Linuxers September 2010

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Events planned to celebrate Software Freedom Day in Bangalore from 15th to 17th Sept
by VIGNESH PRABHU 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Hi friends, Software Freedom Law Centre, New Delhi(SFLC-ND) and Free Software Movement-Karnataka (FSMK) are celebrating Software Freedom Day, by organizing Talks and events by one of the mavericks of the Knowledge Freedom campaigns and an affiliate of SFLC-ND - Prof.Eben Moglen,Founder, Director-Counsel and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center. In this visit to Bangalore, Prof.Eben Moglen will be participating in three separate events organized by FSMK. *1. Inaugural Lecture of Free Software certificate course at St.Joseph's College,Bangalore on the 15th September 4 p.m.* St.Joseph's College, Bangalore has incorporated 120 hours of free software sessions to be handled by FSMK and other like-minded Free Software Enthusiasts. The course syllabus will be put up on website of FSMK very soon. The idea is to to empower students to become productive self-supporting citizens of the free software community. Its an honour to have professor Eben deliver the first lecture of the course. *2. Prof.Eben at Ambedkar Community Computing Center (AC3) on the 16th September., evening* Before two years, RMS and Prof.Eben visited AC3 with only a few students who were being taught computers using Free Software. Today, these handful of young free software activists from the community are running three other Community Computing Centers completely on their own. Prof.Eben will visit AC3 for a community discussion, where the members of these centers will initiate a discussion on the activities so far, the ups and downs and the way forward. There will also be a small cultural event organized by AC3 students. *3. Interaction with Prof.Eben Moglen on the Freedom in the Cloud at Indian Institute of Science, on 17th September , 3p.m – 5 p.m, faculty hall IISc. * Speaker: Prof. Eben Moglen Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Founder, Director-Counsel & Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center Time: Fri. Sep 17 2010 3pm-5pm Venue: Faculty Hall, IISc Title of Talk: "Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing" Abstract: Everyone wants a piece of you these days: Google, Facebook, Flickr, Apple, AT&T, Bing. They'll give you free e-mail, free photo storage, free web hosting, even a free date. They just want to listen in. And you can't wait to let them. They'll store your stuff, they'll organize your photos, they'll keep track of your appointments, as long as they can watch. It all goes into the "Cloud." How we got here is quite a scary story. But nowhere near as scary as getting out again. This talk will discuss how much worse things have become since the pre-cloud era and explain what you can do to reclaim your freedom in the era of Web 2.0. I cordially invite you all to come and celebrate software freedom day along with us during these events. -- Regards, Vignesh B. Tech in Computer Science National Institute Of Technology-Durgapur

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Freesoftware for education steaming LIVE from Kozhikode
by jtd 11 Sep '10

11 Sep '10

Freesoftware for education steaming LIVE from Kozhikode. http://streaming.hipatia.net:8000/fsedu.ogg -- Rgds JTD

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Broadcom frees drivers
by jtd 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Broadcom has released freesoftware drivers for several of it's wifi chips. Hopefully no more munging of laptop installs. http://lwn.net/Articles/404248/ -- Rgds JTD

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] RMS in IIT Mumbai on 6th Sept. 2010
by Naveen Dhanuka 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

> > the goals and philosophy of the Free Software Movement, and the status and > history of the GNU operating system, which in combination with the kernel > Linux is now used by tens of millions of users world-wide. This is what I get from the mailing list and the website of the host. Is it going to be the same standard speech which he has given n number of times. Navin

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flamewars
by Suhit Kelkar 10 Sep '10

10 Sep '10

Hello, I had used the @ symbol in my subject line. One user, whose name I do not seem to remember, thinks he knows better than other people what linguistic symbols to utilise in mailing lists, and he responded as below: ==quote==Please go back to Facebook/Twitter. List mail threads do not concatenate themselves with the @nonsense. Read the mailing list guidelines once again and try to respect them.==quote== I do not understand the first sentence. Should I then politely ask the honble user to *please* go back to wherever it is that etiquette is taught? Regards

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Richard Stallman On FOSS GNU And Freedom Playlist
by shamoorthy 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

This is a link to older set of videos by RMS http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C2233C191A464B26 Regards to all. Long live Free Software :)

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Gnome-Do bug
by Pratik Anand 09 Sep '10

09 Sep '10

I recently formatted and reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 , succeeded by Gnome-Do (latest stable version). Gnome-Do automatically exits after 5 min something of its start whithout giving any errors. Sometimes, after selecting any plugin too. It was working fine with previous version of Ubuntu i was using till last week. Similar problem I saw posted on Launchpad with no solution till now. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-do/+bug/596206 Here's the dump file http://pastebin.com/GghpL8XM -- Pratik Anand B.Tech - CSE (3rd year) Blog: pratik3d.blogspot.com Twitter: twitter.com/pratikone

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flamewars on top posting @ Vivek
by Suhit Kelkar 08 Sep '10

08 Sep '10

Hi, My comment was general and specified _many users_ who nit-pick, not all users. It was kept ambiguous, as you will see if you read the comment. Many thanks for your link on straw man argument. Regards Suhit Kelkar

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Whoops: flamewars on mailing list twee-ness
by Suhit Kelkar 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

Hello, My earlier message should have read as below. Many of the users who rant of others not trimming their mails, top-posting, bottom-posting and other bits of prissiness have been guilty of worse discourtesies in the past. I remember one of the so-called 'senior' users has called someone a moron. The same user has now appointed himself a custodian of netiquette. I suspect that this ranting about trimming mails and such is merely a pretext to keep their name appearing on the list i.e to boost their egos. Regards Suhit Kelkar.

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[OT] contact jtd
by Kenneth Gonsalves 07 Sep '10

07 Sep '10

hi, this is a bit OT, but I have been trying to contact jtd, but mail is not going through as some ISP has greylisted his id - does anyone have an alternate mail id for him - if so please send it offlist. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves

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Linuxers September 2010