Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 6/26/07, Surjo Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you happen to visit any middle class home who have a PC for > their entertainment purpose, invariably you will find it loaded with Windows > in at least 95% of the cases. Original, authentic, licensed? If they really knew the amount they

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread Nishant Sharma
--- Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but alas, i don't know of a single personal or > stereo or other oggplayer > hardware available in india. MPIO (www.mpio.com) players support OGG format. They are imported by a Lucknow based company called Nabroco (www.nabroco.com). I have one MPIO

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Rahul Upakare
On 6/26/07, Surjo Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never recommended that we all shift to Vista. It is a matter of choice of > every individual user. I am using Vista at home because my wife is familiar > only with Windows. I didn't try to "convert" her to Linux as she has never > heard of it.

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 6/25/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > anybody knows any ogg player here? > LG launched a competition against IPOD which was capable of playing ogg files, named mfjm53 (not very sure), google for it > niyam > ___ -- Linux User #34

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Surjo Das
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Parthan S R > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 8:42 AM > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux > > I won't accept that people think GNU/L

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Parthan S R
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Surjo Das wrote: > It is a matter of choice of > every individual user. Agreed! :) > I am using Vista at home because my wife is familiar > only with Windows. I didn't try to "convert" her to Linux as she has never > heard of it. She heard it for th

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Surjo Das
> -Original Message- > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Kenneth Gonsalves > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 9:01 PM > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux > > so you recommend we all shift to vista? I never recommende

[ilugd] Description of Hindi phonetic rules for aspell

2007-06-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, I have finally found the time to write up various aspects of work on improving the performance for aspell for Hindi, the idea being that this would serve as a basis for doing the same in other Indian languages. Here are pointers to some such links: 1.

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread PJ
Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but alas, i don't know of a single personal or stereo or other oggplayer > hardware available in india. I did some shopping in Nehru Place recently. Some of the creative muvos have vorbis. There are a couple of others. But yeah, most players don't suppor

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread mehul
On 6/25/07, Lokesh Bhog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On the basis of these numbers, Jones concluded that Vista was more secure than its open-source counterpart. > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070622/bs_nf/53263 Besides the point made by Shakti Kannan, how many applications does Vista have and h

Re: [ilugd] conflict between ndiswrapper and Nvidia GL drivers

2007-06-25 Thread Shiv
ndiswrapper -l says that driver is present and device is working. knetworkmanager is unable to connect. If someone has faced and overcome this problem. Please give pointers. Hi, What wireless card does your laptop have? IMHO, you shouldnt be requiring to use ndiswrapper if it is Atheros, Intel

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread Shiv
> anybody knows any ogg player here? > > niyam Hi, I wonder whether this would qualify as a hardware player --> www.geexbox.org Depends on where you run it, i guess! Shiv - Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. ___

Re: [ilugd] Extension of deadline for Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme

2007-06-25 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 17:11 +0530, Linux Lingam wrote: > gora, please be frank with me,. what's the problem? > people are not resopnding, or you are getting junk or poor proposals, or > both. Um, no. If we were getting poor proposals, we just would not give out that many fellowships. Like I said,

Re: [ilugd] Listing pages in directory as links

2007-06-25 Thread Ravi Kumar
Javascripts are client side, and you can't read dir at server from client side. You need server side scripting/cgi-programming. Lets look at php solution. You can use two php functions: $fileHandler = open_dir("directory_path/absolute/or/relative") and read_dir($fileHandler) and save those in the

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Kenneth Gonsalves
On 25-Jun-07, at 8:56 PM, Surjo Das wrote: > So what can we conclude from this report ? I have been using > Windows Vista > Ultimate for the last 4 months and I send my mails from Outlook. I > have > never faced any issues. I do agree that Linux is an excellent OS > but it > holds good o

Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Surjo Das
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Lokesh Bhog > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 5:44 PM > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list > Subject: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux > > http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20070622/bs_nf

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread Yadu Rajiv
find a whole lot of software that uses libvorbis or similar technology.. - http://www.vorbis.com/software/ On 25/06/07, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ogg rocks! > > been waiting and watching since quite a few years, > but alas, i don't know of a single personal or stereo or other ogg

Re: [ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread Linux Lingam
ogg rocks! been waiting and watching since quite a few years, but alas, i don't know of a single personal or stereo or other oggplayer hardware available in india. surprisingly though, the new breed of dvd-players support divx and that's very cool. but no ogg. anybody knows any ogg player here?

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2007-06-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
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Re: [ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 6/25/07, Lokesh Bhog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During Windows Vista's first six months on the market, Microsoft released > four security > updates to address 12 total vulnerabilities ... out of how many undisclosed vulnerabilities? SK -- Shakthi Kannan http://www.shakthimaan.com __

[ilugd] Microsoft Claims Vista Is More Secure Than Linux

2007-06-25 Thread Lokesh Bhog
During Windows Vista's first six months on the market, Microsoft released four security updates to address 12 total vulnerabilities. In the National Vulnerability Database, the National Institute of Standards (NIST) rated 10 0f these issues as "high" severity, one as "medium," and one as "low."

Re: [ilugd] Extension of deadline for Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme

2007-06-25 Thread Linux Lingam
gora, please be frank with me,. what's the problem? people are not resopnding, or you are getting junk or poor proposals, or both. maybe i could help, but don't promise n ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailma

[ilugd] The Perfect Replacement For MP3 (Stanley Thomas' blog)

2007-06-25 Thread Frederick Noronha [फर ॆडरीक नोर ोनया]
Feedback, praise, brickbats to: Stanley Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, -- Forwarded message -- http://perfector.wordpress.com/ The Perfect Replacement For MP3 Digital music is probably the only kind of music everybody is listening to these days. The reason being that its smaller in

[ilugd] Extension of deadline for Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme

2007-06-25 Thread gora
Hello all, This is to inform you that due to some internal issues with our mail server, we are extending the deadline for submissions to the RGF-Sarai FLOSS fellowship programme. Your proposal should reach us latest by midnight IST, Sun., 1st July. Also, if you sent in a reply within the last few