Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:56:21 -0700 Nitin Jaswal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bharat, Nitin Jaswal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has requested to be your friend on orkut. To confirm or reject this request click http://www.orkut.co.in/FriendAdd.aspx?accept=trueuid=5080245646850238854 [...] I will

[ilugd] Interesting article

2008-08-05 Thread Anupam Jain
Quoting the first paragraph - If you've ever used Microsoft Access or Excel, you have likely used a product that Mike Gunderloy had a hand in developing. The irony is that Gunderloy himself doesn't use those products anymore. He's given up Microsoft for open source -- and he's not going back.

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread abhishek jain
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:56:21 -0700 Nitin Jaswal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bharat, Nitin Jaswal ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has requested to be your friend on orkut. To confirm or reject this request click

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2008, abhishek jain wrote: Hi all. I would have donated for the ammunition, but i think it is a mistake. Was it? Such spams occur when users (Gora used a better word) sign up for services and readily reveal their Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail userids/passwords during the sign up

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread मयंक जैन ( makuchaku)
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2008, abhishek jain wrote: Hi all. I would have donated for the ammunition, but i think it is a mistake. Was it? Such spams occur when users (Gora used a better word) sign up for services and readily

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Ravi Kumar
if you think over it, this is generally not the problem of the user. And if some user prevent it from happenning event when using such site (as he knows this may happen when he reveals the Orkut or other will send the mails to their friends), then that guy is little genius or more accurately he

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Ashish Shukla
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM, मयंक जैन (makuchaku) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious.. How can a mail originating from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get to the list? If I am not wrong, the email needs to be part of the list before it can post a message to the list? From a 2 year old Orkut

[ilugd] Whats the diff btwn USB Storage and Harddisk?

2008-08-05 Thread Anand Shankar
Whats the difference between a USB Storage Device [Pen Drive] and a regular harddisk, in so far as they present themselves to an Operating System and BIOS? The question springs from a fact that I was told: When we install an OS on the PenDrive, the concept of MBR is not what it is for a Hard

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:15:20 +0530 Ravi Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Decent argument about the possibility of mistakes snipped] I quite agree with what you say, and what others have said. I am prepared to believe that it is not the moron^Wuser that is primarily to blame, but the unethical

Re: [ilugd] Whats the diff btwn USB Storage and Harddisk?

2008-08-05 Thread Ashish Shukla
On 8/5/08, Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whats the difference between a USB Storage Device [Pen Drive] and a regular harddisk, in so far as they present themselves to an Operating System and BIOS? The question springs from a fact that I was told: When we install an OS on the

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:15:10 +0530 Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM, मयंक जैन (makuchaku) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just curious.. How can a mail originating from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get to the list? If I am not wrong, the email needs to be part of the

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Ashish Shukla
On 8/5/08, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] How do the unethical spammers like Orkut (yes, this includes *you*, Google Search) manage this in the USA? Isn't this illegal under the CAN-SPAM act (never heard of a law that was better named). I also think their mail violates,

[ilugd] Bruce Perens: Microsoft and Apache - What's the Angle?

2008-08-05 Thread Praveen A
For a decade, Microsoft was open source's worst enemy, combating it at every turn. But last week Microsoft joined the Apache open source project as a platinum sponsor, promising to put $100,000 per year into a project that beats its own IIS (Internet Information Services) in the market. Microsoft

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2008, Gora Mohanty wrote: How do the unethical spammers like Orkut (yes, this includes *you*, Google Search) manage this in the USA? Isn't this illegal under the CAN-SPAM act (never heard of a law that was better named). I am guessing, in the fine print, alongside the I

Re: [ilugd] orkut - Nitin has sent you a friend request

2008-08-05 Thread Arun Khan
On Tuesday 05 Aug 2008, मयंक जैन (makuchaku) wrote: On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Arun Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 05 Aug 2008, abhishek jain wrote: Hi all. I would have donated for the ammunition, but i think it is a mistake. Was it? Such spams occur when users

Re: [ilugd] Perl script errors - parsing config file

2008-08-05 Thread sonika tyagi
Hi, You'll have to make some changes in your script. Those have been highlighted in blue and red color below. It'll run now. Cheers Sonika On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Sudeep Sharma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have copied this script from this url which solves one of my purpose

[ilugd] Summary workshop for 2007 RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowships: 9/10 Aug., Sarai

2008-08-05 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hello everyone, Below is an announcement for a summary workshop for the 2007 RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowship workshop to be held at Sarai over Sat., 9th Aug., and the first half of Sun., 10th Aug. A detailed agenda will follow once we confirm participation from our out-of-station fellows. The