Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread ashik salahudeen
Of bcourse no top posting when possible. You of all people should know why i did it :). Since i dont have broadband and am unable to do anything coz am in sick bed, i am emailing from my phone and thats the reason for top posting. The gmail app doesnt allow me to remove the text. I do not

Re: [fsug-tvm] Fwd: [smc-discuss] ടക്സ് പെയിന്റിന് മലയാളം മെന ു

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
Hi everybody,Irimpanam School is already applauded for its involvement in progressive efforts.I remember the mails to ilug-tvm. I wont be able to be in this specific activity scheduled on 5-8 at the moment. Part of the activity - Flora of Kerala, coincides with my work. Will be in touch with

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 12:13 PM, ashik salahudeen aash...@gmail.comwrote: Of bcourse no top posting when possible. You of all people should know why i did it :). Since i dont have broadband and am unable to do anything coz am in sick bed, i am emailing from my phone and thats the reason for

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Rajiv Nair
@nishandh For a person who complains quite a bit about un-user friendliness of error messages and stuff, your mails are pretty hard to decipher. I'm referring to lines like - It didn't negate that it was the rule from the days of billboard - would take into consideration some extra automatic

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
Why differential emphasis of text? : (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts): When we make a post considering an extended range of readers,(from the busy contributors to --especially-- the newbie user) , we may have to expand a lot. A

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Rajiv Nair rajivnair...@gmail.com wrote: @nishandh For a person who complains quite a bit about un-user friendliness of error messages and stuff, your mails are pretty hard to decipher. I'm referring to lines like - It didn't negate that it was the rule

[fsug-tvm] Re: A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread prakreet
u suggested that we should accumulate money n buy patents.. a very good thinking from my point of view.. heated debates r going on regarding this.. stallman is against anything concerning patents. he doesn't want anything patented to go into linux. he had even called to boycott llinux vendors

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, prakreet vipinmatth...@gmail.com wrote: u suggested that we should accumulate money n buy patents.. a very good thinking from my point of view.. heated debates r going on regarding this.. stallman is against anything concerning patents. he doesn't want

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread Rajeev J Sebastian
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Why differential emphasis of text? :  (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts): When we make a post considering an extended range of readers,(from the busy

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread Srihari k
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Why differential emphasis of text? :  (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts): When we make a post considering an extended range of readers,(from the busy

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Mahesh Mohan
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, prakreet vipinmatth...@gmail.com wrote: Now i hav one question.. M$ is patenting everything they invent.. then they use these patents against linux.. then why can't we do it against them.. if we patent everything we invent then by 1-2 yrs we would have a good

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread bipin kumar
forgive me if i am wrong. isn't this discussion thread attempting to reinventing the wheel? the mailing list practices have been in place in last 2 last as far as i know and those rule hold still true in todays environment as well. further standardizing mailing list practices is not the primary

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread bipin kumar
oops sorry i forgot to do a spell check before posting. please read the line the mailing list practices have been in place in last 2 last as far as i know and those rule hold still true in todays environment as well as the mailing list practices have been in place for last 2 decades as

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Srihari k
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:06 AM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hiii, a wish list: Classes of linux users:(simplified, please suggest changes..) Developer: (Commited to developing Linux on long term, has pretty good knowledge in trouble shooting, rectifying errors and development)

[fsug-tvm] Change Permissions in Ubuntu

2010-05-16 Thread alan alan
How to change permissions of a folder to 777? ie, i wanna change all folders and files including the files inside files to 777 -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm group. To

Re: [fsug-tvm] Change Permissions in Ubuntu

2010-05-16 Thread Srihari k
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:53 PM, alan alan alan.alan...@gmail.com wrote: How to change permissions of a folder to 777? ie, i wanna change all folders and files including the files inside files to 777 chmod -R 777 foldername Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread ashik salahudeen
Bipin is right. Just follow what is there at khandalaya.org . I dont think we need anything extra here. On May 16, 2010 8:30 PM, bipin kumar bipin...@gmail.com wrote: oops sorry i forgot to do a spell check before posting. please read the line the mailing list practices have been in place in

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread Srihari k
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 9:09 PM, ashik salahudeen aash...@gmail.com wrote: Bipin is right. Just follow what is there at khandalaya.org . I dont think we need anything extra here. +1 http://kandalaya.org/guidelines.html is enough. It was there long before. -- Srihari -- Freedom is the only

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:41 PM, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 3:06 AM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Hiii, a wish list: Classes of linux users:(simplified, please suggest changes..) Developer: (Commited to developing Linux on long term, has pretty

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
@Rajiv and anybody sharing similiar thoughts: What I am trying to accomplish: To increase user friendliness, as to increase user base. I strongly belive, If any piece of software is to be supported by Hardware vendors, the best way is to increase its market share(user base). And what I am

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Why differential emphasis of text? : (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Why differential emphasis of text? : (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts): When

Re: [fsug-tvm] ubuntu repository dvd's

2010-05-16 Thread Arjun Sr
till now its in my KTorrent. I am getting enough seeds for other entries. On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:20 PM, Prasad SR sayspra...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Arjun Sr arjun1...@gmail.com wrote: I have a BSNL broadband connection. I tried for two days. No progress

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:22 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian rajeev.sebast...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Why differential emphasis of text? : (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread nishandh M
On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:15 PM, nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com wrote: Why differential emphasis of text? : (these are known facts, but needs to be elaborated, owing to the solid NO-RTF/HTML cry in the posts): When

Re: [fsug-tvm] A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Praveen A
2010/5/17 nishandh M pro.n...@gmail.com: GODDAMN windows has its own migratory issues. People really got confused when Vista and Office2007 came. here we are only trying to deal with migratory issues from WIN users. If we have any ethical/personal problem with WIN interface, or we have any

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread Praveen A
2010/5/16 bipin kumar bipin...@gmail.com: forgive me if i am wrong. isn't this discussion thread attempting to reinventing the wheel? the mailing list practices have been in place in last 2 last as far as i know and those rule hold still true in todays environment as well. further

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread Arjun Sr
Come on guys, I think its high time to stop this Windows bashing. FSF doesnt stand to terrorize any companies. Its the freedom of the user to choose it. Live And Let Live ! ! ! All we do is popularize the free software by improving its quality not bashing others. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 3:14 AM,

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread Praveen A
2010/5/16 ashik salahudeen aash...@gmail.com: I dont think we need anything extra here. mod seems to be in mood :) Should we arbitrarily limit this list? I feel much more comfortable with the mood of the other mod. -- പ്രവീണ്‍ അരിമ്പ്രത്തൊടിയില്‍ GPLv2 I know my rights; I want my phone call!

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread ashik salahudeen
Thread is still open for discussion. I was merely expressing my views. As said elsewhere mod hats are on only for a short while and will be explicitly made clear when they are on. The thing is, the purpose here is not clear at all - what exactly is being achieved here ? On May 17, 2010 3:46 AM,

Re: [fsug-tvm] Re: A very rough draft on 'User Friendlines' in FLOSS

2010-05-16 Thread ashik salahudeen
Nishandh there is a place called 'insight' in thiruvananthapuram that caters to blind people and use gnu/linux only. We can look for opinions from them On May 17, 2010 3:42 AM, Arjun Sr arjun1...@gmail.com wrote: Come on guys, I think its high time to stop this Windows bashing. FSF doesnt stand

Re: [fsug-tvm] ubuntu repository dvd's

2010-05-16 Thread Prasad SR
Completed DVD 5 and 6 Downloading DVD 4 -- -- Regards, Prasad.S.R Learning Windows is like learning to eat every meal at McDonalds -- Freedom is the only law. Freedom Unplugged http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ilug-tvm

Re: mailing list best practices, again (sigh!) (Re: [fsug-tvm] Linux haters blog)

2010-05-16 Thread bipin kumar
i am just asking what this thread is attempting to accomplish? to establish mailing list rules when there good set of rules already existing in place? what's the point in that? On May 17, 3:12 am, Praveen A prav...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/5/16 bipin kumar bipin...@gmail.com: forgive me if i am