[ilugd] Report on freed.in at linux.com

2007-10-11 Thread Kishore Bhargava
Enjoy! http://www.linux.com/feature/119743 Cheers...Kishore -- ___ 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] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-11 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 10/8/07, Saleem Ansari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vikram Very nice info. I have been thinking for the last couple of days that can one survive in the Gaming Business if the Game's source code is Open Sourced or GPLed? Well firstly it has to be Business done with games rather than

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

2007-10-11 Thread Kinshuk Sunil
A very simple business model that can work for open source gaming company's... being open source, implies the source code shall be freely available.. however the company can retain the game data... for example, the Quake engines have been open source, however... the Quake game data (PAK and PK3

Re: [ilugd] Report on freed.in at linux.com

2007-10-11 Thread Linux Lingam
On 10/11/07, Kishore Bhargava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enjoy! http://www.linux.com/feature/119743 Cheers...Kishore good stuff by mayank! would be wonderful to post the link to linux-india and a few other mailing lists. those who can, would be wonderful if you could digg and slashdot this.

[ilugd] Presentations at Freed.in

2007-10-11 Thread Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया]
Could someone kindly point me to where I could get access to the following presentations from Freed.in? Ajith Kumar's Free Software in Science Experiments using Phoenix and Ajay Kumar's Free/Open Tools for Free/Open Educational Content. Many thanks in advance, FN -- Frederick Noronha

Re: [ilugd] Presentations at Freed.in

2007-10-11 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Thu, 2007-10-11 at 13:09 +0530, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] wrote: Could someone kindly point me to where I could get access to the following presentations from Freed.in? Ajith Kumar's Free Software in Science Experiments using Phoenix and Unfortunately, Ajith did not show up for

[ilugd] digg creativedot !

2007-10-11 Thread Linux Lingam
dear all, prakash advani has just dugg creativedot! creative.linux-delhi.org http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_users_can_be_creative_too please everyone else on digg, could you please do some mob justice to this ;-) tia :-) niyam ___ ilugd

Re: [ilugd] Removing date mark from pictures

2007-10-11 Thread Shiv
- Original Message From: Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there any tool to remove the dates? Hi, I've used to F-Spot photo manager on Ubuntu to modify the attributes of my photos. Don't know if that would help you! With Warm Regards, Shivkumar linux user no: 450769 blog:

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

2007-10-11 Thread Yadu Rajiv
Anyone other than kinz(cos I already know him lol) doing gamedev?? I think I know another person as well :D ^^ .. ahem.. ok anyone else? Open source game development won't work.. but game development using open source source software will.. let me give you my 2 rupees.. :D First of all, Quake

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] [Gaming] Open source FPS games

2007-10-11 Thread Yadu Rajiv
A viable business model is to keep the code separate from the actual 'content'. You give your game engine away for free; but charge for binary content packs that add a storyline, or offer an online multi-player service, for example. this is exactly what is happening right now.. except the

[ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-11 Thread Puneet Lakhina
Hi, Is it just me or is it that the shortcut in Firefox for moving between tabs on Windows is Ctrl+Number Key while on Linux (Ubuntu) its Alt+Number Key. Ctrl + Number Key doesnt do anything for me on firefox. Firefox 2.0.0.6 Ubuntu 7.04 -- Puneet http://sahyog.blogspot.com/ -- Puneet

Re: [ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-11 Thread Yadu Rajiv
erm.. i used to use Ctrl + Tab to go forward a tab and Ctrl + Shift + Tab to move backward.. :| never really used ctrl + number .. hmmm.. On 12/10/2007, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it just me or is it that the shortcut in Firefox for moving between tabs on Windows is

Re: [ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-11 Thread Kazim Zaidi
On 12/10/2007, Puneet Lakhina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is it just me or is it that the shortcut in Firefox for moving between tabs on Windows is Ctrl+Number Key while on Linux (Ubuntu) its Alt+Number Key. Ctrl + Number Key doesnt do anything for me on firefox. Its not just you. I just

Re: [ilugd] Removing date mark from pictures

2007-10-11 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 10/11/07, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to Ladakh and Kashmir and took lot of pictures. Unfortunately I wrongly set the date now all the pictures have date imprinted on them wrongly. Is there any tool to remove the dates? I did read some where that this information is stored

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Need help choosing a processor Intel or AMD

2007-10-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
VIKAS RATHEE wrote: i suggest u should go for nte products the simple reson being that intel uses more cache size than the AMD which AMD compensates with more clock speed which does not in any case can give the benefit or larger cache size .. so i would suggest intel to you not

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

2007-10-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 11-Oct-07, at 10:37 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: If you choose a license such as the GPL, you also have the added benefit of getting back improvements made to your game engine as you will from *any* opensource license -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Need help choosing a processor Intel or AMD

2007-10-11 Thread Naresh Narang
--- Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VIKAS RATHEE wrote: i suggest u should go for nte products the simple reson being that intel uses more cache size than the AMD which AMD compensates with more clock speed which does not in any case can give the benefit or larger cache

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

2007-10-11 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 12 October 2007 07:08, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 11-Oct-07, at 10:37 PM, Anant Narayanan wrote: If you choose a license such as the GPL, you also have the added benefit of getting back improvements made to your game engine as you will from *any* opensource license Not

Re: [ilugd] Removing date mark from pictures

2007-10-11 Thread Sudev Barar
On 12/10/2007, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went to Ladakh and Kashmir and took lot of pictures. Unfortunately I wrongly set the date now all the pictures have date imprinted on them wrongly. Is there any tool to remove the

Re: [ilugd] Firefox behaves differently on Linux?

2007-10-11 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 12 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it just me or is it that the shortcut in Firefox for moving between tabs on Windows is Ctrl+Number Key while on Linux (Ubuntu) its Alt+Number Key. See http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard -- Alok Silent gratitude isn't very much use to

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

2007-10-11 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 10/11/07, Yadu Rajiv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Open source game development won't work.. but game development using open source source software will.. let me give you my 2 rupees.. :D Open source game development will not work if done in traditional game development style. But if we look int

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

2007-10-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 12-Oct-07, at 7:48 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: as you will from *any* opensource license Not necessarily. If you release your software under, e.g., a BSD-ish licence the person who modifies the software has no obligation to make either the enhancements that she makes or the source code of

[ilugd] Online meeting for RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellows

2007-10-11 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Sorry for the short notice for this, but we are having the first online meeting for the RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellows today (Fri., 12/10) afternoon, from 2-5pm on the channel #sarai at Freenode. This is a public meeting, and everyone is invited to participate, especially as we have an express goal

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

2007-10-11 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 12 October 2007 10:40, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: [snip] and the other side of the coin: if you release under the BSD license, you may not get all the code that is developed modifying your code - but you *will* get a substantial portion of it. And you can use all you get in developing

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Need help choosing a processor Intel or AMD

2007-10-11 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] i also feel the time has come to redefine 'throughput' more carefully than just look at raw computing power. on several machines running gnulinux, have noted the swap setting can at times slow down performance. tinkering with 'low latency' settings in ubuntustudio just shows how every OS

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

2007-10-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 12-Oct-07, at 10:57 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: developed under the GPL, so I'm not even going to start rebutting your irrelevant examples. However,... is it really necessary to get abusive to avoid a discussion? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2007-10-11 Thread Vikram Ranade
Anant Narayanan wrote: P.S. Many thanks to Vikram for pointing us to UrbanTerror, I was/am an avid Counter-Strike fan myself, and this really gets me my fix ;) Anytime! I understand the pain that you must have endured playing CS on Linux :) Vikram

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

2007-10-11 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 10/12/07, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Oct-07, at 10:57 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: developed under the GPL, so I'm not even going to start rebutting your irrelevant examples. However,... is it really necessary to get abusive to avoid a discussion? Ack, This is thread

Re: [ilugd] [OT] Need help choosing a processor Intel or AMD

2007-10-11 Thread Vikas Rawal
Wonder if we could have a site that will allow a user to customise a system in such a way that, as you add/change components, you get to see meters on how the cost changes, how its performace changes, and how its compatibility with linux changes. Wonder if any such thing exists already!! Vikas