Re: [ilugd]: The ILUGD Logo

2003-03-15 Thread vivek
Raj Mathur wrote: > Vivek> my only concern is that even if a design is selected, how > Vivek> are the shirts going to be printed? and how many people are > Vivek> ready to shell out 100 bucks per shirt? > > I am, or more than 100 if you make black T-shirts with collars. Is > that doab

Re: [ilugd]: Virus on Linux.

2003-03-15 Thread vivek
Aruna wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody suggest me a good and latest antivirus for my Redhat 7.1 Linux > box. As I am getting warnings of following type from Dshield.org. I was in > the impact that virus donot do mischiefs on Linux OS. Pls suggest more than updating your antivirus, it is more impor

[ilugd]: Re: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Friday 14 March 2003 10:20 am, Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta wrote: [heavy-duty snip] > > LL, please to submit a 400-word paper, distinguishing: meaning of this sentence not clear. perhaps a grammatical mistake. are you submitting a 400-word paper that you are writing? do you wish to submit a 400-wo

Re: [ilugd]: why excise?

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Friday 14 March 2003 09:39 am, Sanjeev \"Ghane\" Gupta wrote: > LinuxLingam wrote: > > i am suggesting: > > i) keep the excise on OEM > > ii) go ahead, charge all software for excise. > > So basically, I don't care if you increase taxation, because it will > hurt my neighbour more? And that wil

[ilugd]: Re: open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear sanjeev, thanks for your insta-response to the email, and for moving into deeper issues such as 'economic-distortion' effects and the 'yoke of taxation'. brings more light into what we just take for granted. > > YES!!! You have got it. Tax is a yoke, and we pay it because the > State ha

Re: [ilugd]: some clarifications sought on excise

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear sanjeev, thanks for your response and making these finer points clear to me. i really appreciate your quoting chapter-and-verse in relevant places as well. [heavy snip] > Software is not manufactured, hence the entire issue of Excise on it > does not arise. Period. Finis. understood. th

[ilugd]: the tax model/method

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear ajith, thank you for your short and splendid response to the discussion. from your inputs, it is clear we are in an era of transition: moving away from indirect taxes to direct taxes, with the onus on making tax collection more efficient. perhaps the imminent introduction of VAT is suppose

Re: [ilugd]: Help required on Email message contains HTML

2003-03-15 Thread Raj Mathur
> "Aruna" == arunamathur writes: Aruna> Hi, I am sending a file from command line by using the cat Aruna> and mail command. The file which is being sent contains Aruna> message in HTML format. But when I view it on Outlook Aruna> Express (message format set to Rich text) it a

Re: [ilugd]: Virus on Linux.

2003-03-15 Thread <>
hii,, if u wud notice from the name of the worm as mentioned by dshield report , it is a win32 worm so it only infects or exploits win32 systems (W32 Opaserv). Linux is impermeable as far as this worm is concerned and lotsa others !!! w32Opaserv exploits weak passwords on network shares on won

Re: [LIG] [ilugd][draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear tarun, thanks for your response. On Saturday 15 March 2003 11:41 am, you wrote: > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 21:10, Raj Mathur wrote: > > From my perspective "Use the situation to the advantage of FLOSS". > Reality check is important. Lets not loose sight of what is achievable. 'loose' means 'dh

Re: [ilugd]: Re: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear tarun, thank you for taking the initiative of posting the FM's speech-to-text the mailing list for clarifications. thank you also for volunteering to draft a letter to the FM proposing an unbundling mechanism which takes care of the excise component. unfortunately, it saddens me to note y

Re: [ilugd]: Re: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear raj, at last the oracle has spoken, if you excuse the borrowed phrase from the matrix, and the IT-industry pun. thanks raj, for your response, and for your epigrammatic statements. i fully agree with you that the issue of quality, FLOSS, FBS, choice, and the implicit innovations, opportun

Re: [ilugd]: Reg: ILUG-D meeting : IMP

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Saturday 15 March 2003 11:52 am, you wrote: > Hi, >Well is there is a ILUG-D meeting this sunday . If > yes then where and when .Pls reply ASAP > Bye > Tushar shah > OYE! yes, it is the third week of sunday! what happened to the meeting. raj was saying he was gonna post some agenda venue a

Re: [ilugd]: The ILUGD Logo

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
On Saturday 15 March 2003 09:25 am, you wrote: > the debate of 'cute' versus/also communicating 'power' is as old as the apple macintosh and ibm's charlie chaplin in the computer industry. the penguin is just another one of those weird abberations in the industry's thirst for 'cute'. i wonder w

Re: [ilugd]: Re: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
Dear sanjeev, thank you at last for bringing out your stand on the issue, in response to raj's email. you make one helluva devil's advocate > > [Raj] Given that we live in an imperfect world, LinuxLingam's proposal to > > introduce (re-introduce?) a tax on bundled or COTS software seems > > emin

Re: [LIG] [ilugd][draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread Tarun Dua
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:48, LinuxLingam wrote: > 'loose' means 'dheela'. 'lose' means 'kho dena'. > i hope what we achieve is not 'dheela'. > :-) points->{LL}++; ;-) > you are correct, but are focussing on only *one* aspect of the problem. there > are several aspects: even with software not OE

[ilugd]: [OT] SETI@home Returns to the Scenes of its Most Promising Candidates!

2003-03-15 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
For nearly four years, the [EMAIL PROTECTED] receiver atop the giant Arecibo radio telescope has been surveying the skies in search of an alien signal. For nearly four years, millions around the world have been processing the raw data from Arecibo on their personal computers in search of unique

[ilugd] Re: Problem in RH LINUX 8.0

2003-03-15 Thread Abhay Menon
Basically problem persist even for init 3 mode. hence, anybody have any solution for this problem. === At 2003-03-15, 02:37:00 you wrote: === >Abhay Menon wrote: >> thank for the info.. >> >> but isn't the beta version of RH Linux 8.1(phoebe) out already and is available >> from www

Re: [ilugd]: Re: [draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread Arjun
Dear Tarun, Good attempt. Best regards, Arjun [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8:49:30 PM Saturday, March 15, 2003 °° Friday, March 14, 2003, 7:04:44 PM, you wrote: TD>

[ilugd]: [COMMERCIAL] e-Governance's projects proposals

2003-03-15 Thread Nitin Chandra
Hi! Everybody I have to submit a comprehensive proposal to the Central Govt. for First Project providing Inter Connectivity e-Governance between Country Wide chain of Schools setup for with following points and Headings :- 1. Administration Point of View and cost.2. Cost of Training.4. Inter Conn

[ilugd]: excise wealth

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear sandip, thanks very much for your response to the discussion. love your sign-off line, and count me in as an 'ignuramus' which i presume is much worse than an ignoramus. :-) anyways, you wrote > > I wonder how much of this kind of wealth from FLOSS is what the > finance minister responsible

[ilugd]: tv tuner card player

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
looks like MoviX also plays tv using a tv tuner card. check it out. MoviX 0.8.0pre2 http://freshmeat.net/releases/116186/ MoviX is a small Linux distro that transforms your PC in a powerful multimedia box. After booting your PC with MoviX, a user-friendly console menu will allow you

Re: [LIG] [ilugd][draft] open letter to indian finance minister

2003-03-15 Thread LinuxLingam
dear tarun, thank you for your growing interest and involved thinking into the discussion. you mention: > > Lets pick and choose the 10 highest priority issues that concern the > government policy wrt Software/IT, find creative solutions for each one > of them after considering "viable" alternati

[ilugd]: Any Meeting Today??

2003-03-15 Thread Anand Shankar
I have been wondering, if we have a meeting today. No announcements!! Anand To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in subject header. Check archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd%40wpaa.org