Hey what about UID? More than a billion unique identities!! How much money can be saved if FOSS products are used for this ( add security as a bonus)!!
I am planning for an RTI then, but first I will check if it's not already there. And yes, please don't make this an anti-anything or hate forum. Better refrain from getting into a discussion relating to the stuff you hate. Cheers!! On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:05 PM, ranjan das gupta <ranjan.n...@gmail.com>wrote: > people i understand none of us on this forum like windows obviously but let > us not make it an ant--windows session. i smell so much of hatred here.We > have to keep our attitude right.We love linux that is the bottomline > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Ramnarayan.K <ramnaraya...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan >> <ashutoshrish...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > And also the CAT examinations last year which were completely ruined >> because >> > of a Widows virus. And I don't know if this is entirely true, but I >> heard >> > from a good programmer that the virus was more prone to unauthorized >> cracked >> > versions of Windows. Kudos to commercial software. >> > >> and this is supposed to me a multi million dollar contract to conduct >> online elections, am sure any LUG could have pulled it off with less >> hassle. >> >> And wonder if the "widows" is intentional - that sounds like a tag >> line - "M$ Widows use it and die" die a cruel painful death ;-) >> >> >> >> 2. German government warns against using MS Explorer >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8463516.stm >> >> snippet "Microsoft rejected the warning, saying that the risk to users >> >> was low and that the browsers' increased security setting would >> >> prevent any serious risk.However, German authorities say that even >> >> this would not make IE fully safe. " >> >> >> > >> > They also said that moving to another browser like Firefox will make you >> > more vulnerable and MS IE is still the most secure browser. '"Its just >> one >> > flaw"". >> >> Ok to clarify - are you reading this link from india because some time >> back i had a flame war with some reading the same link from two >> different countries and the contents were slightly different. >> >> No where in the article do they say that using another browser like FF >> will make them more vulnerable. what they did exactly say was >> Start Quote >> "One thing that should be stressed is that every browser has its >> security issues, so switching may remove this current risk but could >> expose you to another." >> end quote >> >> and one must remember that the flaws are a combination of browser and >> OS - yeah linx has its flaws but not with the same regularity and >> implications as on m$ widows >> >> ram >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >> > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Amarendra Kumar Final Year Undergraduate Dept. of IT, NIT Patna http://amarendra.web.officelive.com
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