[ilugd] [Fwd: [Urgent] Indlinux Society Meeting TODAY at 2 PM]

2007-06-11 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Forwarded in case people are interested. Sorry for the short notice, but there will be future discussions on this. Regards, Gora Forwarded Message From: Ramakrishna Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

[ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-11 Thread Kishore Bhargava
Hi! All, We have su.dev in the news. Well, not really the news but at least in the media: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/interview1.asp?foldername=20070615filename=newssec_id=14sid=29 Down To Earth - covers Sudev Barar on Opensource Software. Cheers...Kishore --

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-11 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, the DU url mentioned earlier is up, but no press release or news of 5,000 ubuntu dualboot desktops. search produced no results either. anybody from DU here on the mailing list, who could point us to a press release or announcement. i am keen to slashdot and digg it. :-) niyam

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-11 Thread Sudev Barar
On 11/06/07, Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have su.dev in the news. Well, not really the news but at least in the media: blushblush some misquotes / summarising took away some of the stronger feelings that I was trying to convey. -- Regards, Sudev Barar

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-11 Thread Linux Lingam
sudev, i just read through the article. great story and interview. congratulations! please do write to DTE, requesting them to publish the article under a verbatim license. would be nice if they agree. :-) niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist --

[ilugd] Any recommendations for OCR?

2007-06-11 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
I discovered Tesseract, and found to my delight that a package already exists in Ubuntu Feisty for it. However, this works poorly on color or grayscale. The ImageMagick covert program does a woeful work of converting documents to black and white(not grayscale) before the OCR program works on it.

Re: [ilugd] Any recommendations for OCR?

2007-06-11 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] I have tried converting the files to B/W TIFF myself, using Gimp. But no matter how much I fiddle around with contrast settings, etc., the black and white images are pathetic. I cannot believe that conversion of grayscale images to black/white cannot be better than this. Any

[ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss

2007-06-11 Thread Linux Lingam
hi, eben moglen's talk on saturday at iic was highly-stimulating. i saw quite a few people clicking photos, recording videos, and perhaps blogging etc. could you please point me notes, transcripts or other logs of his wonderful talk? it requires a more thorough read and study to assimilate his

[ilugd] eben moglen on tv

2007-06-11 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, eben moglen's talk on saturday was moderated by paranjoy guha thakurtha. after the talk he mentioned to me that within one hour he was interviewing eben for a tv report. here are the details: 17 june 2007, 6pm, on loksabha tv yup, that's a bit of an obscure tv channel. so anyone here

Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss

2007-06-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 11-Jun-07, at 10:12 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: all of us happy folks missed kenneth gonsalves. but am sure if anyone contacts him, he would be happy to share cds of ubuntu with everyone, surely you jest -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss

2007-06-11 Thread G Karunakar
On 6/11/07, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, eben moglen's talk on saturday at iic was highly-stimulating. i saw quite a few people clicking photos, recording videos, and perhaps blogging etc. could you please point me notes, transcripts or other logs of his wonderful talk? it

Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss

2007-06-11 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
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Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss

2007-06-11 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 22:12 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: hi, eben moglen's talk on saturday at iic was highly-stimulating. i saw quite a few people clicking photos, recording videos, and perhaps blogging etc. could you please point me notes, transcripts or other logs of his wonderful talk?

Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv

2007-06-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, eben moglen's talk on saturday was moderated by paranjoy guha thakurtha. after the talk he mentioned to me that within one hour he was interviewing eben for a tv report. here are the details: 17 june 2007, 6pm, on loksabha tv yup, that's a bit of an

Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv

2007-06-11 Thread Linux Lingam
irony at its best pre-requests for breaking the law, for Eben's content! - KB ummm.. maybe not. i just googled the lok sabha tv site,. they seem to webcast their shows. so you could check it there. i also hope eben moglen requests if not insists, that his segment be published under a

Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv

2007-06-11 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
Karanbir Singh wrote: Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, eben moglen's talk on saturday was moderated by paranjoy guha thakurtha. after the talk he mentioned to me that within one hour he was interviewing eben for a tv report. here are the details: 17 june 2007, 6pm, on loksabha tv yup,