On Wednesday 21 September 2005 04:23, dipankar das wrote: > Hello Friends > > For the last 24 hours or so i am connecting to Net through Dataone. It is > working fine. But, the problem is, the site that i connect for all the > technical things with Dataone, like Usage Info and Password and all, the > Dataone site http://10.240.43.216 is a site that does not work with > anything other than the MSW browser IE, and an MSW environment. So, as a <snip>
See the other site. Opera works fine on FC3,4... Ensure that Java is installed. They have two sites one for IE, one for opera and none for firefox or konqueror or mozilla. ...apparently. I use opera. <snip> > The irritation is persisting in me from some time back when i was a bit > involved in teaching IT in my college. It lacked teachers and so summoned > me to get involved in it, though my subject is economics. And what i > discovered was more than disgusting. The university curriculum directly > mentions things like MS-DOS, MS-Word and all, all brand-names. Can an > university, a public body for education, do it at all without violating > human rights? And, do you know anyone or any organization figthing legally > on an issue like this? BSNL may be a small fry in this, but the issue is worth mass action and lawsuits. The problem certainly cannot be tackled by law-suits alone. It is certainly a human rights issue... which must be developed to be made into a law. As it is western and Indian law have nothing much for rights of people as they have for corporate tools of manipulation. It starts from the way the law of torts is used. A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
