Hi,
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore is to develop a
hi-fi education portal with audio and video presentations.
This may look like http://videolectures.net/, meawhile completely on
Free and Open Software.
Technical Skills : Multi media streaming, domain and libraries.
Please see http://osflash.org/red5 for more details.
Final and 3rd years students will be given preference.
This project will be guided by an IIM-B professor.
Expert help will be provided from people in IISC and FSMK.
Please reply to
karthik(a)fsmk.org<http://in.mc942.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=karthik@fsmk.org>or
iamsjkk(a)gmail.com<http://in.mc942.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=iamvsjk@yahoo.co.in>
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regards
Karthik
Hi, I can go and help him.Mail me the details.
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> Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:53:47 +0530
> From: renuka prasad <renukaprasadb(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] a prof from christ engg college needs help
> abt gnu /linux
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> Hi all
>
> Recently in a Workshop I met a Proffessor from Christ Engineering College,
> Bangalore who has installed Ubuntu on his laptop. He is need of some help.
>
> He wants to install texlive and other software. I tried to guide him over
> phone but not yet succeeded completely.
>
> Is there some one near Jayanagar 3rd Block 3rd Stage who can help him?
>
> Till Tomorow evening he is not available . tomorrow evening if some one can
> go to his place and help him please reply here.. I will give his contact
> details.
>
> with regards
> renuka prasad
>
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Hi all
Recently in a Workshop I met a Proffessor from Christ Engineering College,
Bangalore who has installed Ubuntu on his laptop. He is need of some help.
He wants to install texlive and other software. I tried to guide him over
phone but not yet succeeded completely.
Is there some one near Jayanagar 3rd Block 3rd Stage who can help him?
Till Tomorow evening he is not available . tomorrow evening if some one can
go to his place and help him please reply here.. I will give his contact
details.
with regards
renuka prasad
Hi all
i was trying to configure tata photon + USB modem on ubuntu
some times my device is getting detected , and some other times it is not
.... i get message as
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: block device /dev/sr1
is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: /dev/sr1 is not a
valid block device
it has 8GB memory slot ( we need to add a card, i have not added )
when i did lsusb i got following output
rvcemcabrp@rvcemcabrp-laptop:~$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 012: ID 201e:2009
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 018: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Controller
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
when i did wvdialconf
rvcemcabrp@rvcemcabrp-laptop:~$ sudo wvdialconf
Editing `/etc/wvdial.conf'.
Scanning your serial ports for a modem.
Modem Port Scan<*1>: S0 S1 S2 S3
Sorry, no modem was detected! Is it in use by another program?
Did you configure it properly with setserial?
Please read the FAQ at http://open.nit.ca/wiki/?WvDial
If you still have problems, send mail to <wvdial-list(a)lists.nit.ca>.
rvcemcabrp@rvcemcabrp-laptop:~$
if you have links of any success in configuring the device kindly forward
thanks in advance
renuka prasad
MUKTI' 10
The *GNU/Linux Users' Group, NIT Durgapur* brings to you one of the most
looked for fests, Mukti' 10 <http://www.mkti.in/>, a *National-level
Technical FOSS Festival*.
Last year, Mukti' 09 saw some of the most exciting events and useful
workshops, and this year again, it brings to you an equally zealous
three-day entertainment combined with vigour and freedom. All you have to do
is get yourself registered, and then you are ready to soar on the wings of
Linux.
The different events we have are:
1. Codecracker, When the coding gets tough, the tough get coding.
2. Brainmesh, Design … Create … Spin the web
3. Konfigure, Crash … Bang … and Voila ... It’s Fixed
4. InCanity, Ready … Get…Set … Code
5. Rush Hour, Game On
6. Open Projects, Ignite the fire of free knowledge
7. Online Treasure Hunt, Start exploring … the unexplored depths of your
mind
8. Freemex, Share with shares ...
9. FreePL, Go Play...
In addition to the above-mentioned exciting events, we also have different
workshops on Qt Development, Game Programming, Cyber Security, Developing
Applications using Android, etc. wherein the most well-known speakers and
FOSS enthusiasts from different corners of India come to interact with FOSS
lovers.*
*This fest is not only for the students of NIT Durgapur, but for everyone.
All are welcome to take part.
We are available at:*
*
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*IRC:* http://lug.nitdgp.ac.in/irc/irc.cgi
*
P.S.: No registration fees. :)
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National Institute of Technology
Durgapur
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Regards,
Debayan Banerjee
Hi all
if you know some one who offer courses or conducts workshops on animation (
3D) using FOSS like blender and etc please let me know. there are few people
willing to learn animation.
animation, means animation in genral , i am willing to propose that using
FOSS also we could do ..
if you know some one please let me know , initial plan is conduct a workshop
and later may be extended as a long term course during week-ends
with regards
renuka prasad
Dear Friend,
FSMK News Letter's 7th issue is here.
FSMK News Letter Edition 7 <http://fsmk.org/NewsLetterEdition7>
We are bringing up some hot issues in this edition. Through the editorial,
we are discussing the issue of Digital Divide. Even though this subject is
holding highest relevance in our society, no other groups were ready to
discuss it. Read further articles and find out how we are trying to solve
this issue from the very scratch.
For the first time we have published a Kannada article as well. Expect more
in the coming editions. This is as part of our commitment to bring
localization of free Software to the Kannada space.
Also we are covering lot of News happened in and around the software field.
For FSMK, issues are not just to be discussed over mails or to be kept only
in paper. We are trying to work among the people in need. So in this efforts
we need you to carry the flag to newer heights.
Regards,
FSMK EB-Team.
Hi all
here is a brief report about the 3 day workshop about "Managing and Securing
Compute Labs using Free and Open source Softwares, which was Supported and
Facilitated by Department of M.C.A of R.V.College of Engineering and
FSUG-B'lore
please see here to see the event announcement
http://deeproot.in/training/lab-admins
15 participants from R.V.College of Engineering were present. The
participants were one of those who would be managing the computer labs in
the in their respective department.
3 participants from PES Institute of Technology Bangalore (College network
admin + two lab administrators )
1 participant from RNS Institute of Technology ( network administrator )
1 participant from BMS Institute of technology ( network administrator )
2 participants from industry attended the workshop.
On Day 1 morning sessions text based installation and GUI based installation
were done.in the afternoon session USB installation , and boot loader issues
were addressed
On day 2 Samba , LDAP , DHCP related topics were covered and in the after
noon clonezilla was demonstrated and also participants practised by creating
a separate LAN
On day 3 few topics were redone and participants were asked to demonstrate
whatever they had learnt
there was a session about some of the network monitoring and securing tools
like tcpdump, iftop, iptables
later configuring the server for developing web applications using php /
mysql tomcat and also configuring CGI according to the BE CSE /ISE were done
there were small sessions which demonstrated DTP softwares , Office suit ,
educational suit etc..
Thanks to abhas and his team ( deeprootlinux ) for all their efforts in
making the participants capable of managing ans securing computer labs in
more efficient and effective way.
All the participants have given a very good feedback about the resource
person and the topics but also have suggested that to redo some of the
topics in more detail.
will be uploading the photos soon -- all the links are blocded in the
network where i am rignt now
with regards
renuka prasad