Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
>From a purely techno-managerial point of view, using an online accounting package running on a remote server is a major PIA. If the CA the only one working with the accounting package, it makes more sense running the app on a machine at his place of work. If only a few and select number of peo

Re: [ilugd] 17" plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-23 Thread Raj Mathur
> "ams" == Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ams> At 2005-10-18 00:54:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Thanks, but that's a CRT monitor, and I already bought a >> LCD/TFT :) ams> What did you get, where, and for how much? ams> My SyncMaster 172s died last

Re: [ilugd] 19" plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-20 20:27:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The price for the Samsung and LG 19" LCD's in Nehru Place is Rs. > 25,500. Got any specific vendors in mind? The couple of people I called up don't seem to have any 19" LCDs in stock at all. -- ams ___

[ilugd] Firefox users-- flock now

2005-10-23 Thread ranjan
Hi, Check out the new buzz in browsers... cool one and a firefox port http://www.flock.com/ Ranjan Simon - Original Message - From: "Raj Mathur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 7:30 AM Subject: [ilugd] (fwd) [SECURITY] KOffice/KWord RTF import buffer o

Re: [ilugd] 17" plasma/lcd monitor recommendations

2005-10-23 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2005-10-18 00:54:42 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thanks, but that's a CRT monitor, and I already bought a LCD/TFT :) What did you get, where, and for how much? My SyncMaster 172s died last night, and although a Samsung engineer is supposed to be visit later today, I might just decide to

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 23 Oct 2005 7:30 pm, vivek khurana wrote: >  I think accounts of ilugd have more than required > level of transparency. Any one can walk in and check > the account any time they want. We have published our > balance sheet from time to time. Our accounts are > transparent as much mandated

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Sudev Barar
On 10/23/05, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > "Taj" == Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [SNIPPED] 1. In any society the governing council is the one which maintains and does day to day accouting. 2. Only at the time of

[ilugd] Survival Tactics For Women In FOSS, part 1

2005-10-23 Thread Raj Shekhar
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/45774/index.html Generally very good advice t\for newbies to the FOSS community. My choice quote " The first things to get used to are the bigmouths. Every online community has its share of obnoxious loudmouths. These are the parasites that spend an inordinate

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Taj" == Sirtaj Singh Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Taj> On Sunday 23 October 2005 19:30, vivek khurana wrote: [snip] Taj> Firstly I think this email is unnecessarily aggressive, Taj> though I'll assume that it wasn't meant to be

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Sirtaj Singh Kang
On Sunday 23 October 2005 19:30, vivek khurana wrote: [snip] Firstly I think this email is unnecessarily aggressive, though I'll assume that it wasn't meant to be so. > Why avsap then? If we have to make accounting web > based (which i think is useless) we should consider all the available > opti

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread vivek khurana
--- Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > i wish to suggest that the ilugd accounts be > maintained on the web. Why? > Because it is the ultimate in transparency. By doing > this, ilugd will > demonstrate to the world that opensource is secure > enough and mature > enough to us

[ilugd] Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll

2005-10-23 Thread Frederick Noronha (FN)
Battleground of ideas: FLOSS debate raises tempers at BytesForAll APC member BytesForAll's mailing list[1] recently played host to a strong, and at times polemical, debate on proprietary-versus-FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software). In this debate, there were these couple of great posts here

Re: [ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On Sunday 23 Oct 2005 1:58 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > hi, > i wish to suggest that the ilugd accounts be maintained on the web. > Why? Because it is the ultimate in transparency. By doing this, ilugd > will demonstrate to the world that opensource is secure enough and > mature enough to use the

[ilugd] lug accounts

2005-10-23 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
hi, i wish to suggest that the ilugd accounts be maintained on the web. Why? Because it is the ultimate in transparency. By doing this, ilugd will demonstrate to the world that opensource is secure enough and mature enough to use the web for even sensitive financial transactions. (also, i get f