[ilugd] Minutes of meetings on Sun., July 15th

2007-07-16 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, Here are the minutes of the meeting held at the JNU Bio-Informatics Centre at 2pm on Sun., July 15th. The meeting was more of a rambling one than usual, but here are minutes of what went on: 1. Ankur presented an interesting demonstration of a radio that besides being a normal FM radio and

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of meetings on Sun., July 15th

2007-07-16 Thread Linux Lingam
1. Ankur presented an interesting demonstration of a radio ...[snip] unit can play Shoutcast streams via the computer, and has decent sound quality. it can play any stream from any source, so long as it is not realmedia. so raj wanted to tune into radio schizoid. i wonder why. A

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of meetings on Sun., July 15th

2007-07-16 Thread Rohan George
Hey, I'm a lawyer and I'd be glad to help. While I'm new to this list, I've been following issues on open source/foss and Indian copyright law for some time now. If someone needs further info, I could help. But it'd be useful to know what questions concerning legality came up,specifically.

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of meetings on Sun., July 15th

2007-07-16 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 16 July 2007 16:32, Rohan George wrote: Hey, I'm a lawyer and I'd be glad to help. While I'm new to this list, I've been following issues on open source/foss and Indian copyright law for some time now. If someone needs further info, I

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of meetings on Sun., July 15th

2007-07-16 Thread Gaurav Mishra
Raj Mathur wrote: I appreciate that many people on this list may not be too keen on these topics -- if you aren't please make a noise and we can shift to the Cyberlaw or GII mailing lists. Since it`s about freedom , I would like it to be on the list.

Re: [ilugd] gumstix that run linux

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gumstix.com/ and http://gumstix.org/ well http://www.littlechips.com/ is another good vendor. gumstix are cool and affordable. just roll your own. can already think of neat ideas around this. what's yours? Neither gumstix or

Re: [ilugd] openmoko-based guitar tuner

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
so anybody in the ILUG-d who has, or has ordered, an openmoko? apparantly, the Neo1973 mobilephone that it runs on, can also dual-boot into windows, according to FIC. hehe, its a normal computer, can run netbsd too. Or any OS which supports ARM-11 architecture. regards VK Engineers

Re: [ilugd] gumstix that run linux

2007-07-16 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 7/16/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.littlechips.com/ is another good vendor. Some more: http://free-electrons.com/community/hardware/boards/ http://shakthimaan.com/links/embedded.html http://armlinux.simtec.co.uk/kautobuild/2.6.15-rc2/index.html SK --

[ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-16 Thread Anand Shankar
Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Issue at hand: I have a master PC setup, which needs to be replicated to some 30+ other PCs. 160GB HDD with dual boot WinXP[ntfs]-FC7[ext3] setup. Do'nt want to plug out the disks and do a dd

Re: [ilugd] Cloning a disk over network

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
--- Anand Shankar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looking for a cool, snap to setup with defaults, fast to finish solution for cloning disks over network: Have a look at http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ . Might solve our problem. regards VK Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not

Re: [ilugd] Minutes of meetings on Sun., July 15th

2007-07-16 Thread Linux Lingam
[snips] I appreciate that many people on this list may not be too keen on these topics -- if you aren't please make a noise and we can shift to the Cyberlaw or GII mailing lists. nah! anybody who owns a pair of ears, and is concerned with digital freedom, should be reading this, so please

Re: [ilugd] openmoko-based guitar tuner

2007-07-16 Thread Linux Lingam
On 7/16/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so anybody in the ILUG-d who has, or has ordered, an openmoko? apparantly, the Neo1973 mobilephone that it runs on, can also dual-boot into windows, according to FIC. hehe, its a normal computer, can run netbsd too. Or any OS which

Re: [ilugd] gumstix that run linux

2007-07-16 Thread Linux Lingam
wow guys! thanks for the further pointers. is it just me, or whenever anyone shares more info or ideas on the mailing list, our collective knowledge and awareness grows through contributions and comments by others? anybody worked on any gumstix device in india? you know, looking at these boards,

Re: [ilugd] openmoko-based guitar tuner

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
just realized my question is incorrectly stated. should read: anybody ordered the Neo1973? the openMoko is a platform that can run on anything, anywhere, you Shipping price is too high because of low volume of devices. $120 is not a normal shipping price you pay. Anyways i know that one

Re: [ilugd] openmoko-based guitar tuner

2007-07-16 Thread Linux Lingam
On 7/17/07, vivek khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just realized my question is incorrectly stated. should read: anybody ordered the Neo1973? the openMoko is a platform that can run on anything, anywhere, you Shipping price is too high because of low volume of devices. $120 is not

Re: [ilugd] openmoko-based guitar tuner

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
check out the wiki on some of the amazing ideas people are working on. someone's hacking to port asterisk to it, to run among other things, an EPBX service over it. hehe, asterix will not work. There was a long discussion on openmoko devel list regarding this. Search the archive for

Re: [ilugd] gumstix that run linux

2007-07-16 Thread vivek khurana
--- Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: wow guys! thanks for the further pointers. is it just me, or whenever anyone shares more info or ideas on the mailing list, our collective knowledge and awareness grows through contributions and comments by others? well blame it to your properly

Re: [ilugd] openmoko-based guitar tuner

2007-07-16 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 17-Jul-07, at 2:16 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: should read: anybody ordered the Neo1973? we have ordered it -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ ilugd mailinglist --

Re: [ilugd] gumstix that run linux

2007-07-16 Thread Shiv
I doubt any single board computer is available in India. At least i am not been able to find any in last 8 months. Searched in multiple cities. Hi, Actually, there are a couple of vendors like Lanner who have an office in Bangalore and Axiomtek is represented by Trikuta here in Delhi. The

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2007-07-16 Thread niraj
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Re: [ilugd] gumstix that run linux

2007-07-16 Thread Mukund Deshmukh
I doubt any single board computer is available in India. At least i am not been able to find any in last 8 months. Searched in multiple cities. Hi, Actually, there are a couple of vendors like Lanner who have an office in Bangalore and Axiomtek is represented by Trikuta here in Delhi. The