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Debian Etch DVD's request
by Roshan 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

Hello List, If someone can help nukeu666 with Debian Etch DVD's, please do so. http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/CDs_Wanted -- FSF of India Associate Fellow - http://www.gnu.org.in S K Somaiya College of ASC - http://www.somaiya.edu/sksasc __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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Debian Etch DVD's request
by Roshan 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

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OFFTOPIC: Konkani Wikipedia (under incubation) needs your help!
by Frederick Noronha 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

What you can do to help the Konkani Wikipedia: * Translate articles of relevance to Goa, and to generally building the body of knowledge in Konkani. There are tonnes of copyright-free articles which you can translate into Konkani at http://en.wikipedia.org This is specially suited for people with linguistic and translation skills (whatever script). * Play around with the Wikipedia and see how it works. It's not complex. The starting point is to create a login for yourself. Then, everything follows. This is specially suited for tech people. But don't believe it's a complicated tech job! * Build awareness about the attempt to build the Konkani Wikipedia, and tell others about it. It will only work if there is enough "critical mass" and interest around it. * Above all, promote the language of your choice (any script!) using this tool of the 21st century. It's a powerful tool, so let's make use of it. Starting points: * http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kok (Konkani Wikipedia/incubator) * http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kok/contributors List yourself as a contributor * http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wp/kok (See Deepak's tutorial on Devanagari) The best thing here is: you can promote any script you want via the Konkani Wikipedia. Romi, Devanagari, Kannada (and I guess even Malayalam or Perso-Arabic). So instead of clashing swords, let's sharpen our pens, and increase the amount of sharable Konkani information in cyberspace. The Wikipedia (for a number of reasons) is a great place to do it. And all this knowledge becomes sharable. A special thanks to Deepak D'Souza for his persistence, Sangeeta Naik (SangeetaDiwar) for persistently working on it, Isidore Dantas for his meticulous Konkani translations from Mumbai, and Equinox for signing up as one of the early contributors. FN -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com Konkani Wikipedia (under incubation) needs your help! http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kok

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB
by Vickram Crishna 31 Mar '07

31 Mar '07

--- Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > On 31-Mar-07, at 1:28 PM, Nagarjuna G. wrote: > > >> pro or anti is irrelevant - since doze is not > open source, we cant > >> do anything about defects. So why waste our time > complaining about > >> it? If you have paid for vista and cant compile > something this > >> list is not the place to complain ... > > > > It is clearly a matter of concern if free software > like firefox, > > openoffice, GIMP, inkscape, blender etc are > compiled for Vista, and > > if they don't take full advantage of the system > due to restriction > > of the OS. User's will assume that free software > works less > > efficiently, without understanding that the cause > is due to their > > digital restrictions management. Let us remember > that most of free > > software today is inter operable, except of course > the kernel Linux. > > agreed - so what can this list do about it? > Especialy as probably > vista was designed with this idea in mind. As i said > originally - > dont worry, just migrate to linux. I trust your remark is rhetorical. There is PLENTY a list like this can do, being vibrant and full of aware people as well as people who lurk to learn. You can work with the cybercafe initiative (which is a brilliant and practical idea, and having watched it emerge from the discussions over the past couple of weeks, I really applaud the consensual method) to create a working distro that addresses the needs of tomorrow's computer users, unlike the bloatware that is increasingly irrelevant and inherently expensive to use, and that never succeeds in emerging productively from the morass of contraditictions that is the DRM world. You can work with each other (all of us) to create better installers, that deliver not just simpler install routines but also address the mix of h/w and peripherals in the real world. You can help put together a visual platform (qua Aqua) that will deliver designs that match anything that comes from the Mac world (the only competition, as far as this aspect is concerned, IMHO Vista is so far behind, you wonder - well, I wonder - whether they even know what visual delight means). And then there's work pending on a FOSS mobile interface to deliver the announced features of the iPhone for an Indian audience (localised, the works) - that will run on any Linux-enabled mobile box. In the legal playing field, the FOSS movement in India doesn't have the kind of groundswell 'critical mass' to pursue court battles against restrictive practices such as the unsigned pamphlet the Bombay Police put out for cybercafes. We need to identify the root causes of this apathy (ie, it is awareness? is it funding?) and address them in a structured manner. As we all know, there are many more restrictive practices in place that make it difficult for ordinary users to switch comfortably. We need to find a way of placing people in key organisations in the civil society movement (many of these organisations pay quite well, actually, and prefer persons who have an all-round approach to work, rather than tightly focused on, say, being a sysad 24/7). Such people will play a key role in bring such organisations directly into the FOSS movement. We also need to make visible persons who work in medium and large commercial organsations to come and talk - at LUG meets, for instance - on the use of FOSS in their operations. Just some food for thought. If some or all of these things begin to happen, you can be sure that the developers in the 'doze world will think twice about letting restrictive software out into the real world. I just saw Nagarjuna's post about being at HBSCE all of today, and must say, talk about communication gap, I didn't notice ANY post from anyone saying the venue would be available all day. I could easily have been there earlier, but am now committed to only getting there in the evening. Vickram ___________________________________________________________ Inbox full of unwanted email? Get leading protection and 1GB storage with All New Yahoo! Mail. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html

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Re: LUG Meet btwn 4/2 and 4/9
by Easwar Hariharan 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

> > As the subject line says, Prof. CN Krishnan of NRCFOSS, Chennai is also to > be > in Mumbai on the 5th of April. Can we have a meet in the evening on 5th? > But > it'll need to be after around 6 pm. > If it's on 4/8 after 5:30 pm,I might be able to attend my first LUG meet.Pleaaase! :)And BTW,what is the location? Regards, Easwar

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French Parliament will switch from Microsoft to Ubuntu
by Vihan Pandey 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Good Stuff! http://news.softpedia.com/news/French-Parliament-Will-Switch-from-Microsoft… Regards, - vihan

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] bash proxy settings
by Koustubha Kale 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

>On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:02 +0530, "____________ (Anand M R)" ><libld.so(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com > ping: unknown host www.google.com is what i get. > >The problem lies in the DNS. > >When you set the proxy, http requests go through the proxy.. including >the url.. so if the proxy server machine has a DNS resolver IP >configured, the proxy will be able to resolve the IP and thus will be >able to get the data. > >But when you ping from your machine, it does not know how to reach the >pinged machine as you niether have it in /etc/hosts nor have you >configured a DNS resolver IP on your machine. > >So you have to configure a DNS resolver IP on your machine if you want >to be able to ping. > >-- >Laxminarayan G Kamath A >laxminarayan(a)deeproot.co.in Not only that, a machine behind a proxy probabely wont have access to an external DNS server. Unless there is a firewall which is allowing outgoing DNS queries on port 53. Best way is to configure a caching DNS server on the proxy itself. And use that as the DNS server LAN wide. It would also speed up things a bit. With warm regards Koustubha Kale ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html

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bash proxy settings
by आनंद (Anand M R) 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Could someone tell me how to configure proxy setting in bash. I found some links that mention the http_proxy variable to be set, but over there the proxy is of the format http://proxy.abc.com:80 now the proxy i'm using dosn't have the http:// in the begining :( Anand

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Mumbai cyber cafe license requirement makes Microsoft OS mandatory
by Frederick Noronha 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Have just learnt that under the recently announced licensing scheme for the cyber cafes in Mumbai, the Mumbai police under its list of requirement vide point no 14 insists on a copy of Microsoft Open License. This license fee is apparently prohibitive and apparently still unclear on the licensing term for public use, and, restrains cyber cafe operators from choosing any other alternative operating systems. I would like to hear from others who have more details. Specially someone in Mumbai. --FN -- FN M: 0091 9822122436 P: +91-832-240-9490 (after 1300IST please) http://fn.goa-india.org http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com What bloggers are saying about Goa: http://planet.goa-india.org/

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Dell promises Linux on notebooks and desktops
by Praveen A 29 Mar '07

29 Mar '07

Hi, Another complaint about GNU/Linux going to die -- It is hard to install, well you don't have to install if you go for Dell !! http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=582207207&eid=-50 Cheers Praveen -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ Join The DRM Elimination Crew Now! http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Anti-DRM-Campaign

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