-publishers) use Microsoft Word for books. Which, to say the least, is painful! FN

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:40am BST by Frederick Noronha

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Does Scribus have any additional *power* (other than it being Free Software, and politically right!) over the Windows software? I think Lyx, though in a

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:40am BST by Frederick Noronha

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Does Scribus have any additional *power* (other than it being Free Software, and politically right!) over the Windows software? I think Lyx, though in a

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:39am BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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Lyx is better for books, theses and academic papers. For college magazines, Windows (politically incorrect!) might offer more ease of use. It's easy to hand

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 16th, 2009, 9:39am BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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Lyx is better for books, theses and academic papers. For college magazines, Windows (politically incorrect!) might offer more ease of use. It's easy to hand

Re: FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:12am BST by Bharathi Subramanian

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... Yes. Once you create a template then it is only a typing work. Template will take-care the formatting. I hope, you can do the same in OO too. Bye :) --

Re: FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:12am BST by Bharathi Subramanian

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... Yes. Once you create a template then it is only a typing work. Template will take-care the formatting. I hope, you can do the same in OO too. Bye :) --

Re: Bhuvan!

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:01am BST by Anil Seth

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Thanks for the info.. ... I put in a request that they let me know when they support Linux and Firefox . May be my grandsons will see it :) Anil

Re: Bhuvan!

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:01am BST by Anil Seth

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Thanks for the info.. ... I put in a request that they let me know when they support Linux and Firefox . May be my grandsons will see it :) Anil

Bhuvan!

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 10:17pm BST by gaitonde_un

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Yesterday (or the day before) Bhuvan was launched. http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/ This is supposed to be the India's competitor for

Bhuvan!

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 10:17pm BST by gaitonde_un

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Yesterday (or the day before) Bhuvan was launched. http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in/ This is supposed to be the India's competitor for

El Reg: Critical Linux vulnerability affects last eight years' worth

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 7:35pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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"Linux developers have issued a critical update for the open-source OS after researchers uncovered a vulnerability in its kernel that puts most versions built

El Reg: Critical Linux vulnerability affects last eight years' worth

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 7:35pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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"Linux developers have issued a critical update for the open-source OS after researchers uncovered a vulnerability in its kernel that puts most versions built

FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 7:25pm BST by Shrinivasan T

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Hi, I am circulating a weekly magazine called "FossNews". you can get the latest issue here. http://tinyurl.com/l2e54v I use openoffice writer for this and

FossNews using Latex

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 7:25pm BST by Shrinivasan T

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Hi, I am circulating a weekly magazine called "FossNews". you can get the latest issue here. http://tinyurl.com/l2e54v I use openoffice writer for this and

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 7:24pm BST by damodar g

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**After some browsing some broadband forum it is mentioned that tata photon uses Huawei EC1260 USB 1.1 Broadband Modem. HSIA ( High Speed Internet Access )

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 7:24pm BST by damodar g

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**After some browsing some broadband forum it is mentioned that tata photon uses Huawei EC1260 USB 1.1 Broadband Modem. HSIA ( High Speed Internet Access )

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 4:02pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... That disclosure is kind of a disincentive to help... a commercial undertaking that is out to grab a few thousand of my hard-earned cash for the (IMO)

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 4:02pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... That disclosure is kind of a disincentive to help... a commercial undertaking that is out to grab a few thousand of my hard-earned cash for the (IMO)

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 3:46pm BST by Anil Seth

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... Now it is very confusing. Presumably, Photon needs to connect to any one system which would act as an internet gateway. This gateway could be another

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 3:46pm BST by Anil Seth

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... Now it is very confusing. Presumably, Photon needs to connect to any one system which would act as an internet gateway. This gateway could be another

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 3:39pm BST by damodar g

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it is not URGENCY it is foolishness of the company without doing proper project study how did they go ahead with the project. at last the company knows that

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 3:39pm BST by damodar g

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it is not URGENCY it is foolishness of the company without doing proper project study how did they go ahead with the project. at last the company knows that

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 1:48pm BST by Vidyadhar Gadgil

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... As Arvind says, go for Scribus. A rough equivalence guide would be Scribus = PageMaker/QuarkXpress, and Lyx = Corel Ventura. People routinely use Pagemaker

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 1:47pm BST by Augusto F. Fernandes

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... Hi , Ah yes, "Scribus" www.scribus.net(Equivalent to InDesign or PageMaker in Windows) along with "Gimp" www.gimp.org( Equivalent to Photoshop in Windows)

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 14th, 2009, 12:56pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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Ed, this has become too much of an issue now to hide anything. the client in question is the company thats got the contract for the high security license

Re: Tata Photon Configuration on Linux

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 8:11pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... IIRC Ashley said, w.r.t. OpenSuSE: "if i try to run wvdialconf, it doesnt find the card..." Cheers Ed.

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 8:08pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Aw, gee whiz... Ashley, looks like you'll have to take a whiz! Cheers Ed.

Tata Photon Configuration on Linux

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 6:14pm BST by Onkar Ainapur

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Hi Ash, I think here is the solution for the problem that is projected larger that H1N1

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 6:05pm BST by Onkar Ainapur

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... Hi, Visit the following page and click on features on the left side. http://www.tataindicom.com/t-personal-internet-photon-whiz.aspx Which tells that "tata

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 5:09pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... For that I would suggest Scribus.

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 5:06pm BST by augusto pinto

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Dear Frederick I want to get a college magazine ready. Is Lyx the appropriate software to use if I want to control the content up to the point where I submit

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 4:21pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Bigger than AH1N1 or the sea-link?? Oy, vey!!! :-) If this is going to take down some of our daily infrastructure, please do let us know... :-) Cheers, Ed.

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 4:20pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... I dunno the intricacies, which is why the input of experienced "embedded" people like you is always appreciated :-) ... Yes... :-( as per my limited

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 3:58pm BST by gaitonde_un

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... ... Since I began creating documents in mid-1980s by TeX, and then LaTeX, I did not feel the need to move to LyX. I did try LyX out once. It

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 3:35pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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hi ... am travelling right now so will get to try this only whn i'm back on monday.. its become a must have right now.. gotta find a solution by tuesday morn

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 2:10pm BST by Arvind Yadav

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... Nothing Windowinsh about it. ... From "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_publishing" Desktop publishing began in 1985 with the introduction of

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 11:30am BST by Siddhesh Salelkar

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Edgar D' Souza ... I don't think seeing a /dev/ttyUSB? device "automatically" means usbserial was involved (which is perhaps

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 13th, 2009, 8:25am BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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I use Scribus too. Apologies for using the word DTP. It has a very Windowish connotation -- where desk top publishing refers to some snazzy, image-laden

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 11:15pm BST by gaitonde_un

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Typo. The package is scribus. http://www.scribus.net/ U N Gaitonde

Re: DTP, anyone

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 11:13pm BST by gaitonde_un

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Lyx is OK for document preparation. (Personally, I am happy with LaTeX, in combination with xfig, gnuplot, etc..) Perhaps Scrinus is a useful tool for DTP. Can

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 6:47pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... So it looks like it's actually also trying to probe the storage portion... but this doesn't shed any light on what might work on OpenSuse... I guess one

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 6:09pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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hi ed ... actually was trying to solve my laptop fan always being on and some other stupid problems but yeah living on the edge :-) ... see below ...

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 5:44pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... *cough* living on the cutting edge, eh? :) ... Oh.. I see. Strange... ... How about posting the lines from your Ubuntu dmesg where the modem is

DTP, anyone

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 5:38pm BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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Anyone interested in DTP on GNU/Linux, specially using Lyx? Maybe we can get together and see what we learn about this tool. With each passing book, I'm

Chapter styles... on Lyx

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 5:37pm BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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Could someone tell me where I could find more chapter styles for a book? I mean something like http://zoonek.free.fr/LaTeX/LaTeX_samples_chapter/0.html Many

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 5:37pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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... err actually i'm running a custum made 2.6.29.2 :-)))) and no it doesnt show up as a usb storage... only as modem as i told u upgrading the kernel is out..

Re: Garbage from PDF via Open Office

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 3:21pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... No idea, but you're not alone :-( With Ubuntu 9.04, pretty much anything I print (have tried from OOo, Scribus, Inkscape) comes out messed up - positioning

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 3:13pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Kernel version 2.6.28's drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h has this block, with matching vendor-prod ID: UNUSUAL_DEV( 0x12d1, 0x140B, 0x0000, 0x0000,

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 2:46pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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just thought i'll paste the contents of the system log here a uname -a gives - the jernel version as 2.6.22.5-31-dafault Aug 12 08:09:11 linux-gl9e kernel: usb

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 2:30pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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... ed tried both the steps u had asked me for... both didi not work :-( just notice though that usbserial was NOT a part of the modules automatically loaded..

Garbage from PDF via Open Office

Posted: August 12th, 2009, 8:42am BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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Sometimes, when I print a PDF created in Open Office, it comes out as garbage. Any idea why? I'm using a Samsung ML6000 laser printer, which works fine for

Re: tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 11th, 2009, 7:01pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Since you got it at ttyUSB0, I'm assuming usbserial was involved, whether through hal or udev or cdc_acm or what boggles my mind. :-) Things change too

tata photon on opensuse 10.3

Posted: August 11th, 2009, 5:21pm BST by Ashley Delaney

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Hi All, just got a tata indicom photon+ connection. got several actually. installation was a breeze on my lappy with ubuntu. loved it.. just plug and play...

(OT).. Microsoft patents XML word processing documents

Posted: August 10th, 2009, 2:22am BST by Sudhanwa Jogalekar

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Discussions, brainstorming welcome!! The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which "... is directed at providing a

Re: MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 4:04pm BST by Mahesh T. Pai

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... While I would be happy, I really do not know much about databases. All I do with them is to store some addresses, and use OO.o spread sheet to create lists

Re: MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 1:08pm BST by Navin Pai

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check this out: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+question/44821 _________________________My

Re: MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 1:07pm BST by augusto pinto

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Thank you. I'll slowly try to figure out what you say. Would it be OK if I contacted you Mahesh off-list if I encountered problems following your

Re: MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: August 9th, 2009, 1:07pm BST by Kaustubh Naik

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I am not sure about its equivalency bit Open Office Base is a database application that comes with Open Office suite....A sneak peak

Re: MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: August 8th, 2009, 11:09pm BST by Mahesh T. Pai

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... A quick google throws up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Access#Competing_software In short, 1. Openoffice.org base 2. Kexi (part of KDE - you may

MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04

Posted: August 8th, 2009, 7:49pm BST by augusto pinto

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Hello All Some students wanted to know the MS Access equivalent for Ubuntu 9.04. Can anyone help? Thanks Augusto -- Augusto Pinto 40, Novo Portugal, Moira,

Re: OFFTOPIC: Is this a proprietorial software joke?

Posted: August 6th, 2009, 10:43pm BST by Vidyadhar Gadgil

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... Maybe it is a proprietorial software joke. But I assure you that I'm not sitting in the first flight of such a jet, irrespective of whether the software is

OFFTOPIC: Is this a proprietorial software joke?

Posted: August 6th, 2009, 9:16am BST by Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक

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A hypothetical situation where 20 CEOs board an airplane and are told that the flight that they are about to take is the first-ever to feature pilot less

flamedesktop.com

Posted: August 5th, 2009, 7:16pm BST by Head Hunter

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This seems to be a very interesting way to promote packages for linux. "The main goal is to have all the good software for Linux and software of the Ubuntu

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

Posted: August 4th, 2009, 10:21am BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Thanks for sharing... that is a nice collection of software, especially concerning education! Cheers Ed. -- Edgar D'Souza

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

Posted: August 3rd, 2009, 12:03am BST by Kaustubh Naik

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Ohh I am so sorry! That was so greedy of me :o (unknowingly though!) well here is what I was talking about.... On Sat, Aug 1, 2009

Semi-OT: Upgraded to Firefox 3.5? No? Read: Vulnerabilities Allow At

Posted: August 2nd, 2009, 4:04pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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Thought you were safe on the Net because you were using Linux and Firefox? Apparently not true in this case, unless you've upgraded to Firefox 3.5 already...

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

Posted: August 1st, 2009, 10:18pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... So how about sharing a link... or don't you believe in FOSS principles? ;-) Cheers Ed.

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

Posted: August 1st, 2009, 10:14pm BST by Kaustubh Naik

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I was talking about the FSF database....it was a categorized searchable database! Got it later...thanks for this two links ... -- Kaustubh Naik Ponda-Goa

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

Posted: August 1st, 2009, 6:53pm BST by Edgar D' Souza

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... Not sure exactly what you want, Kaustubh... if you're using Ubuntu, you can just search in Synaptic for 'edubuntu' and you'll find a lot of meta-packages

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

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Thanks Ed. I was looking something like this for my project. Can I get a link of whole software repository for OSS in Education? I had stumbled upon one site

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... Try KTechLab. I am not sure, if it has 8051 in it. -- Bharathi S

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

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... Sorry; please insert "package" between "emu8051" and "doesn't" :-(

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... I guess the emu8051 doesn't meet your specific needs? Cheers Ed. -- Edgar D'Souza (http://edgar.b.dsouza.googlepages.com/) Check out my GIMP-Python

Re: 55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

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I need a 8051 simulator which also has simulated instr like CRO, ADC/DAC, LCD, LED, 7 segment, stepper motor etc for one of the papers I teach. Is there an

55 Open Source Apps Transforming Education

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A list of several FOSS apps that should be handy in education...

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