Linuxers June 2008

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Help Needed for Hindi Typiing in Ubuntu
by Aniket Bharaswadkar 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

Hi all I use hindi input all the time too. There is a phonetic SCIM keymap available from oriya.sarovar.org ( http://oriya.sarovar.org/download/hi-baraha.mim) . However I did not like the keymap they had made , it reduced the typing speed for me, hence I took their .mim file and made some changes to it to make typing hindi faster as we have in Baraha IME system on Windows or the ISIS system on linux (more power to opensource!). My modified file is available at http://aniketvb.googlepages.com . The file should be placed in /usr/share/m17n (in fedora). I do not know the path in Ubuntu, the list users can please help. The usage is pretty simple का = ka कि = ki की = kii कु = ku कू = kuu कं = k + M (shift M . .basically M for the बिंदु on anything) श = sh ष = Sh द = द ड = D ध = dh ढ = Dh ॐ = oum मॅ = m ~ e ( three keys !) मँ = m ~ M (three again ) ऋ = Ru ॠ = RU क्ष = k + /+ S +h For जोडअक्षर use / eg क्लास = क + / + ला + स Enable SCIM in your system as input method and then in scim config , you can set the hotkey to trigger the input method. I use the default Control + Space as the hotkey and I have just enabled one keymap (ie this one) and the other is the system default. Go ahead and try it and let me know in cade there are any difficulties. I admit that this method takes a little time (few days) to get used to though! but it enhanced my hindi/marathi typing speed greatly Aniket (अनिकेत !)

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right to left text entry
by Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi, I am using Kubuntu 7.04 w/ openoffice. I have downloaded some avesta fonts and want to use right to left text entry. In openoffice I have enabled CTL and I even got the left to right and right to left toolbar buttons activated. There is no language pack for avesta. What is happening is that when I try typing right to left: The cursor is on the right of the line (as it should be I suppose). Now suppose I want to type _jack_ in _avesta_ it should come as _kcaj_ meaning that the subsequent letters must appear to the left of the preceding alphabet and the cursor must move to the left. What is happening is that the cursor remains at the right end of the line and letters appear to the right of the preceding letter. Surprisingly, when I type a punctuation mark, the cursor moves to the left side of the line and the punctuation mark appears at the left end of the line; the cursor changes from a straight line to what I can best explain as a golf flag, but typing another letter makes the cursor jump back to the right end of the line and its the same story again. Google is throwing up links with this same problem but no solution. I hope I am being lucid enough. I can give you any more info required. What am I missing ? regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K R Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Lymph (v.), to walk with a lisp.

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[OT] the new blender movie is out
by Parthan SR 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

Hi all, Maybe we missed it in the commotion of a latest bollywood movie ;) , but still, "Big Buck Bunny" has been released a while ago and is available for download. http://www.bigbuckbunny.org/index.php/download/ Its a short-feature around 10 minutes long, but is pretty cool given the fact that it is released under a CC license. And quite obviously it was created using Blender[1]. AFAIK, the DVD set contains all .blend files and hence would be a perfect medium to showcase the capabilities of FOSS tools in Multimedia where it seems to lag behind a bit. Check out the .OGG video from the German server, others seem not to respond at the moment. -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" <gpg> 2FF01026 <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in

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ILUG-BOM Meet on 15th June?
by Dinesh Shah 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

H! LUGers, How about a LUG meet on 15th June 2008? Venue? Agenda? RSVP? Looking forward to catch up after long time! With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) Shah Micro System +91-98213-11906

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Flash Player Problems.
by Rony 16 Jun '08

16 Jun '08

Hello, I am having problems with playing flash content on some websites. I have already installed flash player in Iceweasel and in the newely installed Opera. I keep getting an error of installing the flash player. The problem sites are given below. I can play youtube videos without any problems. Could anyone try out the sites below and give feedback/ http://music.aol.com/radioguide/classical-radio http://www.tataindicom.com/t-personal-mobile-handsets.aspx -- Regards, Rony. GNU/Linux ! No Viruses No Spyware Only Freedom.

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[ILUG-Bom]FOSS CDs in Libraries
by Easwar Hariharan 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

Hi, http://www.linux.com/feature/134393 Sounds interesting,could we start something like this in our educational institutions? Regards, Easwar

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[COMMERCIAL] Ubuntu's Latest Version (DVD) With LFY's June Issue
by Niraj Sahay 12 Jun '08

12 Jun '08

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EU Calls For Use of Open Standards (from Slashdot)
by Sudhir Gandotra 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

EU Calls For Use of Open Standards http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/10/193252&from=rss "In a speech that is being reported as taking a swipe at Microsoft, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes has called for businesses and governments to use software based on open standards. While not mentioning Microsoft by name, Ms. Kroes referred to the fact that '[t]he [European] Commission has never before had to issue two periodic penalty payments in a competition case' until this befell Microsoft. The things she told a conference in Brussels will not come as a surprise to Slashdot readers, but it's encouraging to hear the following quotes from someone in her position: 'Where interoperability information is protected as a trade secret, there may be a lot of truth in the saying that the information is valuable because it is secret, rather than being secret because it is valuable... we should only standardize when there are demonstrable benefits, and we should not rush to standardize on a particular technology too early... I fail to see the interest of customers in including proprietary technology in standards when there are no clear and demonstrable benefits over non-proprietary alternatives.'" --- With best wishes for Unity in thinking, feeling and action. Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 IIPL: B-220/2, 2nd Fl., Savitri Nagar, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India Phone : +91-11-26014670, 71, 72. Fax : +91-11-26014672 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Affordable Business Desktop @ Just Rs. 500/- : http://kalculate.com/piracy.php http://www.openlx.com/openlx.html - FOSS award 2008 winner Linux from India http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm http://openlx.com/features.html - OpenLX Linux features You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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ISO Puts OOXML On Hold
by Sudhir Gandotra 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/10/2018238&from=rss schliz alerts us that ISO, in response to the four appeals (Venezuela, India, Brazil, South Africa) filed in recent weeks, has put the OOXML standardization process on hold. Here is ISO's press release, which says that ISO/IEC DIS 29500 will not be published for at least "several months" while the appeals process goes forward. Update: 06/11 10:13 GMT by KD : Reader Alsee points out that the fourth officially recognized appealing country is Venezuela, not Denmark as originally stated. The protests of Denmark and Norway are being disregarded, as they do not come from the administrative heads of their national organizations. --- With best wishes for Unity in thinking, feeling and action. Sudhir Gandotra. 98-101-20918 IIPL: B-220/2, 2nd Fl., Savitri Nagar, Malviya Nagar, New Delhi 110017, India Phone : +91-11-26014670, 71, 72. Fax : +91-11-26014672 OpenLX Linux OS, Linux Training, Support, Services, Product Development Affordable Business Desktop @ Just Rs. 500/- : http://kalculate.com/piracy.php http://www.openlx.com/openlx.html - FOSS award 2008 winner Linux from India http://www.efytimes.com/efytimes/24867/news.htm http://openlx.com/features.html - OpenLX Linux features You don't need violence to shake the world Treat Others As You Would Have Them Treat You www.humanistmovement.org

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X-post - survey of FOSS success stories
by Kenneth Gonsalves 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

hi, Sandip Saini of NRC-FOSS is doing his PhD in a study of foss methodologies. As part of his work, he is trying to compile a set of FOSS success stories. Definition: <quote> Documenting the success stories of FOSS implementation in India-- Nature, Scope and Methodology of the study. The goal of the study is to bring out into public a reliable and independent compilation of some instances where FOSS implementation has been carried out successfully in India. A 'success' in this context is defined as one where there has been an acceptance of at least one FOSS technology or solution across at least one unit of organisation – a department, a project, an enterprise or an institution – either public or private, either IT or non-IT. In other words, an individual who uses only FOSS for his/her needs would not qualify for being considered a success in this context; it has to be an organisational entity/unit. The best case would be where an entire large enterprise (a government department say like Indian Railways, a private corporation like an IT major or an Automobile manufacturing company, etc) has completely switched over to FOSS for all its IT and Computing needs, and the least acceptable instance would that of a small unit of an enterprise (one department of a University, one section of a company or government organisation,etc) that have started using mainly FOSS for at least one significant part of its operations. All instances between these two limiting cases would of course be acceptable too. </quote> We would be happy if members of these lists could suggest places he could investigate. You may contact him at: sksaini(a)au-kbc.org also feel free to post such things in this list. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS lawgon(a)au-kbc.org http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/

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