Does anyone know of organized (preferably mass) protests against Section 69A
and 69B of the IT-Act, 2009?
[1] http://www.hindu.com/mag/2009/06/07/stories/2009060750090300.htm
[2] http://www.mit.gov.in/default.aspx?id=969
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This is on Slashdot. Read the comments there-- one of the few times
they make sense.
If the protesters were on private property and were asked to leave by
the organizers, they should have. Basic respect for private property.
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Whoever wants to argue about the efficacy of software patents should
make it a point to read this essay by Paul Graham before forming
voicing strong opinions:
http://www.paulgraham.com/softwarepatents.html
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I would advise everyone to not buy any Acer notebook. Their build
quality sucks. And believe me, you might think that build quality does
not matter, but for notebooks it does -- you'll realize it later. The
mousepad of my Acer laptop[1] started misbehaving within 2 months of
purchase. Today, after
Is it possible? Is there a plugin, which can help me achieve this?
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I guess you mean the thread view, you just have to enable that view -
group by thread
I think I already have that on. The difference between a conversation view
and a thread view is that the former also shows the mails sent be you in the
same tree
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Hi,
Has anyone been able to successfully transact on the ICICI Netbanking
website using Firefox 2.0. By transact I mean able to transfer funds,
etc. Basically anything that requires:
(a) your transaction password to be entered, or
(b) the debit card grid verification to be performed).
My
Don't remember *b), *but definitely for *a) *I didn't have problem* *on
Firefox 2.0 (on both Windows RHEL ).
Could you please do small favour? Can you try entering a _wrong_
transaction password and see if the site gives you an appropriate
error or summarily times out your session?
Saurabh.
Couldn't test on RHEL 5;on Windows, ICICI Direct says: *Transaction Password
is incorrect*.
Hmmm, interesting. Why is this happening with me? Consistently. And
not only my account - one more person has tried from my browser with
the same result.
What's your exact browser id string? Mine is --
But the final insight only
came after grovelling through the Javascript code on the page.
It takes a reasonable amount of time and effort, but at the end of it
you usually know exactly what is wrong. For the record, I have
successfully used Iceweasel/Firefox 2.0 for both Netbanking and the
Please do
remember that Freed.in is what the community wants it
to be, so if you do not like the change of focus, please
be at the meeting, and make yourselves heard.
This focus on what the community wants, in my opinion, does not
always work. There are things which need to be driven by a
Hi Gora,
I have attended only one Freed (it was called Freedel at that point)
and the focus seems to have shifted quite a bit since that time (open
source s/w focused event to a more social revolution kind of event).
Therefore, please read my comments in that context -- most of them may
be
If you look at our country (and probably most developing countries), you
will see that the fundamental issues relate to availability of
knowledge, not availability of software.
Posting free CDs of
Linux to people who don't have the computers to run them on won't help
in any of these areas
[As noted by Raj, this discussion should move to the Freed
mailing list (copied on this message). All future follow-ups
there.]
How do I subscribe to it? The Freed 2008 wiki has no link to the
mailing list web interface. The Freed 2007 link (at
Does anyone know what happened? Dec 11 (yesterday) was when the reps had to
be announced.
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you might find the laugh being at your expense, when you realise that
its an outsourced service.
I don't think so. Large corporations have strict guidelines and
specifications that their vendors need to follow. These may include:
* software with exact version
* coding guidelines
*
You can make a difference and call now BIS at +91-1123237991 and help
us to find out:
a. Who will represent BIS on DIS 29500 at the Ballot
Resolution Meeting in Geneva?
Did anyone call BIS? Any information on who will be representing our country
and what their background is?
Nandz.
A group of people started this group to look into this matter. Could those
of you who are interested join in this group and contribute, so that
together we can do something.
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Thanks for the info, Nagarjuna.
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An attempt by Joel Spolsky to explain the Excel bug:
http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/09/26b.html
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http://spicyipindia.blogspot.com/2007/09/spicyip-tidbits_23.html
India, prima facie, does not allow pure software patents or business method
patents. But that doesn't stop companies from trying. The Indian Patent
Office is already being flooded with the patents described as A web based
system to
The final email shows up
correctly in KMail and Thunderbird with the image being displayed
after the disclaimer text, but not so in M$ Outlook. Well it comes as
an attachment on M$ Outlook.
You might want to read the following blog post.
That means, well, M$ is licensing the gnu/linux OS; which M$ cannot do
unless it conforms to the GNU GPL, which means the viral clause in GPL
applies to M$ patents!!!
The clause refering to a royalty-free, non-discriminatory, licence to use
any applicable patents is in GPLv3 and not GPLv2,
Time and again, there have been expressions on this list that
management decisions in ILUG-Delhi are taken behind closed doors.
While I personally feel that ILUG-D is among the most open
organisations that I have been a part of, and strongly resent such
implications, there must be some truth
we should always emphasize that fighting for freedom is a lifelong process
-
as they say Fighting to get freedom is not enough, we have to keep
fighting
forever to preserve it.
that's why the name Free-d -- as in daemon (aka ftpd, telnetd, sshd). So
it keeps waking up in intervals, fights
Mahesh,
Did you get a reply for this?
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Hi,
I'm on Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) and have custom installed the vanilla
kernel version 2.6.15-1 -- I needed it for the SiS190 NIC driver.
I couldn't find DEVFS anywhere in the kernel configuration menu. Adding the
following lines to the '.config' file didn't work:
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
I am ready to shed my pockets for my emails, but i want someone real
expert who can do it. Is anyone of you know a real linux recovery expert?
Also, how much will he charge??
If e-mails (text only) is your primary concern I *think* the following
solution might work:
o You have run mke2fs on
Hi,
I'm planning to purchase a laptop, which would be my new Linux box. I have a
lot of questions which I am listing below. It would be great if anyone could
help me with them -
o I read some articles about Linux running into troubles with Intel Centrino
based laptops -- especially the WLAN
you mean you succeeded in actualy *buying* a book from them? I
salute you
I tried Dial-A-Book (or something like that)... I called them up
every f*cking day for two weeks and the standard response used the be
- The store house/godown has not released the book. It should be
released by tomorrow
I don't quite get the concept of coming to India for a RHCE boot-camp,
but in any case you are welcome. An ILUG-D meet is tentatively
scheduled for Christmas day, the 25th. Mary or somone else can
confirm. You are also welcome to visit Sarai/CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road,
(phone: 23960040) during
The hostnames that you're referring to (Google, Yahoo, etc) have
multiple IP addresses. Any one of those IP addresses (randomly
selected) is returned each time you query a public DNS server. This is
a method for balancing the load amongst multiple servers. Why do you
then want to use only one IP
If I may ask, are you a subscriber to our publication? Are you too helping
to keep us in business? I would be glad to think so.
Interesting question :-)
Which reminds me - has any of us ever donated to any open source
project? Coders need money too!
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Yes, donate to Vishwakarma! I need Rs. 35 crore urgently!
'Vishwakarma' - who/what is that?
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And that reminds me - check the status of the printer using CUPS.
Sometimes these HP printers 'stop' on their own... I had a nasty time
with them.
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I had successfully set up an HP Laserjet 1000 some time ago. You need
to download the firmware and 'cat' it to the device whenever you plug
the printer in (or switch it on). The printer will not function
otherwise. Instead of manually uploading the firmware each time - you
can set up hotplug to
*Are you suggesting that I do this*
cat /usr/share/foo2zjs/firmware/sihp1005.dl /dev/usb/lp0
Simply issue the command given above once you plug-in the printer, and
hotplug detects/initializes that a USB printer has been plugged-in.
After you uploaded the firmware the printer should make some
Because the VFS would be unhappy if mounted media suddenly disappeared
from under it (and was potentially replaced with something different).
That applies to all mounts, not just CDs.
But doesn't the VFS already handle such situations with USB pen drives
and to some extent with network file
# considering your cdrom is mounted somewhere on /mnt/cdrom
lsof | grep cdrom
kill -9 pid
I've tried killing the process (say cp) but that doesn't solve the
problem. I'll try this as well.
But even this solution is a workaround! The CD driver should give up
after some time and throw an
* Disable all unnecessary services,
Yes... That's THE most important factor why linux on the desktop runs
slow... you probably dont need portmap, atd, sendmail, sshd, etc.
etc stop service you don't need!
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We got registered as ``Linux Users Group''. I don't know how the
erstwhile BLUG managed to get Bangalore into their name -- expecting
consistency from Government of India is like expecting a hungry tiger
to pass over an available deer out of compassion :)
Is the registration country-wide?
Watching for this thread to continue with interest. Is this not like
all the people who are for democracy but are not willing to do
anythingon their own to bring it about? Rise up and numbers will sway
the tide of thought.
Out of curiosity - how many people from Delhi (or ILUG-D for that
Say, did you know that the first result on Google for XFree86 TrueType
fonts is a page titled TrueType Fonts on Debian XFree86 4.x Systems?
And it does not mention 'defoma' anywhere!
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# Short Question:
How do I install a debian package which I've (manually) downloaded. I
don't have a net connection so I can't use apt-get or something
similar to fetch an entire package list and then install the package.
# Long story:
I trashed my Reliance connection and subscribed to Airtel DSL
In short, that doesn't sound *AT ALL* like what you should be using to
install a TrueType font.
Perhaps you should follow the instructions on the web page instead.
Hmm...
How come all the fonts installed on my system appear as symlinks in
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d ?
Btw - if you feel
Got it...
# dpkg -i package-name.deb
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for anyother fonts , copy under /usr/share/fonts for systemwide usage
or ~/.fonts for local usage.
Won't i have to issue a ttmkdir (or something similar) command after
copying the fonts to /usr/share/fonts?
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Hi,
Currently Openoffice.org on my computer looks like this:
http://static.flickr.com/30/45386679_aa222327e5_o.png
I find the font on the menus/widgets rather hard to read. How can I
change it to something like Arial?
Also, I have Arial installed on my system (msttcorefonts) - Firefox is
able
Quoting a reply I got on the Debian Users Mailing List:
--- BEGIN ---
You need the FreeType perl module. Go to http://packages.debian.org,
use the search form at the bottom of the page, and enter Freetype.pm.
The result will tell you which package to install.
After installing the package you
Hi,
I've downloaded Akshar.ttf (unicode hindi font) and want to install it
'system-wide', i.e. all applications installed on the system should be
able to use it.
I tried using 'defoma' (DEbian FOnt MAnager) to install the font, but
have not been successful. Here's what I did:
# mkdir
So install FreeType.pm
Which package is supposed to have it? And, why should this file
suddenly disappear?
I had installed the msttcorefonts package which is a collection of
truetype fonts. All of them have installed correctly, apparently
without FreeType.pm
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Yes, ubuntu doesnt believe creating a separate root user is worth the risk of
it being compromised.
Wha? What the?
1. Use 'sudo command' to run a command with root priviledges.
2. Use 'sudo su -' to get a root shell.
Doesn't 'sudo' ask for a root password? I got the following when
Hi,
I am trying to compile MPlayer on my Debian machine but am running into a
problem with the xv video output driver.
MPlayer does not detect the Xv extension at all!
Checking for Xv ... no
Checking for XvMC ... no
I cheched whether I had th Xv extension on my machine at all, and it
MPlayer does not detect the Xv extension at all!
Don't bother - I figured it out - one needs to have the Xv Development
package installed as well!
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4. Roshan Agrawal will be getting poster put at colleges in NOIDA and
Ghaziabad.
Hi,
I would like to put up 2 posters at my office. Roshan, how can i have
them from you? Probably from Vivek...?
I, too, would like to put up a poster or two
I asked something related to Airtel broadband on a different mailing
list and I'm appending snippets of conversation that ensued. Some of
this information might help you:
- BEGIN SNIPPET #1 -
How do you make Airtel work?
The DSL router sits between the POTS splitter and the NIC on your
Saurabh can you plz mention the mailing list .
It's a closed mailing list of members of an admin team @ IITK
maintaing a host of public services (Wiki, FTP indexing, DNS, etc.)
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The messages's content type was not explicitly allowed
Just guessing - are you trying to send HTML mail, or probably sending
out an attachment with the mail?
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linux-delhi.org. The file is named talks-stripped.sxc (it's in
OpenOffice spreadsheet format). Should be approved and available for
download soon.
Could you please upload in text/PDF/HTML format as well!
TIA
Nandz.
PS: Why not post this on the Freedel blog?
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Who has the permissions to post on the Freedel blog? Please put up the
list on the blog!
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Creative
Niyam Bhushan
Creative
More details? Probably the full title of the talk?
Non-Geek Experiences with Linux
Renuka Sane
Ecosystem
This should be really interesting :-)
Pantoto
Dinesh
NGO
More details? Probably the full title of the talk? What's
Has a sufficient number of talks been short-listed?
Any publically available list of talks that have been shortlisted/submitted?
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Hi,
I've just ordered this classic from firstandsecond.com - and can't
wait for them to deliver it... in the meantime... anyone out there
who's already read it? View/reviews?
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- I attended only one ILUG-d meet @ Sarai. That was about 4-5
years back. Have not been able to attend any meeting since then... is
this group Saurabh Nanda unfriendly? Probably I should write a HOWTO
on how to make Linux Users Group Saurabh Nanda friendly!
Did you find that joke offensive? (PS
again for you kind information kindly go to
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
Been there... read that. Not at all informative. The regular
run-of-the-mill stuff!
I haven't been to recent meets... so I can't comment on the women
unfriendly atmosphere there.
So don't
(Oh, and please disabuse yourself of the notion that only women are put
off by crass behaviour. There do exist men who don't think respectful
behaviour is special treatment.)
Okay... brings me back to the point - other than making fun of them
when they specifically ask for special treatment...
If you are using Firefox then have a look at Adblock extenstion and load
a filterset from Filterset.G (http://www.pierceive.com/)
Thanks... it worked!
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Hi,
Any ad blocking software which runs out of the box for Linux?
Preferably available as a Debian package!
I'm on a Reliance connection and man, it's SLOW!!
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what I tries here : to put one entry in /etc/mtab file like this
You are not supposed to edit /etc/mtab. It is updated by mount
automatically each time a filesystem is mounted/unmounted.
So please tell me from which file, I can make the system to mount the
floopy from the user imdps account.
You could use something called SSH X Forwarding... I forget the exact
name right now.
The good-ol' method is:
host1$ xhost +host2
host1$ ssh host2
host2$ export DISPLAY=host1:0
host2$ gimp
Hope you get it... mail back if you want a detailed explanation.
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(The xhost is unnecessary, and the export is wrong, but the idea is
exactly right. :)
Eh? did I mess up something? Why is the export wrong?
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Hi,
Anyone in or near Gurgaon who can lend me his/her Reliance Data Cable
for a day? Basically I want to check whether it works with Linux and
the transfer speeds.
First hand reviews about RConnect with Linux are welcome!
TIA
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Hi Puneet,
Thanks a lot!
I don't remember the exact model of my phone (it's a WLL landline
though). I'll go home and check it and let you know!
How's the speed?
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the speed is not that great - in Bangalore I get 6Kbps. However, the
Is that kilo *bytes* per second, or kilo *bits* per second?
I've already spent some money on RAM and have a Reliance WLL landline
@ home. I don't want to spend more money on installation costs of
Airtel/Tata Indycom/BSNL.
You could probably type about:plugins in the URL bar and see for yourself.
Nandz.
On 14 Jul 2005 15:37:29 +0530, Pardeep Garg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is our Mozilla web browser JVM(Java virtual machine) enabled by
default or we have to enable it ??
-Pardeep
Does anyone know if what they are doing is legal or not ?
I don't know the exact licensing agreement for SuSE Linux, but Redhat
has something like this:
All their work (or almost all) is GPLed. That means you get the four
freedoms on the code. BUT the trademarks and logos are not freely
Try using the 'netstat' command to check active connections. I would use:
$ netstat -al|less
Nandz.
On 7/5/05, nitya bansal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
can anybody answer my question?
my ques is-
if i m doing rsync from remote server 'say A' to my server that means
transfer data from remote
Hi,
I've unsuccessfully tried to print the 'Cable Wallah' article from the
ILUGD downloads section.
(http://www.linux-delhi.org/cgi-bin/anCMS/download.cgi?action=fileDownloaddId=69)
The PDF is not split into pages, its one single continuing document.
Can the original author please upload the
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