[ilugd] ILUGD planet down?

2007-06-12 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Roshan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --- "Mahesh T. Pai" wrote: >> Once at an IT exhibition, I chanced upon the vacant >> stall of the local >> linux User Group. Few stalls away, I chanced upon >> a crowd gathered >> around few machines/laptops. The machines with >> the biggest crowd >>

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-12 Thread Linux Lingam
On 6/12/07, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 12-Jun-07, at 6:36 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > > > any authored work must either state its copyright ownership with year, > > or must be dedicated to the pubilc domain. > > not so. Copyright arises from the fact of publication. And unles

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 12-Jun-07, at 8:48 PM, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: >> well i think this time is a bit better that its a full desktop >> (unlike >> the text mode farces done by the likes of Acer etc..) > > Once at an IT exhibition, I chanced upon the vacant stall of the local > linux User Group. Few stalls away,

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-12 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 12-Jun-07, at 6:36 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: > any authored work must either state its copyright ownership with year, > or must be dedicated to the pubilc domain. not so. Copyright arises from the fact of publication. And unless the author states so, all rights are reserved. If he wants to li

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Roshan
--- "Mahesh T. Pai" wrote: > "G Karunakar" writes: > Once at an IT exhibition, I chanced upon the vacant > stall of the local > linux User Group. Few stalls away, I chanced upon > a crowd gathered > around few machines/laptops. The machines with > the biggest crowd > around them were run

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
"G Karunakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > well i think this time is a bit better that its a full desktop (unlike > the text mode farces done by the likes of Acer etc..) Once at an IT exhibition, I chanced upon the vacant stall of the local linux User Group. Few stalls away, I chanced upon a

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread G Karunakar
On 6/12/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > > > on another note, just heard about HCL also selling laptop with Linux > > (Ubuntu) loaded.. > > thankfully with the earlier farce of linux laptops not repeating! > > > > Karunakar > > > > actually there's a whole bunch of vendors

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] > > on another note, just heard about HCL also selling laptop with Linux > (Ubuntu) loaded.. > thankfully with the earlier farce of linux laptops not repeating! > > Karunakar > actually there's a whole bunch of vendors in india who officially sell linux-based hardware. the problem is once

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-12 Thread Linux Lingam
thanks shams for the quick response. as a fellow author, here's what i've learnt the hard way, so am just sharing: any authored work must either state its copyright ownership with year, or must be dedicated to the pubilc domain. you can't just leave it fuzzy in today's bankrupt world. ;-) if you

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Sameer N Ingole
G Karunakar wrote: > On 6/11/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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

Re: [ilugd] eben moglen on tv

2007-06-12 Thread Karanbir Singh
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: > 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? afaik, this isnt possible using straight broadcast material. Some content companies and establishments will ma

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
Except that HCL laptops are rather badly engineered. We have two, and from very early on, every screw seems to be loose and their switches keep coming off. So, do watch out. Vikas On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:17:58PM +0530, G Karunakar wrote: > On 6/11/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [ilugd] 5,000 ubuntu desktops at delhi university

2007-06-12 Thread G Karunakar
On 6/11/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 annou

Re: [ilugd] In the news...

2007-06-12 Thread Shams Kazi
Feel free to post the article, but please mention : - The interviewer - A link back to the original article. http://www.downtoearth.org.in/interview1.asp?foldername=20070615&filename=news&sec_id=14&sid=29 and - Send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Shams Kazi Coordinator, Website Unit Ce

Re: [ilugd] gpl3 talk + ubuntu = bliss

2007-06-12 Thread Vikas Rawal
I have Ubuntu 7.04 and Kubuntu 7.04 CDs (i386 versions), if anybody wants to copy. Vikas On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:12:41PM +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