Dear fellow gnu/linners
I'm a faithful reader of this list, and an avid user of gnu/linux. In
the past this forum has helped me solve my doubts, given me the
feeling of community, and even landed me an assignment or two, as I am
a freelance journalist. That is partly why I usually go over each and
every post regardless of what it says. I say this as someone who
cares.
Do we want to be remembered for vituperation, inconsiderate ranting,
at times even name-calling? An honourable forum member had mentioned,
rightly, a while ago, that everything we write is archived away
(doubtlessly cleared too, eventually). What example are we setting,
then?
Aren't we representatives of a misunderstood community with few active
ambassadors? Should we be quarrelling among ourselves? Don't we (or,
some of us) have a mission, defined adversaries, allies? Should there
be quibbling between allies then?
Aren't we evangelists? Doesn't that put the obligation of decent
behaviour on us? What ambassador acts out of petulance? What sage
calls his congregation dolts, or idiots? What example should we be
setting? Should we call others stupid, lazy, unthinking, when we were
such ourselves when we started out, and perhaps still are?
A champion of free speech, Salman Rushdie, once wrote to the effect
that what we despise in ourselves we hate in others.
Should we funnel our fury into a name-calling binge directed at our
fellow users?
I hope you will appreciate this communication for what it is-- an
appeal to the better sensibilities within all of us, to end the
hateful heated repartee we've been seeing over the past few months.
Thank you.
Regards
Suhit Kelkar.
> There can never be a replacement for the crap that is M$office. Even a
> brainless moron cant write such crap.
> There are at least two SUPERIOR alternatives Openoffice and Koffice.
I use ubuntu 8.04 as my desktop at home but i need excel at my workplace on
my laptop.
I have tried using OO (not tried K Office) but the spreadsheet tool just
does not seem to work well enough especially after i have used excel, OO
seems so dated and clunky in contrast. I must admit i have not tried the
latest version though.
There is no real Autocad replacement, even if there are like BRL-CAD,
Varicad etc we do not get
candidates for them. We tried Virtualbox. did not work very well, especially
cumbersome
when it came to sharing files on a network using Samba.
I know there are other linux options for virtualization available like
parallels and vmware but we are not
in a position to experiment as of now especially after virtualbox.
We use an MS Access based system (third party )for excise, i haven't come
across any package in linux as a replacement though am sure one could be
built.
> For how many users?
>
about 5 in one unit ..
SG
Can anyone help me to sync a Nokia E50 phone with my laptop (Acer Aspire One
- Kubuntu 8.10)? I need to do this by usb cable (since Aspire One does not
have bluetooth inbuilt). Have checked out help on the net for bluetooth but
there does not seem to be any for usb cable. When I tried to follow the
tutorial on smoking linux for using pcsuite with Obextools, KMix crashed. (I
have reported the bug to launchpad and it is now registered as 178063).
Would appreciate any help. Thanking you in advance.
Sanjay
Hello,
I have twice compiled kernel 2.6.27.8 from source. During make it
detects 5 problems but they don't look significant and 'make
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y' resolves this problem. However after
booting from this kernel and its relative initrd.img, the process stops
at devfs and kernel panic. The system is unable to read
/lib/modules/[kernel]/modules.dep. IMHO this is basically an indicator
of the ide drivers not working.
During make menuconfig, I observed that the IDE modules can only be
included as modules <M>, not 'in-built' in the kernel like <*>. In one
section, the Help contents even mention that this option should not be
used if your root system is on the IDE drive. This could mean that while
the booting drive is not IDE ( means SATA ), the other drive detected
after booting can be IDE.
My system is an Intel 845 with IDE drives. Has anyone on this list
successfully booted from 2.6.27.8 using an IDE HDD on an 845 chipset
mobo? Do the new kernels mean goodbye to old hardware? Could this be one
reason why K/Ubuntu 8.10 does not boot live into an old 845 chipset +
IDE system?
--
Regards,
Rony.
GNU/Linux !
No Viruses
No Spyware
Only Freedom.
Any one familiar with school system, teachers therein or OLPC, Sugar desktop
etc , or interested in evangelising FOSS in schools , please contact
undersigned.
--
jitendra
I have installed Debian Etch on a gigabyte motherboard GA-MA74GM-S2,
having AMD 740G + SB700 Chipset. The website says it has ATI Radeon 2100
integrated graphics.
Output of lspci is as follows:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 796e
This driver selected for this is "vesa". If I try "ati", X server
refuses to start.
But the main problem is resolution - it is set at 1280x1024. I tried using
"dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and setting resolution to 1440X900, but at that,
the resolution was set to 1400x1050 when X server was restarted.
Even adding the resolution manually to the Modes lines in xorg.conf and
restarting X server did not solve the issue.
How can I fix this?
Thanks.
--
Rohit V. Bhute
> > My machine has something like 768 Kbytes of RAM.
>
No it is 768 MegaBytes of RAM.
> Who is the certifying authority? why would anyone accept your
> certification.
>
The answer to the "who is the certifying authority ? why would anyone
accept your certification" is very long and given below.
Hi,
Wireless mobiles with bluetooth --- and huge screens --- somebody told
me they are for Rs 3,500 ----- they will get there shortly perhaps and
can at least be used to deliver audio education ----- that way no
charity is involved. This is to deliver skills based education to
very poor people who can afford a mobile but not even a television or
a computer ---- in slums basically. On this mobile, you will have to
have a network which gives them jobs based on the skills based
education ----- all this may get possible with the data-based G3
mobiles coming out
They don't need a certifying authority but good word of mouth clients
and references which should be posted on the net. For a good worker,
the boss will give references, for a bad worker or contractor nobody
will give references.
Now, can one distribute education which is:
1. Micro-campus based education or joint family like Education which
keeps children together in groups of 10 for a long time ----- longer
than the current 10th standard ---- is that feasible or desirable, by
forming them into focus groups and business groups and friend groups.
Nowadays, when families have only one or two children, do we need 10
students together in a joint family like atmosphere or "gurukul" for a
long time.
Best Regards,
Erach
ps. below portion is very long and may be discarded.
Well,
to answer the question ---- who will certify,
what about distributed campuses for schools and colleges with online backup.
So it is not purely online (is that ever feasible or one needs people
present) but say daily or once a week meetings.
WEll,
If you go to a DEEMED University which has been opened by
coaching-classes, they might see the justification for this ::
"the University gives online degrees, but the face-to-face contact
takes place in rooms of individuals everywhere---- so 10 students can
learn at a time together",
and they appear to "coaching classes say once a week".
This can be opened all over the world ----- not just in Mumbai.
What do u get from this ---- I don't know. For me, it is just the
typing of an idea.
Even schools, can go from 60 to 100 students per class that way ---- not every
body should appear daily in the school, but can be taught at a
teacher // associate's residence.
Where is the cost to build new school buildings ---- new Universities
buildings and so on ? Can we not do an hybrid of online learning ----
meet in rooms.
People do satsangs in their own homes everywhere of the guru of their choice.
You can call this an online University satsang.
Erach
NOW HOW DO YOU RECRUIT STUDENTS FOR A DISTRIBUTED CAMPUS //
MICRO-GRAINED CAMPUS. With online training.
It is very easy. Suppose there are TEN students in 12th standard or
11th standard or even in primary school (don't forget real-estate is
now going vacant and prices are dropping).
Well, there subjects are not ALL different. They decide to UNITE
after 10th, or 11th, or 12th standard ----- they approach a DEEMED
UNIVERSITY or a COLLEGE and say ----- give us your online training
---- we will do it from our HOME and perhaps then go abroad for higher
studies.
Neither, are we going to make our parents pay in lakhs which we don't
want them to spend (especially in times of recession) nor in thousands
of dollars, but we will study the online material together and contact
a tutor such as tutorvista.com (if you are abroad) or live via phone
in a call-center, old teacher live, or some one in not so premier
cities ------------------- so the superb online college is made.
This should be better than seperating students all the time in 10th,
11th, 12th, in the 3 years of bachelors, and so on -------- and let
them build a stronger cohesive network which would last them all their
life.
For instance, I've never met you members on the mailing list ----
would I trust you ----- no, but I have to meet you in person and so on
---- and then the trust is built.
Is this idea becoming better. Now, you can take it to a DEEMED
UNIVERSITY (formerly merely a coaching class) in New Mumbai, and they
might do it for South Mumbai students and save them the daily/weekly
journey.
Erach
> 8. Re: Apologies. Content creation/kiosk. Opening of an online
> university with automated testing followed by in-person testing. (jtd)
>
2008 12:34, Erach wrote:
>
I had asked about "open University". Well
Online Education in India : Punjab Technical University offers
...First virtual campus in India - Punjab Technical University offers
internationally accredited degree & diploma programmes in mangement,
engineering , ...
www.ptuonline.com/ - 14k - Cached - Similar pages
Comes up ---- I called the phone numbers they listed ----- it is there.
Now, there are DEEMED UNIVERSITIES in Maharashtra which could give
ONLINE also in additional to there normal courses.
Yes, Windows is expensive ---- both Windows and LINUX are tools ----
if somebody goes to the management of a deemed University and points
to www.ptuonline.com and its counterpart abroad (www.tutorvista.com)
could one open a University which teaches foreign students.
The person who goes there hopefully gets a project ------ and some
funds ---- and perhaps more.
Erach