Re: [ilugd] Any motorola linux mobile owners / developers / enthusiasts here ?

2008-02-01 Thread Anant Narayanan
My mobile is low end and forces me to type mails the way i type sms. Use T9 input. -- Anant ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008

Re: [ilugd] fossconf update

2008-01-24 Thread Anant Narayanan
Also, since not all of them are being held at the same place, it is difficult for the audience to visit each of them. If you spread it around the year, you might have the same people getting to visit all of them. which is not desirable - that is what is happening now Why is it not

Re: [ilugd] Wants UBUNTU CD

2008-01-18 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 18-Jan-08, at 5:39 PM, Sriram J wrote: is it possible to pirate a linux distro. i mean if i make a copy of a linux cd and give to a friend free is it piracy. You are encouraged to distribute as many copies as you like. It is not piracy. -- Anant

Re: [ilugd] Linux webcam

2008-01-13 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 14-Jan-08, at 1:12 PM, Sriram J wrote: So i am back to my original question Does the idea of open source take precedence over usability. It's simply a matter of personal preference / ideals. I know people who would not use proprietary software even if it out-performs or is more usable

Re: [ilugd] using Voice/sms with data cards

2007-12-26 Thread Anant Narayanan
With all tata reliance data cards/ usb modems.. there is voice+sms feature, which works only in the windows interface.. has there been any RD into getting voice+sms working in Linux? or where to find more clues on how to use it or reverse engg. it? SMS Server tools [1] works with existing

Re: [ilugd] amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod

2007-12-02 Thread Anant Narayanan
On 03-Dec-07, at 9:20 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: 1. MP3 is covered by software patents. 2. India does not have software patents. When you put (1) and (2) together, the only conclusion that you can reach is that MP3 is not patentable in India, and hence free to use. OTOH, the headline of today's

Re: [ilugd] amarok on ubuntu wants to initialize ipod

2007-11-30 Thread Anant Narayanan
what gives? anybody, jimi hendrix wants to know are you experienced? have you ever connected a spankin' new pod straight out of the box to the linux thing and got it singin' the blue-screen of death metal? It depends on the firmware version. All versions except the latest one are

Re: [ilugd] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-11 Thread Anant Narayanan
Open source game development won't work.. but game development using open source source software will.. let me give you my 2 rupees.. :D The accepted practice as far as open source game development goes is to keep all the 'code' open, and just that. A viable business model is to keep the code

Re: [ilugd] Spam Re: Hindi Rendering Problem

2007-10-07 Thread Anant Narayanan
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: it is not distro specific - I have seen the same problem in firefox on mandriva2007, Ubuntu 6.10, and on a Mac. On all these three platforms konq (on linux) and safari (on mac) render perfectly. And so does *every* single other application on these platforms.

[ilugd] Planet ILUGD is down?

2007-09-23 Thread Anant Narayanan
http://planet.linux-delhi.org/ gives an empty directory index. -- Anant ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at:

Re: [ilugd] Multimedia work at Sarai, CSDS

2007-05-27 Thread Anant Narayanan
expand the topics of interest posted for the RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships to include areas such as multimedia tools? Regards, -- Anant Narayanan http://www.kix.in/ gpg --recv-keys 0EF6914E [EMAIL PROTECTED],gentoo.org,php.net ___ ilugd mailinglist

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

2007-05-10 Thread Anant Narayanan
PJ wrote: Maybe the proprietary OSX UI layer would count, since it wraps a BSD based system. But I'm not sure it really matters, since it is just a wrapper, so you could do the same to a GPL based system. I'll only really worry about usurping if Apple becomes dominant, rather than the 2nd tier

Re: [ilugd] GPL/BSD (yet again)

2007-05-07 Thread Anant Narayanan
Manoj Srivastava wrote: Is there any other way that the BSD is better for developers than the GPL is? Yes, it allows your software to be linked -or- bundled along with software licensed under the so-called GPL-incompatible licenses; something that isn't possible in the GPL (the LGPL

Re: [ilugd] Freed 2007 - Thoughts on the name?

2007-05-05 Thread Anant Narayanan
Well, in software, there are several known examples where Microsoft has taken BSD code, altered it, and tried to lock users in to their way of doing things so that they can exploit them forever after. To an extent they have succeeded more than failed. This is the reason why GPL is

Re: [ilugd] M$ can be sued

2007-02-10 Thread Anant Narayanan
Is this e-mail client Free Software? does your cellphone run on free software? My cellphone does not have an email client. So it is like asking whether your fridge runs on Free Software. But you use GMail, which most definitely isn't Free Software :) Point is; there are still plenty of

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-08 Thread Anant Narayanan
And please, for those focusing on the practical side of Linux, it would be best that you stay away from this discussion. You obviously don't look at the larger picture. There would be no Linux/FOSS if people only focused on the practical side. BS. F/OSS was doing great without all the

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-07 Thread Anant Narayanan
(b) Does MS' presence at LA contribute to that focus or detract from it contributes +1. By actually spending a lot of money on LinuxAsia, Microsoft has publicly acknowledged that fact that F/OSS is a force to be contend with. This wasn't the case sometime back; and therefore, this is a

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-03 Thread Anant Narayanan
i dont think our main weakness is money. Our main weakness is that we dont like to make waves, we want to be popular and friendly with everyone, so we dont protest - we compromise and get trampled over. The only way to face a bully is to stand up to him. Not so. I think at-least 70% of

Re: [ilugd] The MS trojan horse in Linux Asia 2007

2007-02-01 Thread Anant Narayanan
Anyone who doesn't compromise my goals for an event. It's like this: you give me this much money and you get this much. Yup, I will. If Rajindar da Dhaba wants to sponsor the next whatever, I say lets go for it =) But won't it be weird if Santa's Dhaba sponsors the food fest at Banta's Dhaba?

Re: [ilugd] OT: Cribbing

2007-01-22 Thread Anant Narayanan
I'm sorry but at what time does a mail change from informational to spam? I appreciate all the work going into LA07 but come on, I don't know about others, but the number of posts is starting to annoy me a little. cross-crib Real Spam attacks you with 1,000 messages a day. Informational

Re: [ilugd] webcasts in open format?!

2006-11-18 Thread Anant Narayanan
so what happens to all those who want to view with IE? One need to install some ogg theora player to see the in windows. You can use http://www.illiminable.com/ogg/ to see them using the windows media player. (I haven't tested yet) I've tested the KLite-Codec[1] pack with Windows media

Re: [ilugd] linux for des(s)ert

2006-11-05 Thread Anant Narayanan
staff and students and discussed foss. Some pics are here: http://shanta.linuxops.net/~raju/cgi-bin/photo/index.cgi? mode=viewalbum=/Jaipur-20061103/Jaipur Some more photos of the event are available at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/anantn/tags/nrcfoss - Anant (or KillerX, if you prefer to

Re: [ilugd] linux for des(s)ert

2006-11-05 Thread Anant Narayanan
not loading Hmm, it is for me, I double checked the link. - Anant ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi