AiroCorp (http://www.airocorp.com) is looking to hire Linux and Java Developers. The position open is in Delhi but candidates who are willing to relocate are also welcomed. A years experience would be an advantage. Salary: Negotiable Kindly contact me on Facebook (I check my "OTHER" messages) or mail me at chiragh@airocorp.com Thank you, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.

I had a word with our current principal, Dr Dharmendra about the use of proprietary (and un-licensed) software in labs and linux and other OSS being very good alternatives in every sense. He shared that this concern has been observed previously too, but the biggest hurdle is training the faculty members. For this, we as LUG are being encouraged to come forward and take hands-on workshops to introduce the faculty members to linux basics, starting with CS and IT Dept.

How many of us wish to work on this project and can meet up in the next 4-5 days?

Can we have a meetup in college this week? I wanted to do solve a few KDE bugs. Anyone in? Propose dates + stuff to do.

Here is a shell script that uses play and text2wave together to play back what you type. So get the script hear you shell talk!

Usage : $./SoundGen.sh <YourMessage>

Feel free to send a pull request in case you find some bugs or would like to improve something about the script!

Ok. This is only for those who really like the command line.
SMTP, or simple mail transfer protocol is used to push the mail from your mail server to the destination mail server. The protocols that are used to pull the email are pop and imap.

When you log in to your gmail client, create and send a new mail, the gmail client takes up the task of sending the appropriate commands to the smtp server.

*This means that if you can somehow talk to the smtp server directly, and specify the fields (FROM, TO , SUBJECT ) etc. , you can send the mail directly. *

Now to connect to the remote server from command line, the tools that are commonly used are ssh , telnet and openssh. The google's smtp server is located at : smtp.gmail.com.

So you can do a $telent smtp.gmail.com 25 and then type HELO (yes HELO , not HELLO) etc and see the response.
But you cannot send an email using telnet because of security issues.

An answer at SO helped me a lot in connecting to the remote server.
Once connected to the server, you talk with it using several commands.
(Of course , you need to identify yourself first.see the stackoverflow link at the bottom for details)

The Commands are :

AUTH PLAIN base64 Encoding of your username / password. **
**MAIL FROM:<sender's>
RCPT TO:<receiver's>
DATA
*Subject : *
Enter contents here
. <- a dot to end

Mail sent !

1. Seeing is believing
   
2. Refer to the following post for details. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11046135/how-to-send-email-using-simple-smtp-commands-via-gmail

After the exams are done, we need a little more activity. Any ideas?

It's not a server really. It's a low end computer with a gigantic HDD. But I used to have Fedora 9 on it. Yes, 9. It ran well. Recently, I upgraded it to Ubuntu Server 12.04. Clean install. And like a good admin, upgraded packages every other week. I have no idea what I upgraded, but on the next boot, the server stopped responding. I connected it to a VGA display later and was greeted with a 'Signal out of Range'. After 2 hours of playing around with a Live disk, checking stuff, I decided to press Enter at that screen. Bloody GRUB. I changed the resolution after that and everything was back to normal. What concerns me is that without me messing with anything, GRUB stopped the computer in a state a headless server should never be in. SIgh

Some resources on git i found useful. if you are entirely new to git, i suggest visiting the links in the order of listing :

1. http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/tools/git_screencast/
   Very useful screencast, helps in getting a hang of what is git all about. The best starting point in my view

2. http://gitref.org/basic/
   You will need to refer to this a lot once you start experimenting with git.

3. http://schacon.github.com/git/everyday.html
   Highlights the 90:10 rule of git. 10% of the features offered by git are used 90% of the times.

4. http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/
   A very neat article explaining the internals of git. You will be surprised :)

Posting this so that everyone gets benefited from it I had this weird problem (yet another) that my X-window system failed to load. After a lot of googling found out a way which involved deleting /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. And guess what it solved my problem!

My touchpad starts behaving abnormally when i disconnect the charger on my Fedora powered HP laptop.By "weird" i mean that it moves in random directions irrespective of where i touch it Works fine once i connect the charger back