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minix --the father of linux
by Kussh 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

came to know about minix3 http://www.minix3.org/ from one of google's ads kussh

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[Fwd: [A2k] $250, 000 Open Architecture Prize prize for developing world.]
by Anivar Aravind 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [A2k] $250,000 Open Architecture Prize prize for developing world. Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 07:33:16 -0400 From: James Love <james.love(a)cptech.org> To: Ip-health <ip-health(a)lists.essential.org>, a2k discuss list <a2k(a)lists.essential.org> Begin forwarded message: From: Architecture for Humanity <cameron(a)architectureforhumanity.org> Date: March 12, 2007 7:35:02 AM EDT To: "James Love" <love(a)cptech.org> Subject: $250,000 Open Architecture Prize announced. http://www.icebase.com/go.shtml?20070312033411655773&m29930&http:// www.icebase.com/r.pl? AMD and Architecture for Humanity establish the Open Architecture Prize $250,000 prize to develop technology center in developing world. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Architecture for Humanity has announced the first ever Open Architecture Prize. $250,000 will be awarded to the winning design of an open competition to develop technology centers in the developing world. The competition is set to launch later this year. The first great challenge for the prize will be the design of a sustainable technology facility and community center which incorporates a centralized building equipped with internet connectivity solutions designed to enable an entire community to access the transformative power of the Internet. The competition will be developed with a local community partner for a specific site and community. Once a design is selected, the prize money will be used to implement the winning scheme. Designs will also be made available through the Open Architecture Network. "The Open Architecture Prize delivers on Architecture for Humanity's vision of encouraging collaboration and challenging designers to reach beyond the traditional bounds of architecture to develop innovative solutions that improve global living conditions," said Dan Shine, director of the 50x15 Initiative, AMD. "The creative designs developed in this competition will contribute to the 50x15 Initiative's ambitious goal of connecting 50 percent of the world's population to the Internet by 2015." The network was unveiled at TED 2007 by Architecture for Humanity and a number of its technology partners, including AMD, Creative Commons, Hot Studio, and Sun Microsystems, Inc. "For far too long many great award-winning designs have gone undeveloped," said Cameron Sinclair, executive director and co- founder, Architecture for Humanity. "Through the Open Architecture Network we unveiled yesterday and the Open Architecture Prize we are announcing today, we are not only challenging the creative world to design innovative structures, we are going one step further and implementing the winning solution to positively affect thousands of lives." In addition to technology expertise and a diverse portfolio of innovative connectivity solutions, the 50x15 Initiative brings significant experience in assessing regional technology problems and deploying relevant solutions to the winning project. This expertise is essential in developing the competition criteria, as well as determining which design will empower a community to the greatest extent possible. Most importantly you HAVE to be an Open Architecture Network member to participate. So, SIGN UP and you will be the first to receive information on the competition and brief. News Humanitarian goals, tech-savvy solutions International Herald Tribune, March 12th 2007 AMD sponsors Open Architecture Prize USA Today, March 11th 2007 Big News My Heart's in Accra, March 10th 2007 Win a Prize: Build A Tech Lab Wired News, March 9th 2007 Framing Open Source Architecture Wired News, March 8th 2007 _______________________________________________ A2k mailing list A2k(a)lists.essential.org http://lists.essential.org/mailman/listinfo/a2k -- Anivar Aravind moving Republic Global Alternate Information Applications(GAIA) Peringavu.P.O Thrissur-680018 Kerala Ph. +91 9446545336

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[Fsf-friends] Summary of GNU Grazing March10, Cubbon Park, Bangalore
by Vikram Vincent| ವಿಕ್ ರಂ ವ ಿನ್ವ ೆಂಟ್ 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Hello All, The summary of the meeting has been put up on the wiki page. Please do update it if necessary. http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Bangalore/GNUs_Grazing -- Regards Vikram Vincent +919448810822 http://groups.google.com/group/bangalore_alive/ http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=19591248

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Hall of Shame
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

----- Sandip Bhattacharya <sandip(a)lug-delhi.org> wrote: > > You misunderstand the Hall of Shame "rhetoric". It is not about which > site uses what technology to provider services. HoS is about not > discriminating against users of these services. Critical websites > like > governments should be accessible by all, including users of FOSS > software. That is all about our "limited" mission. Thanks for clarifying. Got it now. > > Whether a government site should proprietary technology or FOSS > software > is a different debate, and is not related to the Hall of shame > effort. Agreed. > > BTW, I personally believe that FOSS software is not everything. You > need > to have FOSS content also. So even if we have FOSS software which is > good, but not FOSS education material, what good would the software > be > to an education drive? Look around the education area, you would be a > huge amount of teaching material already in place for these > proprietary > software. I don't blame the education drive too much right now for > their > decision. They can't help their students *now* by deploying FOSS and > waiting for years for the teaching material to appear. The good thing > is > that there are many localized drives in India who are developing good > teaching material. I believe Kerala was a pioneer in it, but I don't > have any references to it right now. Once we have a worth 10+2 > content > in place, it would be difficult for any government to justify ignoring > it. So what exactly would/ should be taught as per the available study material 1) Word Processing or MS Word 2) Presentations or Powerpoint 3) Spreadsheets or Excel 4) ANSI C/ C++ or Visual C++ (usually Turbo C++) 5) Object Oriented Programming or MS .NET 6) SQL or MS SQL Server there is a difference. For each there is a free alternative. And good study material is aplenty. Generic concepts are already in place. I do blame the Govt Deptt. for lapse in their duties. -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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kaffeine & codeine crashes
by ANOOP KRISHNAN 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

my kaffeine and codeine player allways crashes. I am using Debian etch and 2.6.16 & 2.6.15 kernel . any one please answer me. KRISHNA (Anoop krishnan G) _________________________________________________________________ Slidestory, audio slideshows http://www.Slidestory.com

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Fwd: [ATPS] Re: Fwd: [Fsf-friends] BSNL should find a place in "Hall of Shame"
by Anilkumar K V 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

--------- Forwarded message ---------- From: thomas joseph <thomasatps(a)gmail.com> Date: 08-Mar-2007 09:44 Subject: [ATPS] Re: Fwd: [Fsf-friends] BSNL should find a place in "Hall of Shame" To: ATPS(a)googlegroups.com Dear all, It is not BSNL as a whole to be blamed. It is the socio-economic-cultural attitude of our peope in general that is to be blamed. How about most of other Govt Departments, Undertakings and enterprises. Of course those in authority in BSNL who go for ms products are not only to be blamed but shall be condemned. But not BSNL as a whole. Why ? Here is an example of an open tender floated by the same BSNL, from Ernakulam SSA. Extracts...... QUOTE """"" 16. SOFTWARE 1.The operating system should be GNU/LINUX 2.The RDBMS should be PostgreSQL 3.The web server should be Apache. 4.The vendor must provide Source code of all applications with all passwords, operating system and development tools and the application software package all of which shall be transferred under General Public License providing for total technology transfer. ''''''''' UNQUOTE Is not an example to be emulated by others. Joseph Thomas

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Hall of Shame
by CK Raju, Thrissur 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

http://www.lug-delhi.org/wiki/HallOfShame/Websites I just wanted our friends to know that some time back FSF-India really had promoted this idea to alert about the first-time breaches of freedoms. Most of them were minor sways and hence the term "Shame". For the hardened betrayers, we don't give them an honour of Shame, we treat or handle them differently. http://www.lug-delhi.org/wiki/HallOfShame/ISP lists BSNL but for a different reason. All I wanted was to re-list it again with a new reason. It just happened that Mr Srinivas responded, which means that , even a mere threat of including in the Hall of Shame works!! If public agencies abuse their position and think themselves to be autonomous, to go ahead and create their own *choices* when actually they don't have any, we need to show them their place. We are not crying at mail servers of private players. If its a public agency - beware, if there is a breach, we will induct them to appropriate places. CV's contribution to TeX and ATPS's contribution to Financial services are in public memory domain. [I don't have any - and don't feel sorry about it.] Cheers, CK Raju

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Hall of Shame
by Ajay Pal Singh Atwal 12 Mar '07

12 Mar '07

Did someone forgot to mention Election Commission of India running on Windows Server using ASP.NET On 9th March 2007 Election Commission of India Fixed (disabled parts of) their website to avoid XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities after intervention of CERT-IN. The vulnerabilities were reported on 2nd of March to ECI and on 4th March to CERT-IN, for the following URL: http://search.eci.gov.in/maps/eci_se2007/detailResult.asp Still a bit of usually harmless data insertion is possible. The above script is used to display detailed results of a given constituency. It may have been running unprotected for maybe few months. Had the ECI made the code GPLed, the vulnerabilities would have been detected much earlier. Even if these acts are shameful, I still do not support the "Hall of Shame" rhetoric, but if the Govt Departments are working for Public they must open their code using General Public License. Real Hall of shame is when Punjab Govt. spends lakhs on purchase of MS software for use in education at 10+1 and 10+2 level, where FLOSS would have been equally good (and same also for Sarv Sikhya Abhiyan). ----- CK Raju <ckraju68(a)yahoo.co.in> wrote: > http://puggy.symonds.net/pipermail/fsug-kochi-discuss/2003-August/000712.ht… > "Sanghamitra ?!" > CK Raju > > Anilkumar K V <achu.kulangara(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 11/03/07, CK Raju, > Thrissur wrote: > > > > ATPS's contribution to Financial services are > > in public memory domain. > > > > [I don't have any - and don't feel sorry about it.] > > > Raju, > > It is not clear what you are trying to convey. Can you please > elaborate, > > - Anil -- Sincerely Ajay Pal Singh Atwal Dept of CSE & IT BBSBEC, Fatehgarh Sahib Punjab, INDIA -------------------------------- http://www.bbsbec.ac.in http://www.ajaypal.com -------------------------------- ajaypal[at]bbsbec.org, ajaypal[at]acm.org

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go-db
by Kussh 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

The website http://www.go-db.com just appeared as a link at gmail. Has anybody here tried it as a development platform? Its not free software but is supposedly free for non commercial use. Updates after one year may have to be paid for(according to the FAQ) Kush

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Re: BSNL should find a place in "Hall of Shame"
by CK Raju, Thrissur 09 Mar '07

09 Mar '07

Dear Sir, I had been monitoring the changeover plans of sancharnet email services to bsnl.in ever since it was announced publicly by your MD. From this request, it appears that your department is not fully aware of the implications for national security that such a migration poses. I had an initial debate when I had announced on the FSF-Friends mailing lists that bsnl.in mail server is on Microsoft platform with some learned professors arguing that my methodology to arrive at the conclusion were not technically correct. It was then I got a copy of your presentation, which clarified the issues to members in the Free Software Foundation's mailing list. I hope you would appreciate that the President of India had earlier said that "Its unfortunate that we Indians believe in proprietary solutions. A small shift in business solutions to proprietary can have devastating effects on our society.." A large number of newspapers had carried the story. One such article is here http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=477… If you watch carefully, the article continues "..He said that during a discussion with Microsoft CEO Bill Gates at the Rashtrapati Bhavan a few months ago, he had discussed the issue of software security and the need to look for open source codes. 'Our discussions became difficult since our views were different,' Kalam said. ..". This is precisely our sore point - that a public sector undertaking has been given a different view about "security" by Microsoft and that you are (innocently, I should now say) executing the project, which goes against "national security" - going by President's own words. A service is never secure, unless the freedom to *examine* or *amend* the code is with us (in this case, with BSNL). You would also appreciate that as per IT Act 2000, there cannot be public systems that have malignant code inside - which means every public system will qualify only if this certification is there. IT Act says that such systems should not cause leakage of sensitive information relating to "privileges of parliament, trade, or other sensitive information" - which can only be ensured if public systems are *only* on Free Software. By taking what is legally now considered as a retrograde step, BSNL is now qualifying to be prosecuted under the aforementioned act. Its my sincere hope that you would do your best to redo the damage that will be caused to the nation by (1) taking its premier email services away from Microsoft and have it commissioned on Free Software platforms, (2) initiating an audit in every operational department under your control to ensure that proprietary solutions are phased out, and (3) thus, showing the world that BSNL cares for the concerns of the citizens. Should you have any difficulty in technical aspects, we have a great bunch of techies here who would be at your call to render service which are ethical and just. Regards and best wishes, CK Raju On 3/9/07, G Srinivas <gsrinivas(a)bsnl.co.in> wrote: > > Dear Raju, > > Can u please throw more light on your statement. > > > > Regards, > > G. SRINIVAS > > DGM(Dotsoft&Comp) > > HYDERABAD, BSNL > > 040 -23236153(O) > ------------------------------ > > *From:* anilankv(a)gmail.com [mailto:anilankv@gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Anilkumar > K V > *Sent:* 06 March 2007 17:49 > *To:* gsrinivas(a)bsnl.co.in > *Subject:* BSNL should find a place in "Hall of Shame" > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *CK Raju, Thrissur* <ck.thrissur(a)gmail.com> > > Friends, > > The mail server at http://mail.bsnl.in has now been confirmed to be on M$ > platform. Here's the link. > > http://egovstandards.gov.in/states_repositories/andhra-pradesh/brainstromin… > > BSNL should find a prominent place now in our "Hall of Shame". > > And the person associate with this *project* is > G Srinivas ITS, DGM(Dotsoft & Computers), BSNL AP > Email : gsrinivas(a)bsnl.co.in > > What a terrible shame ??? > > CK Raju >

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