Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-02 Thread Vivek Khurana
\> > Try writing smallest code snippet for any given program output... you > will realise it is not easy to write a *small* program that meets and > does what it is expected to do... It is assumed here that only those > programs which catch and handle exceptions properly will be > compared... so t

Re: [PLUG] Please help me complete my social calendar

2007-11-02 Thread Arun Khan
Being member of a lot of LUG mailing lists I do not see such spams in other lists. The PLUG list seems prone to such spams due to users giving access to their address book when they sign up for services. Before you give your userid/passwords and/or address books to such providers please **thi

[PLUG] Fwd: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available

2007-11-02 Thread Vishal Rao
Enjoy (I hope I'm not violating any etiquette by forwarding the news like this...) -- Forwarded message -- From: Michael Loeffler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 3, 2007 12:50 AM Subject: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.3 Live version available To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From toda

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-02 Thread ಓಂ
On 11/3/07, Vivek Khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 2, 2007 5:38 PM, ಓಂ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually I think we need not worry much about M$, because they will > > dig their own resting place as the time passes... for all we know they > > may have started in that direction with

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-02 Thread Vivek Khurana
On Nov 2, 2007 5:38 PM, ಓಂ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I think we need not worry much about M$, because they will > dig their own resting place as the time passes... for all we know they > may have started in that direction with launch of Vista... > Not really, if you carefully look at

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-02 Thread ಓಂ
Actually in my earlier mail i went off a bit.. Sorry if I hurt any feeble heart in the process... Here is what I sincerely feel will keep M$ off for most things... everybody involved with Linux making whatever efforts they can to increase the number of Linux desktops. While actual developers of L

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-11-02 Thread ಓಂ
Actually I think we need not worry much about M$, because they will dig their own resting place as the time passes... for all we know they may have started in that direction with launch of Vista... I noticed another thing recently there are bunch of people who are stuck in the cold with nobody bei

Re: [PLUG] WiFi card for Desktop

2007-11-02 Thread ಓಂ
Looks like you are specifically looking for Wifi card, but have you considered a Wifi USB Dongle as a choice? I have not used it nor have any Linux experience trying one out... but just thought that may give you flexibility assuming it is having similar economic considerations and works with Linux

[PLUG] WiFi card for Desktop

2007-11-02 Thread Mayuresh
I am looking for a WiFi card for desktop PC. I read about intel 4965AGN card. Seems there are native Linux drivers available for this. Has anyone tried this card? Any feedback? I'd have otherwise preferred Linksys WMP54G given a lot of positive comments about Linksys products on this list and