That's really awesome!!! On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 18:42, sreekanth sasikanth <[email protected]>wrote:
> Well hi guys.. Talking about Women and FOSS.. I have an excellent example > to make!! :).. MY MOM!! :D... She is an ardant fan GNU/Linux :D..she uses > only GNU/Linux to surf net, listen to music, etc etc. Shes now 42 and she > learnt GNU/Linux 6 months back and shes quite good at it as a user ;).. And > oh yes...she also respects our policies and knows them quite well :)... > > 4 months back when the Airtel person came to connect net, my mom > was working on GNU/Linux. She said to him "One sec, lemme restart the > machine to Windows, now i am on Linux"... He was like "What the hell??!!! > :-O" expression...ha ha ha ha :D... it seems for the first time he was > seeing a House Wife use GNU/Linux ;)... > > Oh yes...now u people would be asking me "WINDOWS??". Well > yes...unfortunately there is one thing that is forcing to keep that dreaded > OS on my machine :(...and that is recording from my TV tuner. I managed to > get my card running on the machine with some work arounds in GNU/Linux... > But dint find a good app to record it.. searched it helter skelter but in > vain!! actually i found a code in python which records video using > Mencoder..but it doesnt work as i expected...so working on the code now to > modify it make it work my way (Thanks to Free Software once again..without > the code, i would be screwd ;) )... Oh and yess!!! now mom is behind me > everyday asking "did u fix the recording...did u fix the recording..." he he > he ;)... > > Now hows that for a change to "Women in FOSS" ;)... Well its not a > story..its the truth :).. > > Warm Regards, > S.Sreekanth > easylinux4u.blogspot.com > > -- Fayaz Yusuf Khan B.Tech. Computer Science & Engineering(2007-2011) Model Engineering College, Kochi, Kerala, India +91-9746-830-823
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