Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender [off topic]

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Sagayam
Yes the dying child will be saved but that child will still be one notch down in the society when compared to other so called elite children who were fortunate to have parents who could afford both health care and education. >>> Anyways, see, this also adds to my case. We as a society is this im

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender [off topic]

2011-09-02 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
> > >>> > >>>This 90 crore might be well spend on starving kids and kids who require > >>medical care > > God forbid, What would have happened if our parents had invested all > their > money for OUR future health care instead of education and deprived us of > our > IIT or BITS pilani or BE educa

[Ilugc] need help - I get this message every time I open Libre Office

2011-09-02 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
Dear All, sometime back - a month I think - when trying to install Libreoffice 3.4 (not from Ubuntu repository), without uninstalling Libre office 3.3, I installed it, and it was successful too. But felt that it was still booting to 3.3, so I uninstalled through synaptic, and then installed Libre

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender [off topic]

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Sagayam
[off topic - DO not read if you are easily offended] >>> >>>This 90 crore might be well spend on starving kids and kids who require >>medical care God forbid, What would have happened if our parents had invested all their money for OUR future health care instead of education and deprived us of

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Nallu Ignacius
Our discussions are crap till we reach out to the right people. I.e., how many people contacted the right people specified in the first few emails in the same thread On Sep 3, 2011 12:22 AM, "K.P. Senthil Kumar" wrote: > The sufferer is the students > > I think the sufferer will comprise Students,

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
Dear Mr. Senthil, Have we ever done (better) - when we are forced to do something with. Linux - have evolved (I feel) - not because of somebody forced us to use with ... - it was more of people wanting to do more, which they are not able to (or with more difficulty) some thing ... The scene in t

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
Dear Mr. Senthil, Have we ever done (better) - when we are forced to do something with. Linux - have evolved (I feel) - not because of somebody forced us to use with ... - it was more of people wanting to do more, which they are not able to (or with more difficulty) some thing ... The scene in t

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > Do you not feel that your tax money is spent towards Linux in that case > ? ( or well, more onto open source ) rather than contributing it all > into the select pockets of specific vendors > [Off Topic] [and nothing personal to the above q

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Arun Venkataswamy
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:51 AM, K.P. Senthil Kumar wrote: > > forced( yes) to use and learn Linux and Linux oriented applications like > openoffice etc. Majority over the period will be fan and followers of > Linux > and supported applications than Windows. > Any kind of coercion is wrong. Rem

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread A.THILAKAN
> > Government's policy can be challenged in Courts. Recently, the hon'ble > Supreme Court issued notice to TN Govt on the freebies as promised in the > election manifesto. > > > http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/sc-notice-to-cag-ec-centre-jayalalitha-on-freebies-row/articles

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
The sufferer is the students I think the sufferer will comprise Students, Common man by paying more taxes ( in some way or other) , and more importantly the Linux. Why linux will suffer? It is due to the Windows comfort the students get. Since they are comfortable with one OS then they reject Li

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Kumara Guru
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Arun SAG wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Shanu wrote: > > > > > >FSFTN team had a detailed discussion with him when the previous tender > > >was released. He seems to u9nderstand the depth of issue. However we > > >did not feel that he can amend the deci

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Raman.P
--- On Sat, 3/9/11, Akilan R wrote: > From: Akilan R > Subject: Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender > To: "ILUG-C" > Date: Saturday, 3 September, 2011, 9:43 AM > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Shanu > > wrote: > > > I am not sure whether this can be challenged in cou

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Arduino Boards

2011-09-02 Thread Kumara Guru
Hi, A year back, I bought a Arduino Duemilanove from SimpleLabs. They now sell the Arduino UNO for 1360/- You can even save the courier charges by going to their place in person and buying it. http://www.simplelabs.co.in/catalog/arduino Not sure about bluetooth, but they do seem to sell a Xbee s

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Arun SAG
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Shanu wrote: > > >FSFTN team had a detailed discussion with him when the previous tender > >was released. He seems to u9nderstand the depth of issue. However we > >did not feel that he can amend the decision. > I don't understand this "However we did not feel that

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Christopher Sagayam
>>The sufferer is the students >>It would be definetely better to do something like our Linexpert >>Systems - Mr. Bhaskar - where we could educate more on this to the >>actual users - who if they find this better, can always install Linux >>later, and inform the govt, for the next lot to change t

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread sivakumar bharadhwaj
Sir(s), I feel the one thing that can happen by challenging through court is : this tender gets delayed for atleast 6 months. I think this will help the government - particularly the C.M. of TN, since she can get more time on this Freebie, and can escape (not necessarily 'escape' ) but can get a

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
> I am not sure whether this can be challenged in court. This is a > policy issue of the government. > > - > Government's policy can be challenged in Courts. Recently, the hon'ble Supreme Court issued notice to TN Govt on the freebies as promised in the election manifesto. http://economictimes.in

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Akilan R
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Shanu wrote: > I am not sure whether this can be challenged in court. This is a > policy issue of the government. > May be under some clause like this is not a proper tender since it blocked all but one company to begin with? -- அகிலன் (Akilan R) [ blog.akilan.i

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Shanu
> > I think Courts can look in to the issue and amend as appropriate. I am not sure whether this can be challenged in court. This is a policy issue of the government. -- Thank you, Shanu S Sukoor - Please do not send me Microsoft Office/Apple iWork do

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Manokaran K
Usually the Communist party understands these issues better. Perhaps making a representation to Nallakannu would help!! ___ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread K.P. Senthil Kumar
> > FSFTN team had a detailed discussion with him when the previous tender > was released. He seems to u9nderstand the depth of issue. However we > did not feel that he can amend the decision. > I think Courts can look in to the issue and amend as appropriate. _

Re: [Ilugc] Reg: help

2011-09-02 Thread Harisankar P S
In most linux distro there are some package managers where you can search and download various softwares. On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:27 PM, sundar raj wrote: > Dear friends, > > I have some with open office in my linux desktop. > Please tell me your linux distro. > -- Harisankar P S 201

Re: [Ilugc] TN Govt says "No" to Linux - issues new tender

2011-09-02 Thread Shanu
>> >> Dr. Santosh Babu is now IT Secretary. > FSFTN team had a detailed discussion with him when the previous tender was released. He seems to u9nderstand the depth of issue. However we did not feel that he can amend the decision. we had handed over a detailed document explaining the advantages si

[Ilugc] Reg: help

2011-09-02 Thread sundar raj
Dear friends, I have some with open office in my linux desktop. I need to reinstall the application alone. Can some one help me with roviding the link where i can download open office and the installation procedure. -- M.sundar raj 9791045383 ___

[Ilugc] BSNL/Reliance 3G on acer aspire on fedora 15

2011-09-02 Thread kenneth gonsalves
hi, since I upgraded to fedora 15 I have been unable to get either reliance or bsnl 3G to work. Worked fine on fedora 12. The green light never comes on. Here is the output of /var/log/messages: Sep 2 12:53:03 xlquest kernel: [ 656.496139] usb 2-6: new high speed USB device number 8 using ehci_

Re: [Ilugc] [OT] Arduino Boards

2011-09-02 Thread Krishna
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Bharathi Subramanian < bharathi.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to buy few Arduino Boards. I gone thru some Indian > sites, the cost of the boards are 10% to 20% higher then the Singapore > price. Any suggestions on low cost and reliable boards? > > I