[FOSS Nepal] Re: MEMBERS OUTSIDE KTM PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR IDEAS TO FOSS NEPAL. WE NEED YOU.

2007-06-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Wow. this is turning out to be quite a long and interesting thread. I have come across a lot of people from outside the valley who are perhaps more familiar with the ground realities of Nepal than most of us and are really enthusiastic in getting technologies there yet suffering from the same legac

[FOSS Nepal] dev-FKK

2007-06-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Hey guys, We are all really excited about how FKK is gaining pace now but how about getting up the scale a little bit and having a different FKK that focuses on the really core technical issues with FOSS.. like development.. core technologies and how to implement them. So far, FKK is more like a

[FOSS Nepal] Re: MEMBERS OUTSIDE KTM PLEASE CONTRIBUTE YOUR IDEAS TO FOSS NEPAL. WE NEED YOU.

2007-06-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 6/18/07, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Prasanna Gautam wrote: > > homogeniety is unachievable all over nepal in a similar fashion that > New > > York is always the hub of new things even though US is so advanced.. so > we > > need to

[FOSS Nepal] Fwd: Freedom Toaster at Nepal

2007-06-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Recent development in FT thing... -- Forwarded message -- From: Brett Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 18, 2007 10:09 PM Subject: Re: Freedom Toaster at Nepal To: Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Prasanna, > Hey Brett, >Sorry for a late resp

[FOSS Nepal] Re: dev-FKK

2007-06-19 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 6/19/07, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jun 18, 7:47 pm, "Prasanna Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > Since a lot of us are technically minded people here (ok > > most of the people who are particip

[FOSS Nepal] Re: About Touchscreen for Freedom Toaster.

2007-06-19 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Hope some good news comes along. :D On 6/19/07, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This may not be very important or relevant. But since touchscreen was > mentioned in some previous discussions, I am posting all the > information I have at the moment for other members to see... I was >

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Second Earth! A good news if you are a resident of Second Life!!

2007-06-19 Thread Prasanna Gautam
just when i feared World of Warcraft is just WoW.. now it's www... damn... On 6/20/07, Shankar Pokharel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > In current issue of Technology Review, Wade Roush writes: > > "The World Wide Web will soon be absorbed into the World Wide Sim: an > immersive envi

[FOSS Nepal] Nepali DVORAK

2007-06-19 Thread Prasanna Gautam
we all know there are 2 major types of keyboard layouts in english and most latin based languages: qwerty and dvorak. Its generally accepted that dvorak is the more scientific one.. and IMO it is. Is there any equivalent keyboard layout in Nepali that is more ergonomic? --~--~-~--~~---

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Nepalinux 2.0 released on 20 june 2007

2007-06-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
aite.. download em.. i believe it's gotta be free.. On 6/20/07, Ujwal (RUBBOT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yeah Congrats NEPALINUX-TEAM, > great 2,000,000 nepali words and support. > I wish to set up ltsp in Nepalinux ... > But no file to download. > What about the price of nepalinux CDs. > >

[FOSS Nepal] Re: A short and sweet Anatomy of the Linux kernel

2007-06-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Thanks for sending it on foss-nepal... I would suggest everyone techy enuff (ok it's not soo techy anyways) to subscribe to IBM developer works for these infos.. On 6/21/07, Shankar Pokharel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-kernel/?S_TACT=1

[FOSS Nepal] Re: A short and sweet Anatomy of the Linux kernel

2007-06-21 Thread Prasanna Gautam
if u r looking for rss http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rss/ On 6/21/07, Bipin Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > X-No-Archive: > > > On 6/21/07, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for sending it on foss-nepal... I would suggest everyon

[FOSS Nepal] MacFUSE

2007-06-21 Thread Prasanna Gautam
raise your hand if have ever tried making a filesystem.. hehe.. ok i haven't.. although this video deals with macfuse but you know, since it's a derivative of libfuse used in linux to mount ntfs partition (with read write permissions)... it gives a lot of idea abt FUSE and some samples... http://ww

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Nepali DVORAK

2007-06-21 Thread Prasanna Gautam
re any need for a fourth one? Yep! because until we try for a better and more scientific one, we'll never know.. and the thing is there will be studies in the future. and new layouts will invariably be proposed.. so why not now..? Kumar > > On Jun 20, 11:30 am, "Prasanna Gauta

[FOSS Nepal] Re: MacFUSE

2007-06-21 Thread Prasanna Gautam
e: > > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:41:08PM +0545, Prasanna Gautam wrote: > > raise your hand if have ever tried making a filesystem.. hehe.. ok i > > haven't.. although this video deals with macfuse but you know, since > it's a > > derivative of libfuse used

[FOSS Nepal] Re: A short and sweet Anatomy of the Linux kernel

2007-06-21 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I've needed to download a lot of software.. so for me.. I just became member anyways... On 6/21/07, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Jun 21, 7:44 pm, "Bipin Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > how do i subscribe to "IBM developer works" > > I dont think Developer Works is no

[FOSS Nepal] Re: About Touchscreen for Freedom Toaster.

2007-06-22 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Why you should listen to him: Jeff Han's intuitive "interface-free" computer displays -- controlled by the touch of fingertips -- will change forever the way you think about computers. At TED 2006, *the audience whistled, clapped and gasped audibly as Han demoed (for the first time publicly) his

[FOSS Nepal] Remixing Fedora

2007-06-23 Thread Prasanna Gautam
We all know the debian spinoffs but a lot of you must be wondering that after the recent inclusion of extras into the fedora core thereby making it Fedora "community" Linux, maybe it is possible to do so for fedora as well... Here are some... rock on! - Remixing Fedora 7

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Remixing Fedora

2007-06-23 Thread Prasanna Gautam
can be installed using YUM, quite useful in > remixing Fedora.! > > Regards, > Abhishek Singh > Prasanna Gautam wrote: > > We all know the debian spinoffs but a lot of you must be wondering > > that after the recent inclusion of extras into the fedora core thereby > &

[FOSS Nepal] Re: nepalinux @ SF

2007-06-24 Thread Prasanna Gautam
wow.. great... On 6/24/07, Paras pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear fossians, > > Here is the download link for nepalinux 2.0 at sourceforge.net. > > > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=11495&package_id=173725&release_id=518208 > > > Enjoy ! > Paras. > > > > --~--~-

[FOSS Nepal] German wikipedia gets state funding

2007-06-26 Thread Prasanna Gautam
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91733 I wish the same could be true for nepali wikipedia too --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/

[FOSS Nepal] Re: FOSS for telecenters!

2007-06-29 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I think LTSP will be the best choice.. we can add some features like (since I think kids are still taught some dos-based stuff like qbasic... ) how to run dos based things and other necessary stuff... On 6/30/07, Shankar Pokharel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FOSSians, > > HLCIT has asked us to d

[FOSS Nepal] Re: need help on j2me and oracle

2007-07-01 Thread Prasanna Gautam
you want to run oracle on mobile? On 6/30/07, Sajan Ojha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Friends, I was having a problem with *connection* my mobile > *j2me*application with a > *oracle* database. > > > > > so kindly help me > -- > > trust ur tuition; its just like goin fishin > > > --~--~-

[FOSS Nepal] Re: want to display php pages on j2me enabled mobiles

2007-07-03 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 7/3/07, Sajan Ojha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi > > plz help me i want to display php pages on my mbile using j2me > > and is it possible to store data directy to my database(mysql\oracle) from > my mobile using j2me?? I think sqllite (some 200K) is much better for cell phones than a

[FOSS Nepal] FKK- Linux Kernel

2007-07-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
;s College, Maitighar, Kathmandu Time: 4pm Hope to see you there Regards. Prasanna Gautam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Win 25,000 euro for fighting Microsoft

2007-07-08 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 7/8/07, Pawan Chitrakar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hey guys > > its greatly appreciated your efforts to come up with something to fight > against Micro$oft , though keep in mind the competition and the fight should > be healthy for NEPAL... wow... microsoft style competition isn't nece

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Lets do something

2007-07-09 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Yeah.. same from me. No one in my home uses windows and the old cds have become coffee cup holders. :D Most of the times, games are a bit of problem for the switch.. and that's what kept me from making a total switch but not big problem these days unless you are into playing every game as soon as t

[FOSS Nepal] Free Software Only High End Laptop

2007-07-13 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Hey I have posted some news from markshuttleworth.com to avoid writing about them. Well, it will be interesting to have a good high end laptop that runs linux (free ones, not the ones loaded with all corporate shit) Gobuntu is a good step forward. Participate so that people can experience freedom!

[FOSS Nepal] Re: CUPS Purchased By Apple Inc.

2007-07-14 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Ohh yeah, I don't think it's going to have much negative effect. I think they are worried abt GPLv3 since apple also uses CUPS which if GPLv3ed might drive businesses away! On 7/14/07, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) > Purchased By Apple Inc. >

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites'

2007-07-14 Thread Prasanna Gautam
wow! slashdot again... I don't think gpl v3 authors are hypocrites, maybe eccentric.. not hypocrites!.. It was decided upon by a long process with a lot more people beyond FSF... On 7/14/07, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > *"We've heard conflicting tales regarding Linus To

[FOSS Nepal] Japan becomes the first Asian country to adopt open standards... Nepal to follow!..

2007-07-15 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Here's the News! http://www.odfalliance.org/press/Release20070710.pdf --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Zune DRM has been cracked

2007-07-15 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Is anyone using zune at all to have any effect. At least iPod can use linux and apple gives non-DRM music anyways from it's site... or you can make it non-DRM... check out http://ipodlinux.org/Main_Page visit http://defectivebydesign.org On 7/16/07, Ankur Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Linux as multimedia center

2007-07-16 Thread Prasanna Gautam
hmmm... linux is the only OS I use at home.. and it does every multimedia thing On 7/16/07, Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > how many of you use linux as a multimedia center > i could find completer GUI embedded version rpm > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~-

[FOSS Nepal] Open Source alternative to Microsoft Surface

2007-07-16 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Yeah finally we have open source alternative to Microsoft Surface. Wish I could try compiz fusion on it (ooo, with water effect) http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/touch-me/linux-mpx-multi+touch-table-may-become-free-diy-microsoft-surface-one-day-278613.php --~--~-~--~~~---~--

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Linux as multimedia center

2007-07-16 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 7/17/07, Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/16/07, Ankur Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I use TV time for my USB tv card, and use amarok for music and VLC for > > DVD and videos, If anyone want nice and simple gui for multimedia I suggest > > to use elisa (

[FOSS Nepal] Google Code for Educators

2007-07-16 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Here are some good information that could be really helpful for people learning new technologies... Most of it relates to the google talks... I believe they must be adding some things... liked the ajax portion.. security looks good too... http://code.google.com/edu/ --~--~-~--~~---

[FOSS Nepal] Intel Launches Mobile Linux Project

2007-07-17 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Open Source Mobile seems to be catching up.. I'm sure to get OpenMoko,,, I hope efforts like this will make open source phones more lucrative* "Intel has unveiled an ambitious project aimed at developing open source software for mobile devices. T

[FOSS Nepal] OpenMOSIX shutting down

2007-07-17 Thread Prasanna Gautam
It's sad to see such a great product shutting down!!! I hope it resumes and we can have some beowulfs here in Nepal too... * "Despite having one of the largest user-bases of any clustering system for Linux, openMosix is to be shut down. Top d

[FOSS Nepal] Linus hasn't used Debian.... strange

2007-07-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
In an interview, linus torvalds says, he hasn't used debain distro(coz they are harder re) http://www.oneopensource.it/interview-linus-torvalds/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal

[FOSS Nepal] How do the Language makers look like?

2007-07-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I don't know how many times you have asked the question but I have always wondered how people who write such rocking languages look like C++, python... and more... this site might help Just stumbled upon sometime back http://vernix.org/marcel/programming_language_authors/ --~--~-~--~--

[FOSS Nepal] Re: install-fest on 28th july saturday

2007-07-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
woohooo... that sounds real sweet... I'm ready... On 7/18/07, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hello everybody, > > some good news 4 all of us.. > > some weeks back we (IOE FOSS Community) had conducted a FOSS awareness > presentation in Brihaspati Vidya Sadan, Naxal. But it turne

[FOSS Nepal] Re: OpenMOSIX shutting down

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
a beowulf cluster for your final year project? Any special stuff to share... ? yeah except the bottleneck on 10Mbps ethernet switch!! On 7/18/07, Bipin Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/18/07, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's sad to s

[FOSS Nepal] Re: How do the Language makers look like?

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
yeah... most of the geeks catch up on their social life later on although there are exceptions.. I still remember Guido Van Rossum's statement at google techtalks... it was sth like this "I made python because and also because I had no life.. trust me, you need to have that to do something

[FOSS Nepal] Re: How do the Language makers look like?

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
oops.. sorry for answering for a question asked to nepbabu... it was because you were commenting noone was online.. i have some time based restrictions.. maybe i'll be more on irc after i get a 24 hr connection.. :D On 7/20/07, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ye

[FOSS Nepal] for fun: cartoon

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyimages/115.gif --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--~~~~--~~--~--

[FOSS Nepal] Re: install-fest on 28th july saturday

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Hey, Let's make a list of all the volunteers and maybe the number of stuffs they can bring... like 1. Prasanna Gautam >can bring CDs, DVDs (upto 10 each), a camera to take photos.. can contribute by blogging... what distros are we planning to use? On 7/20/07, Shishir Jha <[EMAI

[FOSS Nepal] Holes remain on firefox password manager

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
A word of caution to fossians.. don't save your vital passwords (like emails) in firefox's default saving mechanism.. it was an old exploit.. but seems still a lot of holes remain... a lot of things are just because of the structure of firefox itself (it's just a bunch of javascript codes running j

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Do you think: Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess?

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
It's better than getting stuck to 1 windows for life... :D most people develop a bit of loyality to a specific distro or distro group anyways... like fedora, debian, gentoo... etc... so having more options isn't bad at all. Anyways, it's what freedom stands for right? You and I can really make our

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Do you think: Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess?

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Yeah true... but seems linux is catching up wa faster in that aspect... come on, windows is still the same in like 5 years but linux has had some dramatic lift up... makeover in terms of gui and making things easy... On 7/21/07, nepbabu.cx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Do you think: Too Many Linux Distros Make For Open Source Mess?

2007-07-20 Thread Prasanna Gautam
FreeBSD is better and faster... On 7/21/07, nepbabu.cx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > On Saturday 21 July 2007 11:19, Prasanna Gautam wrote: > >> Yeah true... but seems linux is catching up wa faster in that > aspect... > >

[FOSS Nepal] New Desktop Environment build on firefox

2007-07-21 Thread Prasanna Gautam
* Pyro is a new kind of desktop environment for Linux built on Mozilla Firefox. Its goal is to enable true integration between the Web and modern desktop computing. This looks like an interesting marriage of the web and the desktop. In Pyro, Web apps run in windows on the

[FOSS Nepal] Re: About the Install Fest on 28th July

2007-07-24 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Thursday is good... if anyone is able... do come on IRC... we can discuss there too... informally On 7/24/07, Shishir Jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > sorry again for the typo > it is as for now, 10:00 AM, and i am sure this time. > > And we want to call upon a meeting for soon, may be Thursday

[FOSS Nepal] Re: New OS: cool

2007-07-24 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I'm super impressed by what they have come up in few months (when i was lazing out) some awesome stuff there just check it out.. I think a lot can be learned from there On 7/23/07, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://eyeos.info/ > > -- > Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #

[FOSS Nepal] Re: New OS: cool

2007-07-24 Thread Prasanna Gautam
sorry missed the site http://www.eyeos.org/ On 7/24/07, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm super impressed by what they have come up in few months (when i was > lazing out) some awesome stuff there just check it out.. I think a lot > can be learned fro

[FOSS Nepal] Intel Releases Threading library under GPL 2

2007-07-25 Thread Prasanna Gautam
*WHO finallly "Intel Software Dispatch have announced the availability of the Threading Building Blocks (TBB) template library under the GPLv2 with the run-time exception -- so this previously commercial only package is now open for all the use, whet

[FOSS Nepal] Re: release of linux 0.01

2007-07-27 Thread Prasanna Gautam
thanks ujwal for posting this thing... btw... it has info on the historical linux kernel 0.01 with some photos of linus torvalds and other interesting documents. On 7/27/07, Ujwal (RUBBOT) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > guys some digg from Prasanna, > http://kerneltrap.org/node/14002 > > > > >

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Proprietary versus commercial

2007-07-27 Thread Prasanna Gautam
oops that was from slashdot so i don't hold much of responsibility for writing that... yeah... the wording is correct here though.. just wanted to make clear i got it from slashdot.. thing is since it is in gplv2 u can't make it proprietary (if u mean closed source) or gpl for that matter anyways..

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Sourceforge Community Choice Award winners

2007-07-27 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 7/27/07, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 27 July 2007 09:07:29 Prajwal Tuladhar wrote: > > Sourceforge has been running a community-driven awards process over > > the last month, trying to discover the top open source projects. > > Today, the winners were announced. The o

[FOSS Nepal] Microsoft is dead

2007-07-27 Thread Prasanna Gautam
hehe.. this is an article/essay by Paul Graham.. one of recents where he discusses the waning power of microsoft... http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/fo

[FOSS Nepal] Happy System Administrator day

2007-07-27 Thread Prasanna Gautam
*"Today is the 8th annual System Administrator Appreciation Day. It is always the last Friday in July and is the one day that SysAdmins are supposed to get the respect they deserve to be getting the other 364 days of the year. Today is the day that we wish everyone woul

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Microsoft is dead

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
want to write M$ instead of whatever everyone calls it... so don't bother to comment on it... if u don't like it.. use your favorite text editor to do search and replace... (I guess that'd be notepad... :P) or use a greasemonkey script... On Jul 27, 10:30 pm, "Prasanna

[FOSS Nepal] Get Vocal

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Get Vocal! FOSS community... I think anyone and everyone should stand on this issue for him/herself... not because you work for a company that does open source... u have some certification.. or u are involved in something.. or whatever reasons Most people who oppose open source don't do open s

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Microsoft is dead

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
s mailing > list", If you think software shouldn't cost that much or shouldn't be > proprietary then piracy is not the solution, you should choose the > alternative, which gives you the freedom of choice (owing to fact that you > don't virtually have to pay for software

[FOSS Nepal] some finding at install fest...

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
ok i got an interesting experience today ok here's the scenario there's a cross cable connected between server and switch and all other computers are connected with a straight cable ... one is connected with a cross cable.. there's a file on server... which of the clients can access? and why? mind

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Didn't know of it! Online Photo editing!

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
btw,, adobe is also working on an online photoshop! On 7/28/07, Shankar Pokharel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Got the link from the article forwarded by Pras. > A cool app. > > http://snipshot.com/ > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepa

[FOSS Nepal] Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Anon E. Muss writes "Microsoft has a new Secure Content Downloader tool that sounds an awful lot like a Bittorrent clone. It's described as a 'peer-assisted technology' where '[e]ach client downloads content by exchanging parts of the file they're interested in with other clients, in addition to do

[FOSS Nepal] Torvalds explains the scheduler decision

2007-07-28 Thread Prasanna Gautam
After the recent and really public departure of Con Kolivas, it seems Linus is finally coming out with an explanation... feels bad when kernel hackers go away... good projects die... * "There's been a lot of recent debateover why Li

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Microsoft is dead

2007-07-29 Thread Prasanna Gautam
had made > concerned over G$$gle's dominance in internet search... > > On Jul 28, 8:10 pm, "Prasanna Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 7/28/07, Prajwal Tuladhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I don'

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Microsoft Reinvents Bittorrent

2007-07-29 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 7/29/07, Zico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 7/29/07, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anon E. Muss writes "Microsoft has a new Secure Content Downloader tool > > that sounds an awful lot like a Bittorrent clone. It's

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Microsoft is dead

2007-07-30 Thread Prasanna Gautam
r antitrust case.. other day MS and yahoo do it for advertising.. it's just democracy and free market... that's how new technologies come... and die... and lawyers get paid.. On Jul 29, 9:44 pm, "Prasanna Gautam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Dude, microsoft is not

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Comment on "Should Nepal adopt FOSS?"

2007-07-30 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I wonder why they got the uncensored domain On 7/30/07, nepbabu.cx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jwalanta Shrestha wrote: > > but seems like the everestUNCENSORED has CENSORED the message, nepbabu's > > message doesn't appear there.. have a look.. > > http://www.everestuncensored.org/archiv

[FOSS Nepal] IBM saves $250M by running linux on mainframes

2007-07-31 Thread Prasanna Gautam
*"Today IBM will announce it is consolidating nearly 4,000 small computer servers in six locations onto about 30 refrigerator-sized mainframes running Linux, saving $250 million in the process. The 4,000 replaced servers will be recycled by IBM Glo

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Fwd: The magic of firefox

2007-07-31 Thread Prasanna Gautam
hehe... enter command in firebug!! On 8/1/07, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > wow cool.. actually it should be magic of javascript. > > (but how do u stop it?? :)) > > > On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 08:17 +0700, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > > 1. Go to Google > > 2. Click images > > 3. Type

[FOSS Nepal] understanding RAID

2007-07-31 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I hope this will help understand RAIDs better... in a fun way! http://www.epidauros.be/raid.jpg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~--

[FOSS Nepal] Re: Check this out.. surprising it still exists

2007-08-02 Thread Prasanna Gautam
They are losing more people with this! binding your website to a specific browser is plain stupid. On 8/3/07, Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Go to http://www.careermideast.com using Firefox. > Surprising that this kind of attitude is still happening :) > > -- > Fajar Priyanto |

[FOSS Nepal] 100 or so books that shaped the century

2007-08-03 Thread Prasanna Gautam
This might be so much about foss but yeah there are some foss books, but definitely worth the effort taking a look at. http://www.amsci.org/amsci/bookshelf/centurylist.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.googl

[FOSS Nepal] Re: "SFD 07"

2007-08-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 8/5/07, प्रबीण ( ओपन ठिटो ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This thread is created for SFD 07' discussion. > > 1. T-shirt designing competition will be organized. The specification will > be finalized through thread discussion in googlegroup. The deadline will be > 2 weeks from commence date. >

[FOSS Nepal] Interactive Linux Kernel Map

2007-08-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
A really nice way to view the underlying kernel architecture along with links.. http://www.linuxdriver.co.il/kernel_map --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ FOSS Nepal mailing list foss-nepal@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal Community website: http://www

[FOSS Nepal] Re: "SFD 07"

2007-08-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I think it should focus on desktop use as it's on the rise. We really really really need to have something that developers can benefit from. Like perhaps intro to tools like Mono(for C# fans who want to switch for development), eclipse or maybe the performance gains in various tools.. even a good d

[FOSS Nepal] Re: free software song in nepali

2007-08-06 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 8/6/07, acpmasquerade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And again its not good to use songs like माकुरी जालैमा or ऐना हेरेर, > The songs should be some sorts of modern pop or rock songs and should > be targeted to some users who are in responsible posts and are > responsible for everything in this

[FOSS Nepal] Re: free software song in nepali

2007-08-07 Thread Prasanna Gautam
how abt a cruentus type version... u know foss is abt choices... On 8/7/07, sonicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > to make a theme song is a must. > many people r saying to make it !!rock!!..i say it > should be melodies either its a rock or hiphop..it should be nice > and m

[FOSS Nepal] Re: "SFD 07"

2007-08-07 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 8/7/07, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > we need to remove paper presentation from adgenda.. thinking again.. i think we need paper presentation (muhahaha I won't be there to listen to the boring ones.. ok got overboard) I think if presented interestingly.. it can be really

[FOSS Nepal] Re: free software song in nepali

2007-08-07 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On 8/7/07, Bipin Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > X-No-Archive: > > > > On 8/7/07, sonicker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > to make a theme song is a must. > >many people r saying to make it !!rock!!..i say it > > should be melodies either its a rock or hiphop..it shou

[FOSS Nepal] Re: free software song in nepali

2007-08-07 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Wh... let's ask some underground band here... it will be freakin cool... foss song in speed metal is just so cool On 8/7/07, Paras pradhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Prasanna, > > Why not !. > > > Speed metal rocks !! :) > > > Paras. > >

[FOSSNepal] Re: distros for sfd 2007

2007-08-30 Thread Prasanna Gautam
how about moving a little out of the box by including some BSD flavours or other *nix flavors too? like PCBSD, Solaris ? On 8/30/07, dips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Dear all, > > to align with the theme of "Linux for Desktop", i think beside > introducing general public of the different dist

[FOSSNepal] Re: Gr8 SFD

2007-09-15 Thread Prasanna Gautam
WOW!!! FOSSNepal sure has come a long way, great going. it's just awesome to see that Kantipur TV saw this topic as newsworthy and even put it in poll. It's just great. It probably sounds like stressing too much, but I would really like to know more, esp from documentation; more so because sadly,

[FOSSNepal] Re: Reload this Page Make Ubuntu Look like OSX and Vista

2007-09-16 Thread Prasanna Gautam
exactly.. the point of using linux is to be different... what's the worth of cloning a system that's inferior? OSX's interface rocks but I'd rather do it with the real OSX.. heck even in a virtual machine would be extremely cool. Though this does give you some bragging rights. On 9/16/07, Jwalant

[FOSSNepal] Re: FOSS NEPAL >>SFD 08 theme

2007-10-07 Thread Prasanna Gautam
That sounds good. We should probably focus on the more grassroot level too. Big enterprises have big money invested on big softwares already. They will need a larger support base for any kind of move. I think it should be more about the general people/entrepreneurs and IMO for the wannabe hackers w

[FOSSNepal] Re: NepaLinux as a co-winner of the international APC Chris Nicol FOSS Prize 2007

2007-10-18 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Bump! This is really great to find the efforts of Nepalinux community being appreciated... Hats Off! On 10/18/07, Jitendra kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Finally, good work being appreciated. > Congrats NepaLinux team and FOSS community. > > On 10/18/07, Bikram Shrestha < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[FOSSNepal] Re: Ubuntu Remastering

2007-11-08 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I think I had mentioned both of them but kind of used reconstructor.. without compiling completely There are stuff for fedora and gentoo too now On Nov 1, 2007 12:02 PM, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:50:13PM +0545, Bipin Gautam wrote: > > > > > > > > On 10/31

[FOSSNepal] Re: open source ocr

2007-11-08 Thread Prasanna Gautam
there's one from google... based on the tesseract engine(not sure abt the spelling though) ocropus... try searching in code.google.com... it's a nice engine... On Oct 24, 2007 10:21 PM, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:15:50PM -0400, Ashes wrote: > > Hi guys, > > >

[FOSSNepal] Re: Werewolf releasing tomorrow.........

2007-11-08 Thread Prasanna Gautam
try using kernel.org mirror for it. It seems to be lot faster. Last time, for fedora 7 I had used mirror.facebook.com I'll give a review after I try it on my vmware. Maybe I'll put on hdd this weekend. Peace, Prasanna On Nov 8, 2007 10:21 AM, Akash Deep Shakya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > y

[FOSSNepal] Re: start hacking

2007-12-03 Thread Prasanna Gautam
anyone remembers those online hacking challenges ? any links.. i remember one python challenge that got us mad sometime back though. On Dec 3, 2007 1:36 PM, Akash Deep Shakya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Start hacking > > http://www.port7alliance.com/txt/hackbg.html > > its for newies > > Regards

[FOSSNepal] Re: start hacking

2007-12-03 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On Dec 3, 2007 3:22 PM, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2007 12:21 AM, Akash Deep Shakya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Start hacking > > > > http://www.port7alliance.com/txt/hackbg.html > > > > its for newies > > > > > before u read that, read this > http://www.catb.o

[FOSSNepal] Re: If we can't trust Open Source....

2007-12-03 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On Dec 3, 2007 1:36 PM, Bipin Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > X-No-Archive: > > > > > I am sorry to anyone who have lost their data in the past. We all have. > And I think we LEARN something from it. Don't we? I think it's time we call > our data rescue man - Mr. Bipin! :-) Why don't anyone

[FOSSNepal] Re: start hacking

2007-12-03 Thread Prasanna Gautam
On Dec 3, 2007 3:49 PM, Prasanna Gautam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 3, 2007 3:22 PM, Jwalanta Shrestha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 4, 2007 12:21 AM, Akash Deep Shakya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > S

[FOSSNepal] Re: FYI, Asia OSS Master Trainers Workshop

2007-12-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
how about developer's workshop? esp kernel development... or driver development... so that we can discuss about driver building and maybe make some ourselves than bitching about how the driver support in linux sucks... On Dec 5, 2007 7:21 AM, bibstha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > +1 tp amda-bara

[FOSSNepal] Re: Fwd: [kuosc] KUOSC E-Bulletin

2007-12-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
Great work, but I have a few suggestions: It is supposed to be an e-bulletin but it still retains the paperlike look which is largely inefficient use of "e" portion of it... Also, it could've been a bit better if it was available on the site and perhaps as rss format so that we can put in some aggr

[FOSSNepal] Re: Confused??????????

2007-12-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
i had been using tk-pppoe from roaring penguin http://roaringpenguin.luky.org/pppoe/tkpppoe/ wlink has the linux version from their downloads page. You just need to compile and run... i think under ideal conditions, u can just run ./go or ./go-gui without all the compiling.. On Dec 5, 2007 12:39 P

[FOSSNepal] Re: FYI, Asia OSS Master Trainers Workshop

2007-12-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
k necessary... or we can discuss here.. like which books to refer and what kind of project will be better and then culminate that into the final hackfest of sorts... On Dec 5, 2007 6:20 PM, nepbabu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 03:20:05PM -0500, Prasanna Gautam wro

[FOSSNepal] Re: FYI, Asia OSS Master Trainers Workshop

2007-12-05 Thread Prasanna Gautam
I've created a link but I'll start writing on it in a few hours, days maybe I'll try to make it more organized and possibly include some pdfs here and there for the time being try downloading the oreilly books http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog

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