Re: [Ilugc] Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems

2009-03-01 Thread Raja Subramanian
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Please find my presentation on the "Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems" > presented at fossconf.in 2009 from: > http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presentations/badam.halwa.of.embedded.systems.odp > http://shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/presen

Re: [Ilugc] help:internet not working

2009-03-01 Thread Mano
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[Ilugc] help:internet not working

2009-03-01 Thread aadhil
iam having xp with ubuntu dual boot cable modem connected in lan i coudnt connect internet in ubuntu only local ip is inging default gate way dns is not pinging i have hardware checking in ubuntu it is showing follwing error Testing your connection to the Internet: ERROR:root:Could not find def g

Re: [Ilugc] annauniv-tamilnadu.blogspot.com/2009/01/nrcfoss-are-you-there_30.html

2009-03-01 Thread Thyagarajan தியாகராஜன்
Hi KG, > > >>"I coordinate the NRCFOSS Project in Anna University. I certainly > appreciate the interest and concern shown by the author, and I am sure > So please do contact me.My name is C N Krishnan, and my e-mail is cnkrish > at au-kbc dot > org" > One suggestion,you could also paste the sam

[Ilugc] fossconf-09-negative side

2009-03-01 Thread Raman.P
Dear luggies FossConf-09 is over. Here are somethings I felt bad a.Powerpoint and Windows based slide show from NRCFOSS. b.WiMAX from Bannariamman College. This was on non-free licence. We asked them to stop demoing and only talk about concept. c.Online Insurance from SACS Engg college Madura

[Ilugc] fossconf-09

2009-03-01 Thread Raman.P
Dear luggies, The fossconf-09 at TCE,Madurai, was successfully conducted. Highlights a.Visitors: about 1300 excluding tce students (which may about 500) b.All talks were well received good attendance(good by our standards >10) c. Demo stalls this time have upstaged all the previous demo's we have

[Ilugc] FOSS Project

2009-03-01 Thread Shahrukh Khan
Hi 2 all, I sincerely thank all the Luggies for their kind support for my project and nearly half of the project is completed. Now in my project i have to get the screen co-ordinates/pixel position of image in order to compare newly entered image from the images in database for redunda

[Ilugc] Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems

2009-03-01 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, I would like to thank the organizers, sponsors of fossconf.in 2009, students, faculty, ILUGC members and well-wishers for a wonderful event. It was good to catch up with lot of ILUGC members after a really long time! Please find my presentation on the "Badam Halwa of Embedded Systems" present

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > I am a little confused here. Who is 'we'? And why would any sane person > strive > to achieve 'feature parity' with doze? And what is GNU theory? AFAIK hurd is > still not usable. I personally found linux far easier to use than doze back > in > 1995 - and as for 'fea

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக்கப ் பட்டறை

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 23:33:48 இராமதாசன் wrote: > தமிழ் மரபு அறக்கட்டளையின் சார்பில் மின்பதிப்பாக்கப் பயிற்சி பட்டறை என் > ஆர் சி பாஸ் வளாகத்தில் இன்று நடைபெற்றது. you have been frequently requested to add a brief one liner describing the content in english when posting in Tamil. Why are you no

Re: FOSS Tools for daily use (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 23:33:32 varadarajan narayanan wrote: > Glad that something very constructive came out of the discussions, > > > web meeting /conferencing tools > webex etc > accounting packages > Tally , quickbooks > how to tackle IE only web sites ? I hope you have added this to the wiki

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பத ிப்பாக ்கப் பட்டறை

2009-03-01 Thread இராமதாசன்
On ஞா, 2009-03-01 at 23:40 +0530, Satish Eerpini wrote: > > Is this important , ... if so , ... english translation please ?? Its about Tamil Books Digitalization Workshop held at NRCFOSS today. and start learning Tamil :-) -- ஆமாச்சு ___ To unsubs

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Satish Eerpini
Hello everyone , seems to be another flame in the making anyway just wanted to make it clear that . Microsoft Windows( or it being bad) is not the main reason why "we" use linux( atleast not me, I have never used windows). So microsoft is not our agenda, ... as was said in a mail on t

Re: [Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக்கப் பட் டறை

2009-03-01 Thread Satish Eerpini
Is this important , ... if so , ... english translation please ?? Satish -- http://satish.playdrupal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailm

[Ilugc] என் ஆர் சி பா ஸ் - மின்பதிப்பாக் கப் பட்டறை

2009-03-01 Thread இராமதாசன்
வணக்கம் தமிழ் மரபு அறக்கட்டளையின் சார்பில் மின்பதிப்பாக்கப் பயிற்சி பட்டறை என் ஆர் சி பாஸ் வளாகத்தில் இன்று நடைபெற்றது. காலை பதினொரு மணி தொடங்கி மதியம் ஒன்றலை வரை நடைபெற்ற இந்நிகழ்வில் பல துறைகளைச் சார்ந்தோர் கலந்து கொண்டு புத்தகங்களை மின்பதிப்பாக்கம் செய்யும் முறை கற்றனர். பட்டறையை குநோம் தமிழ

Re: FOSS Tools for daily use (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> > good idea. could you provide a framework page on the nrcfosshelpline wiki > > please? http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ > > Done. http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/e-foss > > It is a first draft and needs improvement --- probably starting with > the title! > > Hi ! Glad that something very con

Re: FOSS Tools for daily use (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 01 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > good idea. could you provide a framework page on the nrcfosshelpline wiki > please? http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ Done. http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/wiki/e-foss It is a first draft and needs improvement --- probably starting with the ti

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Bhargav Prasanna
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Ashok Gautham wrote: > Mr. Kenneth, I would appreciate it if you called it > Microsoft Windows > and not > MicroShaft or Microshit WINDOZE or WINBLOWS > I certainly agree. Even i don't like windows that much. But I think instead of doing such things, we can concen

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 22:39:09 Ashok Gautham wrote: > Mr. Kenneth, I would appreciate it if you called it > Microsoft Windows > and not > MicroShaft or Microshit WINDOZE or WINBLOWS good names - will use them instead of 'windoze' in future > If your dislike for Microsoft actually is so high tha

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 21:32:54 Sujith wrote: > And IMO, we have achieved feature parity with Windows - meaning there is > really no need to cling on to it. So maybe, all that is needed here is a > little education and imparting of some hardcore GNU theory to the 'doze' > users. :) I am a little

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Ashok Gautham
Mr. Kenneth, I would appreciate it if you called it Microsoft Windows and not MicroShaft or Microshit WINDOZE or WINBLOWS I am a F/OSS enthusiast. But I most certainly prefer referring to products by their right name. After all, Micorsoft is not Lord Voldemort (Pardon the old love for Harry Potter

Re: FOSS Tools for daily use (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 21:54:24 Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > However, it would be nice if NRC-FOSS created a "FOSS usability bug > list" which detailed each of these problems (i.e. unavailibility of > FOSS solutions) in the area of e-legal, e-gov and e-commerce. good idea. could you provide a fr

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Ashok Gautham
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > RMS released the booklet describing the all the wonderful 'foss' projects > of > the government of Kerala. The booklet was financed by FSFI. It describes 5 > or 6 > 'foss' projects of govt of kerala - no links to the code. I am sure that i

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 01 Mar 2009, varadarajan narayanan wrote: > I am not very sure. It is not the digital certificate but the site > of ministry of corporate affairs. It is quite likely that to get registered as a level-1 Certifying Authority you need to be a large government or corporate body with so

FOSS Tools for daily use (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On reading the mails from KG and VN: Some kinds of e-legal work: On Sun, 01 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > some of the nrc-foss people wear several hats and need to use windows for > other things they are working on. AU-KBC centre which also runs NRC-FOSS is a > research centre pr

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> > > > I don't understand how digital certificates are dependent on any > perticular O/S. In fact, I would be equally surprised if you told me > that digital certificates can only be managed on Linux or Solaris. > > Could you please explain this statement? > > Hi ! I am not very sure. It is not

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > This would have been a valid point in GNU's nascent days. > > Now that we have a complete and functional free desktop environment, > > the point is moot. > > you mean that code released under the GPL but developed on windoze is not > FOSS? Or apps developed *for* wind

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 01 Mar 2009, varadarajan narayanan wrote: > In India digital certificate and company ^^^ > formation etc are still depending on windows and IE ! This is mainly > because of individuals resisting change since they do not want to learn > something new or lo

[Ilugc] annauniv-tamilnadu.blogspot.com/2009/01/nrcfoss-are-you-there_30.html

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, I have been requested by Prof C N Krishnan to post the following reply to the post mentioned in the subject: "I coordinate the NRCFOSS Project in Anna University. I certainly appreciate the interest and concern shown by the author, and I am sure that lots more can be (should be ) done by us

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 21:01:49 Arun SAG wrote: > aaah..good explanation !!! great!!! please refrain from top posting -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe " in the subject

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Arun SAG
See first thing is its done with microsoft word not even open office... The format is in "ppt" well i know we can save as ppt in open office but i wonder (why?). If you have looked at the foss conference website..They allowed to upload only those open document formats...I wonder how this thing got

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 15:06:47 Sujith wrote: > Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > (or Mac). It is not the tools that are important, what is important is > > that the code is free - a good example is the potlatch editor for > > Openstreetmap, > > This would have been a valid point in GNU's nascent days.

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Arun SAG
aaah..good explanation !!! great!!! On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Sujith wrote: > varadarajan narayanan wrote: > > As an individual I was able to migrate to Linux slowly .Even then it > took > > me about an year to be completely independent of proprietary software . > It > > was my own initia

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread varadarajan narayanan
> > > > Fair enough. But it still seems a tad funny to include 'FOSS' as part of > the > organization's name and use a non-free OS internally. :) > Hi ! I agree . At least when posting to a Linux forum ! Cheers varadarajan www.cloudversity.com ___

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
varadarajan narayanan wrote: > As an individual I was able to migrate to Linux slowly .Even then it took > me about an year to be completely independent of proprietary software . It > was my own initiative.It was not easy though I am very happy I was able to > do now. > > But when it come to work

[Ilugc] Re-[OT]FOSS Workshop for Ngo's and similar non profit groups- March 24-28,2009 ,Madhya Pradesh

2009-03-01 Thread rajeev nair
Hi all. Mahiti is pleased to announce its 7th FOSS workshop for Ngo's and similar social organizations from March 24-28,2009 Madhya Pradesh , India.This workshop is geared toward the tech professionals who work in Ngo's and consultants who provide tech support to these organizations,so that th

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread varadarajan narayanan
mple is the potlatch editor for Openstreetmap, > > This would have been a valid point in GNU's nascent days. > Now that we have a complete and functional free desktop environment, > the point is moot. > > Hi ! I think the point is as an organization , we have to focus on productivity also. As an

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Sujith
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > (or Mac). It is not the tools that are important, what is important is that > the code is free - a good example is the potlatch editor for Openstreetmap, This would have been a valid point in GNU's nascent days. Now that we have a complete and functional free desktop e

Re: Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 13:42:13 Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > > As far as AU-KBC is concerned all the servers are linux - a lot of the > > desktops are also linux, but the majority of them are windows. AFAIK it > > is left to the individual to choose his/her OS. There are even some MSDOS > > machi

Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide

2009-03-01 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 01 March 2009 13:26:37 Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: > On Sun, 01 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > > Compare that to the 'foss' software developed by the Kerala > > government and endorsed by the fsf - uses linux and lamp stack, but > > the code is proprietary. > > You claim that the FS

Mixed environments (Was Re: [Ilugc] fossconf'09 talk slide)

2009-03-01 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Sun, 01 Mar 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > some use windows - although usually with openoffice and thunderbird. > There is no fatwa in this regard. In principle, this is a sensible point of view. > As far as AU-KBC is concerned all the servers are linux - a lot of the > desktops are