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Re: Local language computing ... and FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software)
by Kartik Mistry 07 Oct '07

07 Oct '07

> From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay > > I don't know exact details about Aksharyogini's license though. Me too as Debian's packager for ttf-indic-fonts. http://aksharyogini.sudhanwa.com/aksharyogini.html is very unclear. -- Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------- Kartik Mistry || GPG: 0xD1028C8D || IRC: kart_ kartikmistry.org/blog || kartikm.wordpress.com ----------------------------------------------------------

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[OFF TOPIC] Do not call registry.
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 05 Oct '07

05 Oct '07

Hi, Some of you might like this one [1]. Unless you take sadistic pleasure out of talking to those executives bugger to waste their time and give them bad ratings ;) [1]http://ndncregistry.com/indian-consumers-telecom-online.htm Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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[OT] Networking IP Query.
by Rony 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hello All, A few days back I gave a small introductory training session to some freshers on networking, ip addresses, subnets, gateways and dns. However after that one question comes to my mind about subnets. Can we have multiple networks with adjacent subnets on a common LAN connection or do they need to be physically different too? For example can we have 192.168.1-31/27 and 192.168.32-63/27 on the same LAN switch as independent subnet islands? Theoretically it looks so. When we set up network information on a host pc, we give the IP address and subnet. However, how does that host know the starting and ending ip of its subnet so that it will not talk to its adjacent subnet? ......For example, how does host 192.168.1.33/27 know that its subnet starts from ip 32 upto 63 and will not talk to 31 or less? Or do the subnets have to be on different LAN switches? Any pointers to this will help. -- Regards, Rony. Knock Knock Who's There? Linux Who Linux? GNU/Linux

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FLOSS in schools: a query (and seeking your help)
by Frederick Noronha [फ़र ेदरिक नोर ोनया] 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Dear all: I'm working a paper on Free/Libre and Open Source Software in Schools and would be grateful if you could point me to useful links about such ventures, where it has been used successfully or otherwise. A draft paper (work-in-progress) of what I've put together so far can be read at http://www.divshare.com/download/2205748-36f Your suggestions, comments and critique is welcome. Thanks in advance for any help you could offer. FN -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph 0091-832-2409490 List of Indian e-lists http://wikiwikiweb.de/MailingListsInIndia

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Opensuse 10.3
by Rajen M. Parekh 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi, Opensuse 10.3 has been released on some mirrors. Can anybody help get it ? Currently available at: ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/opensuse/distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/ http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/opensuse/distribution/10.3/iso/dvd/ Could be available at other mirrors but not all of them have made it available. I checked a few and found the above two have the ISOs. There is no official annoucement regarding its availability. The above mirrors also have torrents available. The ISO for i386 is around 4.1 GB. Regards, Rajen.

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[Semi-commercial] Community offers suggestions to Microsoft
by Janani Gopalakrishnan 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

Hi all, Thanks for sharing your views on problems with Microsoft and how to solve those. We have chosen the best of the responses received across mailing lists and uploaded the compilation (licensed under creative commons) on openITis.com. Please check it out at http://linuxforu.com/openitis/comment_articles.php?cpath=33&a_id=429# Thanks again! Cheers, Janani ----------------------------------------------------- Janani Gopalakrishnan Vikram http://gjanani.googlepages.com -----------------------------------------------------

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Linux users - pl give your opinion - this could be a decisive matter
by Sudhir Gandotra 04 Oct '07

04 Oct '07

http://www.cxotoday.com/cxo/jsp/article.jsp?article_id=83619&cat_id=912#593… The Linux users may like to counter this argument of m$ and to show to the authorities the right direction. This is a good chance to demonstrate our capabilities. Peace, Force & Joy! Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Legal.Software @ Fractional Cost : http://kalculate.com http://openlx.com - International Alliance of LINUX companies You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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Fwd: [Semi-commercial] Community offers suggestions to Microsoft
by Philip Tellis 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Janani Gopalakrishnan <writetojanani(a)gmail.com> Date: 3 Oct 2007 16:41 Subject: [Semi-commercial] Community offers suggestions to Microsoft To: linuxers-owner(a)mm.glug-bom.org Hi all, Thanks for sharing your views on problems with Microsoft and how to solve those. We have chosen the best of the responses received across mailing lists and uploaded the compilation (licensed under creative commons) on openITis.com. Please check it out at http://linuxforu.com/openitis/comment_articles.php?cpath=33&a_id=429# Thanks again! Cheers, Janani ----------------------------------------------------- Janani Gopalakrishnan Vikram http://gjanani.googlepages.com -----------------------------------------------------

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Tata Indicom Broadband @ Linux box
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Hi, Few days back, I subscribed to Tata Indicom Broadband ( www.tataindicombroadband.in ). I chose the Infinity 1 Mbps plan. This apparently comes with no installation charges even if you don't give commitment for more than 1 month. For other plans you have to commit for 4 months to get that 1K INR waiver. I found that they do the feasilbilty quite fast and response time was quite fast as well ( this might depend on locality). But co-ordination between the tech and marketing dudes was not so good. Oh and neither of them knew if they supported Linux :O. Surprisingly the callcentre dude confidently said they do and the tech dude would setup everything when he comes to my place. Cut to my home ( few days later, i.e. yesterday ) - the tech dude arrives. When I tell him that I have linux on all the boxes he made a few calls and finally said he doesn't know how it works on Linux but he will get a mail from his boss and will come back and do the setup. After some random conversation, I asked him if he can do the setup on Windows atleast and he managed to do it on my windows partition in my laptop ( yes, I didnot delete it yet :). The general process these chaps follow is - login to some webconsole of theirs where they find data about the customer - go to the tata indicome bb website and register with the Serial number and PIN code. After which you have to select your username, password and the usual cruft. Then the create a account on your box and check if everything works and leave. The Linux way works much faster :). I followed [1]. But all that is needed is "sudo pppoeconf". If you already have a /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider, back it up if you care for existing settings. After that is mostly selecting yes or no. For user name - please select username(a)vsnl.net or whatever domain they have given you. But point being the complete userid+domain has to be there, afaik. Type in your password. ( when the dudes set it up, they generally put passwd as tata123, change it using the website ) Don't know if this is worth adding into the wiki. Maybe it should be, [1]http://users.pandora.be/Asterisk-PBX/PPPoE.htm Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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Field Report - Freed.in/2007
by Pradeepto Bhattacharya 03 Oct '07

03 Oct '07

Hi, I was at FREED.IN/2007 in Delhi - a event organised by ilug-del. This even was known as FreeDel earlier. This was the first even I attended by ilug-del. Some luggers from BOM have attended FreeDel many times before. It was a wonderful experience. Meeting many old friends and making many more new friends. Quite a few from ILUG-BOM were present. Many if not all of them were actually speakers at the event. The event kick started with Raj Mathur opening address and lamp lighting ceremony. Shawn Kwon gave a wonderful talk on his experiences with FOSS in Korea. It was followed by Atul Chitnis's interesting talk on innovation and startup. Was a good topic for budding entrepreneurs in the audience. Speakers from LUG-BOM included, Devdas Bhagat,Philip Tellis Barkha Khatri, Anurag Patel, Friji Karthikeyan, Arun Khan, Ananth A, Gaurav Chaturvedi, Dinesh Shah (who is a temporary Delhite atm) , Kartik Mistry and me. ( hope I didnot forget anyone, sorry if I did ). I finally met some people for the first time whom I knew from mailing lists and irc - Raj Mathur, Kingsly John (nicest and most helpful person ever!), Karanbir Singh ( you *have* hear him speak at least once, especially in a bof sort of environment ). There were quite a impromptu bofs. It often started as a chat and went on to become a fullfledged bof. One example was - when Mayank Sharma ( of Linux.com fame ), Aanjhan Ranganathan and me were discussing how we often meet at foss conf at various places - when Karanbir Singh joined us and Kingsly a little later. Since then the discussion took a right turn and went straight into discussing how certain aspects of ISPs work and "pairing" between ISPs work and other things even. After that a reporter from Tehelka.com joined us and asked many questions about FOSS. From that point on, many others joined the bof. That was one enlightening discussion. There were two panel discussions even and many many talks in different tracks. There was a lot of new things to learn, I must say. I had the opportunity to meet two GSoC candidates for the first time - Piyush Verma (KDE) and Anant Narayan ( Bell Labs ). Interesting chaps. Hope to see them again in future.Met old friends and known people from the Indian foss scene. Other lugs represented were - Pune LUG, ILug-Cal, people from Bangalore were there even ILUG-Del hospitality was awesome. I have never seen so many kababs at one time. ;). Some of us stayed in JNU campus, the place is really nice. The event was co-organised by JNU - School of Information Technology. Bottom line - great conference. You should seriously consider attending the event next time. Btw, it really is a community event. The line between speakers and volunteers is almost invisible. Quite a few speakers happily got "volunteered". Be there next time to see it yourself and experience it first hand. Cheers! Pradeepto -- The KDE Project : http://www.kde.org KDE India : http://in.kde.org Mailing List : http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-india

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