Many times flamers (we know who you are) think nothing of wasting
public resources, others' time, and polluting public forums with
things best not said.
Since their statements are not strictly on the foul side of the
moderation guidelines, IMO, they cannot be blocked from the list. In
any case that's a dangerous trend.
So what do you and I do? Do we put up with their tasteless emails, do
we allow them to spread their ill cheer to us across the pipes?
There is still something we can do.
It's called cold treatment.
Flamers are usually after recognition and attention. (Begin
fictionalised quote) "I'm important! I can string a sentence together!
I've been ignored all my life! YOU CAN'T IGNORE ME NO MORE! I CAN WIN
TOO! YES I CAN! NO, REALLY! Here-- no, don't look away! Hey, LOOK AT
ME! I have my worth, really! If you won't admire me, I'll FLAME YOU!
I'm cool! I'm not worthless, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not! LOOOOOOK AT
ME, WOOOOOAAAAAAH!" (End fictional quote)
Flamers usually self-destruct if we give them the cold treatment. This
is well-known, though it takes time. Even hardened prisoners usually
come quiet at the prospect of solitary confinement. These flamers
aren't evil.
Let us isolate them. Let them shout their inanities to silence. They
need a captive audience. But we refuse to be captive. Let us deny them
the attention they crave, and watch them shrivel and shrink away.
All we need is to stick to it.
Hi,
Can anybody point to me *free* good leave management system where
employees can submit leave, get approved or declined on linux.
1. Get info on no of days leave taken
2. Leaves remaining.
3. Payslip details. etc
Came across OrangeHRM but was not happy with that. Linux network
gurus: Any suggestions ?
--Sachin
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The article is dated 13/Mar/09 out of Chennai.
Per Mr. Sinha, CTO Times Business Solutions, there is no open source
virtualization solution.
<quote>
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also keen on virtualisation, for implementing which, there is no open
source software. “However, virtualized hardware supports open source
applications easily,”
</quote>
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Please send your comments to the Editor ET (editet(a)timesgroup.com)
requesting him/her to check facts before putting it on the web site.
Also, submit your view under the "comments" section of the article.
--
Arun Khan
I do not know the persons in a recent flamewar, one of whom called the
other an 'asshole' and the other, who apparently because of extreme
vituperativeness in another flamewar has been blocked from the list.
So, purely because of the use of the expletive, I also vote in favour
of expelling the member who used it from the linuxers list.
No matter who you are, no matter how powerful you are in the little
Indian FOSS frogpond, you cannot get away with something like this
or,
can you?
Guess that depends on the forum.
And even usually dormant members do no like to get cusswords in their mailbox.
If others too believe in the one person one vote principle, they
should vote in this matter. If expletives are allowed today, tomorrow
the atmosphere of the list could end up poisoned.
Suhit Kelkar.
A Acer Aspire One is 17300 at lamington rd.
I agree on the poorman bit. The only way the poor can have access to
computer is free computer (cybercafes) in slum areas. Laptops are a long way
from the poor.
>
> A handheld is more expensive than a cell phone.
> If you are talking of eepcs LG is Rs.17500 afaik.
>
> Wonder what poorman would afford that.
>
> What exactly do you have in mind?
>
>
> --
> Rgds
> JTD
>
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Ashok Sinha
Hello,
After attending Rajeev's video conferencing demo at Directi, I was
inspired to try out new ways to use clive.
Clive is a utility to download youtube videos and convert them using
ffmpeg to mp4 videos to play in the popular players. The simple way to
use clive is 'clive video_url' in the terminal. This results in an mp4
video getting stored in the current directory in which clive is run.
However I wanted to convert the live videos to audio mp3 only. On the
net there is no mention of how to use clive to do it. The man page of
clive has one option '-w' to automatically write a config file which can
then be edited. Run 'clive -w' to create this file. The file is created
in your home directory under .clive/config. Now edit this config file
and make 2 changes.
1) ## Path to the ffmpeg program (e.g. "/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg -y -i %i %o")
path_ffmpeg="/usr/bin/ffmpeg -y -i %i %o"
Uncomment the path_ffmpeg line to tell clive about the location of
ffmpeg ( This is important )
2) ## Uncomment to re-encode to FORMAT ("mpg", "avi", ..)
## Requires also path_ffmpeg
reencode_format="mp3"
Uncomment the reencode line and add mp3 in the "" quotes. This was a
blind shot that worked. Clive is mainly a video utility.
Save the file and now simply run 'clive video_url' and you first get the
video.mp4 file. As soon as it is downloaded clive shows a message that
it is converting it to video.mp4.mp3 Thats all. Your mp3 is ready to rock.
As I had earlier downoaded only mp4 videos, I was looking for a way to
use ffmpeg to convert them to mp3. From the man page options the
following command was assembled using trial and error and it works.
'ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -acodec mp3 -ab 160k video.mp3'
The -i specifies the input file, -acodec specifies the audio output
codec and -ab sets the audio bit rate in bits/sec.
--
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
Hi,
We have a squid server running which looks into user
access. Now there are users who would use a webproxy
or a external proxy to bypass this restriction. Is there
a way to stop them.
One rule is to figure out all the proxy sites and address
and feed them to blocked sites but that process doesn't look
good and easy manageable. Any suggestions ?
--Sachin
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Hello,
I am curious to know how many client machines can the MTNL triband
routers practically support in a LAN in order to give decent internet
connectivity to all?
There is a LAN network where there are around 7 machines using static
ips (not LInux) and the triband router is the gateway machine also
attached to the LAN. When connected directly to a machine the internet
connectivity is good but when all machines are up internet takes a long
time to resolve and speeds are in bursts. When it keeps searching for
the web page or there is no connectivity, one cannot even log into the
router. Pinging the router is fine. The router too has been replaced by
MTNL. The entire setup is spread across 4 floors. Initially the LAN
wiring was suspected but the crimping of the router cable was done again
and otherwise, internal file sharing works perfectly.
I am suspecting that the router gets overloaded trying to NAT so many
requests, given its tiny architecture. Should I install a separate
router to this LAN? Are the separate routers designed to handle large
NAT traffic? I want to avoid holding up one machine for internet sharing.
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
Guys,
Would like to get your suggestions and recommendations for reliable
and cheap linux hosting solutions.
The site I am planning to host would not be a very high traffic site,
moderate traffic. May be a couple of Gigs of data transfer per month
(will have photo gallery), and will need around a Gig of disk space
for the time being.
--
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.