Re: [ILUG-BOM] linux hardware shop in Mumbai, Pune

2008-11-11 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
mailing list archives, moron oh ofcourse, i didn't realise that ... how *idiotic* and *moronic* of me ... SG *tube-light* -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] linux hardware shop in Mumbai, Pune

2008-11-11 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
our very own heroes - Rony and JTD Have they really setup shop somewhere? SG -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-22 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
why? cant we make our own opensource applications? Gimp, blender are all ready there. Things like inkscape and scribus will arrive sooner or later. now if only we had a good not a chalta hai replacement for MS Office! This is the biggest factor for people to shift in my place. Another one is

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-22 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
There can never be a replacement for the crap that is M$office. Even a brainless moron cant write such crap. There are at least two SUPERIOR alternatives Openoffice and Koffice. I use ubuntu 8.04 as my desktop at home but i need excel at my workplace on my laptop. I have tried using OO (not

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-23 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
You are confusing your familiarity of M$ with features of OO. The two have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The OO ui DOES NOT MIMIC M$. so you really need to read the OO manuals and tuts. Put in a pivot and watch the application slow down like hell. Even if we put in a few vlookups

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction!! | Office , Excise CAD

2008-12-24 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
Having played around a bit with Xen in the past few days, I'm interested in knowing what sort of host/guest network issues you've faced. I found the networking to work fine both ways, but then I haven't done any rigorous applications yet. Issues has been mostly due to the cumbersome

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-28 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
Companies exist to provide a service to society. In the process they make money. No they dont. Name one company which exist only to serve society and i shall show you a failed company! Given that they exist to provide a service to society, no they don't sir. Ofcourse there are any

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-30 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
They marketed their product so well that more and more people wanted to buy it, this helped in bringing down prices. Enough for us to sit and argue over in on our own personal computers. You make me laugh. Just do everybody a favour by reading up about the various law suits filed against the

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-30 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
where did you get the 90% figure from? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows#cite_note-5 operative idea being majority -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux addiction !!!

2008-12-30 Thread Sachin Gopalakrishnan
Not so newbie thinks 1) M$ popularised the desktop 2) is good at marketing 1.i don't think i really fancy myself as an authority of computing history so i respectfully forfeit .. 2. Good at marketing..actually great at marketingnothing to show otherwise :/. The brand MS is way higher than