Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Praveen A wrote: 2008/5/13 Raj Mathur : On a side note, if this becomes common I wonder what changes MS is going to make in their licence? :) Will they remove the ``if you do not agree'' section altogether? Or are they required by law to keep it

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: On 14-May-08, at 2:37 AM, Linux Lingam wrote: hence the helpful 'decline' or 'do not accept' button or equivalent, provided by the user-friendly microsoft. this is no longer provided - accept or switch off I wish would just

Re: [ilugd] HELP for beginners

2008-05-14 Thread aashish khanna
thanks kenneth.. i talked to prof gaur.the college is working on up gradation of present infrastructure. On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14-May-08, at 8:12 AM, aashish khanna wrote: also ,i just checked the NRC FOSS website...i can't find any

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: On Wednesday 14 May 2008, Manish wrote: [snip] It's not Microsoft who is supposed to refund but the reseller (as I understand from the license.) Besides the license asks to contact the manufacturer or installer, if you do not agree

[ilugd] up nic registration forms

2008-05-14 Thread PJ
I'm having trouble viewing the pdf documents on http://registryoffice.up.nic.in/ (other than the marriage registration document). Eg: click on the 'certified copy link. The pdf doc that comes up renders as gobbledygook. I'd like to contact them, but the contact, instead of being plain html is

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Tanveer Singh
IANAL, TINLA. Ack. -- Manish IANAL, but from whatever I have seen from the Europe case, and MRTPCs notices served to companies, you do not have a case in consumer court at all. A vendor has the right to sell bundled stuff. For example Big Bazaar can sell rice bundled with washing

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Manish wrote: [snip] Yes, I was aware that it had Windows pre-installed. The advertisements did not say that I will have to agree to a separate (restrictive) license nor did it list the terms of the license anywhere I could read before I made the purchase

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Tanveer Singh
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Meanwhile try to get a story posted on slashdot. in the days of sincere and professional journalism, newspapers and magazines would get their journalists to get on the phone, and/or chase down legal experts,

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] Meanwhile try to get a story posted on slashdot. in the days of sincere and professional journalism, newspapers and magazines would get their journalists to get on the phone, and/or chase down legal experts, and industry experts, to get a multi-dimensional, unbiased, investigative

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: [snip] Meanwhile try to get a story posted on slashdot. in the days of sincere and professional journalism, newspapers and magazines would get their journalists to get on the phone, and/or chase down legal experts, and industry

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Tanveer Singh wrote: [snip] Its the official policy of most major newpapers/magazines not to post anything against advertisers. So unless there is a major court case and convictions etc., the story will not be published. Sorry for questioning your

Re: [ilugd] up nic registration forms

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 1:29 PM, PJ wrote: I'm having trouble viewing the pdf documents on http://registryoffice.up.nic.in/ (other than the marriage registration document). Eg: click on the 'certified copy link. The pdf doc that comes up renders as gobbledygook. I'd like to contact

Re: [ilugd] up nic registration forms

2008-05-14 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 14 May 2008, PJ wrote: I'm having trouble viewing the pdf documents on http://registryoffice.up.nic.in/ (other than the marriage registration document). Eg: click on the 'certified copy link. The pdf doc that comes up renders as gobbledygook. I could be wrong, but my guess is

Re: [ilugd] up nic registration forms

2008-05-14 Thread Manish
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Raj seems to have moved on in life. :-P That was quite some time ago.. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi/13673/match=automatically+grab+sender+addresses+kmail And the move produced kbbdb:

Re: [ilugd] up nic registration forms

2008-05-14 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Manish [14/05/08 20:17 +0530]: On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Raj seems to have moved on in life. :-P That was quite some time ago..

Re: [ilugd] ilugd Digest, Vol 62, Issue 25

2008-05-14 Thread Kamal Dave
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[ilugd] need help regarding web hosting

2008-05-14 Thread Vinay Yadav
Hello everyone I m about to launch my own site But i m very much newbie for web hosting and domain name registration In starting i m expecting traffic from india but aftr that site will go international ... so logically i shall buy web space from india .But i m very

[ilugd] Workshops at local colleges

2008-05-14 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, The Computer Society of India (CSI), Ghaziabad Chapter, is interested in organising lectures, and workshops aimed largely at students in local colleges. The first such event is planned to be a one-day workshop on the 7th of June, at the Indraprastha Engineering College in Ghaziabad. More

Re: [ilugd] need help regarding web hosting

2008-05-14 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/5/14 Vinay Yadav [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello everyone I m about to launch my own site But i m very much newbie for web hosting and domain name registration In starting i m expecting traffic from india but aftr that site will go international ... so logically i shall

Re: [ilugd] Workshops at local colleges

2008-05-14 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/5/15 Gora Mohanty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Computer Society of India (CSI), Ghaziabad Chapter, is interested in organising lectures, and workshops aimed largely at students in local colleges. The first such event is planned to be a one-day workshop on the 7th of June, at the Indraprastha

[ilugd] anyone having fedora - 9 DVD downloaded

2008-05-14 Thread Rakesh Pandit
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Has anyone downloaded fedora 9 DVD (living in Delhi or Ghaziabadh) and is willing to share? I have a week connection and it may take 6 days to complete download. If anyone around has already downloaded or is downloading and can

Re: [ilugd] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-14 Thread Praveen A
2008/5/13 Manish [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Windows Vista EULA does not have an option like this. Which Vista EULA does not? Because Vista Business does. Please see my earlier email for verbatim quote. That is what I read somewhere, Microsoft has fixed this loop hole in Vista. Now that you have