Fsf-friends November 2004

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Guidence needed
by Sriharsha Vedurmudi 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Hello Friends, I am facing a problem and need your suggessions. There is some material in english which I want to translate into our local language (Telugu). I also want the font to be in Telugu. While there are some free fonts that I know of for Telugu (IIT Madras has got one for their multi-lingual editor, and it looks decent enough to me), I am not able to find a nice editor. I have considered the editor from IITM (at acharya.iitm.net.in....), but its very difficult, given my knowledge of telugu on these keyboards. If I have a Telugu Keyboard it would have solved some problem but I searched the market but found none. Now, there are two things that I can imagine: 1. Go to a type institute and copy the keys layout, then come back and experiment on my keyboard until i get them right. (it sure is going to take a _LOT_ of time, given my current pressures in office). 2. Get hold of a nice editor. Earlier when I was using wind**s, I used a s/w called TeluguLipi Editor, it had this wonderful feature that if I type a word in english, it would automatically convert every syllabi of it to Telugu. So, its practically a breeze to type in Telugu using that editor with out any knowledge of the telugu keyboard layout. Is there any such editor (Mr. google returned unsatisfactory results) for Linux? I'd be indebted if anyone can help me out. Also, one more thing: A couple of days ago, some of my friends, also in the s/w field (and running a very small charitable trust), donated a computer to a school in a very remote village. (I am not a member as such, now, so I dont have a big say). When my friend told me that, I appreciated him but his very next sentence disappointed me, he said they had installed M$ Win into it. When I asked them why they were wasting money when they can get what ever they wanted to using Free Software, they said its because of the following reasons: 1. No one in the village knew anything about computers, so had to be taught from scratch. 2. None of their group are comfortable with *nix. (A pity) 3. The software that they are planning to provide now is the ones by Azim Premji Foundation http://www.azimpremjifoundation.org/html/educationalsoftware.htm which runs on Windows only. So, they had no choice but to shell out some money and buy Windows in the gray market and load it. When I raised my voice, they expressed helplessness saying that their first aim is not to teach computers to kids but to grab their attention towards studies and use educational s/w for this purpose. Since I did not know any Edu S/w for linux, I had to shut my mouth. So, im immediately writing to you friends, does anyone know anything about this? Waiting for your replies: Sriharsha.

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Videos of WOS3 (june 2004)
by balachandran c 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

hi, http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=wizards%20of%20os%20AND%20mediatype… I found some good videos of the discussions at Wizards of OS 3, june 2004. If this is redundant, kindly ignore. regards, bala.

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Microsoft search encounters glitches on first day
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 15 Nov '04

15 Nov '04

Friday November 12, 7:30 AM Microsoft search encounters glitches on first day SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.'s widely anticipated search engine, which launched in test mode on Thursday, encountered some glitches on its first day, the world's largest software maker said. The new search engine, Microsoft's first assault on Google Inc.'s leading position in the market, returned "temporarily unavailable" messages to some users looking for answers to queries at its Web site at beta.search.msn.com. "In the process of making our new MSN Search Beta globally available, we experienced technical difficulties that rendered it unavailable for some consumers for periods of time," Microsoft said in an e-mailed statement. Microsoft said it had expected such problems with MSN Search during its beta, or test mode, while soliciting feedback from users. "We expected to find some problems in the beta, and we anticipate there will be additional times when we limit service availability for maintenance purposes," the company said. Microsoft had been working on its search engine for the last 18 months after deciding to challenge Google's leading position the market. Microsoft's said its new search engine would deliver results from a database index of more than 5 billion indexed Web documents and pages. Google said on Wednesday that it had nearly doubled its index database to 8 billion pages.

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Test
by jeffrin 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

Test mail

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Test
by jeffrin 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

This is a Test Message.

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[Fsf-friends] Financial Express (Delhi) on GNU/Linux... and insurance
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 12 Nov '04

12 Nov '04

SWITCHOVER to Linux: Insurance majors to invest Rs 400 crore Financial Express - New Delhi,India ... Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer, comes calling next week, he has to convince government-owned insurance companies that rival Linux is no ... <http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=73952>

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Ubuntu GNU/Linux cds available now!
by Praveen A 11 Nov '04

11 Nov '04

A new GNU/Linux distribution based on GNU/Debian aimed at desktop users has Gnome as its Desktop and includes new vesrsions of the most wanted softwares, like word processor, web browser, image processing .... It features brand new Gnome 2.8 (latest) and you can order cds now (CDs are free of cost not even shipping cost!). So hurry and download the single feature rich cd or order. http://www.ubuntulinux.org

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Re: [ilugd] [Fwd: [Fsf-friends] Guidence needed]
by Raj Shekhar 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

bimal pandit wrote: > Dear Sriharsha, > > there is a project for the same purpose as you are looking for and not > to say help from all over the globe even here in india!! > > the project is LTSP(linux terminal server project) just give it a > thought and i will try to help you as much as i can. > > the site is <http://www.ltsp.org> I think you wanted to point to http://k12ltsp.org/ rather than LTSP page. However, I think he does not want a LTSP setup .. (but LTSP will make things easier to maintain) . After grepping through my memory, I was able to locate the following projects that may be helpful to you http://schoolforge.net/ --> start your search here http://www.linuxforkids.org/ -- lots of softwares, well indexed and I hope much better than what your friend is planning to use :-) http://www.bluelinux.org/ --> BlueEDU is a distribution of the Linux operating system focused on educational packages. http://www.tux4kids.com/tux4kids/projects/ --> more software That should be enough to get you started -- ,-.___,-. Raj Shekhar \_/_ _\_/ System Administrator, programmer and slacker )O_O( home : http://rajshekhar.net { (_) } blog : http://rajshekhar.net/blog/ `-^-' work : http://netphotograph.com

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what is wrong with s/w patents?
by Mahesh T. Pai 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

Most comprehensive listing of problems with software problems so far:- http://technocrat.net/article.pl?sid=04/11/08/1640206 also at http://perens.com/Articles/PatentFarming.html -- Mahesh T. Pai <<>> http://paivakil.port5.com End Users are just friends who haven't submitted a patch yet.

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i4d Monthly Digest - FLOSS
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- i4d Monthly Digest October, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This i4d monthly digest is to bring to you of the features and stories in the October issue on Free / Libre And Open Source Software, which are also available on http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/content.asp Coming Soon: i4d thematic issue on e-Culture -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE Theme: Free / Libre And Open Source Software (FLOSS) Features: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free / Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) Understanding the global debate http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/global.asp Foss Usage in Africa Untapped potential http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/untapped_full.asp FLoss in Latin America and the Caribbean A social movement for freedom of knowledge http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/floss_full.asp FLoss In Asia Bridging the yawning digital divide http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/floss_asia.asp Closed Vs. Open Software License fee and GDP per capita http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/license_full.asp A Vision In the years to come... http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/vision_full.asp Revolutionising The Process FOSS and localisation http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/process_full.asp Columns: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foss and Civil Society Organisations (CSO) Why civil society is not embracing FOSS http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/civil.asp Floss Down to basics http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/down.asp Interview Red Hat: Fuelling the OSS movement http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/interview.asp Free / Libre and Open Source Software (floss) Understanding the global debate http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/global.asp Open Content and Open Standards in FLOSS Promoting partnerships http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/promoting_full.asp Insight Ankur Bangla Project http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/ankur_full.asp Bytes for All... http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/bytes_full.asp ICT and Education FOSS resources in education http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/ict_edu.asp In Fact FLOSSophy http://www.i4donline.net/oct04/infact.asp -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For subscribing to daily/weekly/monthly i4d newsletter click here You can search all the news by date at www.i4donline.net Learn more about e-Learning projects http://www.i4donline.net/elearn.asp Now you can subscribe to the i4d print magazine online. http://www.i4donline.net/subscribe.asp Your comments and suggestions and request to subscribe/unsubscribe are welcome at info(a)i4donline.net [The first daily news service on ICT4D] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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