Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Manish
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Naresh Narang wrote: [snip] > > This is great effort and will help community at large > but I think this OT discussion has gone too far for > this list and Linux's survival is not dependent on MS > bashing. Just a quick clarifications. I do not think I have engag

Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Praveen A
2008/5/18 Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't agree -- getting your money back for software you didn't ask for > and whose licence terms you don't agree is on-topic for this list IMO. > ILUGD is as much about advocacy as it is about technology. "A French user asked for a refund after buying

Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Manish
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: [snip] > > Oh, are you saying that the application/web site has been designed and > implemented by these Foundation dudes? If that is the case I'm > thoroughly disappointed -- I'd have thought that the luminaries behind > the Foundation (on the ab

Re: [ilugd] frontline on rms with a cc license

2008-05-18 Thread Atanu Datta
On Saturday 17 May 2008 4:21:58 pm Linux Lingam wrote: > dear all, > > vivek khurana pointed this article out, on another mailing list, so am > posting here. > frontline magazine, with photos of rms, page, and foss.in. > more impressively, published under a cc license. > > > http://www.frontlineonn

Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 19 May 2008, Manish wrote: > [snip] > I think a better place/people to address this one would be the > fountainhead behind this site--eGovernments Foundation, based in > Bangalore, founded by Nandan Nilekani. And solving the problem here > should help dozens of such sites run for various

Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Manish
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > Sent a mail to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi > yesterday, whose web site > (http://www.mcdpropertytax.in/staff/index.jsp) > requires you to use IE to file property tax. > Let's see what (if anything) happens. I think a better place/people

Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Raj Mathur
On Monday 19 May 2008, Naresh Narang wrote: > --- Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just hope Indian government and law is not part of > > this ecosystem. > > And I also hope the law has enough teeth to ensure > > that consumers are > > protected against such unfair practices. > > This is gre

Re: [ilugd] Looking for some webcam application in GNU/Linux

2008-05-18 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Anand Shankar writes: Anand> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Ashish Shukla wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Hi,

Re: [ilugd] [OT] M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Naresh Narang
--- Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just hope Indian government and law is not part of > this ecosystem. > And I also hope the law has enough teeth to ensure > that consumers are > protected against such unfair practices. > This is great effort and will help community at large but I think

Re: [ilugd] Can we organize such an event?

2008-05-18 Thread Gora Mohanty
On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:16:24 +0530 "Angad Singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We've done 2 such events in the past at JIIT University: [...] > http://blogs.sun.com/krabhishek/entry/and_that_s_how_gloss (this is just > one) > > We would love to collaborate with ILUG-D or nearby colleg

Re: [ilugd] [TroubleShooting]Unable to visit any website, can ping the network.

2008-05-18 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Rohit Kumar writes: Rohit> Sunil Ghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Hi Rohit, >> >> You might be having DNS problem. Make sure your DNS servers are properly >> configured. >> What does firefox show when you enter any add

Re: [ilugd] [TroubleShooting]Unable to visit any website, can ping the network.

2008-05-18 Thread Jasbir Khehra
On 5/19/08, Rohit Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sunil Ghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Hi Rohit, > > > > You might be having DNS problem. Make sure your DNS servers are properly > > configured. > > What does firefox show when you enter any address? Does it keep on showing > >

Re: [ilugd] [TroubleShooting]Unable to visit any websit e, can ping the network.

2008-05-18 Thread Rohit Kumar
Sunil Ghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi Rohit, > > You might be having DNS problem. Make sure your DNS servers are properly > configured. > What does firefox show when you enter any address? Does it keep on showing > "Looking up.."? or what error ultimately comes? > Hi Sunil, I checked o

Re: [ilugd] [TroubleShooting]Unable to visit any website, can ping the network.

2008-05-18 Thread Sunil Ghai
Hi Rohit, You might be having DNS problem. Make sure your DNS servers are properly configured. What does firefox show when you enter any address? Does it keep on showing "Looking up.."? or what error ultimately comes? On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Rohit Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gre

[ilugd] [TroubleShooting]Unable to visit any website, can ping the network.

2008-05-18 Thread Rohit Kumar
Greetings there, I am running mandriva 2008. Last week, my routers wired LAN lights went out, I thought, its days are numbered. But today, its wired LAN lights came back on(can't still figure out how?) automagically! I can ping other systems on my home network and my ISP gateway. I can ping the

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Praveen A
2008/5/18 Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For starters, can we track this issue on the twiki? If we need to take > things to the next level, we have to gather enough law cases and other > relevant facts. In general, I think, the "these laws exist in USA" line > doesn't > impress judges

Re: [ilugd] Looking for some webcam application in GNU/Linux

2008-05-18 Thread Anand Shankar
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Ashish Shukla wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm running GNOME 2.20 on Gentoo Linux and I'm looking for a webcam >> application in GNU/Linux, which can d

Re: [ilugd] peercast

2008-05-18 Thread Angad Singh
How about a P2P download manager ? A distributed download manager which download files in chunks on nodes in a corporate / college LAN where bandwidth is restricted on a per node basis ;) On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:51 PM, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash

Re: [ilugd] Can we organize such an event?

2008-05-18 Thread Angad Singh
Hi All, We've done 2 such events in the past at JIIT University: Virtual InstallFest- One was a unique event in which we did an install fest right inside hostel using VNC, phpFreeChat and VirtualBox! :) Solaris/Linux InstallFest<

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Sudev Barar
2008/5/18 Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > For starters, can we track this issue on the twiki? If we need to take > things to the next level, we have to gather enough law cases and other > relevant facts. In general, I think, the "these laws exist in USA" line > doesn't > impress judges

Re: [ilugd] what does this message means??

2008-05-18 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 18 May 2008, narendra sisodiya wrote: > > hi,, when ever i am sending some message to one mailing list > > somebody is generating some false message like this-- > > --- > > > > To

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
+++ Manish [18/05/08 14:10 +0530]: > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Praveen A wrote: > > Looks like I have to keep forwarding :-( Interesting observation from > ilugc. > >Thank you. Is there anything that I can do to help? > For starters, can we track this issue on the twiki? If we need to

Re: [ilugd] Fwd: [Ilugc] Fwd: M$ Tax Refund Quest

2008-05-18 Thread Manish
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Praveen A wrote: > Looks like I have to keep forwarding :-( Interesting observation from ilugc. Thank you. Is there anything that I can do to help? > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/