Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv
Karanbir Singh wrote: > Linux Lingam wrote: >> dear all, >> >> eben moglen's talk on saturday was moderated by paranjoy guha thakurtha. >> after the talk he mentioned to me that within one hour he was >> interviewing eben for a tv report. here are the details: >> >> 17 june 2007, 6pm, on loksabha tv >> >> yup, that's a bit of an obscure tv channel. >> so anyone here got a tv tuner card or something so perhaps you could >> post a digitized version on youtube for the world-at-large? > > irony at its best pre-requests for breaking the law, for Eben's content! True. But I would like to ask if broadcasts made by a public broadcaster can be shared for non-commercial public sharing. How is it done the world over? - Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv
> > irony at its best pre-requests for breaking the law, for Eben's content! > > - KB ummm.. maybe not. i just googled the lok sabha tv site,. they seem to webcast their shows. so you could check it there. i also hope eben moglen requests if not insists, that his segment be published under a copyleft license or something. anyone has eben's email id? please write him to check or confirm if this is so. else, if you have his id, please share with me via direct email. will write him to request him, too. in any case, gora's earlier message of video uploads of the eben talk on saturday, am sure will be under a copyleft or cc license. :-) niyam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv
Linux Lingam wrote: > dear all, > > eben moglen's talk on saturday was moderated by paranjoy guha thakurtha. > after the talk he mentioned to me that within one hour he was > interviewing eben for a tv report. here are the details: > > 17 june 2007, 6pm, on loksabha tv > > yup, that's a bit of an obscure tv channel. > so anyone here got a tv tuner card or something so perhaps you could > post a digitized version on youtube for the world-at-large? irony at its best pre-requests for breaking the law, for Eben's content! - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 22:12 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > hi, > > eben moglen's talk on saturday at iic was highly-stimulating. i saw > quite a few people clicking photos, recording videos, and perhaps > blogging etc. could you please point me notes, transcripts or other > logs of his wonderful talk? The people video-recording it will be cleaning it up, and giving a copy to Sarai, whereupon we will put it online. They themsleves also ditribute videos online. [...] > 1) 64-bit version > 2) standard version. > 3) alternate-iso. this is for systems that can't handle the graphic installer. > 4) ubuntustudio. > > you may collect the following people for further requesting and sharing cds: [...] Ubuntu/Kubuntu i386, and 64-bit versions are also always available at Sarai, as are various other distros, including Debian Etch. We are also collecting full repositories. Regards, Gora ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss
You mean bliss, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_%28image%29 . Ashish Shukla -- Ashish Shukla "Wah Java !!" आशीष शुक्ल ,= ,-_-. =. webpages: http://wahjava.googlepages.com ((_/)o o(\_)) weblog: http://wahjava.wordpress.com `-'(. .)`-' PGP: 1E00 4679 77E4 F8EE 2E4B 56F2 1F2F 8410 762E 5E74 \_/ Supercomputers are for people too rich and too stupid to design efficient algorithms -- Steven Skiena, Department of Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss
On 6/11/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > eben moglen's talk on saturday at iic was highly-stimulating. i saw > quite a few people clicking photos, recording videos, and perhaps > blogging etc. could you please point me notes, transcripts or other > logs of his wonderful talk? > > it requires a more thorough read and study to assimilate his vast > array of ideas. > > at the end of the talk a few people approached me for cds of ubuntu. > soon the outside desk was happily converted into 'cd-sharing'. ubuntu > 7.04 discs shared: > > 1) 64-bit version > 2) standard version. > 3) alternate-iso. this is for systems that can't handle the graphic installer. > 4) ubuntustudio. > > you may collect the following people for further requesting and sharing cds: > > 01) karunakar, who copied a few to his laptop. sorry i no longer have it! (need enough disk space to keep etch sync'd ;-) Karunakar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss
On 11-Jun-07, at 10:12 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > all of us happy folks missed kenneth gonsalves. but am sure if anyone > contacts him, he would be happy to share cds of ubuntu with everyone, surely you jest -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] eben moglen on tv
dear all, eben moglen's talk on saturday was moderated by paranjoy guha thakurtha. after the talk he mentioned to me that within one hour he was interviewing eben for a tv report. here are the details: 17 june 2007, 6pm, on loksabha tv yup, that's a bit of an obscure tv channel. so anyone here got a tv tuner card or something so perhaps you could post a digitized version on youtube for the world-at-large? :-) niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss
hi, eben moglen's talk on saturday at iic was highly-stimulating. i saw quite a few people clicking photos, recording videos, and perhaps blogging etc. could you please point me notes, transcripts or other logs of his wonderful talk? it requires a more thorough read and study to assimilate his vast array of ideas. at the end of the talk a few people approached me for cds of ubuntu. soon the outside desk was happily converted into 'cd-sharing'. ubuntu 7.04 discs shared: 1) 64-bit version 2) standard version. 3) alternate-iso. this is for systems that can't handle the graphic installer. 4) ubuntustudio. you may collect the following people for further requesting and sharing cds: 01) karunakar, who copied a few to his laptop. 02) anand shankar, on to his thumbdrive. 03) Satyakam Goswami . . . quite a few other people also copied cds to their laptops, and to some i just gifted the extra copies i had. can't recall everyone's name at this moment. could you all please share your names here if you wish others to contact you for further copies? thanks. all of us happy folks missed kenneth gonsalves. but am sure if anyone contacts him, he would be happy to share cds of ubuntu with everyone, too. he's NRC-FOSS, and a great guy for community-building. :-) niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Any recommendations for OCR?
[snip] > I have tried converting the files to B/W TIFF myself, using Gimp. But > no matter how much I fiddle around with contrast settings, etc., the > black and white images are pathetic. I cannot believe that conversion of > grayscale images to black/white cannot be better than this. > > Any recommendations from others who have already gone through this agony? > How can we improve the input images of OCR programs like tesseract? [snip] hi sandeep, long time! :-) howto improve grayscale images while converting them to black&white: a) using brightness/contrast is a quick and not so efficient method, as you've discovered. b) use the 'levels' command. the histogram that shows up allows you to choose what should be considered black, and what should be considered white. so anything lighter than the 'white' you choose also becomes white, and anything darker than the 'black' you choose also becomes black. the grayscale in the middle allows you to choose what will be neutral grey. don't worry, it's a playful thing, just drag around with your mouse on all the settings in 'levels' and you'll see how it dramatically alters the image. c) 'posterize' is another in-between step. it reduces grayscale of 256 shades, to far less shades, which is the equivalent of enhancing contrast. d) play around with 'curves' which also dramatically alters tonality. think of 'curves' as a graphic equalizer normally used on a stereo system, used for visual images. e) more advanced techniques call for using 'chops' which stand for channel operations, first hacked together by kai krause. oh! i could go on with several dozen more creative hacks for enhancing contrasts! i recall when long ago i used to conduct workshops around 'digital image-editing' i'd spend about 2 hours just explaining all the techniques around this one single topic. it is really quite fascinating! but am sure the above could help you out with your problem. see ya around at one of our LUG or similar meets, buddy. :-) niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] Any recommendations for OCR?
I discovered Tesseract, and found to my delight that a package already exists in Ubuntu Feisty for it. However, this works poorly on color or grayscale. The ImageMagick covert program does a woeful work of converting documents to black and white(not grayscale) before the OCR program works on it. I have tried converting the files to B/W TIFF myself, using Gimp. But no matter how much I fiddle around with contrast settings, etc., the black and white images are pathetic. I cannot believe that conversion of grayscale images to black/white cannot be better than this. Any recommendations from others who have already gone through this agony? How can we improve the input images of OCR programs like tesseract? Thanks, Sandip ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] In the news...
sudev, i just read through the article. great story and interview. congratulations! please do write to DTE, requesting them to publish the article under a verbatim license. would be nice if they agree. :-) niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] In the news...
On 11/06/07, Kishore Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have su.dev in the news. Well, not really the news but at least in > the media: some misquotes / summarising took away some of the stronger feelings that I was trying to convey. -- Regards, Sudev Barar ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university
dear all, the DU url mentioned earlier is up, but no press release or news of 5,000 ubuntu dualboot desktops. search produced no results either. anybody from DU here on the mailing list, who could point us to a press release or announcement. i am keen to slashdot and digg it. :-) niyam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] In the news...
Hi! All, We have su.dev in the news. Well, not really the news but at least in the media: http://www.downtoearth.org.in/interview1.asp?foldername=20070615&filename=news&sec_id=14&sid=29 Down To Earth - covers Sudev Barar on Opensource Software. Cheers...Kishore -- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] [Fwd: [Urgent] Indlinux Society Meeting TODAY at 2 PM]
Hi, Forwarded in case people are interested. Sorry for the short notice, but there will be future discussions on this. Regards, Gora Forwarded Message From: Ramakrishna Reddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org Subject: [Urgent] Indlinux Society Meeting TODAY at 2 PM Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:57:13 +0530 Hi __all__ The Initial discussion on the Indilinux Society in scheduled to take place on #Indlinux on irc.freenode.org. On Monday, 11th June 2006 , 2 PM. (TODAY) Appologies for the short notice. Regards ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
