Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next LUG meeting?

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 1:23 pm, Rony Bill wrote: Anyway thanks for the address. :) welcome - if you want details on how to reach there, i can oblige -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next LUG meeting?

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 7:31 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: Actually, you can't.  lynx users belong to a very large class of users. These include users of modern browsing devices including handhelds and mobile phones, blind users and users using assistive technology (and who can sue you for

Re: [ILUG-BOM] MySql server on RHEL AS 3.

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 7:39 pm, Mitul Limbani wrote: How bout you paying me INR 1000 and I shall install latest MySQL for your server i'll do postgres for 855 -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! --

Re: Asking RTFM/STFW type questions (was Re: [ILUG-BOM] MySql server on RHEL AS 3.)

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 8:13 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: You might think about why so many of the erstwhile frequent posters on the list post so rarely today as well. why is that so? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! --

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next LUG meeting?

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 7:23 pm, Anurag wrote: Sometime on Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 04:21:52PM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves said: what about lynx users? forget about them Ignoring lynx users? I myself have been stuck in situations wherein i had to get the system up in the mid of night and i had

[ILUG-BOM] masking email addresses in mailman archives

2006-01-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi how do you mask email addresses in mailman archives as done for this list? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Next LUG meeting?

2006-02-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Wednesday 01 Feb 2006 12:44 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: and full of outdated junk - just curious, those dropdown menus can be done with css, would lynx be able to use that? drop-down menus are implemented as unordered lists (think semantically, a menu is just a list of options).  css and

[ILUG-BOM] ssh as root?

2006-02-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, i have 10 websites on a particular server. Each site has its own user and is housed on the user's home directory. Currently, to maintain each site i ssh into it as that user and do the work. I also have to have root ssh'd in one terminal for restarting apache etc. This means keeping 11

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Know not what to say!

2006-02-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 12:07 pm, Devdas Bhagat wrote: not everyone wants to learn about computers - or needs to learn about computers. Most people just want to learn to *use* computers, and most people learn that without much effort. An elitist attitude towards linux and opensource is what

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Know not what to say!

2006-02-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 1:18 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote: No one said that on this list. All that has been said is you need to make an effort to learn and this goes beyond computers. Linux is not a black box. If Linux is a black box, it defeats the whole purpose of Linux as it is supposed to help

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Know not what to say!

2006-02-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 3:36 pm, Philip Tellis wrote: that 'i am good enough to use linux - not you'. For those who just need a black box that just 'works' - linux should provide it. I think it's more like 'I am good enough to set up my own linux box according to my needs - if you're not,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] networking help: Allowing inbound ssh requests. (MTNL router): An Update

2006-02-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 09 Feb 2006 11:50 am, JTD wrote: Excuse the (late) top post. late is excused - why should the top post be excused? -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] networking help: Allowing inbound ssh requests. (MTNL router): An Update

2006-02-08 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Thursday 09 Feb 2006 8:42 am, Abhishek Daga wrote: --- Manish Kathuria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Abhishek Daga wrote: Hello folks, wondering if anyone has tried this and has worked for them? Need someone from the outside (remote location) to access a *nix machine here.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] networking help: Allowing inbound ssh requests. (MTNL router): An Update

2006-02-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
have been trimmed, namely this: snip --- Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hope you dont mind if i ask you to trim quoted material before posting -- Definitely my bad. apologies.  I wasnt sure where to trim and how much. should have erred on the other extreme. /snio

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 10 Feb 2006 1:43 am, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: think people should notice the obvious difference in the attitude of both the original poster, who's a newbie asking what may seem like a stupid question to the experienced users, and these very experienced users who are replying OP is not

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 10 Feb 2006 4:36 pm, Dinesh Joshi wrote: Besides, its become the habit of this list to pick up a seemingly unrelated and trivial point and create a huge (useless) discussion over it. why 'useless', if is obviously useful to those who are participating in the discussion - not every

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 10 Feb 2006 10:56 am, Vinayak Hegde wrote: We have been through the discussion of splitting the list on the basis various criteria twice. Both times the conclusions reached were that it will be counterproductive. I searched through the archives but could not find the thread. IF you

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 10 Feb 2006 1:34 pm, Rony Bill wrote: As a policy to control flames, we can set a limit to the number of mails that indulge in flames, even per person and we can also have a list of preset official statements that only should be quoted as flames for every specific rule break. +1 -

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Friday 10 Feb 2006 7:29 pm, Rony Bill wrote: If splitting starts, then it will also reflect on the lug meets. We will be creating exclusive zones instead of being all inclusive, a fundamental feature of FOSS vis a vis commercial closed software. who is talking about splitting? all you need

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 12 Feb 2006 1:09 am, आनंद (Anand M R) wrote: On 2/11/06, Dinesh Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 20:43, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Friday 10 February 2006 19:29, Rony Bill wrote: 2. If a member asks for a solution that requires him/her to refer to the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Net Telephony on Linux

2006-02-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 12 Feb 2006 1:11 am, Jon Masters wrote: Best thing is that they have a dialer for Linux :) It's proprietary but friends of mine really like it, so it's evidently addictive too :-) +1 - must be nearly 10 years since i have installed prop software on linux, i feel guilty - but then

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Something this list should read...

2006-02-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Monday 13 Feb 2006 8:58 pm, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: snip RFTW? ;-) it is STFW -- regards kg http://www.livejournal.com/users/lawgon tally ho! http://avsap.org.in ಇಂಡ್ಲಿನಕ್ಸ வாழ்க! -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] teaching spamassassin

2006-02-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, recently installed spamassassin. Am running spamd as root and have configured it to work with postfix. I regularly put all the missed spam into a folder and run sa-learn on it. Only thing is, it doesnt seem to be learning. I have fed it over 500 mails so far - but still no learning. I am

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help with CGI

2006-06-28 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 28-Jun-06, at 11:03 AM, ryan coelho wrote: I have been wanting to configure cgi-bin with apache. I have done it before and now I am having no luck. I want to do this on Red Hat 9. afaik it is configured out of the box - what are you trying to do? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help with CGI

2006-06-29 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
script + I will be reading the links sent by you guy http://www.cgi101.com/book/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-06-30 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 30-Jun-06, at 10:29 PM, Rony wrote: I am just curious to know, how do you rate the site www.imetalindia.com? how does one rate a static site? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
it? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
are created before hand, not on the fly -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
employ a developer who built a website with no graphics, no flash - and horror or horrors, no weather report either? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
write good markup. if he doesn't, he'll make mashed potatoes with vangi bath. in my opinion, it doesnt matter whether a static site is written well or badly - it is only written once, so things like maintaining it dont arise -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
the html/css follows some standard or the other, but in terms of how simple it is to update and maintain -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 02-Jul-06, at 5:24 PM, Philip Tellis wrote: the function of a table is ordered presentation of data. Data is best ordered more specifically, tabular data. Use tables only for tabular data and for nothing else. not even for forms - using css for them is a bore -- regards Kenneth

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 02-Jul-06, at 2:28 PM, Rony wrote: On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:52:30AM +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 02-Jul-06, at 11:46 AM, Rony wrote: :) I would rate a site (as a visitor) on its ease of opening up in the browser and the ease with which a visitor can navigate the site

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
, konq and safari - and then screw it up enough so it doesnt look too bad on ie. Until i can afford to hire a html guy, i am not worrying about standards. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
dont get ie problems -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: big indian banks dont allow firefox

2006-07-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 04-Jul-06, at 4:07 PM, Roshan wrote: also with tables, you dont get ie problems What does this mean ? it means that even microsoft finds it difficult to screw up rendering of tables - although they work on it ceaselessly -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
convincing journalists that gimp, inkscape, scribus are the 'equivalent' of quark express, corel draw, adobe illustrator ... -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] SuSe 10.1 issues.

2006-07-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
working and more importantly I cannot get out of bed. Doctors orders :( And yet you typed this reply. he make joke -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
a printing press for several years, so i know what i am talking about) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
~ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
wont cut it. Incidently, one foss tool, blender, beats all its proprietory rivals. And, incidently, latex rocks, but there are very few phd students in the print world ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
it for the time being and work to improve rather than try to sell 'political correctness'. We saw where political correctness led the country in the second half of the last century. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Need techies to demonstrate Ubuntu Dapper at Bombay Press Club

2006-07-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
the article about this. Proof reading the final prints of a company AR is such a horrible pain that i thought it would be preferable to spend time using scribus to automate the process. Which led to reading up on the print stuff. fair enough - i'll look at it again -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [ot] bandwidth patterns

2006-07-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 09-Jul-06, at 9:54 PM, Mitul Limbani wrote: Mumbai Police is the second best worldwide, who are the best? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] [ANN] call for foss student fellows

2006-07-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi NRC-FOSS at AU-KBC is looking for foss student fellows and mentors. Details here: http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/full/AN/ -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [Commercial] Desktop Systems Specialist (4 positions at PNQ)

2006-07-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 11-Jul-06, at 8:48 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: * Must possess strong computer ethics what are computer ethics? avoid keyboard abuse? be kind to mouses? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [OT] Indian progress after 50 years

2006-07-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
-- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [OT] Indian progress after 50 years

2006-07-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 11-Jul-06, at 11:05 AM, Anurag wrote: What are you talking about? FYI, this message was posted by one of the list moderators only. he thinks that every mail is screened by the moderators before it comes to the list -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Airtel Broadband In Mumbai

2006-07-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 11-Jul-06, at 1:28 PM, Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: I remember having seen skype's linux client. Is anyone here using it ? have used it - works out of the box -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ogg Vorbis tag reader.

2006-07-11 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
and your answer -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] mail delivery problem with china

2006-07-13 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cafe Coffee Day goes the GNU/Linux way...

2006-07-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 14-Jul-06, at 12:59 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Have a look at this blog entry: http://g33k.wordpress.com/2006/07/03/the-coffee-now-smells-better/ I saw that in August or so of last year. It runs on RH9, BTW. do you mean that as a pro or a con? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Cancellation of membership of mm.glug-bom.org

2006-07-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 16-Jul-06, at 12:01 AM, amit453d wrote: I do not want to receive further mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] bom.org, please cancell my membership at the earliest. this is self service - you will have to do it yourself -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities, and other sites.

2006-07-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
constitution. Got the time and/or money to spare? this is not about democracy - it is about stupidity. Some specific sites were to be blocked (what good that would do no one knows) so the isps responded by blocking en masse -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities, and other sites.

2006-07-18 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
by terrorists. So the isps responded by blocking the whole site. Like if they wanted osama.livejournal.com to be blocked, the isps responding by blocking livejournal itself -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities, and other sites.

2006-07-19 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
the traffic. what does this mean (not being sarcastic, really want to know) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Fwd: Indian governments blocking blogspot, geocities, and other sites.

2006-07-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 20-Jul-06, at 2:50 PM, Dinesh Joshi wrote: On Thursday 20 July 2006 03:36, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 20-Jul-06, at 12:50 AM, Harsh Busa wrote: saw on some TV channel that govt is refining the order to only certain blogs of blogspot and parts of other sites. which cant be done why

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [COMMERCIAL]Embedded Systems training

2006-07-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 22-Jul-06, at 1:39 AM, Steven Joseph wrote: Alright ... please ignore my previous mail ... this info was what i was looking for .. and for this gem you made us scroll down down down - conserve bandwidth - trim your mails -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Software for drawing graphs.

2006-08-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 02-Aug-06, at 7:55 AM, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: Is there a GNU/Linux package that can draw graphs of values dynamically generated by a program? PIL -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Software for drawing graphs.

2006-08-02 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Software for drawing graphs.

2006-08-03 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 03-Aug-06, at 12:48 PM, Philip Tellis wrote: Since you _are_ a lawyer, I assumed this would expand to Public Interest Litigation. _was_ a lawyer - Python Imaging Library You gave up your degree? how does one do that? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ILUG-BOM] OpenSSL License revoked

2006-08-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
- the license was opensource and is opensource. It has neither been revoked nor been suspended. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
start installing windows on the low cost machines. so we petition uncle bill on this? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
, Suse which work out of the box - the only thing preventing them from dominating is inertia -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 04-Aug-06, at 10:15 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: On 8/4/06, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so we petition uncle bill on this? Or would it be Manmohan Singh uncle (or his remote control, Sonia Aunty)? And speaking of petitions, do they really work at all? fact

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-04 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
, and, believe you me, you will be happier for not knowing hint: try deutsch with an umlaut -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
Ubuntu GNU/Linux or Redhat GNU/ Linux or -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
a nickname - all my chinese friends have nicknames and dont feel insulted when i use the nick instead of the full name -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 05-Aug-06, at 1:18 PM, Kartik Mistry wrote: So how did you go about resolving his query ? He is Uber Windows User and Developer! then he cant be lazy - only ubergeeks can afford to be lazy -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
leave it alone. Especially for the chosen few who use it as their first OS, they lap it up -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Is GNU/Linux only for Geeks?

2006-08-05 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 05-Aug-06, at 9:56 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: Here's an option: Why don't you setup and run that as a business? After all, you have the freedom to do that. Devdas Bhagat he *is* running a business - and I, for one, am a fan -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Meebo

2006-08-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
infected by such viruses is a menace to the community and deserves to be booted. You dont blame the birds that get flu - you just cull them -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wants to 3D IM w/ you on IMVU

2006-08-09 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
could be taken offlist. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Perl Hashes.

2006-08-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
would that be? that, if memory doesnt fail me is the broken utf-8, 5.8 thing that sent me off to python ;-) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] NRC-FOSS is looking for project scientists

2006-08-10 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
the mistake ... fasten your seatbelt kiddo, the flames are coming :) Regards, actually it is a good, relevant question. Who is RMS? A person well known in the 20th century who has outlived his time -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
was around 2002. And so far i havent read a single thing he has written - although i have read almost everything ESR has written. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
is. i beg to differ - it will remain a failure in India at least until people stopped sounding off and started writing code -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-14 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
of India in 20th century. in fact this country only started making real progress when the ideas of the above were dropped in favour of something more practical -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
amount of foss code *is* written for those platforms - see the top 20 on sourceforge -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-15 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
. Repeat steps 1--13 since i am guilty of all the steps except 8,9,10? and 13 - i qualify as a FOSS celebrity - w00t -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in Mumbai

2006-08-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
and modifiable -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: [OT]fetchmail + gmail: How to prevent downloading archived mail

2006-08-20 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 18-Aug-06, at 6:02 PM, Aparna Appaiah wrote: Sorry for not labelling the mail OT!! it is not OT -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Installlation of himachi web server

2006-08-21 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 21-Aug-06, at 4:22 PM, Sanket Medhi wrote: Himachi? O.o Never heard of it. this is a candidate for the the most useless post of the year. (Hamachi) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman

Re: [ILUG-BOM] ubuntu and wine: some updates

2006-08-28 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
ignored it and i had to redo it allowing the default partitioning -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Why Free Software won't work in the mainstream

2006-08-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Aug-06, at 2:50 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: Guess the above would be a good enough material for a response to the column why are you sending this twice to the list? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: Why Free Software won't work in the mainstream

2006-08-31 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 31-Aug-06, at 5:01 PM, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: So if FOSS becomes THE mainstream way, the idea of *software product* in the earlier sense (write once, sell many times) will die. not if, when -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
for this is that most people, including fanatical supporters have never actualy *read* the GPL although they think they have. There are even people who believe that the GPL cannot be revoked once granted. btw, i have now read the GPL -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
on this issue. Recent case jorg schillings cdrtools was relicenced only under the CDDL so Debian has thrown out cdrtools and forked a gpld version for further development. could you give the case law. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
the copyright of the patch is handed over to it. The idea of the GPL is to *subvert* copyright so that noone in practice has copyright over the work. But that only works if a sufficient number of people contribute code to the work. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-06 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
to prevent further use of the code. But the fact that it can be done is what scares the sh*t out of a lot of people. So how to prevent this? Best way is to make sure lots of people contribute code to the project (as i mentioned in another post on this thread) -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
gpl No no u misunderstood. Not the gpl but revocation of copyright. There are precedents on revocation of copyright. who is talking about revocation of copyright? There is no such thing anyway. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
for compensation. Good faith etc etc only applies if you have paid for the license. And the GPL nowhere promises that the license given is not revocable. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
a license can be revoked (unless the license clause is violated). there is no clause saying it can be revoked - by definition the copyright holder can revoke the license unless 1. there is a clause saying it is irrevocable 2. the license has been paid for -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
should be clear on what it means and not BS people who have genuine doubts. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Suitable distro for an old computer?

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 08-Sep-06, at 2:40 PM, Rony wrote: Mandriva 2006 and it is simply too good. Your neighbour should use Mandrake 10.1. Mandrake 10.0 for 96mb ram - X is a bit slow, but useable. 10.1 may not install at all -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [ILUG-BOM] 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL

2006-09-07 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
reasons for the revocation. he need not give reasons - notice is enough. But he has to file suit to enforce it - i doubt he will. No one who has met eben moglen would willingly take him on unless huge amount of $ is involved -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED

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