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Re: GNU Gyan
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Keep up the good work, Kunal. Do join the fsf-friends(a)gnu.org.in network if you aren't already part of it. FN On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, kunal bharati wrote: > hello friends, > As Kartik has started with his course discussion, I > would like to add something more :) > > last month Juan Carlos visited our college, he is a > founder(not sure) of Hipatia(www.hipatia.info) which > is somewhat related to Free Software Foundation. > > With his ideas and support we have planned to start an > institute called "GNU Gyan Institute" > > All the courses will be related to Free Software > Technologies. > Till now some courses like GNU/Linux, PHP/MySQL and > Perl are fixed to be taught > I have recommended Python too. > > If anyone is interested in the course can contact me, > my number is displayed on the homepage > > i would like to know which books are good for the > course so that we can have it in our library > > thanx, > kunal > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. > http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- February 2004 | Frederick Noronha, Freelance Journalist Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa | Goa India 0091.832.2409490 or 2409783 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | http://www.bytesforall.org 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 | Writing with a difference 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 | ... on what really 29 | makes *the* difference. -------------------------------------------------------------------

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T-Shirt graphic sources?
by Rajkumar S 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Dear arun, Did you get the T-Shirt pic's sources from our designer friend? btw, I find it bit ironic that FSF India decided to distribute some thing with out the sources. It's high time to correct it! raj

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Re: help wanted
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Hi Montosh, Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.Permit me to forward your mail to the LIH (LinuxIndiaHelp) and FSF-India mailing lists since I'm don't have the answers to your tech queries. Stay in touch, FN On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, null script wrote: > Can u provide a list of common soft/internal modems which will work in > the following distros ==> Red Hat 8/9 stock,Mandrake 8.2/9.1 (single CD > version i.e no kernel source),Free BSD 2.5,Knoppix/Lify and Fedora > core.Me and many of my friends have these distros installed on our > systems but we are forced to surf the net from windows due to the non > avalibity of drivers on GNU/Linux.The following is the list of soft/int > modems we have. > > Motorola SM56 Voice fax > Motorola SM56 Speakerphone > Conextant (Rockwell chipset) > Dax int modems > Intex int modems > Ham int modem found on a Compac system > > I know the ideal answer would be get a hard/ext modem,but pls > understand that this is not possible.I am sure many ppl would like to > find the same but cannot. > > Also can u suggest some tips & tweaks to make the system work > faster.Most of us have old systems 2 to 4 yrs old like K6-2,K6-3,PIIs > with a avg of 128Mb ram per system.All the newer distros really crawl on > most of the systems.I know the answer would be to upgrade the > systems,but not possible.One hack is to use a light and fast manager > like Flubox and Icewm but we miss the eye candy that Gnome and Kde > provide. Kindly help!! > > I was also very moved by your article "Sharing Dreams ... Seeking Help" > LFY Dec 2003.I want to know if anybody is ready to go ahead and share > their broad band/fat pipes in India and make new software like > GCC,JAVA,latest Kernel sources etc locally present.It is indeed very sad > that in India we do not have a single local mirror of any distro or > GNU/free software.China and Pak have them but why not India???.Pak even > has the local mirror of packetstrom http://packetstormsecurity.org.pk/ > why not us. Every day we hear that India is poised to become the next > super power in software but how?? when we even do not have proper flow > of information and ideas amongst the common user. > > Why don't the big company's donate their old computers to NGOS and > educational bodies. Wipe the data from its Hdd and install any of > GNU/LINUX on it.Rather that just 'junk' them. Thousands of under > prevliged children can benefit from it.I cant understand what's stoping > them? > > Ppl who have a latest and greatest systems P4's and AMD -XP's can also > help the community by just giving some CPU time for a good cause.They > can compile the various popular software for different 'arch' like > i586,K6-3 with all the optimization.And load it on the net for the ppl > who have old and slow systems to download and use.I for one would very > greatful and really appericate the speed boost which such a gesture > would do for me.I am sure many users will appericate such a site or > users group.I know from bitter experience that compiling some huge > package is a nightmare on a slow system.I tried to compile the 2.6 > kernel on Mandrake 9.1 it took some 6 hrs on my system and still did > not work.On a P4 2.4 it took 10 mins. and worked!!! I was foolish enough > to try to install gnome 2.4 from the source on my red hat 9.0,after 3 > days and 3 almost sleepless nights still no luck.I would have been ever > grateful if I could just DL the RPM and install it. > > Just some of my thoughts, hope to find some good news.Thanks for all > the good work u are doing. All the best. > > Montosh Bisht > > > "Hack into The Light" > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Linux.Net -->Open Source to everyone > Powered by Linare Corporation > http://www.linare.com/ > -- Frederick Noronha : http://fredericknoronha.blogware.com Freelance Journalist : Ph 0091.832.2409490 Cell 0 9822 122436 --------------------------------------------------------------- Join these e-mail lists on the Internet: Goanet: http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet-news BytesForAll: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bytesforall_readers GNULinuxInIndia: http://www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=linuxinindia

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Re: [Fsf-friends] Indian mirror
by H S Rai 12 Feb '04

12 Feb '04

Yesterday at 11:23pm +0530 Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > H S Rai said on Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:32:10PM +0530,: > > > But, IITM is not listed on www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/ and there is > > Is that the CD vendors' page? I get this page from: www.debian.org -> CD ISO Image (Getting debian) -> fetch full CD images on this page there is list of all ftp/http mirror. As I was to download debian, so after going through this list I was left with no option to use some mirror outside India. > > not even any other Indian mirror is listed. In that case normal > > user get poor impression. > > Sure. But the file is there in mirrors_full. -- H.S.Rai http://www.grex.org/~hsrai | Registered Linux User # 223684 http://counter.li.org/cgi-bin/runscript/display-person.cgi?user=223684

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Institutions Using GNU/Linux
by Manilal 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hello Friends, We are trying to make a list of institutions(Public & Private Sector) which uses/teach GNU/Linux and GPL'd Software in India. Please give as much details as possible. The details should contain atleast the following: Name of the institution Field(eg. Software development, Education, etc..) Whether the institution is in Private or Public sector? Which distribution and version they use? Website Contact address ... After preparing the list we'll put it in a website. This will be useful those who wishes to have a career in GPL'd software and related technologies. If anyone have suggestions please include them also. We are not sure whether such an initiative is made prior to this. If so please provide such info also.

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IT = M$window + M$word ?
by H S Rai 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Following is the syllabus for the students of all engineering colleges, which teaches MSwindows and MSword. It appears that officials are determinted to waste national resources and to make ourself slave. While in Instructional objective they mention package like MS word, but later in contents they fixed it to only M$. -- H.S.Rai ============================================================== http://www.ptujal.org/syllabus/comman-to-all-branches.htm CC-111 FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY <snip> INSTRUCTIONAL OBJECTIVES <snip> 4. Process text by using text processor package such as MS Word. <snip> 3(a) Introduction to windows and its features 3(b) Introduction to MS Word, document creation, editing, printing and saving, spell check and mail merge. <snip> PRACTICALS <snip> 8. Practice with MS word, Operating and closing document, Preparation of document, setting of document, familiarization with various tools. <snip>

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Version 0.7 of Ocrad released (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- I am pleased to announce the release of Ocrad 0.7. Ocrad is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program. The homepage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/ocrad/ocrad.html. The sources can be dowloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ocrad/ or from your favorite GNU mirror. The md5sum is: 1893a8b8c3b6848392160e47be2b1de6 ocrad-0.7.tar.bz2 This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signature by appending ".sig" to the URL. Changes in version 0.7: * Internal change to UCS (Universal Character Set) instead of ISO 8859-1. * Default charset is now ISO 8859-15 (latin9). * Ocrad now recognizes Turkish characters (ISO 8859-9). * Added new output format (UTF-8). * Added new options --charset and --format. * Added man page. Be aware that frames, lines, pictures, etc, can (by the moment) totally confuse ocrad. Please report bugs to <bug-ocrad(a)gnu.org>. Regards, Antonio Diaz, GNU Ocrad author and maintainer. _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu(a)gnu.org> http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu

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Re: [Fsf-friends] RMS :: man of THE WEEK, issue dated February 15, 2004
by Manilal 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

Raghavendra Bhat said: > The Malayalam weekly `Madhyamam' dated Feb 13 has a cover feature on > RMS. It also carried a very poor comparative study between Linux and Windows and contradictory statements about Swathanthra Software and CDIT. The reporter is trying to affirm that Windows is superior to GNU/Linux. Manilal

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RMS :: man of THE WEEK, issue dated February 15, 2004
by Raghavendra Bhat 10 Feb '04

10 Feb '04

This week's THE WEEK carries a very interesting 2 page article on RMS. The issue dated Feb 15 has hit the news-stands. The Malayalam weekly `Madhyamam' dated Feb 13 has a cover feature on RMS. -- ragOO

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Video Conference with Richard Stallman
by Vijay Kumar 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

The ECE department of National Institute of Technology, Trichy as a part of its technical symposium "Probe", is organizing a video conference with the free software guru, Dr. Richard Stallman. The talk will be on "Free Software". Date: 17 Feb(Tuesday) Time: 8:30am Venue: A2 Hall, National Institute of Technology, Trichy The event is open to everybody. For information about this talk, check out http://www/probe/lectures.shtml#freesoft For more information about free software and the gnu project, check out http://www.gnu.org For more information about Dr. Richard Stallman, check out http://www.stallman.org For further details on Probe, check out http://www.nitt.edu/probe or mail to probe(a)nitt.edu Vijay -- Free the Code. Free the User. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP(http://www.nitt.edu)

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