Fsf-friends July 2004

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[Gnu\]Linux Install Festival at Chennai
by Ramanraj K 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

ILUGC organised the Linux Install Festival at Chennai, which I also attended. Mr. P. Raman <raamanp(a)yahoo.co.in> and Mr. Bharathi organised the festival. More about it at: http://www.chennailug.org/meeting/minutes/yr2004/momlf2004.html

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FLOSS linx
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Please visit http://linuxinindia.pitas.com Web links to initiatives in South Asia http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa ILUG-Goa, the friendly LUG http://www.freelists.org A place to set up free tech lists http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list.fcgi?list_id=linuxinindia GNULinuxInIndia mailing list. Low volume updates of what's happening. http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list.fcgi?list_id=gnulinuxinasia GNULinuxInAsia. Like the above list. http://groups.google.com/groups?q=comp.os.linux.announce&ie=UTF- 8&hl=en Comp.os.linux.announce Usenet newsgroup -- nice place to announce developments and learn what's happening. If you know an interesting story about GNU/Linux and FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) in India or Asia, do drop me a line. Frederick Noronha (FN) f r e d @ b y t e s f o r a l l . o r g http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks

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2004 Free Software Award
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Nominations for the 2004 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software FSF and the GNU project request nominations for the 2004 FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software. We want to give this award to a person who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of Free Software (free as in freedom as defined in the Free Software Definition <http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html>), through activities that accord with the spirit of software freedom. Any kind of activity could be eligible -- writing software, writing documentation, publishing CDs, even journalism -- but whatever the activity, we want to recognize long-term central contributions to the development of the world of software freedom. "Accord with the spirit" means, for example, that software, manuals or collections of them (online or on CD) must be entirely Free. Work done commercially is eligible, but we give this award to individuals, not to companies, organizations, or teams. People such as Alan Cox, Miguel de Icaza, Donald Knuth, Larry Lessig, Brian Paul, Guido van Rossum, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, and Larry Wall who have already received this or other awards for their contributions, are not eligible for the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Among those who are eligible, the award committee will try to choose whoever has made the greatest contribution. Please send your nominations to <award-nominations(a)gnu.org> <mailto:award-nominations@gnu.org>, on or before Sunday 31 October 2004. Please submit nominations in the following format: * Put the name of the person you are nominating in the email message subject line. * Please include, in the body of your message, an explanation (40 lines or less) of the work the person has done and why you think it is especially important to software freedom. * Please state, in the body of your message, where to find the materials (e.g., software, manuals, or writing) which your nomination is based on. Information about the previous awards can be found online <http://www.gnu.org/award/>. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return to GNU's home page </home.html>. Please send FSF & GNU inquiries & questions to /gnu(a)gnu.org/ <mailto:gnu@gnu.org>. There are also other ways to contact </home.html#ContactInfo> the FSF. Please send comments on these web pages to /webmasters(a)gnu.org/ <mailto:webmasters@gnu.org>, send other questions to /gnu(a)gnu.org/ <mailto:gnu@gnu.org>. Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved. Updated: $Date: 2004/07/16 16:20:39 $ $Author: bkuhn $ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CIRCULATED VIA: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick Noronha 784 Near Convent, Sonarbhat, SALIGAO, GOA India Freelance Journalist TEL: +91-832-2409490 MOBILE: 9822122436 http://fn.swiki.net http://www.livejournal.com/users/goalinks fred at bytesforall.org http://www.bytesforall.org

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Dot Matrix Printing Solved
by swathantra software 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Hi to all, Thanks to all the people who has sent help for fixing the problem of printing with dot matrix printer in OpenOffice. Finally it was solved by using a printer driver other than "omni". Hope this will help others facing the same kind of problem. I give the description of our setup here. OS - GNU/Linux ( Redhat 9) OpenOffice- 1.0.2 Print service - CUPS Dot Matrix Printer - WIPRO HQ1040+ (24 pin) Problem - Openoffice does not print with "omni" as printer driver. Solution - Used EPSON LQ850 driver "lq850" ( used printtool to configure printer). It worked. Thanks again to all. Sujeevan S2S2, Kannur _____________________________________________________________ Linux.Net -->Open Source to everyone Powered by Linare Corporation http://www.linare.com/

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RE: [Fsf-friends] Help On Dot Matrix Printing
by Senthil_OR＠Dell.com 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

-----Original Message----- From: swathantra software ... Could anyone please help us in getting dot matrix printer working in Openoffice?. Kannur district administration is getting migrated to GNU/Linux and as part of it few section has got GNU/Linux Redhat 9 installed. All sections has got dot matrix printer Model WIPRO HQ 1040+( 24 pin). Using printtool in RH9, local printer is configured using driver epson LQ1050 ( "omni" driver)( we do not know what is the compatible driver in Linux for this Model, so tried epson LQ1050). A test print from printool worked just fine. But in OpenOffice we can not get any printout. When we tried the driver epson "dot matrix" ( driver "epsonc") OpenOffice did print, but the quality was very poor and print is not clear. The printer works just fine in Windows. Could anyone please help us to fix the problem.?. ------------- Not a direct help, but I have heard this kind of a situation before, wherein One guy was having similar troubles with printing documents with Openoffice on a dot matrix printer. He said that when tried with AbiWord, the printout was proper. Did you try with Abiword or any other word processing software? Or if it is just a text document,directly to the printer? Lets also check with bugs open with the Oo.org Cheers! Senthil

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Help On Dot Matrix Printing
by swathantra software 16 Jul '04

16 Jul '04

Hello, Could anyone please help us in getting dot matrix printer working in Openoffice?. Kannur district administration is getting migrated to GNU/Linux and as part of it few section has got GNU/Linux Redhat 9 installed. All sections has got dot matrix printer Model WIPRO HQ 1040+( 24 pin). Using printtool in RH9, local printer is configured using driver epson LQ1050 ( "omni" driver)( we do not know what is the compatible driver in Linux for this Model, so tried epson LQ1050). A test print from printool worked just fine. But in OpenOffice we can not get any printout. When we tried the driver epson "dot matrix" ( driver "epsonc") OpenOffice did print, but the quality was very poor and print is not clear. The printer works just fine in Windows. Could anyone please help us to fix the problem.?. Apreciating your help Regards Sujeevan S2S2,Kannur _____________________________________________________________ Linux.Net -->Open Source to everyone Powered by Linare Corporation http://www.linare.com/

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[Fwd: [Ilugc] Feel the Thunder !!!]
by Ramanraj K 15 Jul '04

15 Jul '04

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Thunder is Fastest Supercomputer #2 in the World
by Ramanraj K 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

http://www.hindu.com/seta/2004/07/08/stories/2004070800381400.htm The Chennai Edition of "The Hindu" has reported that Thunder is ranked #2 among the top 500 Supercomputers. www.top500.org/list/2004/06 <quote> The new number 2 is the `Thunder' made by a relatively unknown assembler, California Digital Corporation and supplied to the Lawrence Livermore Laboratories. Its top speed is about half that of the NEC machine at 19.94 teraflops. </quote> Hats off to AB :) Of course, AB wrote about this long ago to this list. It is fair that the facts are made more well known ! #257 is from IMSc, Chennai.

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Re: Your picture
by raamanp＠yahoo.co.in 07 Jul '04

07 Jul '04

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DMCRA - "Hymn" can become legal in the US
by Anand Babu 06 Jul '04

06 Jul '04

The DMCRA, proposed by Reps. Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R- CA) and co-sponsored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton (R-TX), would re-affirm consumer fair use rights and balance the otherwise one-sided protection afforded copyright owners under current interpretations of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). http://www.house.gov/boucher/docs/dmcrahandout.htm http://www.progress.org/2004/patent13.htm http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.107: EFF is asking consumers to take action on it. If you have friends in the US please ask them to sign http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2224 -- Anand Babu Free as in Freedom <www.gnu.org>

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