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Interesting Indian Language tools by TDIL
by Siji Sunny 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Hi All, I have found some very interesting and useful Indian Language tools @ TDIL website - such as, Indian Language ADK for Android, Text to Speech Mozilla Browser Plugin, Indian Language SMS reader, etc. http://tdil-dc.in/index.php?option=com_up-download&view=download&lang=en -- Siji Sunny

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March Mumbai GNU/Linux Users' Group Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 20 Mar '14

20 Mar '14

Hello, The next meetup will be held on 23rd (Sunday) at Directiplex, Andheri (E), Mumbai. If anyone else wants to take any sessions related to GNU/Linux, they are more than welcome to do so. Other sessions planned for the same day: http://www.meetup.com/Mumbai-Technology-Meetup/events/169372132/ . Best Regards, Rigved

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Laptop with touch screen
by H.S.Rai 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Wanted to purchase laptop with touch (convertible; 2 in 1; laptop cum tablet). Could not find Linux friendly, Linux certified. Vendor was of opinion that any device with MS Window 8, will be hard to use with Linux. Can any one suggest make and model which works well with Linux? -- H.S.Rai

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Video recording of Richard Stallman's January Speech
by Amit Gokhale 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Dear All, Does anyone have video recording of Richard Stallman's speech which he gave sometime in last week of January. -- Amit Gokhale. 9619147571

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[Commercial] A sneak peek into OSFY March 2014
by Priyanka Sarkar 04 Mar '14

04 Mar '14

Dear Members, OSFY's March 2014 issue brings a few exciting articles for sysadmins on the move! . Admin's Domain --Three Tools to Help You Protect Your Network --Monitor Your Network Effectively with Monit --Monitoring log files with Nagios plugin Developers' Zone --Create Android Apps With Processing --Demystifying HTML5 Attacks --Developing Web Apps With Boostrap For U & Me: It's the stuff for everyone --Boost Your Employability With Hadoop Skills --Know How Microfinance Institution Combats Roadblocks With Open Source --Kamal Brar, MongoDB VP (Japan And APAC), Talks About Opportunities In India This issue comes bundled with the newest version of Mageia and Clonezilla You can get a copy of our magazine from your nearest newsstands or you can subscribe at http://electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/subscription/subsc2scheme.asp#. To locate some dealers selling OSFY close to your home, you can check our website: dealers.efyindia.com. Regards, Priyanka

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Fwd: [smc-discuss] Typoday 2014
by Siji Sunny 01 Mar '14

01 Mar '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Santhosh Thottingal <santhosh.thottingal(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:55 AM Subject: [smc-discuss] Typoday 2014 To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing < discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in> Typoday 2014, an event organized on28th Feb, 1st, 2nd March 2014 at the Symbiosis Institute of Design, Pune is happening now. The theme for this year's event is 'Typography and Culture'. http://typoday.in/ The program is live streamed at http://gowebtechnologies.com/ live-event/sid/webcast.html There is a session related to Malayalam today: 6.00 – 6.30 The Many Modes of Malayalam Script Paul Hunt, Adobe Type Team, USA Thanks Santhosh -- Siji Sunny

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DroidSync 2014 - Android Developers & Business Conference in Mumbai
by Siji Sunny 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Organizers of Nitrodroid - Goa (android conference) is organizing Android Developer &Business conference in Mumbai. When : 5th April 2014, Starting at 9.30 AM Where : Ramada Plaza Palm Grove, Ramada Plaza Palm Grove, Juhu Beach, Juhu Tara Rd Website : http://www.droidsync.in/ About Conference (from the website) : "DroidSync is one of the few conferences to cover the entire Android ecosystem - business & development together. It is a 1-day conference ideal for Android developers and professionals from commercial companies, business & management professionals, owners of start-ups and just anyone who loves to work with Android. Here, you'll find the latest and best information for maximizing the power of the Android platform. Be here! Sharpen your skills and meet many like-minded developers, business leaders, and startup owners like you! " -- Siji Sunny

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Fwd: [smc-discuss] Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution (Lios) 1.9.1 Released.
by Siji Sunny 22 Feb '14

22 Feb '14

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nalin.x.Linux <nalin.x.linux(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:48 PM Subject: [smc-discuss] Linux-Intelligent-Ocr-Solution (Lios) 1.9.1 Released. To: Discussion list of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing < discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in> Lios is a free and open source software for converting print in to text using either scanner or a camera, It can also produce text out of scanned images from other sources such as Pdf, Image or Folder containing Images. Program is given total accessibility for visually impaired. Lios is written in python3, and we release it under GPL-3 license. There are great many possibilities for this program, Feedback is the key to it, Expecting your feedback Nalin.x.Linux(a)gmail.com Lios 1.9.1 beta released for Ubuntu(>=13.10) and Fedora(>=19) Features 1. Acquire image from Scanner 2. Import images from PDFs,Folder 3. Scan using Web-cam(beta) 4. Support two OCR Engines (CUNEIFORM,TESSERACT) 5. 24 Language support (Given at the end), 30 more languages can be installed in Tesseract, 6. OCR Selected images(With or without rotation) 7. Full Auto Rotation for any Language(If aspell installed for the language, Eg : 8. "sudo apt-get install aspell-hi" for Hindi 9. OCR Selected Areas(Rectangle selection) 10 Output Insert position(Where the output is to be inserted) 11. Scan and OCR directly 12. Selection of Scan area, brightness, resolution and time between repeated scanning 13. Advanced Brightness optimizer 14. Cache calibration(Scanner) 15. Selection of starting page number, page numbering mode and number of pages to scan 16. Side by side view of image and output 17. Basic user interface options including image rotation and zoom options 18. Print text(beta) 19. Export as pdf(beta) 20. Audio converter 21. Spell-checker 22. Good text manipulation with Find, Find-and-Replace, Go-To-Page, Go-To-Line, Append file, and Punch File 23. Options for save, load and reset settings 24. Text Reading with Highlighting, With user selected Color, Font, and Background Color 25. Display Preferences for Low vision 26. Dictionary Support for English Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/lios/ GitHub https://github.com/Nalin-x-Linux/lios-3 _______________________________________________ Swathanthra Malayalam Computing discuss Mailing List Project: https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/smc Web: http://smc.org.in | IRC : #smc-project @ freenode discuss(a)lists.smc.org.in http://lists.smc.org.in/listinfo.cgi/discuss-smc.org.in -- Siji Sunny

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[X-Post] Open Mobile Workshop - invitation for speakers
by Anoop John 20 Feb '14

20 Feb '14

Hello, An open mobile workshop targeted at developers and students to introduce them to open mobile platforms is planned to be held in Trivandrum, Kerala in March. I am interested in seeing if we can get some speakers to conduct sessions on totally Free (Libre) mobile platforms (unencumbered by any kind of restrictions and fully Free Software licensed) like Replicant, or Firefox OS or any other similar platform. If you know of developers who could take workshops on such fully open platforms please pass on contact information to me and I can reach out to these people. Please do note that I am not categorizing Android as a fully open platform here (For example see - http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/new-android-oem-licensing-terms-leak…) There are going to be Android workshops as part of this event and it would be good if we can get some speakers to represent and introduce fully open platforms. Thanks in advance for your help in this regard. Thanks Anoop |-- | Zyxware Technologies | http://www.zyxware.com |-- | Be the change you wish to see in the world, M. K. Gandhi |--

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Mail server receives email, cannot send email to all adresses - IP not authorized
by Revant Nandgaonkar 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

I am new to mail servers. my domain name is revant.me (you can know ip/smtp/rdns ptr etc. now) I bought static IP from MTNL Mumbai and they also changed Reverse DNS for me recently (Week ago) I have recently configured mailserver (postfix/dovecot/roundcube), email domain and mailbox with IPConfig3 on my Server My server is running debian amd64 stable, the LAMP is ON since May 2013. With my recently configured mail server I can receive emails. When I send email from my server to gmail, hotmail, facebook, yahoo I get "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" or similar email message: Example Gmail error: 550-5.7.1 [my static IP] The IP you're using to send mail is not authorized to 550-5.7.1 send email directly to our servers. Please use the SMTP relay at your service provider instead. Learn more at 550 5.7.1 http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=10336 vb2si7620646pbc.217 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command) I tried sending email from my mailserver to my email address on other domain name by google app gmail server and email on rediffmail, both work! Yahoo, hotmail, gmail don't accept my emails from my mail server, Rediffmail does accept my email. Right now I am receiving mail on my self-managed server and sending email via gmail's "Send email as" feature so I can send to everyone. Is any special class of IP or service is required to have my own mailserver? I have a half working email server which receives 100% mails but sends only to few email addresses. Any help? Server Noob. Revant

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February Mumbai Linux Users' Group Meetup
by Rigved Rakshit 16 Feb '14

16 Feb '14

Hello, The next meetup can be held on 16th (Sunday). Is anyone against this date? I will check with the Debian Diaspora team if anyone can take a Debian Packaging session over IRC. Will inform here about results. If anyone else wants to take any sessions related to GNU/Linux, they are more than welcome to do so. Best Regards, Rigved

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Views solicited for a story
by Priyanka Sarkar 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Dear All, We have come up with a story idea and would really appreciate if you chip in and share your views on this. The topic is :'What would you like to change about Linux and why?' Please let us have your insightful suggestions on the same. Regards, Priyanka

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[Commercial] A sneak peek into OSFY 11th anniversary issue (Feb 2014)
by Priyanka Sarkar 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Dear Members, OSFY's mega 11th Anniversary issue (Feb 2014) brings you an array of interesting articles. Special Read for Developers: --10 Website Building Tools To Boost Your Coding Skills --Know the Top 10 apps for rooted Android devices --Create Great Graphics and Visualisation with DSLs Admin's Domain --Ten Must-Have Open Source Tools for Systems Admin --Building A Storage System with CEPH --How To Set Up A Mail Server on Linux For U & Me: It's the stuff for everyone ---A look at The Top Five Linux Distributions of 2013 --Know how a Gujarat based Firm saved millions with FOSS! --A peek into the five most popular Android ROMs This issue comes bundled with amazing multiple distros on a single,free DVD: PCLinuxOS 2013.12,openSUSE 13.1 and pfSense 2.1. You can get a copy of our magazine from your nearest newsstands or you can subscribe at http://electronicsforu.com/electronicsforu/subscription/subsc2scheme.asp#. To locate some dealers selling OSFY close to your home, you can check our website: dealers.efyindia.com. Regards, Team OSFY

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Reflections on the RMS Talk
by Rushabh Mehta 29 Jan '14

29 Jan '14

Thanks for the reply. Replies inline: > > It is very sad to see that the few > people who are promoting free software are also tired and depressed. > > Dunno where you jumped to that conclusion. I have been watching these lists for quite a while. There hardly any projects / activity / events other than meetups that have started recently. I think we are barely scratching the surface as far as promotion of free software is concerned. Even the FSF India website is dated. > Clearly new energy is required on> and revenue is also increasing year on year, but it is still not enough. If > we divert attention in too many things, then we may lose the advantage that > ERPNext has built up. Also, there is a lot to be done. > > Business development is part of a business. Every state government > spends tens crores on education. The smartness is in campaigning for > FOSS with ones business goals in mind. > If you take funding from let's say the FSF, it would be wholly unprincipled to project your company > / services in such programs, unless you too were contributing financially. We are not taking or wanting to take any funding from FSF. Thankfully we are able to sell hosting services to the user community. Our goal was to voluntarily go to these organizations and not to promote our software but Linux Desktops, Office tools, Mail and Web Servers - the basic stack. > This would be ideally done under the umbrella of Free Software Foundation > of India (or if they are very religious/suspicious about us who have to > earn our bread and don't live off grants, or there are too many > ego-mountains to be climbed, then we could form a new group). > That one is a Pointless rant. Afaik, Nobody on this list is living off > someone else's largesse. Agree - its a rant, but I have mailed a lot of people individually, and from the response (or lack) I can clearly sense that we are "outsiders". Either ways, its surely something for people to introspect - we need to pool resources if we have to fight commercial interests. --

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Laptop with Windows 8
by Joel A Divekar 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Hi Friends I recently purchased HP J028tx laptop which came along with pre installed Windows 8. I plan to get rid of windows 8 completely and install Ubuntu, but would like to know how to retain Windows 8 licence as no windows license key was provided along with the laptop. I may need the license to setup virtual instance for testing connectivity with Samba ADs server. Kindly advice Regards Joel Divekar Mumbai

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Reflections on the RMS Talk
by Rushabh Mehta 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Dear all, Wrote a small writeup after attending the RMS talk last week: https://www.erpnext.com/free-or-open-source-software Last week, we attended a talk by Richard Stallman, the father of Free Software. He is legendary in tech circles for founding the GNU Project (GNU is Not Unix) and writing a lot of tools that are a part of the Linux Operating System, which according to him, must be called GNU/Linux. Stallman is also known to have radical political views on software and has a set of terminology that he insists must be used by everyone talking about his work. His primary disagreement is with the term Open Source, which he calls as pushovers. By pushovers, he means that the term Open Source software is tainted by the need for sustainability using commercial means. Often this is unfairly done either by only distributing parts of the software as free or by keeping some features as paid. For Stallman, all software must be free and must be used in ways that all derivate works also have the same freedom. The thought is both noble and also a protection that companies do not pick up work from the community and bundle it as their own tools. The GNU General Public License, also called as the "copyleft" license, protects these rights. ERPNext too is licensed under this License, even though we position ERPNext as Open Source. Personally I am more pragmatic about the usage of the terminology. We use Open Source because our users understand this term more than Free. Also Free ERP has different connotations. Free stuff is eyed suspiciously as most people believe that there is a cost to everything. This is tragic because a lot of good free and open source software exists, and it is sad to see that because of such political issues, groups cannot get together to promote it. (I will use these terms interchangeably in this post.) Stallman also talked a lot about surveillance and how governments are using devices to illegally and surreptitiously capture information of our likes, relations and movements. Even though we all need to caution against too much intrusion of privacy, these devices also bring a lot of convenience and freedom to us. *Advocacy* One of the primary roles that Stallman and his Free Software Foundation (FSF) plays is that of advocating Free Software in education institutes and governments. Teaching Free Software to students is of vital importance because if they start getting familiar with free software, they will grow up to use it. Companies like Microsoft send sales people to promote their software to schools because they want to get young students to user their tools and grow familiar with them. In the same way, promoters of free software must also send volunteers to schools to promote free software. The second is governments. Governments by definition are owned by the commons. People pool in their taxes so that the government can work efficiently and the best bang for the buck is delivered when companies providing solutions are forced to use free software and publish their solutions as open source. India is lacking on both these counts. It is very sad to see that the few people who are promoting free software are also tired and depressed. Clearly new energy is required on these fronts. We at Web Notes feel very strongly about this and we hope to make some contribution here. Unfortunately we are also stuck with a couple of constraints. One is of course that we are need to get our revenues in place first and second is that we don't know where to start. Maybe a fresh beginning is required. *What Can We Do* Our first goal, like I said earlier is that we need to ensure we have surplus funds to invest in this area. ERPNext is surely growing very well and revenue is also increasing year on year, but it is still not enough. If we divert attention in too many things, then we may lose the advantage that ERPNext has built up. Also, there is a lot to be done. If we had the resources, we would setup a voluntary effort for schools and governments where we could go and give them short presentations and also give free support for using Linux Desktops, Office tools, Mail Servers, Web Servers etc. The challenge would be in making the initial contact, then setting up a time, then doing the presentation and then offering support. This would be ideally done under the umbrella of Free Software Foundation of India (or if they are very religious/suspicious about us who have to earn our bread and don't live off grants, or there are too many ego-mountains to be climbed, then we could form a new group). I think to do this would be our duty as not only publishers of free software but as good citizens too. best, Rushabh

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site which teaches android dev in a strange way
by Pratik Anand 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Site is www.codelearn.org/android-tutorial<http://www.codelearn.org/android-tutorial?utm_source=lugmum> They ask users to download an Eclipse plugin for their tutorials which is then used for tracking user errors and showing hints, which I think is pretty cool. -- Pratik Anand http://www.pratikanand.com Twitter handle:pratikone <http://twitter.com/pratikone>

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Exporting and importing webmin groups
by Kshitij M Kotak 27 Jan '14

27 Jan '14

Hello expert friends We are trying to backup Webmin users and groups from 1 system and restoring it on another system. While webmin users are getting restored, webmin groups are not getting backed up. >From the Webmin Interface > Backup Configuration > Backup now we are backing upWebmin ConfigurationWebmin Servers IndexWebmin Users into a file, copying that file and restoring it on 2nd system. What is the additional I am supposed to do for getting Webmin Users and Groups transferred into 2nd system? Urgent help will be appreciated. Thank you in advance. Kshitij

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Help on Vi Command
by Joel A Divekar 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Thanks a lot Pratik. From: Pratik Vyas <m(a)pd.io> Sent: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:08:24 To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.ilug-bom.org.in> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Help on Vi Command Hi Joel, On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Joel A Divekar <joel_divekar(a)rediffmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All > I am trying to do the following > Search for all lines starting with&nbsp;INSERT&nbsp;command and append ;&nbsp;at End of Line > > I am aware about search and replace using > :%s/^INSERT/$;/g > but this replaces INSERT and not append ; at end of the line.&nbsp;Kindly help > Regards > Try, :%s/^INSERT$.*$$/\0\&nbsp\;/g ie. Capture everything after the INSERT and replace it by itself (\0) and the text you want you append. > > Joel Divekar > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Thanks. Pratik -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

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[OT] Help on Vi Command
by Joel A Divekar 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Hi All I am trying to do the following Search for all lines starting with INSERT command and append ; at End of Line I am aware about search and replace using :%s/^INSERT/$;/g but this replaces INSERT and not append ; at end of the line. Kindly help Regards Joel Divekar

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[OT] Help on Vi Command
by Joel A Divekar 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Hi All I am trying to do the following Search for all lines starting with INSERT command and append ; at End of Line I am aware about search and replace using :%s/^INSERT/$;/g  but this replaces INSERT not append ;. Kindly help Regards Joel Divekar

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[OT] Help on Vi Command
by Joel A Divekar 26 Jan '14

26 Jan '14

Hi All I am trying to do the following Search for all lines starting with INSERT command and append ; at End of Line I am aware about search and replace using :%s/^INSERT/$;/g  but this replaces INSERT not append ;. Kindly help Regards Joel Divekar

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Fwd: Valve games for Debian Developers
by Praveen A 23 Jan '14

23 Jan '14

Another reason to contribute to Debian. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Neil McGovern <neilm(a)debian.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:27:21 +0000 Subject: Valve games for Debian Developers To: debian-devel-announce(a)lists.debian.org Hi all, At $dayjob for Collabora, we've been working with Valve on SteamOS, which is based on Debian. Valve are keen to contribute back to the community, and I'm discussing a couple of ways that they may be able to do that [0]. Immediately though, they've offered a free subscription to any Debian Developer which provides access to all past and future Valve produced games [1]! If you're interested, and a DD, simply mail jo.shields(a)collabora.co.uk with a mail signed by a key in the Debian keyring, and he'll send you back a redemption code to add in Steam. If you haven't heared from him in a couple of days, you can also prod me at neil.mcgovern(a)collabora.com as he may happen to be on holiday that week. Happy gaming, Neil [0] If anyone has any specific ideas, drop me a mail :) [1] List at http://deb.li/91yz, but excluding Steam Greenlight. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ You have to keep reminding your government that you don't get your rights from them; you give them permission to rule, only so long as they follow the rules: laws and constitution.

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Public lecture by Richard Stallman at TISS, Mumbai (21st Jan)
by Indivar Jonnalagadda 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Dear All, On behalf of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, we cordially invite you to a public lecture *by Richard Stallman *titled *"Free Software, Free Society", * *on Tuseday, 21st of January, *at the Old Conference Hall, TISS Main campus (Time: 5pm -7pm). I trust that Richard Stallman needs no introduction on this mailing list. The talk will be followed by a Q&A session. We welcome you all and hope to see you there. Warm Regards, Indivar Jonnalagadda MA, Schol of Development Studies TISS (Mumbai) +91-9819172401

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{Commercial} {OT}Looking for programmers to work with Mumbai based startup
by Siji Sunny 22 Jan '14

22 Jan '14

Hello, We (MELabs) are into Mobile & Embedded Computing Domain, looking for some programmers who is willing to work on technologies such as - - Linux (Kernel, Drivers) - Python - Web Technologies (HTML5, LAMP) - Mobile Application Development (Android) - Embedded devices & Mobile Wireless Networking. We prefer Freshers with good Programming & Logical skill-set and ready to learn new technologies. We consider Programming, Technical and logical knowledge consider as qualification. Qualification : Graduates/Post graduates and Diploma holders with sound technical/logical understanding can apply. Location: Bhandup, Mumbai (Prefer candidates from Mumbai) Interested candidate, pls contact me offline. -- Siji Sunny

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