Linuxers August 2008

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Software patents Wiki archive link.
by vivek v 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

This might a bit ahead of the posting of the minutes. Yesterday there was this discussion about bringing together all the issues of Software patents as a whole and find answers. As this effort was initially started in lug Delhi couple of years ago . http://web.archive.org/web/20070311000422/http://www.lug-delhi.org/wiki/Sof… Original stub, http://kandalaya.org/Docs/patent-faq.html Thanks to Raj Mathur(ILUGD, founder )

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Kindly provide me with xubuntu linux
by Ashish Tripathi 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hello friends. Kindly provide me with a Xubuntu linux cd. I stay bhayander,mumbai. Kindly help

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I stay at bhayander. Mumbai.
by Ashish Tripathi 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

I stay at Bhayander, mumbai. Can you help me. My no. Is 9870891889. I can collect it personally or by post will do.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Smart kiosks as an extention to manned counters.
by Rony 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Abhay Jaykar wrote: > This is all already thought of at > > www.intellvisions.com > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rony > > I find this technology has tremendous potential for use in various Govt. > as well as private organizations where there are long queues on manned > counters. For example bill payments for MTNL, BEST. The Post Office is > another department that would benefit very much from this. Multiple PO > kiosks inside the PO could offer services like stamps, money-order as > well as registered letters. Just like the current manned counters, you > simply enter the sender and destination address and 2 identical sticker > labels with bar codes will pop out. One is to be pasted on the letter > and the other is the sender's copy. A smart plate on top of the machine > can be the weighing scale for determining the postage as per the weight > of the letter/parcel. The letter/parcel is then dropped inside a > designated box. An extra feature would be to optically scan the movement > of the letter inward as proof of dropping. This kiosk can also be placed > in banks and enterprising shops who can be given....say 5% of all > earnings through that kiosk. so now the Post Office is not far away but > right near your home and the Postal Dept. does not have to invest in > land or office manpower to extend its reach. The same technology can be > used by courier companies too. MTNL's telephone exchanges too can use > these kiosks for bill payments and adding/removing extra services to > their subscription like changing plans, enabling CLIP. The kiosks can be > linked with wireless networking so that it is immune to cable problems. > So any office that experiences long queues for payments can take > advantage of this technology. > > Various kiosks already exist. This idea was to have an extended office counter for Govt. offices and extending their reach and services to new territories without major investments in premises and office staff. -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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Provide me with the cd of either Xubuntu-Linux or Puppy Linx.
by Ashish Tripathi 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

hello friends, This is C.A. Aashish tripathi, im in a desperate need of a Linux OS for my pc, whose configuration are as follows: 1. 256 MB RAM 2. PIII Intel Processor 3. 700 Mhz Processor 4. 40GB of HDD. I am looking out for Xubuntu/Puppy Linux but since my internet is very slow I cannot afford to dowbnload it. kindly help me & provide with a CD of it as soon as possible. regards, C.A Aashish Tripathi a.k.a NEEL

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Request to post minutes of the Aug 2008 ILUG Meet
by Dinesh Shah (દિન ેશ શાહ/द िनेश शाह) 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Dear Mehul, Please post the minutes of yesterdays meeting. You have taken quite good notes! TIA for your efforts. With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906 Emo Philips - "I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator."

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Minutes of August 2008 GLUG Meet
by Mehul Ved 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Date: Sunday, 24 August 2008 Time: 1400 hrs to 1700 hrs Venue: HBCSE, Mankhurd Attendance: The meeting was attended by 22 members from the community Talks: * Rakesh Pai - JavaScript Mr. Rakesh Pai started off the August GLUG meet with an introduction to JavaScript, beginning with the history of JavaScript, how the name JavaScript came about and where it is headed in the future. Then he explained the features of JavaScript, how loosely typed nature of JavaScript enhances creativity, object oriented nature of JavaScript, the available data types, math library. The topic then got more indepth with practical demonstration and discussions covering the datatypes, operators, loops, functions, keywords, deep object structures. The session ended with a small overview of Aptana IDE and Firebug for debugging. * Mr. Sanjay B. - jQuery After getting familiar with the basics of JavaScript, it was time to move on a little higher. Sanjay then intoduced us to a fascinating JavaScript library called jQuery. We started off with names of some popular JavaScript libraries like dojo, prototype, jquery. Then Sanjay put up a demo on jQuery to explain the concepts. Various of useful and fun stuff like getters, setters, event handlers, JSON objects with animate, handling AJAX were covered with examples. Then he covered on the overhead of using jQuery library in your page, cross browser compatibility, documentation, working with CSS. The talk ended with a small discussion on processing.js by John Resig. * Discussion on software patents This section got deferred due to unavailability of Dr. Nagarjuna at this point of the meet. So, Mr. Dinesh Shah took the initiative of discussing what software patents are and why should we care for them. It surely introduced some new attendees in the meet to the real side of software programming, where patents play an important role. Anurag and Vivek Iyyer joined in to explain more on the same. Some of the highlighted points were o hardware-software patent combinations o software only patents are not allowed o effect on mobile industry and opencourseware o can similar software be written on different hardware if hardware-software combination has been patented? o question and answers covered a few years back on ILUG-D wiki on the topic o how LUG as a community can help organisations like FSF challenge the patents eg. documenting the process o publishing of patent information as image PDF's Fixing Namazu: After the talks were done with Anurag and Dinesh Shah started the process of fixing up namazu. Apparently generating index is a long process, so it had to be left unfinished at that point.

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[INFO] Finally Linux catches up in India !
by Chetan S 25 Aug '08

25 Aug '08

Check out this article on popularity of Linux across the Globe ... http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=340 Surprisingly as per their methodology India comes out on the top !!! regards, C

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KDE 4.1 for debian lenny
by Joju Joshua 24 Aug '08

24 Aug '08

Hi, lenny backport of KDE 4.1 though not official, it is prepared by the same folks who package kde for debian http://kde4.debian.net/ cheers -- Joju Joshua Zyxware Technologies Trivandrum www.zyxware.com Ph: +91-471-243-7711 Mob: +91-989-587-7134 >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------< "Be the change you wish to see in the world" M K Gandhi >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<

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MCA Correspondence Courses
by Jay Mistry 23 Aug '08

23 Aug '08

I have a background in Medicine; but being interested in computers, esp. use in biostatistics & data analysis; would like to do an MCA correspondence course; to learn such concepts as Basics of computers (hardware)/Operating Systems (UNIX), Programming Basics (eg 'C language), Databases/SQL, etc. Any suggestions for a good course (*correspondence)*? I was thinking of IGNOU & Sikkim Mainpal Univeristy. Have installed the recent openSUSE 11.0 Linux distribution (till now was using only MS-Windows XP & related applications), & learning about Linux basics (that may serve as an intro to Unix OS also.) Thanks,

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