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Windows tax refund
by Network Accelerator 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Hi, Having faith in GNU/Linux..I am not willing to use Windows on my new purcahaes of laptops preloaded this OS. Like Europe, could it be possible for India to get money back by freeing ourself from the Windows tax by returning unused Windows license on new purchase of laptop/PC? Please read this.. http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/01/03/227237 Awaiting your comment. Cheers!

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D-Link GLB-502T slowing down Ubuntu Edgy?
by Rohit V Bhute 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

I had plugged in the GLB-502T to check out its web interface (haven't got my ADSL connection activated yet :-( )and I found my system becoming *lazy*. In the sense that applications were taking a longer time than usual to start up. The system indicator applets show no activity - CPU, memory, disk or swap - no blinking HDD LED - but there is a noticeably large lag between clicking an application and it being ready to use. So much so that it took almost 5 minutes for my desktop to load after login. Removing the router and plugging in the cablenet LAN brought things to normal. Another thing there seems to be a lot of bad karma associated with GLB-502T. <http://www.webservertalk.com/archive236-2006-9-1667246.html> Plus there's a bunch of posts on <www.broadbandforum.in> (it isn't working as of 11:20 AM today) that I came upon stating some problems to do with its WAN MAC address. Anyone on this list with experience - good or bad - of the GLB-502T? Regards. -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org

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Festival... talking in Hindi and Marathi
by Frederick Noronha 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

[From http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers ] Priti and team: Congrats! It's nice to have Festival in Indian languages. Just what is needed. Hope this news will be shared with all the GNU/Linux user groups and others interested. (Have sent it to ILUG-Goa http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ilug-goa already.) For those who might not know Festival: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Speech_Synthesis_System Festival is a general multi-lingual speech synthesis system developed at Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) at the University of Edinburgh. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the BSD License. It offers a full text to speech system with various APIs, as well an environment for development and research of speech synthesis techniques. It is written in C++ with a Scheme-based command interpreter for general customization and extension.[1] The Festvox project aims to make the building of new synthetic voices more systematic and better documented, making it possible for anyone to build a new voice. It is distributed under a free software license similar to the MIT License. --- In bytesforall_readers(a)yahoogroups.com, priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote: > > Get it from here > > > http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festiva… > > http://janabhaaratii.org.in:9673/indicbhaaratii/Members/Priti_Patil/festiva… > > Priti > > priti patil <pritisd@...> wrote: Hi all, > > On this upcoming special occassion of new year I am very happy to announce a new year gift on behalf of janabhaaratii team :) > > festival_mr (Marathi Text-To-Speech engine) and festival_hi (Hindi Text-To-Speech engine) are in their alpha state. Working crudely for both Marathi and Hindi, now under refinement process for it's next version. > > Will be available for testing on an eve of new year (most probably) !!! > > After testing, please do revert back to us since your valuable inputs can make it BETTER. > > Acknowledgments to Dr. Alka Irani (Chief Investigator, janabhaaratii), Sunil Mohan and Chaitanya Kamisetty (telugu l10n team), DONLab, Dept. of CS&E, IIT Madras, our team, karunakar (indlinux) and many.... > > > Warm Regards > > Priti Patil > janabhaaratii > Language Computing Group > C-DAC, Mumbai -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com

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Next Monthly meet?
by Roshan 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

--Dhawal Doshy wrote: >when is then next monthly meet and >what is the agenda? i'd like to be a part of it It could include 1) Running Linux on handhelds - HP iPaq demo by Rajeev RK (because, this wasn't included in the past GLUG-Meet [Dec]). Please confirm, Mr. Rajeev 2) Mr. JTD's suprise, that he intends to show us. <quote> --JTD wrote: I am getting one of these for the next meet. http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/115889/rb/24101214779 </quote> 3) (could be Your contribution /talk ?) >Are the meets traditionally held on Sundays? why? Assuming most of the members are free (and free to attend) on Sundays. Also, *I guess*, the location (more commonly, HBCSE) is available on Sunday. --Dinesh Joshi wrote: >Not on Feb 4! Please NOT on Feb 4! :( The January GLUG-meet could be on 7th, 14 or 21st or 28 (Sundays ;) ) We'll probably keep a note of Feb 4, for the Feb GLUG-Meet :) (psst... forked a new thread instead of continuing with the thread "Linux Brochure") -- FSF-India Fellow Associate http://www.gnu.org.in __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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How to save Microsoft Tax
by Mandar Joshi 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

Hello, Have a look at this too How to get a Windows tax refund http://community.linux.com/community/07/01/03/227237.shtml?tid=12 Regards Mandar Joshi __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Bacula 2.0.0 released [Maybe OT]
by Dhawal Doshy 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

For those into enterprise backups, here is some news.. Bacula 2.0.0 was recently released with tonnes of major features, improved maturity and performance. For those who are not aware, bacula (www.bacula.org) is a network based backup and recovery program (under the GPL license). From my experience it is comparable to Legato Networker (which i use) and Veritas Netbackup and is probably better since the storage and indexing formats are non-proprietary.. With this release, the project copyrights were transferred to FSF Europe. Release notes and press-kits can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=31347109&forum_id=87… http://www.bacula.org/about/press/presskit200.html.en cheers, - dhawal PS: This mail is in response to the developers call for inviting more users to the community, see: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.bacula.user/30293

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Oracle's Linux
by Koustubha Kale 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi All, Just got to read this. Be interesting to know the thoughts of the community on this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gartner's First Take: Oracle's 'Unbreakable Linux' Will Threaten Red Hat Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Download this release from Gartner to get a brief run-down of how Oracle's release of the new "Unbreakable Linux" will bring significant changes for the open source community. According to Gartner, this new service may significantly threaten the customer base of Red Hat. Click here to learn more. http://go.techtarget.com/r/881673/5764392 With warm regards Koustubha Kale __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Guest lecture - ethical hacking
by Koustubha Kale 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

> A guest lecture has been arranged by Department of > IT, > VPM's BN Bandodkar College of science, Thane College > Campus on "Ethical Hacking" on 18th december 2006 at > 1500 hrs > > The speaker will be the author of the book > "Unofficial > guide to ethical hacking" Shri Ankit Fadia. FYI. With warm regards Koustubha Kale __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Duplicate message delivery ? (Mailman?)
by Roshan 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hello List, I am receving two copies of each message. Are others too? I saw 84 unread messages in my inbox today morning, and all of them were duplicates. (Though, at first instance I was about to boast and say, "Wow! our traffic has increased, though with technical and non-technical discussions") Is this a _specific_ problem with people having Yahoo! Ids? -- FSF-India Fellow Associate http://www.gnu.org.in Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php

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Fedora Core & RHEL wrt brochure
by Debarshi Ray 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

The brochure at http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Linux_Brochure says: "Fedora Core is an RPM based Linux distribution, developed by the community-supported Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat. Its goal is to be a complete, general-purpose operating system that contains only free and open source software. It also considered to be the testing ground for future versions of Redhat Enterprise Linux." According to a Fedora Project member in December's issue of LFY, Fedora Core is the upstream of RHEL and many of the other Fedora 'based' distributions like Scientific Linux, etc.. The person was categorical about Fedora Core not being a 'beta' or 'test-bed' for RHEL. Cheers, Debarshi -- After the game the king and the pawn go into the same box. -- Italian proverb

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