2009/11/22
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> 1. .a-tip-a-day. (script - record input and output from a
> terminal) (Girish Venkatachalam)
> 2. Re: WANTED: Students who want to learn OpenGL / Qt (Shrinivasan T)
> 3. IBM and the indian debacle (anirudh singh shekhawat)
> 4. I shall send the language tip a bit late (Girish Venkatachalam)
> 5. [jobs] Artha42 is looking for passionate hackers (Vagmi Mudumbai)
> 6. Re: IBM and the indian debacle (Mano)
> 7. Re: IBM and the indian debacle (anirudh singh shekhawat)
> 8. Re: IBM and the indian debacle (Arun SAG)
> 9. why Winamp is not available for Linux platform ?
> (Selvakumar Rajeswaran)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:18:42 +0530
> From: Girish Venkatachalam
> Subject: [Ilugc] .a-tip-a-day. (script - record input and output from
>a terminal)
> To: Indian Linux User Group Chennai
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> $ script /tmp/output.txt
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> will start a new shell and redirect all the input and output commands
> to the file /tmp/output.txt
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> You need not give a filename as argument.
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> This is a simple but very powerful command and can be used for a
> variety of debugging tasks.
>
> If you wish to have a key recorder program, you are looking for
> ttyrec(1) and ttyplay(1).
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> -Girish
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> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:44:12 +0530
> From: Shrinivasan T
> Subject: Re: [Ilugc] WANTED: Students who want to learn OpenGL / Qt
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:49:54 +0530
> From: anirudh singh shekhawat
> Subject: [Ilugc] IBM and the indian debacle
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> Everyone feared IBM in the good old days, when guys in black suits and tie
> would either make you go out of business or buy you off the hook. IBM guys
> were considered evil big brothers, who were ruthless and sung company
> songs.
> So anyways IBM seemed to have changed quite a lot in recent years and we
> all
> know its open support towards free and open source mentality, and anyways I
> am here to talk about what is it doing right now which actually violates
> that very philosophy.
>
> There is a very popular competition which IBM runs in india called TGMC
> (The
> great mind challenge) [1] for students. Well that is all good but the
> tricky
> part comes here. IBM only accepts projects made using its technology i.e.
> the tools which only IBM provides to the educational institute you are in
> and yes, they dont give these tools to individuals, they can only be
> acquired once your institute is in the program and it so happens that IBM
> after sending its big boys to your institute and, your college will soon
> will make it compulsory for everyone in the final year to make their major
> projects for IBM, and my college is one of them and we are stuck with
> making
> our major projects in TGMC if we want or not.
>
> The tools to be used are : Rational Rose/RSA
> RAD/Eclipse/WSAD/ WebSphere Portal
> WAS/WAS CE
> DB2 Express – ‘C’ or DB2 UDB
>
> and as it seems that you cant do this project without IBM's help. But what
> is more important are the Terms and Conditions, what it has imposed on all
> student developers working on it, here is an interesting one :-
>
> "By submitting entries, entrant grants IBM and their agents of the program
> the right to publish, use, adapt, sell, edit and/or modify such entry in
> any
> way, in commerce and in any and all media worldwide, including but not
> limited to the Internet, without limitation and without compensation to the
> entrants. Entrant also grants IBM worldwi
