As 13-year-old Nalin Sathya, who will sit for these exams next year,
puts it, "The system is very easy to use and I can now use it even
without seeing the monitor. Python programming language is very easy.
I am trying to learn it."
Sathya's confidence emerges from a series of events that began eig
2008/5/13 swapan karmakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> i am from andaman nicobar islands. Apart from Fedora website, where can i
> get Fedora 9..? Will it be available along with magazines like
> Digit/Linuxforyou/PCquest..?
http://www.zyxware.com/requestcd
Should have it soon. They charge 15 rupp
2008/5/13 Bharathi Subramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> PLEASE STOP TOP-POSTING TO THE LIST and REMOVE UNWANTED TEXT BEFORE
> REPLY TO THE LIST. IF YOU DON'T KNOW, "WHAT IS TOP-POSTING?" PLEASE
> READ THE "RFC 1855" FROM THE NET.
What about shouting in the list? Is it also in the "RFC 1855"?
Chee
2008/5/13 Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> admins are permitted to shout - are you by any chance advocating top
> posting?
If admins themselves need to bend the rules, then how can we expect
members to follow? That does not mean I'm advocating top posting. In
the same way top posting is i
2008/5/14 Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> it is not - more like the debate on cell-phone driving - whether the car is
> clean or dirty doesn't matter, it matters whether the driver stops the car
> to take a call or drives with one hand.
But when the traffic police comes chasing the offend
2008/5/15 Venkatraman S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> As you wont be using compiler/interpreters to 'generate' code.
I thought you still need an assembler.
- Praveen
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my rights; I want my phone call!
What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen
A very serious effort to get Windows refund from Lenovo is going on in
ilugd. There is cases in Europe where people have got such a refund,
but this is first time this issue is being taken seriously in India.
Some magzines are involved in this at the moment. Any help to get wide
coverage and discus
Hi,
You can use the Sugar interface (originally designed for OLPC) on Debian now
If you are on Debian sid (unstable), just install sugar
apt-get install sugar
and install any of the activities you like
apt-cache search sugar activity
It is amazingly new feel, completely innovative interface.
2008/5/17 Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> A very serious effort to get Windows refund from Lenovo is going on in
> ilugd. There is cases in Europe where people have got such a refund,
> but this is first time this issue is being taken seriously in India.
> Some magzines are i
2008/5/18 Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I tried it!! But, that was really horrible Man... i am thinking about
> those kids who got such type of distro!!
Did you install any activity? Try the pippy one
apt-get install sugar-pippy-activity
It is a completely new approach. Instead of file and dire
2008/4/18 Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Microsoft will be signing up Malayalam movie star Mammootty as one of
> the brand ambassadors for the Computer Literacy programme that is to
> be organized soon in Kerala, a Southern Indian State well known for
> its pro-free software
-- Forwarded message --
From: Edward Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/5/21
Subject: [+PLUS] Open Source Developer
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm looking for an entry-level software developer to work on a series of
projects on a full-time basis. This would be a long-term engagement
2008/5/22 Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 22-May-08, at 9:44 AM, Praveen A wrote:
>
>> Mammootty Fans and
>> Welfare Association & Microsoft are envisaging the Project.
>
> and apparently it has Mammootty's blessings (last para of reply). M
"The national body of South Africa (SABS), as a P member of JTC 1,
hereby submits an appeal against the outcome of the fast track
processing of DIS 29500 Office open XML. This is based on the
procedures followed before and during the ballot resolution meeting
(BRM) held from 25 to 29 February 2008
Todays Hindu Bangalore edition carries an interview with Jesse James
Garrett and a quote from the article about Free Software:
And what does a self-made man like him think about the Free Software
movement? "Tell me if my metaphor makes sense," he says, as he
proceeds to compare it to a large ball
It is time of Open Letters, this time it is from Dr Deepak Phatak of IIT Bombay.
"With reference to the recent happenings in connection with the ISO
standardization process of OOXML, actions by or on behalf of Microsoft
have caused me deep pain and hurt. Apart from the personal anguish,
these acti
I don't know if anyone has worked on it, but if you can translate
about 50 strings and make kdebase from 74.47 to 75% Tamil will be
released with KDE 4.1
and you have just one day left
http://l10n.kde.org/stats/gui/trunk-kde4/essential/
you could even ask for an exception
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്ത
Free Software User Group Bangalore is organising candle light vigil to
say no to software patents on 23rd Saturday.
More details here
http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Say_No_To_Software_Patents#Candle_Light_Vigil
Invite your facebook friends at
http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=27662916862
Rega
http://mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2008-September/005460.html
My mail is not appearing in the list archive
Posting it again
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anivar Aravind
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:02 PM
Subject: A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation?
To: Principal S
-- കൈമാറിയ സന്ദേശം --
അയച്ച വ്യക്തി: Anivar Aravind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
തീയ്യതി: 19 September 2008 4:58 AM
വിഷയം: [smc-discuss] Re: [FSUG-Bangalore] A CPIM Hijack of Free
Software Foundation?
സ്വീകര്ത്താവ്: Free Software Users Group - Bangalore
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- Forwarded message --
From: Anivar Aravind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/9/20
Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] A CPIM Hijack of Free Software Foundation?
To: Principal Support List of FSF-India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Nagarjuna G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTEC
A wonderful initiative happening in Kerala, and I believe we did not
see an effort this huge to spread Free Software to such a wide
audience have happened before. I hope all of you would try to join in
at least one of the locations of the Walk. (You could even plan a tour
around this, there are man
*Please Circulate widely*
On behalf of the organizers,
Free Software Users Group- Bangalore
cordially invites you to
The National Public Meeting on Software Patents
==Venue==
2nd Floor, Ecumenical Resource Centre,
United Theological College,
Millers Road,
2008/9/29 Sri Ramadoss M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> It gave the chance of Live CD for
> some one who is scared that trying GNU/ Linux distros will crash
> their Hard disks
This is one of the examples of not giving credit to others for their
contributions and think Ubuntu did everything in one day. Li
"The trek wanders into Pilicode, GHSS. After initial hesitation, the
staff is extremely co-operative, and organize and impromptu talk to
the students. Anoop and Sooraj speak to the assembly of senior
classes, while Prasad fiddles with the printer configurations for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] lab printer
"If formulaic Hindi films were protected by patent laws, we would be
able to make only one film," joked Abraham. The system of software
patenting wipes out smaller businesses and innovation, he said.
"Software, like poetry and literary works, is already protected by
copyright. After all, Bill Gates
-- Forwarded message --
From: Alexander Reichle-Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/10/6
Subject: What you can do for "Lenny"
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
You probably noticed by now, that Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 aka "Lenny" hasn't
been released in September. Well, that's a shame, b
2008/10/16 Ashish Verma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I would like to have clarity on what the real difference is between
> different Linux Distros. What exactly makes one better than the other.
1) Most of the distributions have a targeted audience and try to make
the distro usable to that target audienc
2008/11/14 பத்மநாதன் <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I converted
> the document from 'odt' extention to 'sxw' for
did you use export or save as?
Are you able to see Tamil in other applications (try gedit) under RHEL4?
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my rights; I want my phone call!
What use is
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rakesh 'arky' Ambati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/11/15
Subject: [FSUG-Bangalore] Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled at
National Conference on Free Software 2008
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Boycott Novell Protesters Man-handled
-- Forwarded message --
From: Arun M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/11/13
Subject: [Fsf-friends] Free Software Free Society
To: fsf-friends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Friends,
Kerala government is organising a conference on free software and
free knowledge movements from 9th to 11
2008/11/27 Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> In Modem0 configuration you have chosen /dev/ttyUSB0, but cdma
> configuration is looking for /dev/modem.
doesn't wvdialconf detect the device correctly and setup the configuration file?
try running wvdial as root instead of sudo (it worked for me
2008/12/3 Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> My personal business model for whatever business I do is to only accept jobs
> from customers who agree to open source the code. (of course, the agreement
> includes a clause that such part of the code that exposes their business
> secrets will be
hi and gu is in. A heads up for ta. Hope someone is working on Tamil.
KDE 4.2 release is 27th Jan (translations close a few days before
that).
Those interested can reply here and someone working on Tamil will guide you.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Albert Astals Cid <[EMAIL PROTE
Eben is starting his talk right now
http://fsfs.in/content/watch-out-conference-online-your-desktop
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my rights; I want my phone call!
What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now!
http://fci.wikia.c
http://www.fsf.org/news/2008-12-cisco-suit
Interesting discussion at http://lwn.net/Articles/310899/
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my rights; I want my phone call!
What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
(as seen on /.)
Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now!
http://fci.wikia
2008/12/16 varadarajan narayanan :
> In order to check for browser compatibility it can be done with IE on
> windows .Why should you install IE on Linux and check the browser
> compatibility of a site ?
But you need to install Windows then.
- Praveen
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my ri
2008/12/28 Roshan George :
> What wireless cards would you recommend that I can get locally? I have
> an 802.11-g network at home using WEP, and the way the rooms are located
> using an ethernet cable is simply out of the question. I'm planning on
> using Debian Etch for the computer with this card
Many long requested features coming up. Now catching up fast with
photoshop features. Read on for what is in store for upcoming gimp
versions.
http://jcornuz.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/an-exclusive-interview-with-martin-nordholts/
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my rights; I want my phone ca
2009/1/8 Kenneth Gonsalves :
> went to the site. Wanted to look at the install docs - they wanted me to
> register. Registered. Now it looks something like google docs - a free online
> thingie.
You can download and install it. I was not able to run it though. It
uses tomcat and needs a jdk.
- Pr
2009/1/15 Bruce Mathew :
> dear friends
> I canot install a codec for mp3 in my ubuntu
> Pls help This is the error that i am getting
> *
> "This application is provided by the Ubuntu community.
> GStreamer extra plugins cannot be installed on your computer type (i386).
> Either the application req
I believe thunderbird in windows can take your outlook mails. Once you have
thunderbird in windows, it is just copying thunderbird forlder to GNU/Linux.
On May 5, 2009 9:36 AM, "Balaviswa nathanv"
wrote:
Hi all,,
I have converted all my outlook mails from Windows to .pst format and
need to impo
2010/4/27 aishwarya . :
> Thank you so much
Hi Aishwarya,
Congrats! Also please add your name to this list
http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/GSoC_List
We are collecting gsoc projects from India here.
- Praveen
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പ്രവീണ് അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്
I know my rights; I want my phone call!
What us
2010/6/5 Balaji Damodaran :
> well yes. Try convincing a person who tried linux, said it sucks and
> went back to windows just because it didn't play his/her pirated mp3
> songs and avi movies off-the-shelf or because he/she couldn't play
> their favorite video game, about freedom and RMS and his i
2010/6/6 Kenneth Gonsalves :
> who said so? people did/do it because they enjoy doing it - the guys with
> idealogy usually spend their time preaching and not developing and maintaining
> software.
That is exactly why RMS insists on mentioning GNU in the name. Because
GNU project was not started f
2010/6/7 Kenneth Gonsalves :
> I beg to differ - from what I have read about the development of GCC and
> EMACS,
> the development model was more cathedral style as long as RMS was the BDFL.
"GCC development in the early days was a bit too conservative for the
tastes of many an eager hacker. Seve
2010/6/7 Kenneth Gonsalves :
> from wikipedia (although it is not an authorative source)
>
>
> As GCC was free software, programmers wanting to work in other directions—
> particularly those writing interfaces for languages other than C—were free to
> develop their own fork of the compiler. Multip
2010/7/6 pavithran :
> Use GNU/Emacs .
It is GNU Emacs :)
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What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak?
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2010, ജൂലൈ 19 4:53 pm നു, Victor Johnson എഴുതി:
Volunteering to translate this mail
> ഭൂമി ഉൾപ്പെടുന്ന ഗ്രഹതാരസഞ്ചയമായ സൗരയൂഥത്തിന്റെ കേന്ദ്രമാണ് സൂര്യൻ
> എന്ന നക്ഷത്രം. ഏതാണ്ട് 13,92,000 കിലോമീറ്ററാണു് സൂര്യന്റെ വ്യാസം.
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It has a
diameter
2010/7/19 Abishek Goda :
> So, does this mean, using a [language] tag may not be the best solution?
This means Victor did not like the solution of using tags as proposed
and thinks he can sabotage this list with SPAM. He is sending random
mails with random language tags, because, I think, he didn'
2010/7/19 Victor Johnson :
> מזרחית דרומית לעיר חיפה. בעיר חיים כ- 23,000 תושבים. הרכב האוכלוסייה
> כ-90% יהודים והשאר מזהות אחרת. כ-6,900, כ-30% בערך מהתושבים, הם עולים
> חדשים. תחום שיפוט העיר הוא 12,090 דונם. הוא משתרע בין שטח הטכניון,
> אוניברסיטת חיפה, פארק הכרמל, יגור כביש 75 ואזור הצ'ק פוסט
2010/7/20 P.Sriram :
>I would request members
> to not post in any language other than English, with or without language tags.
But consensus reached in the earlier discussion was to allow Tamil
mails with tags.
> If any list member wants ilugc.tamil or ilguc.telugu or ilugc.finnish or
> ilugc.tul
"I will contribute 500 Indian Rupees (or 10 USD) to Chamba Swathanthra
Cinema Project but only if 100 other people will do the same."
— Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, Coordinator for Chamba Project
Deadline to sign up by: 1st January 2011
18 people have signed up, 82 more needed
More details
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2010/11/18 Kenneth Gonsalves :
> hi
>
> plz 2 vote 4 my talk
>
> http://nonameconf.in/talk/blr-2010/why-fossin-sucks-and-how-to-remedy-it
>From Operating Principles,
"Do not campaign/request your friends to vote up your ideas/talks"
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