I was very happy to note that now Linux has some CAD software which is
comparable to the best in the world or eventually going to be there. I was
doubly happy to know our public sector was making a contribution in this
regard. But my hopes were dashed when i wanted to access the
documentation/download page. Looks to be more hype than real. Commercial
motivation seems to have gripped the govt babus.
This seems to be a software made from open source or GPL softwares in the
area of CAD/ERP where linux is weak (with respect to FREE* by
cost*softwares) . Yet it is not open source or even its documentation
is not
available to the lay public. It promises to work with various closed source
CAD formats most of which are notoriously un-interchangeable.
Can the NIC- national Informatics Centre which is* publicly funded* develop
such a software from Free softwares that may be GPLed? and then deny the
software or even its documentation to the people of India?
Can India ever attain leadership in technology if the govt agencies
themselves deny ACCESS to documentation on usage of such CAD/CAM/CAE
technologies which have themselves been developed from Free softwares.
Unless such cutting edge software is tested/used by an evergrowing number of
people, it will remain buggy and enough human resources will not be able to
adequately train themselves to use such technologies in an increasingly
competitive and superspecialised world.
On one hand NIC says it is trying to promote FOSS and on the other hand
nicsi etc showcase more of propreitary softwares or run of the mill
softwares instead of cutting edge softwares. Nicsi is supposed to be a
distributor of this collabcad.com software.
Let us not forget that technologies like GRASS etc in terms of GIS
technology was open sourced by the US govt's deptt of defense's Corps of
Engineers.
Regards,
Kussh
PS: I am seriously trying to get the documentation/trial download of such
software or know the SIZE of such software to evaluate it.
The mobile market will exceed the computer market in coming years or has
already exceeded the computer and related gadgets market. Nokia and other
manufacturers routinely make softwares for their hardware products for the
windows and macintosh operating systems.
Unless we, the FOSS users request them every now and then thru email,
feedback on their websites, online forums etc etc to also support these
softwares on the linux platform, Linux will get increasingly sidelined and
less people will even come to know about it.
Getting linux on the printed packaging of a product (visibility) is very
important for awareness generation. 95% of the battle of getting linux
popular will be won if it becomes visible to the layman.
I request FOSS users to constantly strive to make linux visible to laymen
thru whatever creative ideas they have, every now and then, specially thru
requests to manufacturers etc and online forums.
Regards,
Kussh
Respected Sirs,
I am Akshay Narkar, currently a student (taken drop for IIT). I stay at Mahim.
I am interested in using Linux as an OS. I visited some Websites
which told me to take help from a Linux group in my area. I tried
downloading Ubuntu Linux from net but my connection is a petty 9kBps.
Can you please suggest a way so that i can get a copy of Free
Linux,along with a users manual from someone in my area?
Thanking you,
yours sincerely,
Akshay Narkar
Forwarding in case folks at BOM find it useful to attend.
/sankarshan
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: amit gogna <amit.gognaa(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:36 AM
Subject: Invitation for DBF OLPC Learning Workshop
To: olpc-india(a)googlegroups.com
Dear All,
You are invited for a BoF (Birds of a Feather)** Session organized
for all the interested members for getting insight into the olpc (one
laptop per child ) project and if interested contributing to the
project.
The details of the session are :-
Session :- DBF OLPC BOF Session
Date :- 4th Dec,2009
Time :- 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm
Venue :- Gnowledge Lab
Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd.
Mumbai, 400088 India
( ** :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_%28computing%29)
The DBF OLPC LEARNING WORKSHOP has been organised from 2nd - 4th
Dec,2009 In collaboration with 'Gnowledge Lab' : Homi Bhabha Center
for Science Education, Mumbai
The details of the workshop have been put on
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-workshop-India
You can confirm your participation by entering your name on the wiki
by going to the following link.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-workshop-India#Participants_please_enter_you…
Hope to see you there.
Thanks.
Regards,
Amit Gogna
--
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
Hi all,
I tried downloading the HUGE collabcad PLM setup file from collabcad
website. However both times though I was able to download the 1.62GB file
using firefox addon downthemall, downthemall failed to finally put the file
in the proper download folder given for the purpose. Only 750mb file
resulted from a FULL download of 1.62 GB.
There was enough space in the /home directory -so that possibility of less
space is ruled out. I think downthemall
1 downloads to a temporary or hidden directory and
2 then checksums the hidden directory download after the download is
complete
and
3 then moves the checksummed file to the final destination under /home
directory if everything is ok or gives an error.
It seems to be restricted in download size upto 750MB.
Am looking for a better dowload manager which can work under ubuntu 9.04 and
with such SUPER large files. If anyone knows of a better manager with
checksumming ability pls let me know.
The other option is using a torrent file (via a bittorrent client) if any
exists.
Thanks for any help
Kussh
Hi all,
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Please send your resume/CV with either txt or pdf or any open format
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--
Cheers,
Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_
Debian GNU/Linux Developer | Identica: @kartikm
Blogs: {ftbfs, kartikm}.wordpress.com
@Rony , Ok i agree that I got little careless there....Will keep that in
mind...
Currently looking into updating firefox....so You want to say I should be
using apt-get or aptitude rather than synaptics?
--
Pratik Anand
B.Tech - CSE (2nd year)
Blog: pratik3d.blogspot.com
Twitter: twitter.com/pratikone
@Kartik i know that but you are not getting the question. I had installed
kde4.2.2 when kde 4.3 was just about to come....But after when it came ,
Synaptics or apt didn't upgrade 4.2 to 4.3..even on manual checking of
update , they said 'your kde packages are uptodate' and thats with others
too.. So, I wanted to know the reason behind this... As if canonical is
still not supportng 4.3 in
jaunty or anything else...
My question is WHY not HOW (first step is Googling always)...Why it is not
included in original repo list
Similar case is with firefox update too, it is not giving option of updating
to 3.5. As a result , i m running the tar of the newer version ..but the
installed one is still 3.0.15
@Rony : I m not a linux newbie, have been using it for 1.5 yrs now (so
little above newbie) and have solved all types of problems whether it is
non-functioning of alsa, or compiz graphics prob in hardy or to make wine
from source etc etc.. by intensive google searching.....
--
Pratik Anand
B.Tech - CSE (2nd year)
Blog: pratik3d.blogspot.com
Twitter: twitter.com/pratikone
