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[OT] Chipset and Original Motherboard
by Roshan 15 Oct '06

15 Oct '06

I have been, in the past distinguishing Original and Chipset motherboard. The former is described as one with Chipsets (on the motherboard) manufactured by Intel themselves along with the board. So, if I say, Intel Original Motherboard, I mean the motherboard, along with the chipsets on it, are manufactured by Intel. The latter is described as one with Chipsets (on the motherboard) manufactured by Intel, but the motherboard manufactured by a third party such as HIS, VIA, Gigabyte, MSI etc. Am I correct? The cost of VIA, HIS, Gigabyte etc. is compartively less. I have understood them this way, as this is a colloquial followed by most vendors at Lamington Road :). Please correct me if I am using terms wrongly. To be slightly on topic, have Linux distro users on this list, used motherboads manufactured by HIS, VIA,etc. (Not many have replied to Mr. Rony's question of compatible motherboard) -- http://www.linuxreality.com (Podcasts also for LINUX USERS) __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a tally alternative on gnu/linux.
by Abhishek Daga 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

<<<<<<<<<< ----- Original Message ---- From: Kenneth Gonsalves <lawgon(a)au-kbc.org> To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <linuxers(a)mm.glug-bom.org> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 7:53:52 AM Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] need a tally alternative on gnu/linux. all true - http://avsap.sourceforge.net <--- pretty old now, but in about 6-7 languages. frankly i got frustrated as a lot of people were very enthusiastic about helping/contributing until it actualy came to the point of doing work ... I have rewritten the underlying accounting engine, a demo of which can be seen at http://avsap.org.in (note, this demo is in plone, but no way is avsap ever going to be in plone) >>>>>>>>>>>> guilty as charged. Couldnt get it installed, so interest waned. But the requirement is still there.

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linus on Linux and the GPLv3
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

>>> Hehehe. Thank you. Exactly what I needed to hear from an FSF >>> representative. Now would you be so kind as to make sure everyone >>> who tries to spread GNU philosophy is clear upon this point? >> What do you mean? I think you never needed to hear anything from any >> FSF representative. You need to tender an apology. Pray do not start >> throwing mud around, and then do a 'hehehe'. Get me one GNU hacker >> who said Linux is owned by GNU. > No. No apology in this case. I am not simply throwing mud. It is a fact. > Hence what I said above.. please make sure that all the GNU fans are > clear upon this matter. I was having this argument during RMS' recent > lecture. No apology. I apologise when I think I must. Look at the list > archives for proof of that. Can not do it. Internet connection is too slow at the moment. But I will take your word for it. > Btw. I never said GNU `hacker'. I said GNU `fans'. Define 'fan'. Do not start blaming GNU/FSF/RMS for what a GNU 'fan' says. Let the fans fan their opinions. FSF/GNU/RMS never claimed Linux was made by the GNU project although they do appreciate it being available today under a free software license, and not a proprietary one. How can the FSF make sure every one who talks about Software Freedom, Free Software, GNU is not arrogant, fanatical, etc.? Even Christ and The Prophet failed to ensure this. I think "it is best to be Christ or Buddha, than a Christian or a Buddhist". -- Microsoft does have a Y2K problem... it's called GNU/Linux!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Linux compatible motherboards.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

>> is easily fixed by going to the 'detect sound card' menu in GNOME >> and increasing the sound level using the slider there. Funnily the >> after exiting the utility, the slider goes back to where it was >> but the thing does not go mute. I suggest you try tinkering with >> any such utility if you have. > set the volumes and > alsactl store 1 > alsactl restore 1. put this in some startup script. Thanks, but it did not work out. I use system-config-soundcard to set the sound card volume levels to full. Then did: [rishi@Sunflower ~]$ sudo /sbin/alsactl store 1 [rishi@Sunflower ~]$ sudo /sbin/alsactl restore 1 On running system-config-soundcard the volumes are again at the mid-point of the bar. Is this a Fedora Core 5 bug? Anybody reported it already? Regards, Debarshi -- Microsoft does have a Y2K problem... it's called GNU/Linux!

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] How to do a minimal install?
by Arun Khan 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

----- Original Message ---- >From: Aniket Suryavasnshi <aniket.a.s(a)gmail.com> ... snip ... >tools of our choice separately and then compiled to form a complete OS. How >can it be done? Most distros have a minimum/base install options. You can also de-select the software packages you are not interested in - the installer will resolve dependencies on libraries and other packages. -- Arun Khan

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Re: RMS' visit to NIT Hamirpur
by Vihan Pandey 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Hi Debarshi, <snip> > Dr. Richard Matthew Stallman (http://stallman.org/) will be giving a > public lecture in National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, Himachal > Pradesh on the 25th of October, 2006. The proposed topic for the talk > is "Free Software, Free Society". This would take place immediately > after Dr. Stallman is done with his talk in the Air Jaldi Summit > (http://summit.airjaldi.com) in Dharamsala. > > There is no entry fee for attending the lecture. Everyone is invited. > Anybody willing or able to make the trip are encouraged to drop in. Best of luck organising, and great job convincing your college management to let him speak. Would have loved to visit Himachal this time of the year, but have to hold the fort in Mumbai :-) Great Job again ! Regards, - vihan

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10th Year of KDE
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Hi, Perhaps many of you know that today KDE celebrates 10 years of existence. It was today Matthias Ettrich announced [1] the starting of KDE project on Usenet. Some people in this list surely did read that one then and some later. From what I gather from talking to people, 10 years down the memory lane, some people thought it was the next cool thing and for the love of "hacking" joined the project. Some days later in October 1996, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, started working on the first KDE class ever - KConfig ( that was the first KDE code as well ). Matthias Ettirch started working kwn at the same time. The first version of kdelibs ( kdelibs-0.0.1 ) was soon released. And guess what there was no svn, no cvs as well . Everything was tarred up and dropped in FTP server at the University of Tübingen. Humble beginnings. IIRC, Taj (Sirtaj Singh Kang) joined the project around those times as well. Today the KDE ( with 4 MLOC of code) and its libraries talk of a very rich well documented API and a great community. Many of its home grown technologies have been adapted by industry and there is co-operation happening as well in the same areas. Technologies like KIO,KHTML, KParts just make a developers job easy. And then there are loads of applications and upcoming new stuff like Phonon,Solid (with recent commits to the main trunk branch ) and other really cool stuff show a lot of promise. Have fun. Cheers! [1] http://www.kde.org/announcements/announcement.php Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://www.kde.in Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Chipset and Original Motherboard
by Vihan Pandey 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Hi all, <snip> > >> It's more important that one believes in the GNU philosophy and is > >> aware of > >> the differences between GNU and Linux > > > > i'm missing something here, is there anything different between the GNU > > philosophy and linux philosophy? > > Yes, there _is_ a major difference between the two. Linux philosophy is > about using/writing/promoting ``Open Source'' owing to technical > benefits. The GNU philosophy is about using/writing/promoting ``Free > Software'' for ethical reasons. > Very true, but in my original mail the intention was NOT to start a ``Free Software v/s Open Source Flame war". For a simple reason, i think making one's position very clear on what one believes AND giving good reason to do so is the only real way to make a difference. i think there have been more than enough flame wars on this topic, and the result is still a stale mate, which itself tells that there is no point fighting about it. The community split into Free Software and Open Source, and they are still two separate entities. They do collaborate as the principals governing the software are the same. The difference is that there is an operational definition of the term ``Free Software" as charcterised by the 4 principal freedoms it offers. ``Open Source" does not have an operational definition, but a semantic implication that software source code must be open. That's my stated position. Regards, - vihan

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Re: need a tally alternative on gnu/linux.
by Abhishek Daga 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

>>>>>> Abhishek, may be we can have a small formal meeting with Kenneth if he is available. other interested people can also join in. the main point here is that once this problem of talli is solved, a huge community will embrace gnu/linux happyly. and bringing gnu/linux down to the common man is a major task still undone. regards. Krishnakant. <<<<<<<<< Not to belittle anyone's efforts, as KG has obviously done some splendid groundwork, but for it to be a box office success, there needs to be a dedicated team which will need to get paid. There can be guides, overseers, volunteers, helpers, but a dedicated team needs to be working on it full time and get paid at market rates. For this someone has to come up with a resource requirements list and then put it forward to the community who may choose to contribute towards it. Units can be A)Accountant B)Programmer C) infrastructure and with a set timeline, an opensource product can be achieved. Am sure there's a bunch of HNV individuals out there who wouldnt mind contributing big amounts provided they are shown a solid plan. Krishnakant has volunteered to be the pointman, which is great. Hope this time around, there can be a beta product by 2007 April and hopefully a full fledged app by 2008 april.

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Re: [OT] Chipset and Original Motherboard
by Vihan Pandey 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

Hi Kenneth, <snip> > > It's more important that one believes in the GNU philosophy and is > > aware of > > the differences between GNU and Linux > > i'm missing something here, is there anything different between the > GNU philosophy and linux philosophy? i was referring to the techinical difference between the GNU system and the Linux kernel. Regards, - vihan

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