[Ilugc] Re: ilugc Digest, Vol 51, Issue 16
- From: benedictnicholas@xxxxxxxxx (benedict nicholas)
- Date: Thu Aug 7 12:28:21 2008
Dear Friends,
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This is in reply to the below contents-
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we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the
big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want it,
but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers
excited about foss - and very very few of these ever write code.
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In my college, its the reverse, the faculty is highly qualified to take up FOSS
related subjects and management is also interested but it is the students who
is not selecting the elective paper(democracy followed in choosing elective). I
tried last year to?take this elective paper but the student community prefer
data mining & datawarehouse. Reason not because of interest but because 1) Easy
to clear? 2) Local author books aka guide books available 3) Notion that
anything related to Linux is difficult.
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In fact I corrected anna university FOSS elective paper. I found the syllabi
good and the recommended textbook is also of good quality.
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Need of the hour is not only awareness among faculties but with students also.
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bye,
Benedict J.N.
Lecturer
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure
(Kenneth Gonsalves)
2. Re: [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure
(Bharathi Subramanian)
3. Re: [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure
(Kenneth Gonsalves)
4. Re: 2 day FOSS workshop for faculty in the Kongu region
(Prakash Srinivasan)
5. RE: One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHEREIS) (Sivakumar Gopalan)
6. RE: Booting from USB external HHD (indianathan n)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:16:47 +0530
From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 07-Aug-08, at 9:46 AM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
R&H is an entirely Linux oriented facility. We use Linux across the
entire facility, both on the server side as well as on the desktop
coolness - could you tell us what software you use for your various
operations?
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regards
kg
http://lawgon.livejournal.com
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:23:47 +0530 (IST)
From: Bharathi Subramanian <sbharathi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
R&H is an entirely Linux oriented facility. We use Linux across
the
entire facility, both on the server side as well as on the desktop
coolness - could you tell us what software you use for your various
operations?
This is an forwarded mail from ILUG-Goa, Plz mail to OP: Aditya
Wasudeo <adityawasudeo at yahoo dot com> for more info.
Bye :)
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Bharathi S
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:23:05 +0530
From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] [JOBS] R&H India - Freshers with Linux exposure
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 07-Aug-08, at 10:16 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 07-Aug-08, at 9:46 AM, Bharathi Subramanian wrote:
R&H is an entirely Linux oriented facility. We use Linux across
the
entire facility, both on the server side as well as on the desktop
coolness - could you tell us what software you use for your various
operations?
oops - this was a forwarded message. Bharathi can you get a reply
from him on this?
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regards
kg
http://lawgon.livejournal.com
http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:59:32 -0400
From: "Prakash Srinivasan" <asprakash83@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] 2 day FOSS workshop for faculty in the Kongu
region
To: ILUG-C <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 12:40 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves
<lawgon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
we want to re-orient the syllabus - that is the goal of NRC-FOSS, and the
big stumbling block are the lecturers. Management want it, students want
it,
but lecturers are blocking it. So we are trying to get a few lecturers
excited about foss - and very very few of these ever write code.
Recently [last week] we conducted a TTP in Anna University, Trichy. The same
thing happened here also. Very few only came out of all trichy surrounding
areas. In other words, I can say, the no of speakers were more compare with
participants.
I would like to share an participant's feedback with all of you. "In
our
college we have an allowance scheme like if I will participate this type of
workshop, then our college will give 500/- for me. I came just for getting
my allowance".
How is it. But at the same time some others were really interested in FOSS
and Linux.
Its happening in all the TTP. The staff's only argument is, "why we
want to
learn a topic from out of syllabus". Still FOSS is an elective paper. They
will not take it as seriously until it will be one of the main subject in
their curriculum. Otherwise FOSS will be just optional. So try to make it
as a compulsory paper to the final year students.
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With Regards,
Prakash.A.S,
visit
http://electronica.org.in is a
Open source site for Embedded system
learners.
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:22:13 +0530
From: "Sivakumar Gopalan" <sivakumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [Ilugc] One Day One GNU/Linux Command (WHEREIS)
To: "ILUG-C" <ilugc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Just a thought. Here is the difference between whereis, locate and which
whereis - can find any file, but looks only in standard locations.
locate - can find any file from any location, however there should be a
locatedb update run frequently to have accurate results.
which - can find executables which are in the path variable.
Rgds,
Siva.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:43:29 +0530
From: "indianathan n" <indianathann@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Ilugc] RE: Booting from USB external HHD
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Sir,
Old mother board BIOS will not support USB booting. In this case, one
alternate way is using booting floppy. First boot machine through booting
floppy then start the OS avail;able in external drive.
One more thing in external HHD is booting configuration compiled with
syslinux. When making USB boot drive syslinux makes an HHD number blongs to
HHDs and CD Drives available in PC. If you try to boot other type of
machines it may fail. for example, Your machine has PATA HHDs, then your
pendrive device in the machine is 'sda' but in SATA HHD used PC it may
vary.
Puppy Linux have an universal installor, makes USB as super boot disk.
which is format your usb disk/drive as endless file format.MBR will not
depend device number. Ubuntu will not accept this format.
Padhu,
Ooty.
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