Re: [PLUG] Microsoft-Novell pact

2006-11-25 Thread Nishit Dave
@sco1984: Do you have any idea what you're talking about, or are you just sprinkling your post with words that you think are big? @sushrut: It is needless to create another debate on the much flogged topic, when you can read online what the whole world is saying about it. Rather than present a

Re: [PLUG] unable to start Linux on PI Digital Equipment

2006-11-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 11/21/06, YAGNESH N DESAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the Hint; I was also of the expecting the same opinion. I checked into to the BIOS and Large Disk Access Mode was set to DOS. I changed it to Others. I think it should work as the said Linux partition starts at @5.2GB as compared

Re: [PLUG] wanted printer recommendation

2006-11-27 Thread Nishit Dave
On 11/27/06, K. Shantanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to buy a USB color printer. I just need to print a few quotations, a few bills and a few codes here and there (around 20 pages monthly). So, the printer need not be expensive. The only thing, is that the printer has to be USB

Re: [PLUG] wanted printer recommendation

2006-11-30 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/1/06, K. Shantanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] [061130 12:43]: HP printers work rather faultlessly with Linux. However, recently Even USB printers of HP? Samsung has started to advertise its support for Linux, so you can see Yes I heard about it too. BTW

[PLUG] Re: Got Tata Indicom Broadband working on Linux (FC5)

2006-12-01 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/1/06, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After months of agony, I have found a simple solution. Using rp-pppoe 2.4.3 on FC5, I am now able to use Tata Indicom Broadband through a lan cable to eth0. The trick lay in deleting all entries from /etc/ppp/chap-secrets, /etc/ppp/pap-secrets

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/2/06, Manas Ranade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Need help in using OpenSuse 10.1 / FC with Iqara / YOU. Any help appreciated. cheers, Manas Slightly OT, but the Youtele website is on PHP, so the servers could all be Linux, but there is not a single occurrence of the word 'linux' on their

Re: [PLUG] RE: what is form factor?

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, Sushrut Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Member, Form factor refers to the physical size and shape (according to outside dimensions) of a computer device. It is most often used to describe the size of circuit boards, especially the motherboard and expansion cards. The ATX form

Re: [PLUG] Fedora Core 6 cd's works fine.

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] opined: digest this week. Well i asked another guy to burn FC 6 from another location on another media and ultimately on another CD writer. I put the cd and perform cd check process which comes with FC. It damn showed me error. Language,

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-02 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything that works on pppoe at least, which has many ISPs. What exactly do you mean linux friendly? Can connect using linux? Many of them can be connected that way. As in where they provide *some* support with configuration /

Re: [PLUG] Linux with Iqara / YOU

2006-12-03 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/3/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] enlightened: I pay 550/- for a month, 10GB download quota, 256kbps, 512 kbps at night from exatt. And I am happy with the plan. Couldn't have asked for more except Are you and I living in the same country? Which ISP? Tell me quick and I will

Re: [PLUG] RE:Fedora Core 6 in Magazine (Sushrut Kulkarni)

2006-12-05 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/4/06, Sushrut Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This months (Dec 2006) Issue of magazine 'PC World' contains Fedora Core 6 DVD. The DVD is not bootable though. They gave 6 ISO format images and you need to burn your own CDs. In case you don't want anything else on the double-side DVD,

Re: [PLUG] Gnunify 07?

2006-12-05 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/5/06, Rohan Dighe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mainly seen at student level, usually they go onn building the same projects during their academics like (student registration system, library system, hotel mgmt system) instead if they could get on to some real work like say contributing

Re: [PLUG] Abt fedora core 6 DVD wid LFY...

2006-12-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/6/06, KAPIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, i read a mail, someone was sayin that DVD quality shipped wid Linux for you are not so good as compared to the PC quest megazine, is it true? cause i'm waiting for DEc 2006 isie of LFY for fedora core DVD, and will you plz

Re: [PLUG] Link to download December 2006 TUX issue.

2006-12-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12/19/06, YAGNESH N DESAI [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any issue on copyright here . . ! I do not know. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/12/2006 12:59 PM Here is the link to download TUX December 2006 issue. Download this 3 MB PDF, and upload at www.rapidshare.com and share the link so anybody

Re: [PLUG] Why are students/colleges not using *nix systems

2006-12-23 Thread Nishit Dave
We are still discussing only one side of the story, i.e. in academia. All students, and their tutors in a system like ours, will be interested in training that can open access to the mainstream opportunities, which happen to be Microsoft technologies. This is because Microsoft (and other

Re: [PLUG] Confirmation: PLUG meeting for January 2007

2007-01-04 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/4/07, Henry J. Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK,sounds like enough people are interested in this Linux telephony stuff so here's the schedule. Noon Sunday: Go to South Main road in Koregaon Park then turn south at lane five and half a block south on the right is the Green Terraces

Re: [PLUG] Mini-Project in Linux

2007-01-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/8/07, Ashutosh Adkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually am really interested in Systems.But tell me one in apps and systems each. Thanks a lot. How about writing a script to fetch all dependencies and provide gui-based options for the configure, make, make install routine for VLC [

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-08 Thread Nishit Dave
(or it's derivative work's) users. Contrary to Linus Torvalds' rationale in choosing GPLv2 (and no further) as the kernel's license, rms maintains that it favours the users' freedom, not necessarily the developer's rights. And this world would only gain if we return more to it than we take away. Nishit

Re: [PLUG] Mini-Project in Linux

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finding dependencies and similar stuff?? Just check out urpmi from Mandriva. (urpmi.org is the website) May be you will like to port urpmi to other distros.. Better read what I was saying first. I suggested work on a GUI based helper

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
OK, I am reposting my bounced mail, in three parts. Part I of 3, 8th Jan 2007: Before we discuss this further, some links: The GNU GPL FAQ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html How to use the GNU GPL for your own programs http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html And

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
Part II, 8th Jan 2007: - For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable. However, as a

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GPlv3 makes no difference in this regard. How about just reading http://gplv3.fsf.org instead of speculating? Cluebat: http://pcburn.com/article.php?sid=1593 Original attribution: http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/15/0331201 I

Re: [PLUG] some clarifications on GPL

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Atul Nene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Sridhar for clarifying further. When I said 'give back to owner', I meant 'give back to community' since, my understanding is that GPLed software ceases to belong a person and starts belonging to the community. The GPL (and other licenses,

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/9/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/07, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try exatt.com. An entire front page in flash is too much(or too less.. flash doesn't run on 64bit linux so entire thing is empty) but it is there.. But once you click Broadband

Re: [PLUG] Re: [OT] broadband 2007

2007-01-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 1/10/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, I am myself on exatt. But I get the service thru one of their franchise. I'm not too happy with them, but generally it is OK. Plus I have no other choice :( The service was working till yesterday night. -DP Can you share their contact

Re: [PLUG] Fedora Core 4 on Intel 946GZ

2007-01-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 12 Jan 2007 06:11:13 -, Yogesh Hasabnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am struggling with the installation of Fedora Core 4 on an IBM ThinkCentre A55 machine. The machine uses Intel 946GZ chipset, Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 and Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet card. The installation

Re: [PLUG] Re:Setting up Tataindicom broadband on Fedora core 6

2007-02-09 Thread Nishit Dave
Please download the rp-pppoe client from Roaring Penguin ( http://www.roaringpenguin.com/pppoe). Unzip the .tar.gz archive to a folder on your disk and run the go-gui script. If everything goes well (and it should), you will get a successful install. Then, run your favourite shell and become

[PLUG] BSNL Dataone with Netgear DG632 on Fedora Core 6

2007-02-12 Thread Nishit Dave
Hi, I decided to ditch the overcharging VSNL and switched over to BSNL. The latter's service engineer didn't come to install my captioned router/modem as the guy who sold it to me presumably preconfigured it for BSNL. However, I have not been able to connect to BSNL Dataone ever since. Can

[PLUG] Firefox, yum cannot resolve URLs in Fedora Core 6

2007-03-01 Thread Nishit Dave
I use a BSNL Dataone connection with a Netgear DG632 router (currently on router mode) that works fine with Windows XP. Under FC6, Konqueror can use the internet connection without a hitch, but firefox and yum (or yumex) and perhaps other packages somehow do not detect the connection / do not

[PLUG] VLC and Fedora Core 6

2007-03-01 Thread Nishit Dave
I have the 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 kernels on my Fedora Core 6 box, and was recently trying to play a VCD on it with VLC 0.8.6a. The sound output was very choppy and irritating (apart from it being Borat), forcing me to switch to my XP partition where there was no problem (Fedora versions of other

Re: [PLUG] Microphone on Linux

2007-03-01 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/1/07, Vikrant Birajdar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am using Fedora core 6 and opensuse 10.2 on my systems, The sound is working fine on the system, but I am not able to work with my Microphone. Have you checked if the microphone has not been muted in the mixer? --

Re: [PLUG] Dhule district adopted OPEN SOURCE

2007-03-07 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/7/07, Anand Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You can download these contents from http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html Thus we are spreading open source concept in the Dhule district. The project is going very smooth. The response is also very good. And by the end of April 2007, we

Re: [PLUG] Re: Dhule district adopted OPEN SOURCE

2007-03-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/8/07, Anand Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, The computer lab is arranged by ZP Dhule. All computers have Windows XP pre-installed on their systems. ZP Dhule has purchased thousands of computers directly from HCL. And HCL computers come with pre-installed windows XP OS. So we are

Re: [PLUG] Re: Dhule district adopted OPEN SOURCE

2007-03-09 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/9/07, Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I think Microsoft provides no cost MS Office to schools. Also it provides training to teachers for free permission before using images in school newsletter and How to request and maintain logs for such permissions. Don't you think

Re: [PLUG] Workshop on Cyber Security Ethical Hackin

2007-03-14 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/14/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, --- Sedulity Maharashtra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have different levels of Cyber Security Ethical Hacking That is so wrong. Ethical hacking is when you try and break Microsoft Windows passwords ;-) --

Re: [PLUG] Open Office in Government

2007-03-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/17/07, Pramukh Pracharak - Grahak Raja Jaga Ho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Mr. Anand Kulkarni I read your post regarding Open Office in Government Organisations. And I fully agree with you that government should not spend public money for purchasing MS Office Licenses when Open Office

Re: [PLUG] How to upgrade to X11 R7.2?

2007-03-18 Thread Nishit Dave
Is there anyother distro that I could try? Since this is my work laptop I would need to connect to Cisco VPN too, has any one have experience with that?I thinking - I *should* try (without keeping getting my finger burnt) is Fedora, also few of my servers are going to have red-hat soon. Save

Fwd: [PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-20 Thread Nishit Dave
From: Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mar 19, 2007 12:04 PM On 3/19/07, Ranjit Bhonsle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all, In recent times I don't see any talk about distros. Nobody posts any install experiences. I have been unable to install Ubuntu edgy for some time. The problem

Re: [PLUG] Re: Open Office in Government

2007-03-20 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/21/07, Anand Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think its more advisible to discuss this issue in the PLUG monthly meeting. Why don't you come for the PLUG meeting on 07th April 07 at 4 PM? We can have views of many PLUG members there and the I am sure our discussions will be fruitful.

[PLUG] Ubuntu edgy

2007-03-21 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/21/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you find the default fonts in Fedora to be problematic? I doubt that that's the case since both these distributions default to the same font family. It may perhaps be due to the default fonts in Firefox on Linux - that's what I tend to

Re: [PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] Openings for Linux / .NET

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Manish Dusane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, AirTight Networks is a leader in the niche market of wireless intrusion prevention. For more details visit airtightnetworks.net We are looking for Linux systems programming expertise - device drivers, linux kernels. We are also

[PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements Please read it. -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL

Re: [PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/22/07, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements The link does not work. Somehow, it works for me. Here it is again: http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements Alternatively, you can go to http

Re: [PLUG] GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somehow, it works for me. Here it is again: http://www.gnu.org.in/on-corp-agreements Alternatively, you can go to http://www.gnu.org.in and click on the appropriate article. It's on the home page itself. Somehow, I don't seem to able

Re: [PLUG] Re: GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government

2007-03-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/22/07, Kaustubh Gadkari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DNS works for me too. I can resolve www.gnu.org.in to 158.144.44.134. I just can't get to the machine! :-) I had previously posted about this problem I am facing in Fedora Core 6. I can resolve all URLs from the command line, and Firefox

Re: Network problems (was Re: [PLUG] Re: GNU India on the Microsoft scourge in Government)

2007-03-23 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/23/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is simple The Firewall DNS. Add DNS suffix in FC 6 and try again. Or specify correct DNS addresses. By default Firewall options are disabled in Knoppix 5.1. So even you can connect to wireless network. Can you please explain it

Re: [PLUG] Embedded Linux /Qt Training Information

2007-03-28 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/28/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, 1. Start from Programming from the Ground-Up: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/ 2. Read Linux device driver and try out its examples. 3. Participate (testing, bug fixing, development) in free/open source embedded projects.

Re: [PLUG] Embedded Linux /Qt Training Information

2007-03-28 Thread Nishit Dave
On 3/28/07, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you mean user-space system programming, then you can check out: http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/ No, that was supposed to be a sarcastic comment about LUGs tending to focus on topics of academic interest to engineers, while

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting April 2007 Saturday 7th April,4 pm @ SICSR

2007-04-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/7/07, Nawaz Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, *Forcing* some one to use a particular software sounds like a micro$oft culture not much appretiated in the open src community, just my thought, you can protest anyways. Cheers. You are gravely mistaken. The Free software

Re: [PLUG] PLUG meeting April 2007 Saturday 7th April,4 pm @ SICSR

2007-04-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/7/07, Nawaz Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, *Forcing* some one to use a particular software sounds like a micro$oft culture not much appretiated in the open src community, just my thought, you can protest anyways. Contd. from previous post: The issue here is that the likes

Re: [PLUG] To Ranjit / my connection

2007-04-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/8/07, Ranjit Bhonsle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since Knoppix is debain based it will work. On Fedora it would be adsl-setup. regards, Ranjit. If confused about various alternatives, have one more - RP-PPPoE. Please download the file rp-pppoe-3.8.tar.gz from

Re: WARNING 2: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/9/07, शंतनु (Shantanoo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0 - http://plug.org.in/mailinglist.php 1 - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html 2 - http://ifets.ieee.org/past_archives/archiv_260200_070201/0639.html 3 - http://www.lemis.com/email.html 4 -

Re: WARNING 3: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-10 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/10/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3) I never knew discouraged was defined as not allowed. I wholeheartedly agree to this :) Additionally not allowed doesn't mean not allowed for everyone. It is lot more like top posting is not allowed if Webmaster caught you top-posting, if

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro ?

2007-04-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Prashant Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi guys, i was wondering which linux distro might be suited for use in a Cafe? Someone told me Ubuntu cant be used as its not free to use for commercial purpose. How abt Vector Linux, does it also have any clause like this? Please just

Re: [PLUG] flv player

2007-04-12 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/12/07, Vivek Khurana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/12/07, Rajiv Gore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to play down loaded flv files in Kaffeine. I am unable to hear the sound though video is seen. How can I fix it. Try VLC

Re: [PLUG] flv player

2007-04-13 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/12/07, Pranav Peshwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agree with Kaustubh,use mplayer. Get mplayer, get the essential codec pack,uncompress and put it into /usr/lib/win32/ or other appropriate place and play all kinds of media :) A slightly different approach would be to use something like

Re: [PLUG] Linux Distro ?

2007-04-13 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/13/07, Prashant Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks alot for clearing my friends doubt. I couldnt solve it, told him PLUG has the answers. THanks That *is* supposed to be the raison d'être for a LUG. Do tell your friend to choose a distro (or at least the eye-candy level) that

Re: [PLUG] FreeDOS on Dell Inspiron 1501

2007-04-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/16/07, ॐ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your patience with the wording of this message. Any flames and comments are welcome, with a caution that I may prefer to ignore them :-) I couldn't just get the timeline here. You have bought it recently, right? So the 3-4 years mean you

Re: [PLUG] Help:Full Asterisk Installation on FC#

2007-04-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/16/07, subodh nirwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Asterisk+Zaptel+Ztdummy+MySql+Apache+SugarCRM+ViciDail modules/servers on FC3.I would appreciate it very much if someone could post a step by step installation guide for setting up the above mentioned

Re: [PLUG] [Commercial] - Linux Firewall Configuration

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, Neeraj Bezalwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- What, the firewall got your message? -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information:

Re: [PLUG] Booting Problem in Mepis: Distribution selection

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/18/07, ॐ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically there is not much point in switching distributions but amount of *specific* help you get may vary depending on userbase in the vicinity (I mean LUG) for distribution of you choice. So i can only offer generic advice based on general practices

Re: [PLUG] Ubuntu LTS 6.06 Required.

2007-04-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/19/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/19/07, A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can anyone lend me Ubuntu LTS 6.06? Pl contact me offline on my id. Thanks. ~A. Unless there is a specific reason (e.g Long Term Support offered by 6.0.6) I suggest you wait just a day

Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree that the above points 'may' occure, it would be better if some hard examples are given. Else the credentials of the accuser gets a dent. This is a distinct possibility. Vista has been designed to *impinge* on your rights. Eg. MS talks

Re: [OT] FSF Pune Group [was:Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org]

2007-04-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- -END PGP SIGNATURE- As this is OT, I'll risk the question: what's the use of digitally signing messages posted to a discussion forum? Any comment would invalidate the original signature

Re: WARNING 2: Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband on Linux

2007-04-20 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/20/07, Anand Nene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Fri, 13/04/07 at 16:27 +0530] Aditya Godbole wrote: On 4/10/07, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When did *I* become part of this specific conversation? Oh, I mentioned corporate email habits. Nothing to see here, move along

Re: FSF Pune Group [was:Re: [PLUG] http://badvista.fsf.org]

2007-04-24 Thread Nishit Dave
+++ Nishit Dave [PLUG] [20-04-07 10:29 +0530]: | On 4/20/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: Hi, This is Shantanoo. I have put the 'Sender:' header in the mail. This is one of the reason why people need digitally signed messages :) Shantanoo hmm...interesting! Shouldn't

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/26/07, आदित्य लघाटे [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/07, Vaibhav Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/07, A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And so if they are not using this service, why should they pay? There may be people who do not use roads at all, why are roads free? Roads are

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/26/07, आदित्य लघाटे [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/07, Vaibhav Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/26/07, A G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And so if they are not using this service, why should they pay? There may be people who do not use roads at all, why are roads free? Roads are

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/27/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had read the announcement of BSNL providing broadband in early 2004. I'm still waiting :) I know, few people (30,000) in Pune have BSNL provided broadband, but compared to Pune's population, what % is that ? We also read about (and by now

Re: [PLUG] [ot] make free - ruin the country.

2007-04-27 Thread Nishit Dave
On 4/27/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sad part is, I haven't been lucky with private players even :( I was able to get connection thru YOU telecom (then it was called Iqara) it worked for a while, then they had permissions issue. Now I have exatt, it has been down since a week, their

Re: [PLUG] [COMMERCIAL] Opening for GTK / PHP

2007-05-08 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/9/07, mahesh sheth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1 PHP indepth knowledge of PHP, Configuring Apache, pgSQL, mySQL 2 GTK / GNOME GTK widgets, embedding browsers in GTK windows, OpenGL, XLib Everybody (including myself, some months back) has been looking for PHP developers.

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft says 235 of its patents were violated by F/OSS

2007-05-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/16/07, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *think* US patents are valid in India thanks to WTO.. No. The revised Indian Patents Act specifically forbids software patents, or in other words, patents on computer-aided innovations. Thank FSF India for that. This, in my

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft says 235 of its patents were violated by F/OSS

2007-05-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/16/07, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I *think* US patents are valid in India thanks to WTO.. I should rephrase my earlier response as Maybe, but instead of No. WTO cannot enforce an alien patent on what intrinsically cannot be patented here. For example, if it did, you

Re: [PLUG] Microsoft says 235 of its patents were violated by F/OSS

2007-05-17 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/17/07, sudhanwa Jogalekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/17/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For criminal and other such cases, there could be treaties between the countries to handover the suspects. ( eg, recent Argentina case for Quotraochi and other older example of Portugal)

Re: [PLUG] [commercial] business proposals / ideas invited

2007-05-29 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/27/07, jayant ogale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am having two shops, situated in the heart of the city, on the main road. area is about 650 sq. ft. i am inviting business proposals for the utilisation of the said place. i have some ideas as follows. 1] computer training institute. 2]

Re: [PLUG] Tata Indicom Broadband with WRT54G

2007-05-29 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/29/07, Mayuresh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't so happy with the customer service people. You feel like talking to a machine and at times have to act as if you are following all their instructions such as unplug the card and place it back, click on xyz icon and what not! If you don't,

Re: [PLUG] About PCTEL HSP56 Modem Configuration.

2007-05-30 Thread Nishit Dave
On 5/31/07, ॐ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HSP56 Linux string showed links for Linux driver on google. So I believe there is a Liux driver for this modem. Go to http://linmodems.technion.ac.il Look for the latest smartlink driver (slmodem). You should have given full technical description.

[PLUG] [OT] software testing - Automation tools

2007-07-03 Thread Nishit Dave
A friend has sent the following query. Can anyone help? Sorry for the cross-posting! Does any of you have any experience with software testing tools? I have to select a tool for automating the tests for a GUI based java application. --

Re: [PLUG] [OT] software testing - Automation tools

2007-07-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 7/4/07, Parag Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/4/07, Nishit Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A friend has sent the following query. Can anyone help? Sorry for the cross-posting! Hi Nishit, You have not mentioned if he is developing a desktop UI or a web UI. Thanks, Parag! Here's

Re: [PLUG] [OT] software testing - Automation tools

2007-07-06 Thread Nishit Dave
On 7/6/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The questions look more to be like someone has a requirement for a consultancy. Thanks. It seems like you will make at least one consultant happy! ;-) --

Re: [PLUG] Free Softwares for School

2007-07-07 Thread Nishit Dave
On 7/7/07, Anand Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PDF Reader (Acrobat) Office Automation (OpenOffice) ZIP software (7-ZIP) Devnagari Fonts and their keyboard maps Chat client Mozilla Firefox browser CD-Burning IPMsg Antivirus (ClamWin) Audacity (Sound Recording) JRE Tuxpaint

Re: [PLUG] Free Softwares for School

2007-07-09 Thread Nishit Dave
Why are we turning this into a flamewar and fulfilling the prophecies? Sanity could have prevailed if we had only categorized software in the following classes: crippled (shareware), gratis (freeware), non-GPL open source, and GPLed, and in cases that were Windows-only, listed Linux alternatives.

Re: [PLUG] [OT] a question!

2007-07-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 7/18/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know it maybe bit difficult to understand this need and an unusual request for the forum but is there any (internet) resource on pronunceations of words of many languages of the world? something equivalent of babelfish translations but w.r.t.

Re: [PLUG] Why OOXML is bad

2007-08-29 Thread Nishit Dave
On 8/29/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Devendra Laulkar wrote: --- shirish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It can. It merely isn't a default. http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/office_open_xml_ooxml_filters http://blogs.zdnet.com/Berlind/?p=204 Somebody should try to replicate the

Re: [PLUG] Look

2007-08-30 Thread Nishit Dave
heh! got compromised? On 8/29/07, Imelda Samuels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: New pharmacy shop: http://kcoam.solveparticular.com/?714277367215 -- __ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List

Re: [PLUG] Request for posting

2007-09-01 Thread Nishit Dave
What's this? Mails going through without approved membership? On 31 Aug 2007 19:30:54 -, chatya arun deosthale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To , Admins of plug.org.in i request you to grant me permission to post on the mailing list.Iwould like to post in order to solve some of

Re: [PLUG] Look

2007-09-03 Thread Nishit Dave
On 9/3/07, शंतनु (Shantanoo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, its not compromised. Observe the 'From:' header. :) Ya, ya, I know, haxx0r stuff and all...braggarts ;) I did see the headers before I deleted the post, but didn't know what to look for! --

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India

2007-10-11 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/11/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They are since patents on software is not valid in India. However win32codecs aren't and you would need to use ffmpeg. Thanks . So we are free in India . Lets hopes India won't accept

Re: [PLUG] Mandriva Linux 2008

2007-10-11 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/11/07, Vishal Rao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe I was mistaken but to me it looked like the free version was limited and was not made available for download immediately upon release. Only paying club members could download the free version for a while after which the general public

Re: [PLUG] Surprising discovery... about KlamaV

2007-10-16 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/15/07, Rahul Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ಓಂ wrote: On 10/15/07, Rahul Sundaram wrote: All antiviruses work out of a database of viruses. What is amusing about that? Do you need Access database for that purpose? No but it is a convenient simple format. And widely

Re: [PLUG] Talk for free using jaxtr?

2007-10-18 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/17/07, Aditya Laghate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/17/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anukalp, You fail to realize, that your address book has public mailing list email addresses and that people are not interested in reading advertisements there. The funnier part is that

Re: [PLUG] legality of restricted formats in India [OT]

2007-10-19 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/19/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/11/07, Amit Karpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we are free in India . You are free in any part of the world till caught illegally doing legal things or legally doing illegal things (think of it seriously and you may find some truth in this..).

Re: [PLUG] मूक त ज्ञ आन [Silent Expert's Oath]

2007-10-21 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/20/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seriously, I am looking for any pointers on **best practices for search engine optimization techniques** I will goohoo for it, but inputs from Pune Linux Users' Group will be even more interesting I am sure) Is that an ethical practice? Indians are

Re: [PLUG] muktadnyan

2007-10-22 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/22/07, Desi Penguin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a nitpick, correct way to spell ज्ञान is jnan, not dnyan. So website should be muktajnan.org :) I'm sure ಓಂ will agree :) Thanks for sticking your neck out :) I was afraid with the LUG belonging to Pune, nobody would notice. --

Re: [PLUG] muktadnyan [OT]

2007-10-23 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/23/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is even more to it... **gyan** is a gurumukhi or punjabi version of it.. There is also a verse with that word by Kabeer (i think) **कहता है गुरु ग्यानी... *** And in Gujarati it is Gnan - hard pronunciation of the G. Original Sanskrit

Re: [PLUG] Usual Piques

2007-10-25 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/25/07, Devendra Laulkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On 10/24/07, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well i got the Daniel Jones english pronuncing dictionary... and wow what a wonder it also has CD which contains audios of all word pronunciations etc... Only (and usual) problems, it

Re: [PLUG] Please sign the petition against Microsoft's Office OpenXML becoming an ISO standard

2007-10-30 Thread Nishit Dave
On 10/30/07, Aditya Godbole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/30/07, Sarang Kulkarni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, The Free Software Foundation is running a petition to oppose Microsoft's OpenXML from becoming an ISO standard. Wasnt MS shown the door earlier? Or is this something

Re: [Spam] [was: [PLUG] Tips for property buyer]

2007-12-03 Thread Nishit Dave
On Dec 3, 2007 5:50 PM, Shantanoo Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hope you have gone through following link before posting. http://plug.org.in/mailinglist.php Can you please help me in understanding how this e-mail is valid w.r.t. 'Mailing List Etiquette' mentioned on the above link?

Re: [PLUG] Kingfisher - linux

2007-12-20 Thread Nishit Dave
On Dec 20, 2007 10:18 AM, ಓಂ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One usually seeks conformance to standards! Jet Airways has been using GNU/Linux for its in-flight entertainment systems for a long time. The systems on their 777-300s used for London and New York flights are really great, with a

Re: [PLUG] Linux based phones.

2007-12-25 Thread Nishit Dave
On Dec 26, 2007 10:55 AM, Pranav Peshwe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, Does anybody have any experience of using Linux based smartphones available in the (Indian) market ? Google gives a lot of results, but i would like to know real life experiences. Also,

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