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Fwd: [Ilugc] [UbuntuWomen] International Women's Day -- Competition!
by Mehul Ved 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:39 AM Subject: [Ilugc] [UbuntuWomen] International Women's Day -- Competition! To: ILUG-C <ilugc(a)ae.iitm.ac.in> Cc: kanchilug(a)freelists.org Hi, Ubuntu Women is running an essay competition on how women get into ubuntu linux. Any female can send article. Read further here. http://www.geekosophical.net/?p=423 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-women/2010-January/002406.html -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My experiences with Linux are here http://goinggnu.wordpress.com For Free and Open Source Jobs http://fossjobs.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

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ANN: Rhythmbox album art search plugin
by Rupesh Kumar 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

Rhythmbox album art search is a plugin which searches the web for the album art of the currently playing song using google search apis. From the resulting images, one can then choose an image to set it as album art. The plugin is based on the context pane plugin. For screenshot, download and installation instructions please see http://code.google.com/p/albumartsearch/ Rupesh

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Open Office Document in MsOffice
by Saswata Banerjee 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi Guys, I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft Word 2007 can open and read all odt files. They have provided a add-in converter. If you have MsOffice on your PC and you double click an odt file, it gets the converter (once only) and installs it in MsOffice I found this when a business associate to whom i send a odt file was able to open it without issues :-) Regards Saswata

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Open Office Document in MsOffice
by Saswata Banerjee 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

On 2/4/2010 12:30 PM, Saswata Banerjee wrote: > On 2/4/2010 12:24 PM, steve wrote: >> On 02/04/2010 11:52 AM, Saswata Banerjee wrote: >>> Hi Guys, >>> I do not know if you consider this as an achievement, but Microsoft >>> Word >>> 2007 can open and read all odt files. >>> They have provided a add-in converter. If you have MsOffice on your PC >>> and you double click an odt file, it gets the converter (once only) >>> and >>> installs it in MsOffice >>> >>> I found this when a business associate to whom i send a odt file was >>> able to open it without issues :-) >> >> Not much of an achievement considering that the odt format is an >> *open* format, so anyone who can read specifications and write >> software to match those can create a odt reader/editor, unlike >> proprietary formats (or in case of ooxml bad, over general and patent >> dependent ^standard^), where creating a reader/writer is not only a >> technical issue (if the format has to be reverse engineered) but also >> a legal issue (if implementing such software would imply 'infringing' >> on patents). >> >> So, basically it is the same as Microsoft's contribution to the linux >> kernel -- not really noteworthy since they do it only because they can. > Steve, > I was looking at it as an achievement for Open Office since its not > done because Microsoft Can, but because they are forced to provide it > as their clients need it. >> >> >> cheers, >> - steve >> > oops Just found out that it was not microsoft that made the converter. http://sourceforge.net/projects/odf-converter/files/ My appologies But still worthwhile info. regards saswata

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[NEWS] Microsoft to provide `unique identification` to 600 million people
by Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] 04 Feb '10

04 Feb '10

Microsoft Research sees “exciting” opportunities for itself in the Indian government's unique identification project – in the areas of user interface, multi-lingual systems, mobility and secure database management. The research arm of Microsoft is in talks with Mr Nandan Nilekani, Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India, to explore options. Complete news can be read here... http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/01/23/stories/2010012352560400.htm -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Learn to appreciate the beauty within...

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any editors which have the split window functionality
by Kussh Singh 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

Are there any editors in Linux which allow the editable window to be split as in Microsoft windows? I have tried gedit and openoffice. Both do not have this ability yet. Kussh -- http://www.mvhlive.com/ windows freeware for designing homes or renovating them sweethome3d.sourceforge.net

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] any editors which have the split window functionality
by Kussh Singh 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Kussh Singh <kussh.singh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Osric Fernandes < > osric.fernandes(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or else, if you want to use gedit, there's a third party plugin available: >> http://www.psyguygames.com/SplitView2.tar.gz >> Just extract the files to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins/ >> >> -- >> >> Thanks, will try it out. > > Had to put the 2 extracted files in /usr/lib/gedit-2/plugins for system wide availability. (a python file and a plugin file) Then enable the splitview plugin in the gedit preferences. The user interface took some getting used to-- the tabs can be toggled --both vertical and horizontal split are possible.

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dell inspiron 14 wid linux
by sharad kumar 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

ya linux is completely comfortable wid dell inspiron14 ........... -- REGARDS Sharad Kumar Visit my blog at :- http://techshaddy.wordpress.com/ See my pictures at:- http://www.flickr.com/photos/techshaddy/ See my videos at :- http://shaddyshare.vodspot.tv Sent from Delhi, India

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[OT][HUMOUR] Testing this group's sense of humour
by Mohan Nayaka 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

http://xkcd.com/456/ /me runs from the flames! Regards, Mohan S N -- Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -- J. R. R. Tolkien

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Wireless connection problem.
by Rajen M. Parekh 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hi, I am not able to establish wireless connection on my wireless router if I choose "Do not broadcast SSID" setting on the router. I am using Opensuse 11.2 (KDE 4.3.4). Everything works fine if I choose to broadcast SSID, but it doesn't connect if the SSID is not broadcasted. The connection is managed by "NetworkManager". (Just for information, on Windows, by modifying connection settings, one can connect with "Do not broadcast SSID" setting turned on.) On Opensuse+kde-4.3.4, there is no option available with the "KNetworkManager" which allows to make connection when SSID is not broadcasted. I don't know if this is opensuse specific problem, as I haven't tried any other distro for this. From googling I could gather that there is/was such a problem with other Linux distros like Ubuntu too. On a positive note, in a tutorial for wireless connection on linux, there was even this option where one could establish a connection when SSID is not broadcasted. This tutorial was on Fedora. So I guess that this isn't a linux specific problem, but its probably distro specific. Or maybe it could be that I have missed something here. I wonder why I can't find this option with Opensuse 11.2 (KDE - 4.3.4). Have I to install any additional packages? If anybody has any experience in this regard, do let me know. Regards, Rajen.

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