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Microsoft to set up university in (Bangalore)city
by Vikram Vincent 17 Jul '07

17 Jul '07

Hello, Is this a sign that the Free Software Movement is growing in Bangalore??? I think that we need to seriously reassess our Movement and work to build it further and faster. Bangalore has a *huge* potential to build the Movement and it only needs us to put in our 2 drops of sweat. "BANGALORE: Microsoft Corporation has chosen Bangalore for its first-ever exclusive and independent educational venture in the world. The company will set up a university in the city to impart high-end computer education. The university may well be India's first run by a multinational company." http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2196363.cms Continuing I have some observations on the issue. With education becoming a multi-billion dollar industry and India occupying a huge part of that pie the proposed entry of a "University of Microsoft" assumes a huge significance particularly since the effects of rampant commercialisation of education is becoming more and more obvious. So how is this argument significant on a Free Software list? Well, while the Supreme Court declared that the 112 private universities set up under the Chattisgarh Private Universities Act were illegal, this was only on technical grounds. It was on the grounds that the UGC was not consulted, nor were the guidelines to set up a Pvt University followed. However, we are witnessing efforts by the Govt. to remove these hurdles and allow FDI(foreign direct investment) in education. Now personally I have experienced the effects of commercialisation of education with my college where I started my Engineering studies being forced to close shop due to the lack of basic facilities. While a "University of Microsoft" may provide ideal conditions for "education" it will set a precedent for other fly-by-night operators to come here and set shop. The Kothari commission of 1964 correctly elucidates the basic objectives and functions of universities and their role in national life: "A university stands for humanism, for tolerance, for reason, for the adventure of ideas and for the search of truth. It stands for the onward march of the human race towards even higher objectives. If the universities discharge their duties adequately, then it is well with the nation and the people... Their principal object is to deepen man's understanding of the universe and himself - in body mind and spirit, to disseminate this understanding throughout society and to apply it in the service of mankind... They are the dwelling places of ideas and idealism, and expect high standards of conduct and integrity from all the members.. Theirs is the pursuit of truth and excellence in all its diversity" Now IMHO this captures the essence of the "University of Free Software". The FSF needs to act immediately and come out a detailed stand on the issue. Perhaps the FSF-I leadership could throw more light on the issue. -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 Project Engineer, NRCFOSS, AU-KBC http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Campaign_to_promote_free_software_in_karnataka

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OOXML Fails to Gain Approval in US
by Santhosh Thottingal 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

Read http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/ooxml-fails-to-gain-approval-in-us.html -Santhosh

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FOSSAG
by Mani A 16 Jul '07

16 Jul '07

FYI FOSS4G http://www.foss4g2007.org/ The annual Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) conference brings together the people who create, use, and support open spatial software. No other event brings together members of the open source development, open data creation, and open standards promotion communities like FOSS4G. Find out more <http://www.foss4g2007.org/about_foss4g/> about FOSS4G. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Touchpad response very slow
by ashish ranjan 15 Jul '07

15 Jul '07

I installed Debian version: 4.0 Etch on a Dell inspiron 6000 laptop. The touch pad response is very slow and it is almost impossible to work with the touch pad. USB mouse works fine. Can someone help? thanks, ashish -- Last ball. 3 runs to win. What a shot! They are running... One...four! India!! oneforindia.org

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Fwd: Conference Announcement, FLOPS
by Mani A 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Ninth International Symposium on Functional and Logic Programming (FLOPS 2008) April 14-16, 2008 Ise, Japan Submission deadline: October 10, 2007 http://www.math.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~garrigue/FLOPS2008/ FLOPS is a forum for research on all issues concerning declarative programming, including functional programming and logic programming, and aims to promote cross-fertilization and integration between the two paradigms. Previous FLOPS meetings were held in Fuji Susono (1995), Shonan Village (1996), Kyoto (1998), Tsukuba (1999), Tokyo (2001), Aizu (2002), Nara (2004), and Fuji Susono (2006). TOPICS FLOPS solicits original papers in all areas of functional and logic programming, including (but not limited to): Declarative Pearls: new and excellent declarative programs with illustrative applications; Language issues: language design and constructs, programming methodology, integration of paradigms, interfacing with other languages, type systems, constraints, concurrency and distributed computing; Foundations: logic and semantics, rewrite systems and narrowing, type theory, proof systems; Implementation issues: compilation techniques, memory management, program analysis and transformation, partial evaluation, parallelism; Applications: case studies, real-world applications, graphical user interfaces, Internet applications, XML, databases, formal methods and model checking. The proceedings are expected to be published as an LNCS volume. The proceedings of the previous meeting (FLOPS2006) were published as LNCS 3945. INVITED SPEAKERS To be announced PC CO-CHAIRS Jacques Garrigue (Nagoya, Japan) Manuel Hermenegildo (Madrid, Spain and New Mexico, US) PC MEMBERS Maria Alpuente (Valencia, Spain) Sergio Antoy (Portland, OR, USA) Matthias Blume (TTI, Chicago, USA) Tyng-Ruey Chuang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Zhenjiang Hu (Tokyo, Japan) Oleg Kiselyov (FNMOC, Monterey, USA) Herbert Kuchen (Muenster, Germany) Dale Miller (INRIA, Palaiseau, France) Atsushi Ohori (Tohoku, Japan) Enrico Pontelli (New Mexico, USA) Kristoffer Rose (IBM Watson, USA) Kazunori Ueda (Waseda, Japan) Peter Van Roy (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) Benjamin Werner (INRIA, Palaiseau, France) LOCAL CHAIR Shoji Yuen, Nagoya University SUBMISSION Submissions must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Work that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshops proceedings may be submitted. Submissions should fall into one of the following categories: Regular research papers: they should describe new results and will be judged on originality, correctness, and significance. System descriptions: they should contain a link to a working system and will be judged on originality, usefulness, and design. All submissions must be written in English and can be up to 15 proceedings pages long. Authors are strongly encouraged to use LaTeX2e and the Springer llncs class file, available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Regular research papers should be supported by proofs and/or experimental results. In case of lack of space, this supporting information should be made accessible otherwise (e.g. a link to a web page, or an appendix). Submission is Web-based. Please visit the conference site. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: October 10, 2007 Author notification: December 21, 2007 Camera-ready copy: January 21, 2008 Conference: April 14-16, 2008 PLACE Ise, Japan Previous FLOPS: FLOPS 2006, Fuji Susono: http://hagi.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2006/ FLOPS 2004, Nara: http://logic.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/FLOPS2004/ FLOPS 2002, Aizu: http://www.ipl.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/FLOPS2002/ FLOPS 2001, Tokyo: http://www.ueda.info.waseda.ac.jp/flops2001/ SPONSOR Japan Society for Software Science and Technology (JSSST) SIG-PPL IN COOPERATION with Asian Association for Foundation of Software (AAFS) (pending) Association for Logic Programming (ALP) INQUIRIES to Jacques Garrigue (garrigue at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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Open Solaris to have a package management system
by Mani A 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Yes that is planned for the next release in spring 2008. http://www.devxnews.com/article.php/3688576 Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc

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FROM PAKISTAN: ipgrab ... A verbose packet sniffer that displays a great amount of detail on each packet it reads, including application layer fields.
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

Project Admins: farooq-i-azam, mborella Operating System: All BSD Platforms (FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/Apple Mac OS X), All POSIX (Linux/BSD/UNIX-like OSes), FreeBSD, Linux License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Category: Monitoring * * * * * From: "Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam" <i80x86(a)gmail.com> Subject: [LinuxPakistan] [SPAM] Ipgrab 0.9.10 Released To: general(a)linuxpakistan.net Message-ID: <2424a8660707110400o784ac9e4sdd6acecec5a9884a(a)mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful and the Most Beneficent Dear All Assalam-o-Alaikum! We have released new version of Ipgrab which is 0.9.10. Ipgrab is a packet sniffer distributed with Debian and other Linuxes. In particular, we have added a DEVELOPER-HOWTO with this release which is to facilitate new developers. If you are interested to participate, please do read the document available with the download. This new release fixes many bugs and errors, and ipgrab is now lot more stable. You may see ChangeLog for more details of the changes which were applied. Also, this release is now in synchronization with CVS repository. You can visit the project page here: http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/ipgrab And you can download it from the following link: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4340 Other information provided by the Sourceforge release announcement is as under: Project: IPgrab (ipgrab) Package: ipgrab Date : 2007-07-10 20:47 Project "IPgrab" ('ipgrab') has released the new version of package 'ipgrab'. You can download it from SourceForge.net by following this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4340&release_id=5222…> or browse Release Notes and ChangeLog by visiting this link: <https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=522209> -- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam http://www.esecurity.com.pk/ http://www.chase.org.pk/ -- FN: Frederick Noronha http://wikiwikiweb.de/MyContacts Phone 0091-832-2409490 Cell: 091-9822122436 or 9970157402 (after 1 pm) A film on copyright! GOOD COPY BAD COPY: a documentary about the current state of copyright and culture. http://www.goodcopybadcopy.net/

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1st Asian Nation to Adopt Open Software Standards
by Raj Mathur 14 Jul '07

14 Jul '07

This may be some help in the battle against OOXML: 1st Asian Nation to Adopt Open Software Standards "Japan has adopted a policy under which government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors whose products support internationally recognized open standards and thus becomes the first country in Asia to embrace the open software Standards, The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance) says in a press release (PDF). Full story at: http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/jul/13/1st_asian_nation_to_adopt_open_softw… -- Raju -- Raj Mathur raju(a)kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves

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Sify joins hands with Microsoft
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

Sify joins hands with Microsoft to bridge Digital Divide http://in.news.yahoo.com/070712/43/6hze0.html this time the promise is of free office software with free training. -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

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Re: [Fsf-friends] M$ Gaming
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 12 Jul '07

12 Jul '07

----- Mani A <a.mani.cms(a)gmail.com> wrote: > M$ has been doing well in the gaming OS sector and with XBOX too. So > they have this nice closed source marketing strategy : > http://www.physorg.com/news103199030.html > > Best > > A. Mani Here is the conspiracy theory MS Sells one xbox 360, the xbox goes down and returned for warranty, a replacement xbox 360 is sent, it also goes down another replacement and the cycle continues... But the point is, for every one xbox 360 sold, MS can multiply its actual sales figures by 3, maybe 4 may be more. And can claim to dominate/ rule the console market. Whereas the rest will stay the one sale per person, no massive multipliers for them. Whatever... -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal

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