[ilugd] Confirmation : PLUG meeting for Mar. 2008 is scheduled on Saturday 1st Mar. 2008, 4pm @ SICSR

2008-02-26 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
for the meeting. Regards, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi

[ilugd] GNU/Linux Awareness Programme starting from 10th March

2008-02-26 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
for the details or else, come to the next PLUG meeting for clarification. Best regards, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar ___ 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] GNU/Linux Awareness Programme starting from 10th March

2008-02-27 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
do. * ** On 2/27/08, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, We will be starting next batch for the GNU/Linux Awareness Programme from 10th March 2008. The batch timings are 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM IST . About The GNU/Linux Awareness programme

Re: [ilugd] [OT] My dilemma

2008-03-06 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:35 PM, Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone on this list managed to get a refund from any of the major laptop companies. They all package Windows OS with their laptops. Would be interested if anyone has managed to get a refund. That will be

Re: [ilugd] Share Your presentations of freed.in 2008

2008-03-15 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:57 AM, mukul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No Reply till now..:( there may not be any speakers ;-) OR else, the message is reaching dev/null . Hey Hey, just joking.. I think instead of asking/reminding the speakers again, you can put up from their initial

Re: [ilugd] PhD option in FOSS culture

2008-03-29 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Nagarjuna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 12:44:09PM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: Hi, I am a MTech Student, a FOSS enthusiastic for its social and development aspect and more precisely Free and Shared Learning and development. May

Re: [ilugd] Why Schools Must Embrace ODF and FOSS

2008-04-20 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
OT. see more news at how Microsoft is trying to lock students at an early stage http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/19/school-odf-koffice-nlnet/ That reminded me of the old website redhatisnotlinux You may find some archives on the web archive somewhere. (web.archive.org) -Sudhanwa

Re: [ilugd] Advice on buying a laptop and reclaiming M$ tax

2008-04-21 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Yashpal Nagar wrote: Asus Eee PC 900 seems to be a great deal if you really serious about Linux as the OS value for money. First, I thought it's kinda like a toy and then I

Re: [ilugd] a list discussing the ICT policy for education

2008-04-21 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 19 Apr 2008, Nagarjuna G. wrote: Those of you who would like to take active role in shaping the ICT policy of India, please join this group and voice your opinions. This group has members from various

Re: [ilugd] Can we organize such an event?

2008-05-02 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008 17:50:35 +0530 Prakhar Agarwal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can we organize something like this? keep OLPC out of picture at the moment, just consider Ubuntu. any comments would be interesting!!

Re: [ilugd] Are there any Mandriva users in here?

2008-05-10 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Anoop John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering if there are any Mandriva users in here? If so, what is the general feedback about the usability in terms of Hardware Support, GUI based Configuration Tools, Newbie Friendliness? Is it something to be promoted

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-19 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Praveen A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/5/18 Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For starters, can we track this issue on the twiki? If we need to take things to the next level, we have to gather enough law cases and other relevant facts. In general, I

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-19 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
[snip] So I guess there are going to be two parts to this effort/fight: short term and long term. The short term part needs to be dealt with in MRTP and/or consumer court. BTW, meanwhile Lenovo is figuring out their address in India that can receive a legal notice. But what about the

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-20 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 19 May 2008, Sudev Barar wrote: [snip] I did not buy a product from M$ nor I paid for it (the manufacturer may have done) so there is no contract between me and M$? [more snip] Point of order here: A licence

Re: [ilugd] Ubuntu 8.04 on an Asus EeePC 701

2008-05-29 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
[snip] How much did it cost in India? did you check if Eee PC 900 is also available there? share some info about how did you make USB stick bootable; people install ubtuntu even on SD cards. later have 20GB and its hard to get hold of one in UK. I think there are better configurations

Re: [ilugd] Pledge to download FF3 on Release Day

2008-05-30 Thread sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Pratul Kalia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The URI is http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ I have just noticed, there is probably some bug in the pledging process, it gives no notification that your pledge has been accepted or whatsoever. So just

Re: [ilugd] Time for Firefox download -- Download Day 2008 -- today - 10:30 PM

2008-06-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
I am not going to download it during the world record attempt. This is my protest against showing the wrong map of India on their website. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, lets set the world record for Firefox downloads --

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-21 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: Please follow up the discussion on the advocacy-cg to get a better answer (hope this is not against any rule): http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=64464tstart=0

Re: [ilugd] Belenix coming in July Issue of LFY

2008-06-22 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 Jun 2008, Angad Singh wrote: There's a difference between open source and FOSS as is evident and has been talked about a lot in the above discussion. Yes there is, and OpenSolaris is neither Open Source nor

[ilugd] (OT) Video Tutorials

2008-07-09 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, I believe there are many students on the list and there is a scarcity of good online training material on video available to them. Please checkout these video on various topics. There are some 2,086 Videos vailable on various subjects. The project is a joint venture by IITs and IISc. Please

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: Problems with http://www.mcdpropertytax.in/

2008-07-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
and use open standards which you are not using currently. Yours Sincerely, Sudhanwa Jogalekar On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, I had sent the enclosed message to you on May 18, 2008 but have received no reply. The site http

[ilugd] [article] Open Source group sues Quebec government for choosing Microsoft

2008-09-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Forwarded message: Article can be interesting to many activists in LUGs. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 1:57 AM Subject: [article] Open Source group sues Quebec government for choosing Microsoft To: Source:

[ilugd] MAKE ART 2008 OpenOS

2008-09-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Make art is an international festival dedicated to the integration of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) in digital art. The third edition of make art – OpenOS - will take place in Poitiers (FR), from the 24th to the 30th of November 2008. make art offers performances, presentations,

[ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] RedHat/Fedora Crisis - is Red Hat playing Microsoft-like games?

2008-09-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Forwarded message FYI. Probably people from RH or Fedora can comment on this mail. Regards -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Edgar D' Souza edgar.b.dsouza at gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:32 PM Subject: [ILUG-GOA] RedHat/Fedora Crisis - is Red Hat playing

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] RedHat/Fedora Crisis

2008-09-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:18 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 September 2008 20:25:43 Mani A wrote: Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: Fwd: RedHat/Fedora Crisis... We had a long discussion on this in the Ambassador's list https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora

Re: [ilugd] hi ballu bhai kya hal hai

2008-09-23 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:19 PM, amar akshat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arey ee to humaara messagwa hai ..!!hum hi hain ballu bhaiyaa..!! -- V.P , AGE Certified Ethical Hacker, hmm, what is that? I

Re: [ilugd] Can we code in Hindi ??

2008-09-24 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Are we talking about something like this? http://vidagdha.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/programming_in_marathi/ IIRC, one of my friend Somesh (http://guruvision.in) had written complete C programming (I think using turbo C interface) way back in 2001. Check out the news coverage on this page:

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-09-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, M.S.Yatnatti CEO KPN UNLIMITD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Every Body, Could you dare to challenge if redhat puts its logo and art work at your property and products and claim trademark ownership rights ? in the similar way would you object redhat which has

Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor

2008-10-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday-ji 01 Oct-ji 2008, Swapnil-ji Bhartiya-ji wrote: [snip] Previous mail of Raj, Manoj ji, Karan Ji, then Sandeep I find it grossly unfair that neither Sandip nor I rate a ``ji'', specially considering that I'm

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-10-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Praveen A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/9/30 Sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It is really unfortunate to know that people of CEO level are not able to understand the Trade Marks and Licenses. I believe what you meant was Trademarks and Copyrights. You can

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India print Magzine India

2008-10-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, I assume that MSY is a troll but still going ahead and adding in the thread as the discussion is useful for many people who are not so clear about this whole thing. MSY, Please understand the difference between Trade Marks, software licenses, Free software , commercial software, proprietory

[ilugd] useful website : Hardware4linux.info

2008-10-05 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, I came across this really nice website http://hardware4linux.info Hardware4linux.info is a web site to lookup and report hardware compatibility and incompatibility with Linux distributions. Components are rated according to their Linux compatibility. This can be useful for all the people

Re: [ilugd] Is it illegal to redistribute RHEL? Open Letter To Linux For You India

2008-10-12 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear MSY, People are trying to help you understand things in the proper context/perspective. However, it seems that you are still not able to accept anybodys opinions/views. That leads you to a dead end and nobody can help you at that point. First of all, it was a wrong starting point -- some

Re: [ilugd] Understanding the GNU GPL definition of free software. Is The classification of free and commercial Linux Distribution is incorrect.?

2008-10-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Oh no. Not again. The other thread was correct for this mail. On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:37 PM, M.S.Yatnatti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, All Linux distributions are free. Free means freedom and not about cost. whether they call themselves free or commercial. GPL is all about four

Re: [ilugd] [OT] The Google Cookie Conspiracy

2008-10-23 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 11:55 AM, narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Totally agree with Pradeepto. How come some one give a certification and say *go my boy you are now allowed for ethical hacking*™ , worse part is redefining hacking. Pradeepto has given a very nice explanation.

Re: [ilugd] FSF, say goodmorning to Microsoft Azure

2008-10-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's about time the free software foundation (fsf.org) as well as free software supporters, advocates, and evangelists, lifted their heads from the sandbox most of them have buried their heads into. for software has

[ilugd] Ubuntu’s Shuttleworth: “I don ’t think anyone can make money from the Linux de sktop”

2008-10-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Some interesting reading here: Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: I don't think anyone can make money from the Linux desktop Check out this URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2894tag=nl.e539 --Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~~ www.sudhanwa.com

[ilugd] (OT) US court throws out most software patents

2008-10-31 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Got this news from the IRC just now. Read more here: Much of the patent portfolio of some of the world's biggest software companies has become worthless overnight, thanks to a ruling yesterday by the US patent court. http://www.itexaminer.com/us-court-throws-out-most-software-patents.aspx

Re: [ilugd] M$ Excel to Open Office Calc Migration

2008-11-25 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
2008/11/25 narendra sisodiya [EMAIL PROTECTED]: rule 1 : we will talk about Excel and Calc. rule 2 : we will not talk about moral ,ethical , other issue in adapting Open tools. this mail is meant to deal with practical issue related in migration process. I have done a good debate in my

[ilugd] GNUnify '09

2008-11-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear all, This is a formal announcement about the much awaited GNUnify '09 event. Gnunify started off in 2003 and is successfully organised every year since then. This time, the event will be held on 13-14 February 2009. Gnunify website (http://gnunify.in) will be updated soon to get the new

[ilugd] Reminder about GNUnify '09. CFP is now open.

2009-01-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This is a kind reminder about GNUnify '09 CFP. CFP is now open. Please check http://gnunify.in/09/?q=content/cfp-now-open for more details. The tracks are as follows: 1. Software Development : This track will broadly cover Web 2.0, Programming Languages, Development Tools 2. System

Re: [ilugd] Samba, AD and Windows clients

2009-01-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: Hi, Is it possible to completely replace the active directory and primary and secondary domain controllers in a Winduhs network with one or more Linux boxes? Excuse my vast ignorance of Winduhs, but do you need both a

[ilugd] Reminder : GNUnify '09. just 12 days remaining

2009-02-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This is a kind reminder about GNUnify '09. Just 12 days remaining for the event. CFP is already closed. Delegate registration is open. Some tracks are as follows: Mozilla day, Fedora activity day, PHP. Separate track for academics: for the trainers by the trainers!! Also included sessions

Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1

2009-03-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Talking about copyrighted material but a little OT. On one of the ISO 27001 related mailing lists I am subscribed to, where most of the people are auditors, copyrights are given very high respect/priority. If someone sends some copyrighted material without any proper permissions from the

Re: [ilugd] PM Office switches to Open Source Mailing Solution

2009-03-18 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Dhiraj Gaur dhiraj.g...@gmail.com wrote: Well I was equally intrigued when I read the news piece. Moreover the article never talks of mail server and rather talks of the mail client. In my views this is what might have happened 1. Virus problems might be

Re: [ilugd] Open Source University Syllabus

2009-04-06 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have copies of/links to university syllabus that prescribes open source software in the main (not elective) syllabus? One of our supporters is advising a university in connection with finalizing the

Re: [ilugd] Open House 2009 - 9th l...@iitd workshop

2009-04-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:29 PM, narendra sisodiya narendra.sisod...@gmail.com wrote: All are invited , specially bachcha party. You can think of giving Freeduc (version 1.4. 1.5 has some French interface) and/or Qimo distro for bachcha party !!! These are the URLs: www.ofset.org/freeduc-cd

[ilugd] Programming HowTo's - Python HowTo's

2009-04-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
I found this very useful, interesting. Sharing with you. HowTo find the port on a switch that a host belongs to, the easy way, http://www.linuxdynasty.org/howto-find-the-port-on-a-switch-that-a-host-belongs-to-the-easy-way-part-1.html -- Sudhanwa

Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh

2009-04-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
My sincere request to list moderators: Please put up some filters on the mailing list to get rid of such invitations. Thanks and regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM, pratipal singh pratipalthesar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, You still haven't responded

Re: [ilugd] Personal invitation from pratipal singh

2009-04-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 15 Apr 2009, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: My sincere request to list moderators: Please put up some filters on the mailing list to get rid of such invitations. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 11:36 AM, pratipal singh

Re: [ilugd] virus for linux

2009-04-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM, navneet sharma navneetlinuxexp...@gmail.com wrote: *A Word on Computer Viruses *Viruses are, by definition, malicious pieces of code that replicate themselves. They can do this through a variety of methods, including infecting other executable files or

Re: [ilugd] Some Benefit of Using Linux and Free Software over Windows

2009-04-20 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 3:50 PM, tashi samphel tasa...@gmail.com wrote: I recently posted in DITG mailing list to encourage people to use Linux and free software. Here I would like to take my step toward this new approach to our Tibetan community by making awareness on Open source and their

Re: [ilugd] Need some idea on monitoring softwares

2009-05-04 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Smruti smrutiman...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Karanbir Singh mail-li...@karan.orgwrote: Nagios used to be a good way to do things, a few years back it was also recommended quite widely. But to be honest unless you have lots and lots of

[ilugd] Confirmation: Fuel Marathi L10n meeting on 6th June 6pm @ SICSR

2009-06-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, After FUEL ( http://fedorahosted.org/fuel) Marathi meeting in Gnunify09 and IndLinux meetings ( http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Development_track and http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/Localisation_track ), we had decided to have another meeting to discuss Marathi L10N

Re: [ilugd] I just uploaded a photo that I want you to see!

2009-06-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:10:57 +0530 Devendra Gupta dev29...@gmail.com wrote: Changing the password will not solve this probem because these mails are coming from invitation AT mydailyflog DOT com by the name of

Re: [ilugd] Hi - Stock Market Ticker

2009-06-22 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 11:50 AM, abhishek jain abhishek.netj...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Friends, I have to create a custom ticker for a website which shows information of stock market / MCX commodity exhcange. Where can i grab the data from which site/ XML Feed, I can code in Perl i just need to

[ilugd] Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode

2009-07-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, FYI. People using mibbit for irc on freenode will have to use some other site like http://webchat.freenode.net . Here is a notice from freenode: *** Notice -- Connections via mibbit are no longer supported on freenode. You may wish to consider using http://webchat.freenode.net instead.

Re: [ilugd] Hall of Shame, or Shoot Yourself in the Foot?

2009-07-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:30 AM, Gora Mohantyg...@sarai.net wrote: Hi,  Can anyone confirm this? When I go to http://flykingfisher.com or http://flykingfisher.in I get redirected to http://localhost/welcome.aspx . I can see both the .com and .in properly. They are not redirecting to

[ilugd] (OT).. Microsoft patents XML word processing documents

2009-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Discussions, brainstorming welcome!! The US patent office has granted a Microsoft patent application, 7,571,169, which ... is directed at providing a word-processing document in a native XML file format that may be understood by an application that understands XML, or to enable another

[ilugd] New Distros released

2009-09-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, There are new distro released !! Slackware 13 is released. Read more here: http://www.slackware.com/ Redhat 5.4 is released. Read more here: http://www.redhat.com/ -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! Have

[ilugd] (OT) MIT students snap near-space photos of the earth with $40 Canon A470

2009-09-24 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Wondering what to do with that old clunker of a digital camera you’ve got in your drawer? Try taking photos of space with it. Three enterprising MIT students have successfully launched and retrieved a digital camera in order to snap photos of the earth from the upper atmosphere — and they did it

[ilugd] Announcement: Drupal Sprint India on October 30-31 2009

2009-09-25 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FREE. So, what are you waiting for? Mark your calendar for the event dates!! Best regards, --Sudhanwa Jogalekar ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com Offer projects. Get your work done. Groom your

[ilugd] Reminder: Drupal Sprint India on October 30-31 2009

2009-10-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear friends, This is a kind reminder for the Drupal Sprint 2009 event on 30-31 Oct. 2009. Please visit the website http://drupalindia2009.plug.org.in and register yourself. You can also check out the program schedule and the list of attendees on the website. So, do join in and Contribute to

Re: [ilugd] Unable to install RHEL 5.4

2009-11-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Gaurav Mishra gauravtec...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Vijay Kakkar vijaykakk...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Gaurav Mishra gauravtec...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Cool G hkco...@gmail.com wrote:

[ilugd] Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source

2009-12-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source Why Microsoft could become one of the biggest friends of open source and why Oracle getting its hands on MySQL could be one of the biggest open source coups ever. Read more here:

Re: [ilugd] ILUGD meeting: 2.30pm, Sun., 7th Feb., 2010, SIT, JNU

2010-02-05 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Gaurav Mishra gauravtec...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Long time since we have had a meeting. So, we will be having one this coming Sunday at the School of Information Technology, JNU. Time and place are tentative and feel free to debate on it if

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@sarai.net wrote: Copyright is entirely distinct from licensing. If I write a piece of code, or acquire copyright over it by some other means, I can choose to license it to

Re: [ilugd] Protecting my copyright

2010-03-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Raj Mathur r...@linux-delhi.org wrote: On Wednesday 03 Mar 2010, narendra sisodiya wrote: No , this do not happen, You write a book, most publisher just print  your name as author but copyright and license to distribute is with  publisher. this is must like a IT

Re: [ilugd] (OT) Computer system from Pune launched in CEBIT !! Runs FOSS!!

2010-03-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, DSK Digital (part of the DSK group from Pune) has launched this Texas Instruments OMAP3 600mhz ARM based full Linux computer system for a whole bunch of low power, even solar powered computing for on the field healthcare, e-governm...etc. etc. And it runs FOSS !!! Interested to know

Re: [ilugd] FOSS in Indian University curricula

2010-04-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
[snip] On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Srinivasan Sundararajan srini...@gmail.com wrote: I would appreciate if you could send me the copies of / links to FOSS subject offered in the curricula. I also welcome related suggestion / queries. As part of my official duty at NRCFOSS, the syllabus

[ilugd] linux compatible tv tuner card

2010-06-02 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, I am trying to record some videos from a camcorder to a linux box. ( Next phase will be live streaming !! ) I need a tv tuner card or some other similar device so that I can get the input to the PC from the camera. I have tried many TV tuner cards available in the market. Most of them are

[ilugd] (OT) Nice comic strip on most of the FOSS top people

2010-07-23 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Nice comic strip here: http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/eric-buys-an-ipod Rather old but still enjoyable!! -Sudhanwa ps: nothing personal.. just fun!! ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

[ilugd] Firefox's next big innovation: A new OS-like interface

2010-07-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Firefox's next big innovation: A new OS-like interface Check out more here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/firefoxs-next-big-innovation-a-new-os-like-interface/37277?tag=nl.e539 --Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.sudhanwa.com

Re: [ilugd] India's $35 Tablet- The Everything Killer

2010-07-29 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:30 PM, Vivek Varghese Cherian vivekcher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On July 22 a $35 (or 1500 INR) hand-held Linux computing device was unveiled by Shri Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Human Resource Development of India. The goal of the project is to lower the

Re: [ilugd] Get Free of Cost SchoolOS DVD* (conditions apply)

2010-08-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hmmm Yet another Distro. I could see only few packages for education. All others are same as a generic distro. Why not use QImo, FreeDUC, Edubuntu and others instead of this distro? The key to a successful distro is support. Are you ready to give support to the users and even more to your

Re: [ilugd] [X-Post] Guest account in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-08-01 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Mandriva comes up with a Xguest account by default. This guest user has similar permissions/access rights like any generic user. However, nothing is saved on the disk. Once the user logs out, whatever the contents has created is lost. Not sure if you want similar functionality for user. May be

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Software patents are not allowed in India. No point in wasting energy related to software patents. There could be some interesting case about the patents in the products Micosoft is selling in India. What will be the validity of such patents within the products. Legal experts, please comment.

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-10 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
against these patents. Can you please give some examples or the URLs for the said patents. Need to find a lawyer to fight against that. -Sudhanwa Venky = On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Software patents are not allowed in India

Re: [ilugd] Software Patent Busting at CIS

2010-08-13 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
2010/8/10 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: On Tuesday 10 Aug 2010, Ankit Chaturvedi wrote: I'm not a lawyer, though i have been on the wrong side of software patents many times. It's not completely true that software patents are not allowed in india. The simple answer is, it

[ilugd] Qimo in Marathi

2010-08-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, Last week I downloaded Qimo 2.0 (http://www.qimo4kids.com ) distro. It is a distro for kids. Based on Ubuntu, it has the lightweight XFCE interface. I just wanted to check the contents and how the packages are in the new version. Old one was nice and the current release is excellent and

Re: [ilugd] Need Linux Implementation Guys

2010-08-19 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: 2010/8/19 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org Thanks for posting the opening. For future reference, please be sure to mark all such posts to the list with the tag [COMMERCIAL] in the

[ilugd] Fwd: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets

2010-09-09 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Kaustubh Naik naikaustubh at gmail.com Date: Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 10:53 PM Subject: [ILUG-GOA] Broadcom releases an open-source driver for its wireless chipsets To: ilug-goa ilug-...@yahoogroups.com As someone has already said, better late than

Re: [ilugd] How to get wifi on visit to Delhi

2010-09-20 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Llywelyn Owen il...@spamtracker.co.uk wrote: Greetings from North Wales Linux User Group! I will be visiting Delhi in the next week or so to work on the Games coverage for a fortnight. I plan to bring my Linux Netbook to keep on top of my email. Some of my sad

Re: [ilugd] Job in Linux Administration

2010-09-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, But i am a fresher. I am working on LINUX platform for the last 2 and half years. So will i get a job in Open source or not, is there a chance? The answers are here.

[ilugd] Mifos, the microfinancing application of the Grameen foundation

2010-09-30 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, This FOSS application requires people for translations/localisation. Hope you will contribute. -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Gerard Meijssen Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:08 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mifos, the microfinancing application of the Grameen

Re: [ilugd] Dharna against Dreamspark

2010-10-17 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Anupam Jain said on Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 05:09:38AM +,:    How is the brand of my cellphone relevant? If you are questioning   my loyalty to free software, rest assured sir, I'm as much holding   my breath for a

Re: [ilugd] Starting Ilug JNU Chapter

2010-10-26 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Kapil Gupta navka...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, On behalf of Linux User Group , JNU. I would like to tell that we are have started a google group. To join please click http://groups.google.co.in/group/lugjnu/subscribe If you can get your faculty members,

Re: [ilugd] Open Standards policy finalized--major victory for the FOSS community

2010-11-12 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
+1 On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Mahesh T. Pai paiva...@gmail.com wrote: Venkatesh Hariharan said on Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 05:41:52PM +0530,:   The open standards policy has been finalized and it incorporates many of the   suggestions made by the FOSS community in India. In the previous

Re: [ilugd] Questions on software applications

2010-11-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi, If you can give a context for your questions, it will be better to understand them and find probable answers. Not that I know the answers, but it will be even better if you can specify versions/releases of the software instead of just saying anything prior to 2005. Oracle, SQL server, Lotus

Re: [ilugd] Server is hacked, pl. advice

2010-12-07 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Dear Kuldeep, Starting with a clean OS is always better. You are sure about the things you have installed and working for you. In the current scenario where there are many things running without authorization, there could be some traces of the same even if those things are stopped, cleaned.

Re: [ilugd] Server is hacked, pl. advice

2010-12-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:17 PM, abhishek jain abhishek.netj...@gmail.com wrote: hi, This is christmas / season time and clean install is not possible as there will be downtime, i will have to wait for this until mid jan, On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Ravi Kumar ra2...@gmail.com wrote:

[ilugd] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

2010-12-08 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 13th December, 2010 at Pune. This is third wikimeetup in Pune. Erik Möller,Deputy Director,Wikimedia Foundation,  Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation,  Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be

Re: [ilugd] Creative Commons License is not made for you : Here is something better

2010-12-15 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
INAL. TINLA. Is this NPDL license document itself under NPDL? If yes, what happens if I change it? -Sudhanwa On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Narendra Sisodiya naren...@narendrasisodiya.com wrote: INAL. TINLA. Well,  is this my first article against Creative Commons License. actually not.

[ilugd] GNUnify '11

2011-01-21 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Please read the announcement below. Also note that the CFP is already open. -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: webmas...@plug.org.in Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 7:17 PM Subject: [PLUG] GNUnify '11 To: plug-m...@plug.org.in GNUnify '11 excellence exemplified An Open

Re: [ilugd] Request for suggestion for setting up Asterisk based call-center

2011-03-21 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Gora Mohanty g...@mimirtech.com wrote: 2011/3/21 Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) r...@linux-delhi.org: On Monday 21 Mar 2011, Gora Mohanty wrote: In other words, you need an air gap (the words from the document that defined this restriction) between your network and

Re: [ilugd] Open source project to get into.

2011-04-05 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Prashant Batra prashant0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I read it somewhere, motivation is only needed to get started with a thing, then it is the thing that drives you on. I feel, this holds true for any of the open source projects. Hmmm From your past

Re: [ilugd] [ Job / Commercial] Linux Kernel Developer / Windows Kernel Developer for Pune Location

2011-04-05 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Interesting !!! Not giving the company name !!! :-( Looks like this is completely close source company coming here for headhunting. :-( -Sudhanwa On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Rits D rits4...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone !! Greetings. We are US based large MNC and NASDAQ

[ilugd] (OT) Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS

2011-05-27 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS. Many Indic websites applications will now be affected Read more here: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-some-of-our-apis.html Looks like this is the right time for FOSS community to create their own APIs --Sudhanwa

[ilugd] FYI : eBooks, Project Gutenberg, founder obituary

2011-09-11 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
FYI http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Michael_S._Hart A fine tribute to a great achiever and source of inspiration for the progress of open knowledge. --sudhanwa ___ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org

Re: [ilugd] Looking for an Android Developer for App Dev Contract

2011-12-28 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Saurabh Jain saurabh.j...@gmail.comwrote: Within the same LAN, it is legal. You can transfer incoming PSTN lines over IP to any point within your network. You can even transfer over WAN to an office in another SDCA. On the outbound front, you can't initiate

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