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Project Gutenberg (revisiting issue)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 12 Apr '04

12 Apr '04

A hoax for a good cause... hope this drew some more attention to Project Gutenberg. Imran, copyright-expired books is one category. It's also possible to put up there books who's authors have no objection to sharing. I got two such books put up in the past few months. One was a book on wildlife experences in Goa, and the other, a critique of journalism in this part of India written collaboratively by 21 journalists. I do wish too that many more India-related books would be up on Project Gutenberg. I read recently of a contract given to IIIT-Hyderabad for digitising books on "numerous topics". They were contracted by the Universal Digital Library (UDL) and claim good progress. But I'm not sure what purpose these digitised books would be deployed for. Free software ideals should go beyond software... and into various other fields. FN > From: Imran William Smith <imran(a)imran.info> Subject: Re: [Fsf-friends] > Project Gutenberg Buys Amazon.com To: fsf-friends(a)gnu.org.in Message-ID: > <4076FE56.6030200(a)imran.info> Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Check the URL. April 1st. i.e. it's a joke. > > Nevertheless, I encourage everyone to investigate Project Gutenberg and > consider contributing. The aim is to transcribe large amounts of paper > books and other texts into electronic format, provided that their > copyright has expired (making this legal). > > Imran Malaysia > > > Rakesh Ambati wrote: > > >hello list, > > > >Here something very interesting to read. > > > >http://www.gutenberg.net/events/pg-amazon-apr1.html

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Microsoft's midlife crisis
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

MICROSOFT'S Midlife Crisis BusinessWeek - USA ... Robert W. Egan, vice-president for information technology at Boise Cascade Corp. ... Tech companies are staring hungrily at China and India as their next growth ... <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2004/tc2004049_0994.htm>

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[Fsf-friends] Asia FLOSS issues: Mailing list for sharing information
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

In view of the need to share *information* about what's happening on the Free/Libre and Open Source Software space in Asia, I have set up this mailing list, and would like to invite everyone interested to join the same. - To post on your mailing list, simply send email to gnulinuxinasia(a)freelists.org. - Users can subscribe to your list by sending email to gnulinuxinasia-request(a)freelists.org with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface. - Log on to http://www.freelists.org/list/gnulinuxinasia - Online, searchable archives of your list are available at http://www.freelists.org/archives/gnulinuxinasia Each list's archive is automatically updated as new messages come in. Thank you. FN ----------------------------------------------------------------- April 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 8 9 10 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 | Writing with a difference 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | ... on what makes *the* difference 25 26 27 28 29 30 | http://www.bytesforall.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- CHECK OUT USENET http://www.algebra.com/~scig/approved/threads.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Urgent email to fredericknoronha at vsnl.net Mobile 9822 122436

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[Fwd]: Digital Signatures - Acrobat
by Mahesh T. Pai 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

For your information. ----- Forwarded message from Ken Walker <kgw(a)lunar.ca> ----- > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 18:19:32 +0000 > From: Ken Walker <kgw(a)lunar.ca> > Subject: Digital Signatures - Acrobat > To: Debian-Lex <debian-lex(a)lists.debian.org> > User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 > > I practice law in British Columbia. Although I use Linux on our file and > print server, I have not yet changed the several other workstations to Linux. > I like what I see in OpenOffice and have plans to switch the support staff > over to the windows version of that package and then, if that works out, go > to an all Linux network. > > Suddenly though, there is a problem. Our Law Society and the provincial > government have developed a new system for land title registrations > ( http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/) and for corporate registry > filings ( http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/) > > The Land Title system require digital signatures and use pdf format files for > documents submitted. I am not sure at this point whether the Corporate > Registry requires digital signatures. The use of Acrobat Standard v6 is > required for Land Titles and it is only available in MSWindows. See > http://www.juricert.com/j2a/efs.htm. > > Generally the various registries do not seem to recommend use of anything but > Windows and Mac software: > https://www.bconline.gov.bc.ca/system_req.html > > I am wondering whether any others in the Debian-Lex group have dealt with > these sorts of issues before and in particular whether there is Linux > software capable of editing pdf files and attaching a digital signature the > same way that Acrobat Standard does. > > I suspect that this sort of authentication will be required by various > registries as this sort of interaction with government grows. It is > something we ought to keep in mind as Debian-Lex is developed > -- > Ken Walker > http://lunar.ca > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-lex-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://paivakil.port5.com +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+

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Gnus Grazing
by Rakesh Ambati 11 Apr '04

11 Apr '04

Morning Friends, Happy Easter !! For a few weeks now, I was trying to find out whether there is any kind of meeting of GNU members here is bangalore.It seems there is none.(Please correct me ?) While interacting with some of my friends here on FSF-Friends mailing list,I thought of calling for such regular meeting. H'm, why don't we name it as a 'Gnu Grazing'. Anyone interested ? cheers arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

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PERL application with Indian scripts...
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 10 Apr '04

10 Apr '04

------------------------------ From: Kalyana Krishnan <rkk(a)acharya.iitm.ac.in> Subject: PERL applications with Indian scripts Date: 9 Apr 2004 14:50:34 GMT Greetings, Kindly include the following in the announcements. Kalyana Krishnan Professor IIT Madras Chennai India - 600 036 ====================================================================== PERL programs for use with Indian languages/scripts (Systems running Linux) Greetings from Chennai, India. Multilingual software applications supporting user interfaces in Indian languages may now be written in PERL. The required modules for permitting Indian language scripts to be processed by standard PERL are now available for those interested in working with PERL and localizing applications. Please visit http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/software/sources/perl.html Over the years, several persons have asked for the sources of the applications distributed by the acharya site. Systems Development Lab, where the multilingual software has been developed over a period of nearly 12 years, has decided to make all the sources available to all interested persons, through a new OpenSource project at sourceforge. http://imli.sourceforge.net/ The syllable level coding scheme, which forms the basis for text representation in all the multilingual applications developed at the lab, has also been discussed for the benefit of developers. Please see http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/software/sources/scheme.html Sources for more than twenty packages, ranging from Multilingual editors, linguistic applications, search engines, web page creation, font generation, Text to Speech Synthesis, email etc., will be available over the next six to eight weeks, as volunteers prune the sources, document them and present the same for further developemnt. Students in Engineering colleges, looking for projects will benefit from the availability of the sources. The basic resources required for working with all the scripts in use in the country, including Urdu will be made available as part of this effort. For specific information please get in touch with rkk(a)acharya.iitm.ac.in ==================================================================== ########################################################################## # Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: cola(a)stump.algebra.com # # PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. # # This group is archived at http://stump.algebra.com/~cola/ # ##########################################################################

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Edu Morphix now available online
by Sajith VK 10 Apr '04

10 Apr '04

Hi, We are happy to inform that eduMorphix is now available online. please visit http://freesoftware.keltron.org/edumorphixcd.html Its a GNU/Linux distribution for education institutes. It contains a lot of education softwares, along with common application needed..... Its the experimental release. so need heavy testing... We need your comments!, Please use it and give suggestions..... Thanks and regards -- "Freedom Matters" Sajith VK

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FLOSSinINDIA: What's in LINUXForYou April 2004
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

OPEN SOURCE (OR SHOULD WE SAY FREE/LIBRE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE?) speaks local languages of India: FLOSS enthusiasts across the globe are getting together to enable your PC to speak Hindi, Malayalam, Bangla, Marathi, and many other languages. And they are succeeding in their mission. (Features a lot of the guysyou might know -- G Karunakar, Prakash Adavani, Venkatesh Hariharan, Prof Jitendra Shah, Arun Sharma, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay, Shikha Pillai, Dr Nagarjuna and others). * Linux Nirvana: keeping your system in top shape * Using USB devices in GNU/Linux * MindTree uses GNU/Linux for a customised consumer product * Tata Teleservices implements a FLOSS-based terminal server at its Ahmedabad call centre * How Zope, a content management tool, helped Epson America. RAHUL CHOPRA, EDITOR: "Once you understand Open Source, I believe, you will get hooked on to it." * Motorola launches multimedia GNU/Linux mobile phone * Mandrake releases Mandrakelinux 10.0 Community * Trial copies of Linux scanner software http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html * Kernel 2.6.4 released http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/ * Major updates and releases: Gentoo Linux 2004.0, AD}IOS v3.0, Coyote Linux v2.10 Beta 2; MoviX v0.8.1, PostgreSQL v7.3.6; phpMyAdmin v2.5.6; Nmap Security Scanner v3.50; Knoppixv3.4 * DO YOU ARGEE withAlolita Sharma's view that "protecting intellectual property is central to the growing success of the Open Source industry"? Quote: At minimum, recognition and attribution are required, as exemplified in the traditional MIT or BSD licenses. More frequently today, copyright is employed to ensure that the covered work remains an active agent of the collaborative software community. This is exemplified in the GPL, LGPL and MPL licenses." (from "How is IP used in Open Source?") * Blender: the basics of modelling * CrossOver Office * Simple macros with OpenOffice Writer (By SM) * Piloting data in OpenOffice Calc (By SM) * Beat LFY: Why this magazine needs several rivals (Niyam Bhushan) * The Linux Learning Curve * BitTorrent: a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol * eCos: Royalty-free real-time soln for OS developers * IPCop: cut-down distro, intended to operate as a firewall * Basics of Linux signals * Another alternative model based on 'capabilities'. * Functions in Python * Webmin: The administrator's mate * List of LUGs and GNU/LUGs across India * GNUnify 2004: FOSSed out in Pune EXTRALinuxPRO: Build yourself an arcade game player... SOFTWARE INCLUDED THIS MONTHS: * Achievo: Web-based project management * AIRA: business class management (ERP) software * SCRIBUS: Easy-to-use tool for simple DTP * RICHARD M STALLMAN VIDEO: RMS' views on free software * LINUX-2.6.3: Latest release of the Linux kernel * ARCADE GAME: Convert yours into an arcade game-playing machine * MONKEY: Small Web server * BitTORRENT 3.3: Downloading utility for GNU/Linux * DISCOVERER: Small 802.11b network detector for GNU/Linux * MOBILE GUIDE: Complete documentation * 4tH COMPILER: Conventional compiler, instead of standard Forth engine * APACHE TOOLBOX: Easier way to install Apache * DrJAVA: Integrated Java development environment and more * DISK2: Standard business server -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- March 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 8 9 10 11 12 13 | Email fred at bytesforall.org 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 | Writing with a difference 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | ... on what makes *the* difference 28 29 30 31 | http://www.bytesforall.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- CHECK OUT USENET http://www.algebra.com/~scig/approved/threads.html -------------------------------------------------------------------

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Shell hackers::solve this
by Rakesh Ambati 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

Hi list, So this piece of shell displays a warning on the top five lines of the shell. The problem is 'clear' wipes it.Now how to prevent it ? <code> /bin/echo -e '\033[05;25r'; /bin/echo -e "Hackers Beware \n\n\n" </code> --arky __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/

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[Fsf-friends] Schools to get $20 m grant from Microsoft India, 7 April, 2004 (fwd)
by Frederick Noronha (FN) 08 Apr '04

08 Apr '04

This probably needs to be noted. FN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 7 April, 2004 [ www.i4donline.net ] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Schools to get $20 m grant from Microsoft India To push local language computing in the State, Microsoft Corporation India Ltd announced the roll-out of its $20- million IT education programme for schools in India and an agreement on a programme with the Orissa Government. Language matters, Windows, MS Office to be in 5 Indian languages With the aim of promoting business, Microsoft India has devised a three-pronged strategy in India this year. The company will be focussing on �accelerating IT literacy, improving security and enabling local IT opportunities through vernacular language interfaces� in and around its software packages. UN report: e-government in region faces multiple snags - Lebanon Countries in the Middle East may talk the technological lingo, but just how serious most are about preparing, promoting and facilit- ating the use of electronic government and actual electronic par- ticipation remains to be seen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Your comments and suggestions and request for subscribe/unsubscribe are welcome at info(a)i4donline.net www.i4donline.net [The first monthly magazine on ICT4D] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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