Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
- Original Message - From: Trevor Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can we afford event management companies...both in terms of Ethically and Financially. Though i WOULD LUV all our events to be VERY PROFESSIONAL in the way they are conducted. I mentioned event management

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on projects this year will be able to submit their proposals. hmmm

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-12 Thread Trevor Warren
On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 19:45:13 +0530 Saswata Banerjee Associates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -ed. I mentioned event management companies because most events I have attended had them. Just a thought. I dont even know how much they charge. If we plan to have it managed

Re: [ILUG-BOM] LinuxWorld Expo Mumbai

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
Since Microsoft is porting its libraries to Linux, how about inviting them to participate rotfl... maybe a joke... but lets see if we can officially send them an invite! Regards, Amol Hatwar. -- I was like a helpless rabit in front of

[ILUG-BOM] NEWS: Gates threatening spirit of freedom -- free software guru

2002-11-12 Thread Frederick Noronha
Gates threatening spirit of freedom: free software guru From Indo-Asian News Service New Delhi, Nov 12 (IANS) Microsoft chairman Bill Gates threatens the spirit of freedom, the founder of the free software movement said here even as the world's richest man began a tour of India. Richard

[ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Hanisha Vaswani
hi guys, i have been a member of the list for nearly a year now, but i mostly lurk, just trying to assimilate random bits of Linux-gyan from the more experienced LUGgers the recent posts regarding the Linux - Bombay 2002[3?] prompted me to post though -- especially once the talk began moving

Re: [ILUG-BOM] No reply?

2002-11-12 Thread Trevor Warren
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:12:39 +0530 Amol Hatwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, I am traveling and don't have the letter with me now. Can someone put it back on the anvil? And Trevor ? [snip] yeppiedude. Pls give me till today evening. Will get back to you all on the same. I

[ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Hanisha Vaswani
hi guys, i have been a member of the list for nearly a year now, but i mostly lurk, just trying to assimilate random bits of Linux-gyan from the more experienced LUGgers the recent posts regarding the Linux - Bombay 2002[3?] prompted me to post though -- especially once the talk began moving

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-12 Thread Trevor Warren
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:52:51 +0530 Nagarjuna G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread vinayak
-Original Message- From: Hanisha Vaswani [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom? though i have nothing at all against a 'more professionally managed' event, i do have an issue against outsourcing it -- having been on the core team of a unique college fest before, i have realised

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux Bombay 2003

2002-11-12 Thread Ravindra Jaju
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:04:49PM +0530, Trevor Warren wrote: Am trying to rope in the IIT - Bombay and ensure greater participation from their end. IIT's all over the country are hubs of propagation of FSF/OS both conceptually/idealogically/practically, which is why they can be made use

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-12 Thread ranjeet
Hmmyeppie. Seems okie to have to delayed it a bit. But still lets have things planned and ideas flowing. How about March-April.??? Forgot your exam times dude Trevor ;) he might be a nov -dec player ;) just kidding ... ranjeet ___

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:33:14PM +0550, vinayak wrote: though i have nothing at all against a 'more professionally managed' event, i do have an issue against outsourcing it -- having been on the core team of a unique college fest before, i have realised that *absolutely nothing* beats your

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux Bombay 2003

2002-11-12 Thread Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 03:14:12PM +0530, Trevor Warren wrote: Am waiting for the IIT guys to get back. So lets hope things can move ahead. Jaju...Sameer...ny news..??? Jaju missing ... Dr. Phatak missing as well! Will get back to you as soon as we are able to talk to Dr. Phatak. Sameer.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] http://www.rediff.com/money/2002/nov/12gates.htm

2002-11-12 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:05:42 +0530 Ravindra Jaju wrote: Oops! And we want to rope in officials for the OSS movement!? Billy dude's agents read Trevor's name in BW and did some research on his background ;-) -- Tahir Hashmi (VSE, NCST) http://staff.ncst.ernet.in/tahir tahir AT ncst DOT

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux Bombay 2003

2002-11-12 Thread mails
Amish K. Munshi ICQ 85730949 === Never ask a geek why, just nod your head and slowly back away.=== On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Ravindra Jaju wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:04:49PM +0530, Trevor Warren wrote: Prof. Phatak is away, and will be back only tomorrow. He's in Delhi now ( I hope he's

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Harsh Busa
i can completely relate to what hanisha is saying. even i was on core teams of my college fest for 3 years and its nto all that difficult . if i were to put it this way, guys within the lug can get better sponsors coz they know the indstruy guys bettr than others. lugmemebers can write

[ILUG-BOM] Re: Linuxers digest, Vol 1 #677 - 13 msgs

2002-11-12 Thread kshitijv
Hi quasi, I am interested in knowing the details of changes you made to linc. But tell me, are you able to connect to Net from multiple OSs (Windows98, Windows2000, Linux, etc). As per the discussion on group its clear now that 24Online Server checks for MAC address. But in my case its same

[ILUG-BOM] Re: Linuxers digest, Vol 1 #677 - 13 msgs

2002-11-12 Thread kshitijv
Hi quasi, I am interested in knowing the details of changes you made to linc. But tell me, are you able to connect to Net from multiple OSs (Windows98, Windows2000, Linux, etc). As per the discussion on group its clear now that 24Online Server checks for MAC address. But in my case its same

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-12 Thread Trevor Warren
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 13:52:20 +0530 Amol Hatwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, I think keeping the venue at IIT may also be bad planning. IIT? then its for techies... and I don't wanna go. Nehru Centre anyone? [snip] I totally disagree with the same. IIT is a lovely IDEA if it can be

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-12 Thread Trevor Warren
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:36:24 +0530 Ravindra Jaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But we are going to hightlight the event as mainly an ILUG-Bom Event, [snip] Luggers from Ilug-Bom will be the primary organisers..but i don't want to give rest of India the idea that our event is a local one.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux Bombay 2003

2002-11-12 Thread Trevor Warren
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 15:29:04 +0530 Ravindra Jaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:04:49PM +0530, Trevor Warren wrote: Prof. Phatak is away, and will be back only tomorrow. He's in Delhi now( I hope he's not meeting Bill!! ;-) ) Then, we ( me, Sameer, ?? ) will talk to him.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-12 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:46:27PM +0530, Amol Hatwar wrote: Please dont plan things so early. Also in February an international level meet is being organized in Kerala by the govt with support from FSF-india. You may better push it to July so that the students who will be working on

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:17:41PM +0530, Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: Just to correct one point. IBM outsources the management of all major events they undertake. In events of this size, even one mistake can be costly, both in terms of money as well as in terms of reaction, review and

[ILUG-BOM] [OT] Why not to use MS Word attachments

2002-11-12 Thread Philip S Tellis
OT here, but useful if you need to make a counter argument against someone who sends you Word files. http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc38/1583/emailtg1/msg4.html Philip -- But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. -- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Nagarjuna G.
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:06:18PM +0530, Nagarjuna G. wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 05:17:41PM +0530, Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: Just to correct one point. IBM outsources the management of all major events they undertake. In events of this size, even one mistake can be costly,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Micro. Anti-trust.

2002-11-12 Thread Saswata Banerjee Associates
Hey, the adv you are talking about is more than 6 months old. It has been running from the time they launched WinXP in India. Regards Saswata - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 5:38 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Micro.

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Kapil Karekar
I think we should first complete the Migration series of workshops successfully. This would give us enough experience in handling corporates. We would also gain enough event mngmt experience to conduct the GNU/Linux Expo. Kapil Karekar ___

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
though i have nothing at all against a 'more professionally managed' event, i do have an issue against outsourcing it -- having been on the core team of a unique college fest before, i have realised that *absolutely nothing* beats your own personal involvement in everything right from whom

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
i can completely relate to what hanisha is saying. even i was on core teams of my college fest for 3 years and its nto all that difficult . What many people think of the event as now I believe is something on a mega-scale. When you've got be good, you have to be better. As of now I can't even

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
First how many participants are we expecting, how big an auditorium do we need, are we doing it for all over the country or Mumbai or Maharastra. What will be the focus/theme? *snip* Yes, these are very rather extremely important points we must take care of. Probably plan another meet, and

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Lets have our own Linux Bombay 2002

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
Ever been here during Mood Indigo, dude? ;-) Look around, I am more visible than heard of ;). ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] GNU/Linux India Expo 2003 ... tentative outline

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
July sounds good too :). ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
I think we should first complete the Migration series of workshops successfully. This would give us enough experience in handling corporates. We would also gain enough event mngmt experience to conduct the GNU/Linux Expo. I am in for this too Kapil... and I think Kapil is darn right. What we

[ILUG-BOM] LinuxWorld Expo ideas

2002-11-12 Thread Ashish Kulkarni
Hi, I'm another lurker coming out of the woodworks.. ;-) What I'd really like to see is for the Expo to provide a recruitment office (??) for people who are intrested in contributing to the community in any way. Although the response may be half-hearted or flame out after a while, I think

[ILUG-BOM] Trevor?

2002-11-12 Thread Amol Hatwar
Trevor, Its 10 PM. Well take your time... ruminate on my words. But at least stick to your words. Regards, Amol. ___ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers

[ILUG-BOM] Re: URL of RMS article...

2002-11-12 Thread vinayak_hegde
Frederick Noronha writes: Vinayak, It's at eians.com. But you won't be able to check out that site, since it is only open to newspaper subscribers. Some of the articles are not available or accessible via websites, and it's mostly these that I post. If the load is too much, I'll go slow on

[ILUG-BOM] LINK: Don't Bill the Gates (Important/Long)

2002-11-12 Thread Frederick Noronha
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mahesh Murthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:44:49 +0530 Subject: [india-gii] Sneak Preview of Business Today Column on Gates' visit Since we are on the topic, and at least some of us seem to be thinking alike,

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Saswata Banerjee Associates
Most of the similar events today have multiple talks / workshops in differing topics at the same time so that people have a choice of sessions to participate in. If that pattern is being followed, we may need to think of a place where there is perhaps one large auditorium, but also a number of

Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux-Bom?

2002-11-12 Thread Tahir Hashmi
On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 07:36:31 +0530 Saswata Banerjee Associates wrote: Most of the similar events today have multiple talks / workshops in differing topics at the same time so that people have a choice of sessions to participate in. If that pattern is being followed, we may need to think of a

[ILUG-BOM] [OT] Economic Times Article Windows far ahead of Linux: Gates

2002-11-12 Thread Nikhil Kale
Check out what Bill Gates has to say .. somebody please enlighten him http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/comp/articleshow?artid=28083930 Nikhil Kale Software Engineer. Mahindra British Telecom Ltd. Mobile No: +919821228022 -- __

[ILUG-BOM] (no subject)

2002-11-12 Thread amit kalyani
If I want to install ghostview how can I do it. In general what is the way to install a new software on the system in linux OS. Please reciprocate. thanks, amit. Amit R. Kalyani M-Tech Civil (structures) Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076. Hostel 4, Room no: 379.