Linuxers November 2009

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by Kussh Singh

I was very happy to note that now Linux has some CAD software which is comparable to the best in the world or eventually going to be there. I was doubly happy to know our public sector was making a contribution in this regard. But my hopes were dashed when i wanted to access the documentation/download page. Looks to be more hype than real. Commercial motivation seems to have gripped the govt babus. This seems to be a software made from open source or GPL softwares in the area of CAD/ERP where linux is weak (with respect to FREE* by cost*softwares) . Yet it is not open source or even its documentation is not available to the lay public. It promises to work with various closed source CAD formats most of which are notoriously un-interchangeable. Can the NIC- national Informatics Centre which is* publicly funded* develop such a software from Free softwares that may be GPLed? and then deny the software or even its documentation to the people of India? Can India ever attain leadership in technology if the govt agencies themselves deny ACCESS to documentation on usage of such CAD/CAM/CAE technologies which have themselves been developed from Free softwares. Unless such cutting edge software is tested/used by an evergrowing number of people, it will remain buggy and enough human resources will not be able to adequately train themselves to use such technologies in an increasingly competitive and superspecialised world. On one hand NIC says it is trying to promote FOSS and on the other hand nicsi etc showcase more of propreitary softwares or run of the mill softwares instead of cutting edge softwares. Nicsi is supposed to be a distributor of this collabcad.com software. Let us not forget that technologies like GRASS etc in terms of GIS technology was open sourced by the US govt's deptt of defense's Corps of Engineers. Regards, Kussh PS: I am seriously trying to get the documentation/trial download of such software or know the SIZE of such software to evaluate it.

13 years, 4 months

Making linux well supported among vendors/manufacturers

by Kussh Singh

The mobile market will exceed the computer market in coming years or has already exceeded the computer and related gadgets market. Nokia and other manufacturers routinely make softwares for their hardware products for the windows and macintosh operating systems. Unless we, the FOSS users request them every now and then thru email, feedback on their websites, online forums etc etc to also support these softwares on the linux platform, Linux will get increasingly sidelined and less people will even come to know about it. Getting linux on the printed packaging of a product (visibility) is very important for awareness generation. 95% of the battle of getting linux popular will be won if it becomes visible to the layman. I request FOSS users to constantly strive to make linux visible to laymen thru whatever creative ideas they have, every now and then, specially thru requests to manufacturers etc and online forums. Regards, Kussh

13 years, 5 months

Need Linux

by AKSHAY NARKAR

Respected Sirs, I am Akshay Narkar, currently a student (taken drop for IIT). I stay at Mahim. I am interested in using Linux as an OS. I visited some Websites which told me to take help from a Linux group in my area. I tried downloading Ubuntu Linux from net but my connection is a petty 9kBps. Can you please suggest a way so that i can get a copy of Free Linux,along with a users manual from someone in my area? Thanking you, yours sincerely, Akshay Narkar

13 years, 6 months

Start PhD and special department for FOSS Research in India

by narendra sisodiya

Hope this will be useful start - http://www.petitiononline.com/fossrnd1/petition.html -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘

13 years, 6 months

Fwd: Invitation for DBF OLPC Learning Workshop

by sankarshan

Forwarding in case folks at BOM find it useful to attend. /sankarshan ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: amit gogna <amit.gognaa(a)gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:36 AM Subject: Invitation for DBF OLPC Learning Workshop To: olpc-india(a)googlegroups.com Dear All, You are invited for a BoF (Birds of a Feather)** Session organized for all the interested members for getting insight into the olpc (one laptop per child ) project and if interested contributing to the project. The details of the session are :- Session :- DBF OLPC BOF Session Date :- 4th Dec,2009 Time :- 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm Venue :- Gnowledge Lab Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education Tata Institute of Fundamental Research V.N. Purav Marg, Mankhurd. Mumbai, 400088 India ( ** :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_of_a_Feather_%28computing%29) The DBF OLPC LEARNING WORKSHOP has been organised from 2nd - 4th Dec,2009 In collaboration with 'Gnowledge Lab' : Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, Mumbai The details of the workshop have been put on http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-workshop-India You can confirm your participation by entering your name on the wiki by going to the following link. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-workshop-India#Participants_please_enter_you… Hope to see you there. Thanks. Regards, Amit Gogna -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>

13 years, 6 months

Any good download managers

by Kussh Singh

Hi all, I tried downloading the HUGE collabcad PLM setup file from collabcad website. However both times though I was able to download the 1.62GB file using firefox addon downthemall, downthemall failed to finally put the file in the proper download folder given for the purpose. Only 750mb file resulted from a FULL download of 1.62 GB. There was enough space in the /home directory -so that possibility of less space is ruled out. I think downthemall 1 downloads to a temporary or hidden directory and 2 then checksums the hidden directory download after the download is complete and 3 then moves the checksummed file to the final destination under /home directory if everything is ok or gives an error. It seems to be restricted in download size upto 750MB. Am looking for a better dowload manager which can work under ubuntu 9.04 and with such SUPER large files. If anyone knows of a better manager with checksumming ability pls let me know. The other option is using a torrent file (via a bittorrent client) if any exists. Thanks for any help Kussh

13 years, 6 months

[Commercial] [X Post] Looking for PHP, Drupal Developer(s)..

by Kartik Mistry

Hi all, FlightNetwork.com is looking for couple of gurus following positions. We're Canada based travel company and have main office there and development center at Ahmedabad. Salary will not be constraint for right candidate. Please send your resume/CV with either txt or pdf or any open format to me. My email ID can be found in your mail. Or, kartik dot mistry at gmail dot com. 1. PHP Developer: Must have good experience in PHP, any framework, good sense of UI and must be dreaming in PHP. It will be good if person is ready to relocate/at Ahmedabad, remote or WFH is also possible in exceptional cases. 2. Drupal Developer: Good experience with Drupal. Send CV with some work you've done in the past. Location will be at Ahmedabad. 3. HTML Designer: Sense of HTML with all possible latest happening in HTML world and strong CSS fundamentals and JavaScript. Location will be at Ahmedabad. 4. Mobile Web Developer: Must be able to develop/convert/maintain website(s) for small devices (ie smartphones of all kind). Good in HTML, JavaScript, CSS etc. Thanks for reading so far! Don't hesitate to contact me if you need further info. -- Cheers, Kartik Mistry | 0xD1028C8D | IRC: kart_ Debian GNU/Linux Developer | Identica: @kartikm Blogs: {ftbfs, kartikm}.wordpress.com

13 years, 6 months

SPAM on GLUG-BOM Wiki

by Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]

Please check the following link http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List_Etiquettes Lot of spam at the top of the page. -- With Regards Abhishek Amberkar Learn to appreciate the beauty within... Sent from Mumbai, MH, India

13 years, 6 months

Re: [ILUG-BOM] problem with kde 4.3 update

by Pratik Anand

@Rony , Ok i agree that I got little careless there....Will keep that in mind... Currently looking into updating firefox....so You want to say I should be using apt-get or aptitude rather than synaptics? -- Pratik Anand B.Tech - CSE (2nd year) Blog: pratik3d.blogspot.com Twitter: twitter.com/pratikone

13 years, 6 months

problem with kde 4.3 update

by Pratik Anand

@Kartik i know that but you are not getting the question. I had installed kde4.2.2 when kde 4.3 was just about to come....But after when it came , Synaptics or apt didn't upgrade 4.2 to 4.3..even on manual checking of update , they said 'your kde packages are uptodate' and thats with others too.. So, I wanted to know the reason behind this... As if canonical is still not supportng 4.3 in jaunty or anything else... My question is WHY not HOW (first step is Googling always)...Why it is not included in original repo list Similar case is with firefox update too, it is not giving option of updating to 3.5. As a result , i m running the tar of the newer version ..but the installed one is still 3.0.15 @Rony : I m not a linux newbie, have been using it for 1.5 yrs now (so little above newbie) and have solved all types of problems whether it is non-functioning of alsa, or compiz graphics prob in hardy or to make wine from source etc etc.. by intensive google searching..... -- Pratik Anand B.Tech - CSE (2nd year) Blog: pratik3d.blogspot.com Twitter: twitter.com/pratikone

13 years, 6 months

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Linuxers November 2009