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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS?
by Rajesh Rajani 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

Hi, > On Monday 18 December 2006 10:48, Vihan Pandey wrote: > >>>Speaking of which my latest Sony DVD writer has a region setting >>>which can be reprogrammed 5 times. After which it will stay stuck >>>on the 5th. Now u have the possibilty of bricking your hardware >>>(particularly with closed drivers) or purchasing your content >>>from the last region. >> >>Is it a hardware level lock? This REALLY stinks. > > > Not sure. U can reflash the cdrom bios, but dont know if it will reset > the region counter. > Just to inform you that in the US and possibly other countries, all DVD writers/roms sold require to have this lock. It is mandated by the RIAA/MPAA and by extension US law so that you cannot freely change regions to play DVDs released in other regions. The fact that you can change it 5 times is a privilege extracted from these agencies by the manufacturers of the devices. That Sony has it is not unique and it just says that they are selling the international model here in India. If other brands don't have this lock then they are probably chinese/taiwanese players who may not be fully complying with the law (if it applies in India). Regards, Rajesh

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] as low as it gets: P2-350, 64 MB, 4 GB
by Vickram Crishna 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

--- "Dinesh Shah" wrote: > On 12/18/06, Abhishek Daga <abhishekdaga at yahoo > dot com> wrote: > > Finally managed to get my hands on some P2 350s > with 64 MB and 4 GB. > > CDROM thrown in too. (atleast in one of them). > > it has 98 for now, but planning to use a stripped > down version of > > ubuntu. > > if there was ever such a thing. > > Try Damn Small Linux > (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) it supports HDD > Install and very light. > > DSL is Debian based and after installation you can > use apt to install > whatever you want. > > According to DSL site, all you need is 486 with 16 > MB of RAM! If I download this to my HDD, and install it to replace my current RH9, which has some irritating issues with memory handling (aside from issues recognising peripheral hardware, plus the CDROM drive is kaput), will I lose my RH9 user settings? If this is a completely trivial question, please do mail me back offlist, anyone who can guide me ensure that neither settings nor stuff like mailboxes get lost (this is the computer my wife uses, and my life will be at stake). Many thanks Vickram ___________________________________________________________ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] as low as it gets: P2-350, 64 MB, 4 GB
by Chirag 19 Dec '06

19 Dec '06

You can even try http://www.xubuntu.org/get#requirements which is stripped down version of Ubuntu I have not tried it but only giving you other options Bye for now Chirag Subscribe to bermudaEmail: [input] [input] Browse Archives at groups.google.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] What is stoping Indians from contributing to FOSS ?
by Vihan Pandey 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

> Speaking of which my latest Sony DVD writer has a region setting which > can be reprogrammed 5 times. After which it will stay stuck on the > 5th. Now u have the possibilty of bricking your hardware > (particularly with closed drivers) or purchasing your content from > the last region. Is it a hardware level lock? This REALLY stinks. i had faced a similar problem with an Apple iBook G3 but fortunately the lock was only at the software level. Using another ``software" sorted it out ;-) i had heard about a hardware level hack for DVD players, i.e your standard DVD player is set to a default region(normally the one in which the DVD was manufactured), apparently the guys to supplied the player told us about this AND about the hack(which was essentially doing some soldering on the DVD logic board), and boom i had a region free DVD player. i don't know if we will be so lucky with Blue Ray DVD's, but luckly the alternative HD DVD is a little less restrictive. Regards, - vihan

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Simpler explanations?
by Roshan 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

College was shut today, for unknown reasons, so I returned home and was reading my emails. Came across this blog http://www.leadstep.com/BusinessBlog/technology/the_truth_behind_indian_bro… Could someone have simpler explanations to what is mentioned in this article? -- http://sankoobaba.blogspot.com __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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List welcome mail..
by Dhawal Doshy 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Hello List, The welcome mail citing posting guidelines is horribly formatted at 80 characters. Can the list maintainer please have a look at it. - dhawal PS: 'Sandesh Rao' are you still around? The welcome mail lists you as one of the contributers.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem with pyQt
by Chirag Wazir 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > why would one not use an IDE (especially one where one can drag-drop > widgets onto a form) to create a gui? is it not more intuitive? > is code generation not less cumbersome this way? especially > with layouts; coz i just saw that qt4-designer does a very good job > of laying out stuff, and that manually it would be very hard to place > stuff at proper positions, and then configuring each petty detail of > each widget Actually it's just my personal preference. There's no harm in using the designer, but some advantages of manual coding are - (a) You have absolute control over code, (b) Well written code is self documenting, so you have a list of exactly what changes you have made to default properties of each widget and (c) This may not be important in many situations, but your own code tends to be smaller and neater than the generated code. I sometimes use the designer to do an initial layout and then copy and paste modified bits into my final code. This is especially helpful when you're still learning the relevant calls for various properties of widgets. Of course, doing it manually negates the advantage of having a separate and easily modifiable file for the GUI components, but I personally find the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. BTW, there isn't a problem with "manually it would be very hard to place stuff at proper positions" because Qt uses layouts like Java unlike say Visual Basic. So usually one doesn't position things using coordinates, just specifies the hierarchy. For example you're telling it that there is a dialog containing a frame containing a horizontal layout containing 3 buttons and an image. Actually compared to drawing out a dialog box in VB, using the Qt designer is a little more complicated because of this. But the initial complexity pays some nice dividends for both the end-user and the programmer: automatic widget positioning and layout allows easy resolution-independence, simple resizable windows and ultimately convenient portability. P.S. I'm wondering if this thread isn't getting a bit too far off topic for the list. BTW, comp.lang.python is a very useful resource for this sort of stuff. If you're not a regular usenet user try: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python?hl=en Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org

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Saving multiple values returned by cut command into different variables
by Pascal Nunes 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

hi, I am writing a shell script where I retrive values from a text file using cut. I want to save these into variables. The script is something like this... grep searchtext file | cut -f 1,3,7,8 I want to save the values returned by cut into 4 different variables. Can anyone suggest a method to save these values into multiple variables? Is there any better method to do this? - pascal. -- Any tool is only as good as it is used. .:[ http://pascal_nunes.blogspot.com ]:.

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[Commercial] Linux openings at Delhi
by Openlx Linux 18 Dec '06

18 Dec '06

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem with pyQt
by Chirag Wazir 17 Dec '06

17 Dec '06

Pradnyesh Sawant wrote: > 1. i have some d'loaded python scripts (eg: memaid-pyqt), which use > "import qt". what'll happen to those scripts? how much rework (if any) > is necessary to get them into working condition again? In my experience it requires quite a bit of work - I found it easier to rewrite one of my own programs from scratch rather than modify it (the logic could be copy/pasted, but the GUI I rewrote). The changes are definitely for the better, but if you're not the original author of the code you can expect it to be quite painful to modify it to use the new version. Some of it is fairly mechanical - searching for the new location of various functions and changing calls from QPushButton() to QtGui.QPushButton() etc. Other changes are more subtle, like changes in behaviour and deprecation of some widgets. > 2. can you kindly provide me with some good pyqt (using qt4 designer) > tutorials? the net provides qt4 tuts but not with designer :( I don't really use the designer myself so I haven't looked, I find it is easier to maintain code I write from scratch rather than worrying about exactly how the designer & pyuic decide to do things. As Pradeepto Bhattacharya pointed out, the Qt4 documentation and examples are helpful - assuming you're conversant with C++. There are also some useful examples of PyQt4 code at: http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=33&confId=44 You might also look at: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PyQt4 Chirag Wazir http://chirag.freeshell.org

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