"Moglen : And, in fact, it's data that stands as O'Reilly's second
"open source doesn't matter" Web 2.0 pitch. We should care more about
controlling our information than code. You want to move away from
Google? Fine. Google should let you take your information with you."
http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/07/26/oreilly_moglen_oscon/
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Beryl is not just eye candy...
"If you have Beryl installed, you can select windows for grouping by
pressing [super]+s (the [super] key is usually the "windows" key) or
by holding down the [super] key and using the left mouse button to
draw a box around the window(s) you want to select. Once selected, you
group them press [super]+g to group them. Once you've got your group,
press [super]+t to tab them together. You've then got a handy group of
windows that are tidy, and easily selectable.
To change windows, just hover your mouse over the title bar, or use
[super]+left or [super]+right to cycle through the windows.
scale plugin and the four desktop corners
Because the four corners of the desktop are the easiest parts to hit
with your mouse, it makes sense to try and put some form of useful
action in each of the four corners. The scale plugin has a number of
options as to which windows get included in the when activated. You
can activate all windows on all sides of the cube, or just the windows
on the current cube face, or just the windows associated with the
current application. It is this last option that can be useful for
tasks that involve a whole bunch of windows from one application -
like the gimp, or kopete.
You can set the actions for each corner of the desktop in Beryl
settings manager. Under the general page, you'll find an icon for
shortcuts in the left panel, and under that, a tab for screen edges."
Read more at
http://liquidweather.net/howto/index.php?id=92
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Hi friends,
I have been here with the issue of using non-free and non-standards
compilers in higher secondary computer science syllabus.
It was really appreciative to introduce purely free softwares at high
schools and the feedbacks from students are awesome. Only problem I heard
about it was about driver supports and low monitor frequency problems. I
found a nice FAQ for solving that at space-kerala's support website.
During the time Govt decided to implement free sofware at high schools, i
read in the news item that they would be implementing FS at higher secondary
on the following year. But I'm sad to see nothing pleasing in progress.
By last march I passed out from +2 and I really couldn't see FS supporting
syllabus till now.
Being a free software enthusiast, I had been using GCC and MYSQL myself at
school at a desktop installed with SLYNUX Gnu/Linux distro at my own risk
saying my teacher that I won't use non-free software. I used the same box
installed with gcc and mysql for my practical examination too.
I had tried my best to spread the need of freedom at computing to my
companions and teacher. I could only hear a yess boss reply from most of
them and they weren't ready to use gnu tools or gnu/linux since they weren't
in syllabus. My teacher smiled reading
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html and nothing more positive.
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html>
By now, students passing out from 10th standard are trained on free software
platform. The students who choose Com SC at higher secondary will be taken
into the worst environment of proprietary software at plus one and plus two.
I feel its bad for a transition from free software to Proprietary software.
This is the condition prevails now.
What Iam still repeating here is :
HSS CS syllabus is so easy to migrate to GNU/Linux platform
The tools they currently use are:
1) M$ Windows platform
2) Turbo C++ IDE
3) Oracle SQL
What we really require for migration is:
1) GNU/Linux
2) VI editor
3) MySQL or other GPLed ones
<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/schools.html>
You can see some posts about this issue two yeas back here at fsf-friends [
http://gnu.org.in/pipermail/fsf-friends/2005-August/ ]
Hope we could do some practical move on this issue.
With regards,
Sarath.
http://sarathlakshman.info
Dear All,
We are very glad to publish the OpenOffice 2.x Marathi
User Guide. There are 3 PDF files you can download:
1) Word_Processor_2_x_Marathi_Guide_2_0.pdf (For
OpenOffice Writer)
2) Spreadsheet_2_x_Marathi_Guide_2_0.pdf (For
OpenOffice Calc)
3) Presentation_2_x_Marathi_Guide_2_0.pdf (For
OpenOffice Impress)
We had released OpenOffice 1.x Marathi User Guide
around 1 year back. Now we have upgraded to OpenOffice
2.x. You can download the guides from
http://svs.org.in/Downloads.html
The credit goes to:
1) Mr. Amit Kadu
2) Mrs. Anagha Bapat
3) Mr. Anand Kulkarni
4) Mrs. Dhanashri Kulkarni
5) Mrs. Jyoti Bochgire
6) Mr. Pankaj Thakre
7) Mrs. Yashaswini Godse
For any query, feel free to revert back.
Thanks.
Warm Regards,
Anand Kulkarni
Sarvangin Vikas Sanstha
Pune
http://svs.org.in
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Switch to Linux!
GNU/Linux, or simply Linux, is an alternative to Microsoft Windows. It
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Linux is free as in freedom, and often available free of charge.
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Can point to newbies to GNU/Linux.
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A Patent Is Worth Having, Right? Well, Maybe Not
PATENTS are supposed to give inventors an incentive to create things
that spur economic growth. For some companies, especially in the
pharmaceutical business, patents do just that by allowing them to pull
in billions in profits from brand-name, blockbuster drugs. But for
most public companies, patents don't pay off, say a couple of
researchers who have crunched the numbers.
Read full story
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/business/yourmoney/15proto.html?ex=134215…
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"We are proud to adopt the GPL V3 with our next major Sugar Community
Edition release," said John Roberts, CEO and co-founder of SugarCRM
Open Source Project. "We would like to thank the Free Software
Foundation (FSF) for leading such an important effort to deliver the
most modern FOSS license. The FSF undertook a very difficult process
and incorporated many diverse developer and user needs and combined
them into a fair and just representation of what FOSS means to our
communities."
http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/about/press-releases/20070725-GPLv3-FOSS.html
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A student team in MES Engineering College Kuttippuram, Kerala Successfully
finished the New Installer for Debian GNU/Hurd, The complete GNU
Operating System. This Installer is named as LX since it is a sucesser
of Debian Hurd K series installer & it directly boot into X.
The Team members of the Installer Project are available at
http://www.projecthurd.tk
The Release Function & its demonstration is planned at Hotel
Renaissance, Kozhikode on 27th July 10.AM Onwards. It will be followeb
by a Seminar on "Political Ethics in Information Society" at 1.00PM onwards
Speakers (incomplete):
1) Jaiprakash Raghaviah, Centre for Excellence, Indian Institute of
Management, Kozhikode
2) P Madhu, Department of MBA, MES College of Engineering, Kuttippuram
3) Civic Chandran, Activist
4) Anivar Aravind, Moving Republic, Thrissur
All are welcome.
About Debian GNU/Hurd: The Hurd is a set of servers running on top of
the GNU Mach microkernel to implement file systems, network protocols,
file access control, and other features that are implemented by the Unix
kernel or similar kernels (such as Linux). Together they build the base
for the GNU operating system.Debian GNU/Hurd is a distribution of GNU
Operating system Under Development for developer, server and desktop
platforms.
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This is an application (http://freshmeat.net/projects/disktool/) whose
source code is freely available only on request by email. It is not
available for public download. It is described as 'freeware'. Which is
the most suitable License for the application ?
Note that there are some 'open source packages' that require a
compulsory registration before download. This does not really differ
from those.
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