From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 1 14:26:52 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:56:52 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller Message-ID: <011501c0eaa8$12bc27a0$a6e8013d@compaq> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 = microcontrollers in missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt = find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. regards nitin _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i = cudnt find=20 any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea.
 
    regards nitin
____________________________________________________________________= __________
 
 " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. =
  =20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man "
 
 * Nitin Skandan
 * Second year
 * M tech = Control=20 systems
 * College of engineering
 * = Trivandrum
 *=20 Kerala 691021
 
 * Ph no: 91-474=20 740259           &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;            = ;            =       =20
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------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 1 17:26:59 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Anil Kumar) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller In-Reply-To: <011501c0eaa8$12bc27a0$a6e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: did you try VSSC library? On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nitin S wrote: > I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 microcontrollers in > missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. > > regards nitin > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " > > * Nitin Skandan > * Second year > * M tech Control systems > * College of engineering > * Trivandrum > * Kerala 691021 > > * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > > -- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sat Jun 2 18:15:43 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:45:43 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller References: Message-ID: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> tryingg but it would have been nice if theres somebody working in that area ----- Original Message ----- From: Anil Kumar To: Cc: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [FSF-India] microcontroller > > did you try VSSC library? > > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nitin S wrote: > > > I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 microcontrollers in > > missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. > > > > regards nitin > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > > > " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " > > > > * Nitin Skandan > > * Second year > > * M tech Control systems > > * College of engineering > > * Trivandrum > > * Kerala 691021 > > > > * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 3 11:32:05 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Satyakam Goswami) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:02:05 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS itenary In-Reply-To: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> References: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> Message-ID: <1364.192.168.0.1.991567925.squirrel@mail.archeanit.net> Hello, What is the iteinary of Mr Stallman, can anyone brief us on that. especially where all he will be visiting apart from Kerala. S.Goswami ---------------------------- Archean Infotech Victory Vihar,Himayatnagar Hyderabad 500029,www.archeanit.com Ph:3228666,6570704,3228674 Mobile:9849016667 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 4 07:36:27 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:06:27 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS itenary In-Reply-To: <1364.192.168.0.1.991567925.squirrel@mail.archeanit.net> Message-ID: On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 at 17:02, Satyakam Goswami wrote: What is the iteinary of Mr Stallman, can anyone brief us on that. especially where all he will be visiting apart from Kerala. 17 July 2001 -- Bombay -- arrival 17 July 2001 -- talk at the Homi Babha Hall (TIFR) 18 July 2001 -- Trivandrum -- arrival 20 July 2001 -- Inauguration of FSF India 21 July 2001 -- talks to the students (foornoon) College of Engineering, Trivandrum session with Technopark community (afternoon) 24 July 2001 -- talk at the Model Engineering College, Kochi 24 July 2001 -- departure to Baroda (we dont have any idea of (evening) RMS' Baroda program) 3/4 Aug 2001 -- talk at the IIT, Delhi 4/5 Aug 2001 -- Fly out of India -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 4 08:04:23 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:34:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' talk at New York Univ. Message-ID: If you are interested to read Richard Stallman's talk at the New York University on 29 May 2001, please visit our `what's new' page, the pointers for downloading the document in pdf format and TeX sources are available there: http://gnu.org.in/news/whatsnew.html The document is 24p long, 290 KB file size and source file size is 110 KB. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 6 04:21:34 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:51:34 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Interview Message-ID: <3B1DAFCE.D4B2AA0B@ti.com> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/05/122240&mode=thread Anyone who is interested in legal aspects of Free Software *must* read this interview. -- Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 8 19:37:37 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 01:07:37 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] schools, trinity, australia Message-ID: Here is an exciting story. Trinity drinks deeply at learning's open source Tuesday 05 June, 2001 By NATHAN COCHRANE A non-stop flow of students interrupts the interview in the Trinity College computer lab. "You can tell it's popular," system administrator and programmer Tim Bell says of the lab. Trinity College, at Melbourne University, threw open the doors to open source in December last year when it discarded its Windows NT network. Educators and technical staff wanted a better, cheaper way to teach the 750 overseas students in its Foundation Studies tertiary bridging course, which introduces Western concepts and computing skills. The old PCs were replaced with Hewlett-Packard e-pcs, referred to as thin clients because they do not not run bulky software on hard disk drives. They boot up with the Debian Linux Free Software operating system either off the network or from flash memory cards. The biggest benefits to educators of open source are cost, simplicity and flexibility, says Trinity ITT manager Richard Wraith. The idea to go with a network-centric open source strategy came to him after spotting Sun Microsystems' Sun Rays at a Canberra conference last year. He says after initial scepticism, students and staff have taken to the network with enthusiasm. "We saw the idea for Sun Rays, although they missed a fundamental point," says Wraith. "The Sun model means you need a high-capacity network and powerful servers." "It needs a gigabit backbone - that's stupid," Bell chimes in. "This makes sense for Sun because they have these big boxes they want to sell but ... it didn't make sense for us because our old fibre backbone will only support 100 Mbps." Although the lab uses Debian with the GNOME desktop environment, Trinity was stuck with its Windows 2000 desktop licences. They sit, unused and unopened, in a cupboard. After being assured the HP clients would run Linux, "we couldn't get through to anyone who could give us boxes without Windows," says Wraith. By booting from the network, desktop administration is streamlined as software is deployed from a central server, saving time and cost. Clients are swapped in and out quickly, and consistent and rigorous security is maintained. The result is a lower total cost of ownership, Bell says. The transition removed the need for Microsoft's Office. Word, Excel and Powerpoint were replaced with open source equivalents AbiWord, GNUmeric, and the Photoshop-like GNU Image ManiPulator (GIMP). Presentation packages are not taught but if they were, KPresenter, part of the free KOffice suite, would be the likely candidate, says Wraith. The team stresses that software selection is not fixed and the easy availability of open source applications means the curriculum can quickly change tack. "We're educating, not training," Bell says. "The argument we're talking about here is: `You have to teach Microsoft Word'. "Why are you teaching people Hamlet? They won't use it in the real world. You can take that argument and put it in another area and it's nonsensical. So why do people insist on using it in computing?," Wraith says. "We do teach them word processing and spreadsheets and GIMP," says Linux guru and computing lecturer Mike Williams, "but we're also teaching the students the concepts behind them." By discovering the concepts, students are less fearful of computers than they might be if they were only narrowly trained to use a program, he says. Williams was brought in by computing lecturer-in-charge Simon Wilkinson, a self-confessed former "Bill Gates man". Wilkinson says his transition from complete ignorance of open source to user and finally evangelist was swift and painless, in part due to his computer science background. "The beauty of open source is we could find applications if we needed to," Wilkinson says. "We can go from one word processor to the next seamlessly. "We're developing a culture where (students) are not afraid to try new things, and that was due particularly because I wasn't scared of anything." Part of that culture is the free, object-oriented programming language, Python. It is the first language to gain wide and growing acceptance since Sun's Java started percolating through businesses and universities. Python's streamlined syntax is well suited to education while its object orientation makes it attractive to commerce. Dutch mathematician Guido van Rossum invented Python in 1990. It evolved from a '80s programming teaching language, ABC, which "subliminally influenced" Python's design, he says. He has lobbied Trinity to release its course materials so other educators can benefit. Code is interpreted so the feedback loop between language and student is not slowed by compiling. This speeds the learning process because mistakes are rapidly corrected and good style immediately reinforced. "Since early 1999, I've been actively lobbying for the use of Python as a teaching language," Van Rossum says. "Before then, I knew that people were teaching Python to beginners succesfully, but it wasn't something that was particularly on my own radar." Python has spread to schools throughout the world. It sports an active e-mail list and Web-based materials to support its spread among educators. Python runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga and hendhelds such as Palm and WindowsCE. Vancouver software tools maker, Active State, is porting Python to Microsoft's .NET initiative. Python exhibits all the hallmarks of a modern language - modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing - and interfaces to modern windowing systems such as Mac, X11 and Motif. It supports XML for e-commerce and mobile applications. Integrated development environments are widely used. The commercial world has seen the benefits, with Infoseek coding 28,000 lines of its UltraSeek Server search engine in Python. Google, Nortel, ABN Amro, Real Networks, and NASA are among hundreds of commercial and research users. Animators at Industrial Light and Magic used Python to code parts of the new Star Wars trilogy. Disney animators and games designers code multimedia sequences with it. Van Rossum says Python teaches object-oriented programming without the intellectual overhead of other learning languages. "Pascal totally misses the trend of object-oriented programming, which is essential for building or using today's large systems. "BlueJ is Java-based, and the main problem I have with Java as a first language - although it's much better than C++ - is that the students have to memorise a lot of meaningless details in order to do the simplest things. "Every time there's an opportunity to get a weird compilation error due to a missing or misplaced semicolon, teacher and student time is wasted finding, explaining and correcting the problem that could be better spent learning the fundamental concepts of programming and algorithms." "We don't have to deal with vendors or licenses. From a management perspective it's so compelling," says Trinity's Wraith. "We'd rather have skills in-house and invest money in our own people rather than other companies' people. If you're tied to a vendor it takes the control out of your hands." LINKS trinity.unimelb.edu.au www.python.org www.hp.com/desktops/epc/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 12 14:11:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Jayan S R) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:41:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: <3B1DAFCE.D4B2AA0B@ti.com> Message-ID: hi all while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. XFree86 complied with no errors, but when i run make install ( this is where it compiles some of the X programs like xterm etc ) I got few errors. 1. cannot find lz ( this is the Zlib library. All the libz.so.. are present in /usr/lib but the static lib was missing. oops I did not install it ok I unpacked the src and built a static lib and copied to /usr/lib and ran ldconfing. -- that error was fixed!! 2. ncurses was missing ok i managed to get the source compiled and installd and -- that error too fixed!! after all the process It is giving one more error which I could not fix. Too many levels of symlinks aborting ...................... Error make failed... ........ any ideas why this happens? or am I missing something. regards -- jsr From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 08:32:19 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:02:19 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian References: Message-ID: <3B272513.443746D9@ti.com> > while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. > > XFree86 complied with no errors, but when i run make install ( this is > where it compiles some of the X programs like xterm etc ) I got few > errors. > > 1. cannot find lz ( this is the Zlib library. All the libz.so.. > are present in /usr/lib but the static lib was missing. oops I did not > install it ok I unpacked the src and built a static lib and copied to > /usr/lib and ran ldconfing. -- that error was fixed!! > 2. ncurses was missing ok i managed to get the source compiled and > installd and -- that error too fixed!! First of all where did you download the sources from? The best thing would be to download the sources from debian archives itself, as it will have (probably) debian specific fixes to Makefile and other things added. Also it will download and install (if you use 'apt-get source packagename') the various dependencies of the source required to compile. -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 08:56:55 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (harshu) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:26:55 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010613142655.A261@hd2.vsnl.net.in> hi, i had faced this problem some time ago. i have attached the suggestions made on the ilughyd. hope that helps. i couldn't test it out as my machine crashed beyond recovery. regards harsha On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:11PM +0530, Jayan S R wrote: > while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. > > > Too many levels of symlinks aborting > ...................... > Error make failed... > ........ > > any ideas why this happens? or am I missing something. > ---------- hi, i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this error occur ? harsha make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/oclock' installing in programs/proxymngr... make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' + install -c -m 0444 PM.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM + install -c -m 0444 PMproto.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM install -c proxymngr /usr/X11R6/bin/proxymngr install -c -m 0444 pmconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic links ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ make[3]: *** [install] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 --- bsd_linux wrote: > hi, > i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. > too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this > error occur ? This happens when one of your symlinks is directly or indirectly pointing to itself. Example: >> ln -s file /tmp >> ls -l /tmp/file lrwxrwxrwx 1 prakashk prakashk 4 Apr 2 16:40 /tmp/file -> file >> cat /tmp/file cat: /tmp/file: Too many levels of symbolic links >> namei /tmp/file f: /tmp/file d / d tmp l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file *** EXCEEDED UNIX LIMIT OF SYMLINKS *** As you can see, 'namei' shows where the circular reference is. /prakash > harsha > > > > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/oclock' > installing in programs/proxymngr... > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' > + install -c -m 0444 PM.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM > + install -c -m 0444 PMproto.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM > install -c proxymngr /usr/X11R6/bin/proxymngr > install -c -m 0444 pmconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig > install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic > links > [..snip..] bsd_linux [Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:05AM +0530] > hi, > i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. > too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this error occur ? > > harsha > Looks like Ur installing over an existing installation by using 'make install' Right. If so please rm or mv the existing installations and then give it a try. I am sure it will work then on. This problem occured to me when I tried installing xf 4.0.2 over my 3.3.6. And I did the same. Bye Raghuram Vijapurapu From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 12:03:44 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Jayan S R) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:33:44 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: <20010613142655.A261@hd2.vsnl.net.in> Message-ID: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, harshu wrote: > hi, > i had faced this problem some time ago. i have attached the suggestions made on the ilughyd. hope that helps. i couldn't test it out as my machine crashed beyond recovery. > > regards > harsha thanks harshu, it worked. It was because i was doing make install over the same dir after making corrections to the missing libs. regards jsr From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sat Jun 16 11:51:04 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:21:04 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets Message-ID: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy=20 logic
 
____________________________________________________________________= __________
 
 " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. =
  =20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man "
 
 * Nitin Skandan
 * Second year
 * M tech = Control=20 systems
 * College of engineering
 * = Trivandrum
 *=20 Kerala 691021
 
 * Ph no: 91-474=20 740259           &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;            = ;            =       =20
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------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 18 03:53:00 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Preetham Shimoga) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:23:00 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets References: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: <3B2D7B1C.9B8452ED@wipro.com> hi, i dont know how my name got attached to this club, can anyone take out my name from this mailing list thanks Preetham Nitin S wrote: > Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy > logic ______________________________________________________________________________ " > One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin > Skandan > * Second year > * M tech Control systems > * College of engineering > * Trivandrum > * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > ________________________________________ > _____________________________________ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 18 03:45:46 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (R Sreekumar) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:15:46 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets References: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: <000901c0f7a9$29b782c0$770110ac@ncb.ernet.in> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Genetic Algorithms by Goldberg gives a complete picture about GE. There = are lot of sites which give examples of usage of genetic algorithms. Sreekumar ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Nitin S=20 To: fsf-india@gnu.org.in=20 Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:21 PM Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy = logic = _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 = _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Genetic Algorithms by Goldberg gives a = complete=20 picture about GE.  There are lot of sites which give examples of = usage of=20 genetic algorithms.
 
Sreekumar
 
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Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and = fuzzy=20 logic
 
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 " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20
   No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man = "
 
 * Nitin Skandan
 * Second year
 * M tech = Control=20 systems
 * College of engineering
 * = Trivandrum
 *=20 Kerala 691021
 
 * Ph no: 91-474=20 = 740259           &= nbsp;           &n= bsp;           &nb= sp;           &nbs= p;            = ;            =       =20 =
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------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 15:50:54 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (fsf-india@gnu.org.in) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:20:54 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Software Message-ID: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> Hi - I need to prepare a network for a construction firm for the sections: * General Accounts * Cash * Registration certificates offered to their associates * Building plans and * Service file of their employees. It's mandatory to have GUI as the building plans would be scanned copies of the original sanctioned building plans. I think MySQL should be a good for the database part but can the building plans thing, be incorporated in that too ? And, what software would you people recommend, if we have something in open source, that would suffice these for me. Also would it be possible to implement something like, a main server connected with the terminals on a LAN or it would be mandatory to keep every machine with hard disk support. I'm basically a novice and this is sort of a project work for me. Any and all suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks! From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 18:25:54 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Raju Mathur) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:55:54 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' visit to Delhi Message-ID: <15151.39218.304826.244781@mail.linux-delhi.org> Hi, Any updates on when RMS is likely to be in Delhi and if anything is fixed up? We'd like to plan given the itinerary. Regards, -- Raju -- Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 18:27:03 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Raju Mathur) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:57:03 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Software In-Reply-To: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> References: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> Message-ID: <15151.39287.786087.648274@mail.linux-delhi.org> You can use GNUCash as the base for building on. http://www.gnucash.org/ Regards, -- Raju >>>>> "charmie" == charmie writes: charmie> Hi - I need to prepare a network for a construction firm charmie> for the sections: charmie> * General Accounts * Cash * Registration certificates charmie> offered to their associates * Building plans and * charmie> Service file of their employees. -- Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 20 10:19:58 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (titty jacob) Date: 20 Jun 2001 04:19:58 MDT Subject: [[FSF-India] Software] Message-ID: <20010620101958.15406.qmail@nwcst281.netaddress.usa.net> charmie@caltiger.com wrote: >Also would it be possible to implement something like, a main server >connected with the terminals on a LAN or it would be mandatory to keep >every machine with hard disk support. Link to the site www.ltsp.org for remote booting Diskless Workstations over a network. Lv. Tt ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 21 04:47:58 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:17:58 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] what constitutes your GNU/Linux? Message-ID: <3B317C7E.83D939B8@ti.com> A detailed analysis of RH7.1 distro about the various constituents, and their licences... As expected GPL remains at number one... http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 24 05:35:37 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Denish Makadia) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:05:37 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Freedom First - Activities. Message-ID: <001601c0fc6f$855b5aa0$6d6efea9@jignesh> Hello all, Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. denish _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 25 05:34:25 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:04:25 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Freedom First - Activities. In-Reply-To: <001601c0fc6f$855b5aa0$6d6efea9@jignesh> Message-ID: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 at 11:05, Denish Makadia wrote: Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. In the first place there is enough time of three weeks left now for the event. And the tentative dates of the program are available on the web site. Secondly, the working group convened on the last weekend to finalize dates and logistics. It's only Monday morning now, the authorized persons have to draft it and release to the main list. After all, FSF India do not enjoy the luxury of an office with supporting staff, so all things are at the mercy of time and efforts of the volunteers. As you can imagine, volunteers have pressures at their work especially in the beginning of a week. Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with What a few at Trivandrum can accomplish without the help and support of you people? I'm afraid the question ebbs from misapprehensions which is unwarranted in the light of what we have done so far. offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. I would respectfully disagree with this demand, it relates to the privacy of other persons. Are we authorized to reveal the names of the participants? The list has to decide. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 03:02:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:32:11 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Half God, Half Dirty GNU Hippy Message-ID: <3B37FB33.D3DCDC78@ti.com> This is about Richard M Stallman http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/24/235140/350 -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 25 04:53:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:23:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] MS provides GPLd software Message-ID: Hi, For all the MS ranting about GPL, they infact provide software under GPL and the source is available in a microsoft.com address. After all, All we said that GPL is not good for YOUR business not ours :) ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/interix/ make sure to read gpl.txt in this directory. This is the main page http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/interix/ raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 24 09:50:23 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:20:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat Message-ID: Hi, I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 05:46:28 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Tirthankar C.P) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:46:28 +0500 (GMT+0500) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Hi, > > I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The > ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? > Freshmeat is fine. No problems there. -tir > raj > > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india > Tirthankar C.Patnaik Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Ring:+91-22-840 0919/20/21 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 06:36:17 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Denish Makadia) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:06:17 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] [LONG] Freedom First - Activities. References: Message-ID: <00e001c0fe0d$05666340$6d6efea9@jignesh> Hello, Sorry for being impatient and shooting a mail with questions only, instead of offering some help.and Thanks for taking all the pain. I feel that i am misunderstood, and would like to clear contentions of my previous mail.For more clarity, few lines about me. I am not connected with Computer Profession, and attracted to FSF purely by the Philosophy it ( would have used WE) holds, and quite exited to meet the people in person who leave by that philosopy and unselfish motives. Moreover I would be attending first Conference in *Computers * field, at which I am a novice.{I am an Engineer in Plastics and work as a Works Manager with some organisation in Baroda. } ----- Original Message ----- From: Radhakrishnan CV > Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. I am having the knowledge about FSF-I limited around the website and this list, (doesn't have any idea about how can I help, so anticipated that if anything ) > In the first place there is enough time of three weeks left now for > the event. And the tentative dates of the program are available on > the web site. > > Secondly, the working group convened on the last weekend to finalize > dates and logistics. It's only Monday morning now, the authorized > persons have to draft it and release to the main list. After all, > FSF India do not enjoy the luxury of an office with supporting > staff, so all things are at the mercy of time and efforts of the > volunteers. As you can imagine, volunteers have pressures at their > work especially in the beginning of a week. > > Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Will not be impatient, (I now think I had been impatient in process of Registration also), but now you might have got the idea of my eagerness, and again beg your pardon for spoiling The fine Monday Morning. > Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with > > What a few at Trivandrum can accomplish without the help and support I fully agree, and extend my support at anything i would be able to do, and can detail more of my capabilities offlist if required. But my contention was : Are all the Arrangements left to them only, without any helping hands ?or People are helping them but the discussions are offlist/ in person. > of you people? I'm afraid the question ebbs from misapprehensions > which is unwarranted in the light of what we have done so far. I have a little idea about it since my lurking around FD.net and FD india. (hope i am there in Archives :) and I highly appriciate the efforts put by all of them who had made this to happen in India, and I always wish to be a part of it if time permits. > offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. > > I would respectfully disagree with this demand, it relates to the > privacy of other persons. Are we authorized to reveal the names of > the participants? The list has to decide. > I didn't intended to break the privacy of anyone, but i was eager to know more about people I am going to see, and if it was a unfair, I dont have to ask anything about it. OTOH I request those prticipants to give me their contacts offlist, if they can help this newcomer to understand this field when i am there at Tutorials and Conference.... Hope that I had cleared the things, and would be allowed to know the things at depth ( to the extent i am found to be fit.) Thanking Again. Denish Makadia _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 07:29:26 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:59:26 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] [LONG] Freedom First - Activities. In-Reply-To: <00e001c0fe0d$05666340$6d6efea9@jignesh> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 12:06, Denish Makadia wrote: Sorry for being impatient and shooting a mail with questions only, instead of offering some help.and Thanks for taking all the pain. No problems, it is all part of any such efforts. I am not connected with Computer Profession, and attracted to FSF purely by the Philosophy it ( would have used WE) holds, Excellent. We need people like you to come forward to take the message to the people. and quite exited to meet the people in person who leave by that philosopy and unselfish motives. Moreover I would be attending first Conference in *Computers * field, at which I am a novice.{I am an Engineer in Plastics and work as a Works Manager with some organisation in Baroda. } It is the user community that we value much and indeed they are the starting point of any change that Free Software can bring forth. I am having the knowledge about FSF-I limited around the website and this list, (doesn't have any idea about how can I help, so anticipated that if anything ) You can help if you come a little earlier to the event, because we need volunteers to do a variety of things. You can choose any type of work that is fit for your mood, attitudes, abilities and so on and it will be all the more fun and exciting for all of us. > Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Will not be impatient, (I now think I had been impatient in process of Registration also), but now you might have got the idea of my eagerness, and again beg your pardon for spoiling The fine Monday Morning. Dont be apologetic, we are all in the same boat and are eager to see things move fast. Within two days (possibly today itself) you will hear announcements about the details of topics and resource persons of the pre-conference tutorial. But my contention was : Are all the Arrangements left to them only, without any helping hands ?or People are helping them but the discussions are offlist/ in person. When an event is scheduled to happen at a particular geographical location, naturally those available around can only help in the logistics of the event at least in the initial period. Of course, those from other parts of the country can do help during the event which is always welcome from anyone. I didn't intended to break the privacy of anyone, but i was eager to know more about people I am going to see, and if it was a unfair, I dont have to ask anything about it. I was sure about your pristine intentions, but sadly everyone cant be expected to agree with your request. OTOH I request those prticipants to give me their contacts offlist, That would be fine. Also by around 5th July, we will create another list for participants to inform them programs, announcements and to answer if the partipants have any querries. if they can help this newcomer to understand this field when i am there at Tutorials and Conference.... Dont worry, most of the tutorial presentations will be made available well in advance and the URLs will be sent to you, so that you will be familiar with the topics/issues that are being covered in the tutorial. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 09:09:16 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Vinay George) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:09:16 +0400 Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat References: Message-ID: <002e01c0fe1f$ae8aff00$c488a9ca@arackal.co.in> Hi I getting both slashdot and freshmeat................. Vinay _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 11:56:46 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Suraj Kumar S.) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:26:46 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: ; from raj@gnu.org.in on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:20:23PM +0530 References: Message-ID: <20010626172646.A21642@in.inapp.com> raj, it was some local routing problem of asianet. On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:20:23PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The > ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 13:16:55 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:46:55 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: <20010626172646.A21642@in.inapp.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Suraj Kumar S. wrote: > raj, it was some local routing problem of asianet. No. The main Andover.net router melted, taking /. fm and others off. That was the reason. I posted the mail on sunday, due to some problem it only turned up today. raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 08:15:30 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Amitabh Trehan) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' visit to Delhi In-Reply-To: <15151.39218.304826.244781@mail.linux-delhi.org> Message-ID: <20010628081530.17787.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> I've been hearing here(Delhi) that Stallman is likely to visit IIT delhi. Is that true? Amitabh --- Raju Mathur wrote: > Hi, > > Any updates on when RMS is likely to be in Delhi and > if anything is > fixed up? We'd like to plan given the itinerary. > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org > http://kandalaya.org/ > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india ===== ######============================############# TrYinG To TaCkLe (La)TeX & Co. #####=============================############# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 09:22:09 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Loic Dachary) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:22:09 +0200 Subject: [FSF-India] FSF France activity report Message-ID: <15162.63297.795588.239607@dachary.org> Hi, I'd like to share with you our activity report. You will find more information about our activities in France at http://france.fsfeurope.org/index.en.html. You will also see links to GNU or FSF reprensentations world wide in the top right menu bar, including FSF India ;-) Take care, ----- http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-20-01.en.html FSF France activity report The [1]FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the [2]FSF and the [3]FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. Building the [4]administrative and [5]informational infrastructure came first. It's an endless task but we had to create something to begin with: a [6]machine located in France that is integrated to the [7]GNU project and a [8]French non profit organization. Then it was necessary to establish working relationships with the French association acting since years for the Free Software movement in France: [9]APRIL. Cooperation between organizations requires some amount of magic. After two [10]brainstormings, an [11]exhibition, a [12]fiesta and many GNU project related activities the magic apparently worked. [13]APRIL members feel they belong to [14]the french chapter of FSF Europe (FSF France) and [15]FSF France members feel they belong to [16]APRIL. A French association dedicated to Free Software in education ([17]OFSET) recently united to [18]FSF Europe and we expect the same symbiosis From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 09:22:09 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Loic Dachary) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:22:09 +0200 Subject: [FSF-India] FSF France activity report Message-ID: <15162.63297.795588.239607@dachary.org> Hi, I'd like to share with you our activity report. You will find more information about our activities in France at http://france.fsfeurope.org/index.en.html. You will also see links to GNU or FSF reprensentations world wide in the top right menu bar, including FSF India ;-) Take care, ----- http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-20-01.en.html FSF France activity report The [1]FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the [2]FSF and the [3]FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. Building the [4]administrative and [5]informational infrastructure came first. It's an endless task but we had to create something to begin with: a [6]machine located in France that is integrated to the [7]GNU project and a [8]French non profit organization. Then it was necessary to establish working relationships with the French association acting since years for the Free Software movement in France: [9]APRIL. Cooperation between organizations requires some amount of magic. After two [10]brainstormings, an [11]exhibition, a [12]fiesta and many GNU project related activities the magic apparently worked. [13]APRIL members feel they belong to [14]the french chapter of FSF Europe (FSF France) and [15]FSF France members feel they belong to [16]APRIL. A French association dedicated to Free Software in education ([17]OFSET) recently united to [18]FSF Europe and we expect the same symbiosis From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 1 14:26:52 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:56:52 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller Message-ID: <011501c0eaa8$12bc27a0$a6e8013d@compaq> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 = microcontrollers in missiles and space vehicle control. 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------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 1 17:26:59 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Anil Kumar) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller In-Reply-To: <011501c0eaa8$12bc27a0$a6e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: did you try VSSC library? On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nitin S wrote: > I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 microcontrollers in > missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. > > regards nitin > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " > > * Nitin Skandan > * Second year > * M tech Control systems > * College of engineering > * Trivandrum > * Kerala 691021 > > * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > > -- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sat Jun 2 18:15:43 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:45:43 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller References: Message-ID: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> tryingg but it would have been nice if theres somebody working in that area ----- Original Message ----- From: Anil Kumar To: Cc: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [FSF-India] microcontroller > > did you try VSSC library? > > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nitin S wrote: > > > I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 microcontrollers in > > missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. > > > > regards nitin > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > > > " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " > > > > * Nitin Skandan > > * Second year > > * M tech Control systems > > * College of engineering > > * Trivandrum > > * Kerala 691021 > > > > * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 3 11:32:05 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Satyakam Goswami) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:02:05 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS itenary In-Reply-To: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> References: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> Message-ID: <1364.192.168.0.1.991567925.squirrel@mail.archeanit.net> Hello, What is the iteinary of Mr Stallman, can anyone brief us on that. especially where all he will be visiting apart from Kerala. S.Goswami ---------------------------- Archean Infotech Victory Vihar,Himayatnagar Hyderabad 500029,www.archeanit.com Ph:3228666,6570704,3228674 Mobile:9849016667 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 4 07:36:27 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:06:27 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS itenary In-Reply-To: <1364.192.168.0.1.991567925.squirrel@mail.archeanit.net> Message-ID: On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 at 17:02, Satyakam Goswami wrote: What is the iteinary of Mr Stallman, can anyone brief us on that. especially where all he will be visiting apart from Kerala. 17 July 2001 -- Bombay -- arrival 17 July 2001 -- talk at the Homi Babha Hall (TIFR) 18 July 2001 -- Trivandrum -- arrival 20 July 2001 -- Inauguration of FSF India 21 July 2001 -- talks to the students (foornoon) College of Engineering, Trivandrum session with Technopark community (afternoon) 24 July 2001 -- talk at the Model Engineering College, Kochi 24 July 2001 -- departure to Baroda (we dont have any idea of (evening) RMS' Baroda program) 3/4 Aug 2001 -- talk at the IIT, Delhi 4/5 Aug 2001 -- Fly out of India -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 4 08:04:23 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:34:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' talk at New York Univ. Message-ID: If you are interested to read Richard Stallman's talk at the New York University on 29 May 2001, please visit our `what's new' page, the pointers for downloading the document in pdf format and TeX sources are available there: http://gnu.org.in/news/whatsnew.html The document is 24p long, 290 KB file size and source file size is 110 KB. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 6 04:21:34 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:51:34 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Interview Message-ID: <3B1DAFCE.D4B2AA0B@ti.com> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/05/122240&mode=thread Anyone who is interested in legal aspects of Free Software *must* read this interview. -- Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 8 19:37:37 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 01:07:37 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] schools, trinity, australia Message-ID: Here is an exciting story. Trinity drinks deeply at learning's open source Tuesday 05 June, 2001 By NATHAN COCHRANE A non-stop flow of students interrupts the interview in the Trinity College computer lab. "You can tell it's popular," system administrator and programmer Tim Bell says of the lab. Trinity College, at Melbourne University, threw open the doors to open source in December last year when it discarded its Windows NT network. Educators and technical staff wanted a better, cheaper way to teach the 750 overseas students in its Foundation Studies tertiary bridging course, which introduces Western concepts and computing skills. The old PCs were replaced with Hewlett-Packard e-pcs, referred to as thin clients because they do not not run bulky software on hard disk drives. They boot up with the Debian Linux Free Software operating system either off the network or from flash memory cards. The biggest benefits to educators of open source are cost, simplicity and flexibility, says Trinity ITT manager Richard Wraith. The idea to go with a network-centric open source strategy came to him after spotting Sun Microsystems' Sun Rays at a Canberra conference last year. He says after initial scepticism, students and staff have taken to the network with enthusiasm. "We saw the idea for Sun Rays, although they missed a fundamental point," says Wraith. "The Sun model means you need a high-capacity network and powerful servers." "It needs a gigabit backbone - that's stupid," Bell chimes in. "This makes sense for Sun because they have these big boxes they want to sell but ... it didn't make sense for us because our old fibre backbone will only support 100 Mbps." Although the lab uses Debian with the GNOME desktop environment, Trinity was stuck with its Windows 2000 desktop licences. They sit, unused and unopened, in a cupboard. After being assured the HP clients would run Linux, "we couldn't get through to anyone who could give us boxes without Windows," says Wraith. By booting from the network, desktop administration is streamlined as software is deployed from a central server, saving time and cost. Clients are swapped in and out quickly, and consistent and rigorous security is maintained. The result is a lower total cost of ownership, Bell says. The transition removed the need for Microsoft's Office. Word, Excel and Powerpoint were replaced with open source equivalents AbiWord, GNUmeric, and the Photoshop-like GNU Image ManiPulator (GIMP). Presentation packages are not taught but if they were, KPresenter, part of the free KOffice suite, would be the likely candidate, says Wraith. The team stresses that software selection is not fixed and the easy availability of open source applications means the curriculum can quickly change tack. "We're educating, not training," Bell says. "The argument we're talking about here is: `You have to teach Microsoft Word'. "Why are you teaching people Hamlet? They won't use it in the real world. You can take that argument and put it in another area and it's nonsensical. So why do people insist on using it in computing?," Wraith says. "We do teach them word processing and spreadsheets and GIMP," says Linux guru and computing lecturer Mike Williams, "but we're also teaching the students the concepts behind them." By discovering the concepts, students are less fearful of computers than they might be if they were only narrowly trained to use a program, he says. Williams was brought in by computing lecturer-in-charge Simon Wilkinson, a self-confessed former "Bill Gates man". Wilkinson says his transition from complete ignorance of open source to user and finally evangelist was swift and painless, in part due to his computer science background. "The beauty of open source is we could find applications if we needed to," Wilkinson says. "We can go from one word processor to the next seamlessly. "We're developing a culture where (students) are not afraid to try new things, and that was due particularly because I wasn't scared of anything." Part of that culture is the free, object-oriented programming language, Python. It is the first language to gain wide and growing acceptance since Sun's Java started percolating through businesses and universities. Python's streamlined syntax is well suited to education while its object orientation makes it attractive to commerce. Dutch mathematician Guido van Rossum invented Python in 1990. It evolved from a '80s programming teaching language, ABC, which "subliminally influenced" Python's design, he says. He has lobbied Trinity to release its course materials so other educators can benefit. Code is interpreted so the feedback loop between language and student is not slowed by compiling. This speeds the learning process because mistakes are rapidly corrected and good style immediately reinforced. "Since early 1999, I've been actively lobbying for the use of Python as a teaching language," Van Rossum says. "Before then, I knew that people were teaching Python to beginners succesfully, but it wasn't something that was particularly on my own radar." Python has spread to schools throughout the world. It sports an active e-mail list and Web-based materials to support its spread among educators. Python runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga and hendhelds such as Palm and WindowsCE. Vancouver software tools maker, Active State, is porting Python to Microsoft's .NET initiative. Python exhibits all the hallmarks of a modern language - modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing - and interfaces to modern windowing systems such as Mac, X11 and Motif. It supports XML for e-commerce and mobile applications. Integrated development environments are widely used. The commercial world has seen the benefits, with Infoseek coding 28,000 lines of its UltraSeek Server search engine in Python. Google, Nortel, ABN Amro, Real Networks, and NASA are among hundreds of commercial and research users. Animators at Industrial Light and Magic used Python to code parts of the new Star Wars trilogy. Disney animators and games designers code multimedia sequences with it. Van Rossum says Python teaches object-oriented programming without the intellectual overhead of other learning languages. "Pascal totally misses the trend of object-oriented programming, which is essential for building or using today's large systems. "BlueJ is Java-based, and the main problem I have with Java as a first language - although it's much better than C++ - is that the students have to memorise a lot of meaningless details in order to do the simplest things. "Every time there's an opportunity to get a weird compilation error due to a missing or misplaced semicolon, teacher and student time is wasted finding, explaining and correcting the problem that could be better spent learning the fundamental concepts of programming and algorithms." "We don't have to deal with vendors or licenses. From a management perspective it's so compelling," says Trinity's Wraith. "We'd rather have skills in-house and invest money in our own people rather than other companies' people. If you're tied to a vendor it takes the control out of your hands." LINKS trinity.unimelb.edu.au www.python.org www.hp.com/desktops/epc/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 12 14:11:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Jayan S R) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:41:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: <3B1DAFCE.D4B2AA0B@ti.com> Message-ID: hi all while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. XFree86 complied with no errors, but when i run make install ( this is where it compiles some of the X programs like xterm etc ) I got few errors. 1. cannot find lz ( this is the Zlib library. All the libz.so.. are present in /usr/lib but the static lib was missing. oops I did not install it ok I unpacked the src and built a static lib and copied to /usr/lib and ran ldconfing. -- that error was fixed!! 2. ncurses was missing ok i managed to get the source compiled and installd and -- that error too fixed!! after all the process It is giving one more error which I could not fix. Too many levels of symlinks aborting ...................... Error make failed... ........ any ideas why this happens? or am I missing something. regards -- jsr From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 08:32:19 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:02:19 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian References: Message-ID: <3B272513.443746D9@ti.com> > while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. > > XFree86 complied with no errors, but when i run make install ( this is > where it compiles some of the X programs like xterm etc ) I got few > errors. > > 1. cannot find lz ( this is the Zlib library. All the libz.so.. > are present in /usr/lib but the static lib was missing. oops I did not > install it ok I unpacked the src and built a static lib and copied to > /usr/lib and ran ldconfing. -- that error was fixed!! > 2. ncurses was missing ok i managed to get the source compiled and > installd and -- that error too fixed!! First of all where did you download the sources from? The best thing would be to download the sources from debian archives itself, as it will have (probably) debian specific fixes to Makefile and other things added. Also it will download and install (if you use 'apt-get source packagename') the various dependencies of the source required to compile. -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 08:56:55 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (harshu) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:26:55 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010613142655.A261@hd2.vsnl.net.in> hi, i had faced this problem some time ago. i have attached the suggestions made on the ilughyd. hope that helps. i couldn't test it out as my machine crashed beyond recovery. regards harsha On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:11PM +0530, Jayan S R wrote: > while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. > > > Too many levels of symlinks aborting > ...................... > Error make failed... > ........ > > any ideas why this happens? or am I missing something. > ---------- hi, i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this error occur ? harsha make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/oclock' installing in programs/proxymngr... make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' + install -c -m 0444 PM.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM + install -c -m 0444 PMproto.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM install -c proxymngr /usr/X11R6/bin/proxymngr install -c -m 0444 pmconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic links ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ make[3]: *** [install] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 --- bsd_linux wrote: > hi, > i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. > too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this > error occur ? This happens when one of your symlinks is directly or indirectly pointing to itself. Example: >> ln -s file /tmp >> ls -l /tmp/file lrwxrwxrwx 1 prakashk prakashk 4 Apr 2 16:40 /tmp/file -> file >> cat /tmp/file cat: /tmp/file: Too many levels of symbolic links >> namei /tmp/file f: /tmp/file d / d tmp l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file *** EXCEEDED UNIX LIMIT OF SYMLINKS *** As you can see, 'namei' shows where the circular reference is. /prakash > harsha > > > > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/oclock' > installing in programs/proxymngr... > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' > + install -c -m 0444 PM.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM > + install -c -m 0444 PMproto.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM > install -c proxymngr /usr/X11R6/bin/proxymngr > install -c -m 0444 pmconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig > install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic > links > [..snip..] bsd_linux [Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:05AM +0530] > hi, > i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. > too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this error occur ? > > harsha > Looks like Ur installing over an existing installation by using 'make install' Right. If so please rm or mv the existing installations and then give it a try. I am sure it will work then on. This problem occured to me when I tried installing xf 4.0.2 over my 3.3.6. And I did the same. Bye Raghuram Vijapurapu From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 12:03:44 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Jayan S R) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:33:44 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: <20010613142655.A261@hd2.vsnl.net.in> Message-ID: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, harshu wrote: > hi, > i had faced this problem some time ago. i have attached the suggestions made on the ilughyd. hope that helps. i couldn't test it out as my machine crashed beyond recovery. > > regards > harsha thanks harshu, it worked. It was because i was doing make install over the same dir after making corrections to the missing libs. regards jsr From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sat Jun 16 11:51:04 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:21:04 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets Message-ID: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy=20 logic
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 18 03:53:00 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Preetham Shimoga) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:23:00 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets References: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: <3B2D7B1C.9B8452ED@wipro.com> hi, i dont know how my name got attached to this club, can anyone take out my name from this mailing list thanks Preetham Nitin S wrote: > Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy > logic ______________________________________________________________________________ " > One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin > Skandan > * Second year > * M tech Control systems > * College of engineering > * Trivandrum > * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > ________________________________________ > _____________________________________ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 18 03:45:46 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (R Sreekumar) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:15:46 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets References: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: <000901c0f7a9$29b782c0$770110ac@ncb.ernet.in> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Genetic Algorithms by Goldberg gives a complete picture about GE. There = are lot of sites which give examples of usage of genetic algorithms. Sreekumar ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Nitin S=20 To: fsf-india@gnu.org.in=20 Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:21 PM Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy = logic = _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 = _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Genetic Algorithms by Goldberg gives a = complete=20 picture about GE.  There are lot of sites which give examples of = usage of=20 genetic algorithms.
 
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Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and = fuzzy=20 logic
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 15:50:54 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (fsf-india@gnu.org.in) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:20:54 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Software Message-ID: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> Hi - I need to prepare a network for a construction firm for the sections: * General Accounts * Cash * Registration certificates offered to their associates * Building plans and * Service file of their employees. It's mandatory to have GUI as the building plans would be scanned copies of the original sanctioned building plans. I think MySQL should be a good for the database part but can the building plans thing, be incorporated in that too ? And, what software would you people recommend, if we have something in open source, that would suffice these for me. Also would it be possible to implement something like, a main server connected with the terminals on a LAN or it would be mandatory to keep every machine with hard disk support. I'm basically a novice and this is sort of a project work for me. Any and all suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks! From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 18:25:54 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Raju Mathur) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:55:54 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' visit to Delhi Message-ID: <15151.39218.304826.244781@mail.linux-delhi.org> Hi, Any updates on when RMS is likely to be in Delhi and if anything is fixed up? We'd like to plan given the itinerary. Regards, -- Raju -- Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 18:27:03 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Raju Mathur) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:57:03 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Software In-Reply-To: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> References: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> Message-ID: <15151.39287.786087.648274@mail.linux-delhi.org> You can use GNUCash as the base for building on. http://www.gnucash.org/ Regards, -- Raju >>>>> "charmie" == charmie writes: charmie> Hi - I need to prepare a network for a construction firm charmie> for the sections: charmie> * General Accounts * Cash * Registration certificates charmie> offered to their associates * Building plans and * charmie> Service file of their employees. -- Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 20 10:19:58 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (titty jacob) Date: 20 Jun 2001 04:19:58 MDT Subject: [[FSF-India] Software] Message-ID: <20010620101958.15406.qmail@nwcst281.netaddress.usa.net> charmie@caltiger.com wrote: >Also would it be possible to implement something like, a main server >connected with the terminals on a LAN or it would be mandatory to keep >every machine with hard disk support. Link to the site www.ltsp.org for remote booting Diskless Workstations over a network. Lv. Tt ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 21 04:47:58 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:17:58 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] what constitutes your GNU/Linux? Message-ID: <3B317C7E.83D939B8@ti.com> A detailed analysis of RH7.1 distro about the various constituents, and their licences... As expected GPL remains at number one... http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 24 05:35:37 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Denish Makadia) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:05:37 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Freedom First - Activities. Message-ID: <001601c0fc6f$855b5aa0$6d6efea9@jignesh> Hello all, Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. denish _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 25 05:34:25 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:04:25 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Freedom First - Activities. In-Reply-To: <001601c0fc6f$855b5aa0$6d6efea9@jignesh> Message-ID: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 at 11:05, Denish Makadia wrote: Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. In the first place there is enough time of three weeks left now for the event. And the tentative dates of the program are available on the web site. Secondly, the working group convened on the last weekend to finalize dates and logistics. It's only Monday morning now, the authorized persons have to draft it and release to the main list. After all, FSF India do not enjoy the luxury of an office with supporting staff, so all things are at the mercy of time and efforts of the volunteers. As you can imagine, volunteers have pressures at their work especially in the beginning of a week. Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with What a few at Trivandrum can accomplish without the help and support of you people? I'm afraid the question ebbs from misapprehensions which is unwarranted in the light of what we have done so far. offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. I would respectfully disagree with this demand, it relates to the privacy of other persons. Are we authorized to reveal the names of the participants? The list has to decide. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 03:02:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:32:11 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Half God, Half Dirty GNU Hippy Message-ID: <3B37FB33.D3DCDC78@ti.com> This is about Richard M Stallman http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/24/235140/350 -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 25 04:53:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:23:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] MS provides GPLd software Message-ID: Hi, For all the MS ranting about GPL, they infact provide software under GPL and the source is available in a microsoft.com address. After all, All we said that GPL is not good for YOUR business not ours :) ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/interix/ make sure to read gpl.txt in this directory. This is the main page http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/interix/ raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 24 09:50:23 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:20:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat Message-ID: Hi, I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 05:46:28 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Tirthankar C.P) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:46:28 +0500 (GMT+0500) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Hi, > > I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The > ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? > Freshmeat is fine. No problems there. -tir > raj > > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india > Tirthankar C.Patnaik Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Ring:+91-22-840 0919/20/21 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 06:36:17 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Denish Makadia) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:06:17 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] [LONG] Freedom First - Activities. References: Message-ID: <00e001c0fe0d$05666340$6d6efea9@jignesh> Hello, Sorry for being impatient and shooting a mail with questions only, instead of offering some help.and Thanks for taking all the pain. I feel that i am misunderstood, and would like to clear contentions of my previous mail.For more clarity, few lines about me. I am not connected with Computer Profession, and attracted to FSF purely by the Philosophy it ( would have used WE) holds, and quite exited to meet the people in person who leave by that philosopy and unselfish motives. Moreover I would be attending first Conference in *Computers * field, at which I am a novice.{I am an Engineer in Plastics and work as a Works Manager with some organisation in Baroda. } ----- Original Message ----- From: Radhakrishnan CV > Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. I am having the knowledge about FSF-I limited around the website and this list, (doesn't have any idea about how can I help, so anticipated that if anything ) > In the first place there is enough time of three weeks left now for > the event. And the tentative dates of the program are available on > the web site. > > Secondly, the working group convened on the last weekend to finalize > dates and logistics. It's only Monday morning now, the authorized > persons have to draft it and release to the main list. After all, > FSF India do not enjoy the luxury of an office with supporting > staff, so all things are at the mercy of time and efforts of the > volunteers. As you can imagine, volunteers have pressures at their > work especially in the beginning of a week. > > Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Will not be impatient, (I now think I had been impatient in process of Registration also), but now you might have got the idea of my eagerness, and again beg your pardon for spoiling The fine Monday Morning. > Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with > > What a few at Trivandrum can accomplish without the help and support I fully agree, and extend my support at anything i would be able to do, and can detail more of my capabilities offlist if required. But my contention was : Are all the Arrangements left to them only, without any helping hands ?or People are helping them but the discussions are offlist/ in person. > of you people? I'm afraid the question ebbs from misapprehensions > which is unwarranted in the light of what we have done so far. I have a little idea about it since my lurking around FD.net and FD india. (hope i am there in Archives :) and I highly appriciate the efforts put by all of them who had made this to happen in India, and I always wish to be a part of it if time permits. > offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. > > I would respectfully disagree with this demand, it relates to the > privacy of other persons. Are we authorized to reveal the names of > the participants? The list has to decide. > I didn't intended to break the privacy of anyone, but i was eager to know more about people I am going to see, and if it was a unfair, I dont have to ask anything about it. OTOH I request those prticipants to give me their contacts offlist, if they can help this newcomer to understand this field when i am there at Tutorials and Conference.... Hope that I had cleared the things, and would be allowed to know the things at depth ( to the extent i am found to be fit.) Thanking Again. Denish Makadia _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 07:29:26 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:59:26 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] [LONG] Freedom First - Activities. In-Reply-To: <00e001c0fe0d$05666340$6d6efea9@jignesh> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 12:06, Denish Makadia wrote: Sorry for being impatient and shooting a mail with questions only, instead of offering some help.and Thanks for taking all the pain. No problems, it is all part of any such efforts. I am not connected with Computer Profession, and attracted to FSF purely by the Philosophy it ( would have used WE) holds, Excellent. We need people like you to come forward to take the message to the people. and quite exited to meet the people in person who leave by that philosopy and unselfish motives. Moreover I would be attending first Conference in *Computers * field, at which I am a novice.{I am an Engineer in Plastics and work as a Works Manager with some organisation in Baroda. } It is the user community that we value much and indeed they are the starting point of any change that Free Software can bring forth. I am having the knowledge about FSF-I limited around the website and this list, (doesn't have any idea about how can I help, so anticipated that if anything ) You can help if you come a little earlier to the event, because we need volunteers to do a variety of things. You can choose any type of work that is fit for your mood, attitudes, abilities and so on and it will be all the more fun and exciting for all of us. > Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Will not be impatient, (I now think I had been impatient in process of Registration also), but now you might have got the idea of my eagerness, and again beg your pardon for spoiling The fine Monday Morning. Dont be apologetic, we are all in the same boat and are eager to see things move fast. Within two days (possibly today itself) you will hear announcements about the details of topics and resource persons of the pre-conference tutorial. But my contention was : Are all the Arrangements left to them only, without any helping hands ?or People are helping them but the discussions are offlist/ in person. When an event is scheduled to happen at a particular geographical location, naturally those available around can only help in the logistics of the event at least in the initial period. Of course, those from other parts of the country can do help during the event which is always welcome from anyone. I didn't intended to break the privacy of anyone, but i was eager to know more about people I am going to see, and if it was a unfair, I dont have to ask anything about it. I was sure about your pristine intentions, but sadly everyone cant be expected to agree with your request. OTOH I request those prticipants to give me their contacts offlist, That would be fine. Also by around 5th July, we will create another list for participants to inform them programs, announcements and to answer if the partipants have any querries. if they can help this newcomer to understand this field when i am there at Tutorials and Conference.... Dont worry, most of the tutorial presentations will be made available well in advance and the URLs will be sent to you, so that you will be familiar with the topics/issues that are being covered in the tutorial. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 09:09:16 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Vinay George) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:09:16 +0400 Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat References: Message-ID: <002e01c0fe1f$ae8aff00$c488a9ca@arackal.co.in> Hi I getting both slashdot and freshmeat................. Vinay _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 11:56:46 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Suraj Kumar S.) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:26:46 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: ; from raj@gnu.org.in on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:20:23PM +0530 References: Message-ID: <20010626172646.A21642@in.inapp.com> raj, it was some local routing problem of asianet. On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:20:23PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The > ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 13:16:55 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:46:55 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: <20010626172646.A21642@in.inapp.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Suraj Kumar S. wrote: > raj, it was some local routing problem of asianet. No. The main Andover.net router melted, taking /. fm and others off. That was the reason. I posted the mail on sunday, due to some problem it only turned up today. raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 08:15:30 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Amitabh Trehan) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' visit to Delhi In-Reply-To: <15151.39218.304826.244781@mail.linux-delhi.org> Message-ID: <20010628081530.17787.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> I've been hearing here(Delhi) that Stallman is likely to visit IIT delhi. Is that true? Amitabh --- Raju Mathur wrote: > Hi, > > Any updates on when RMS is likely to be in Delhi and > if anything is > fixed up? We'd like to plan given the itinerary. > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org > http://kandalaya.org/ > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india ===== ######============================############# TrYinG To TaCkLe (La)TeX & Co. #####=============================############# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 09:22:09 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Loic Dachary) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:22:09 +0200 Subject: [FSF-India] FSF France activity report Message-ID: <15162.63297.795588.239607@dachary.org> Hi, I'd like to share with you our activity report. You will find more information about our activities in France at http://france.fsfeurope.org/index.en.html. You will also see links to GNU or FSF reprensentations world wide in the top right menu bar, including FSF India ;-) Take care, ----- http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-20-01.en.html FSF France activity report The [1]FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the [2]FSF and the [3]FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. Building the [4]administrative and [5]informational infrastructure came first. It's an endless task but we had to create something to begin with: a [6]machine located in France that is integrated to the [7]GNU project and a [8]French non profit organization. Then it was necessary to establish working relationships with the French association acting since years for the Free Software movement in France: [9]APRIL. Cooperation between organizations requires some amount of magic. After two [10]brainstormings, an [11]exhibition, a [12]fiesta and many GNU project related activities the magic apparently worked. [13]APRIL members feel they belong to [14]the french chapter of FSF Europe (FSF France) and [15]FSF France members feel they belong to [16]APRIL. A French association dedicated to Free Software in education ([17]OFSET) recently united to [18]FSF Europe and we expect the same symbiosis From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 09:22:09 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Loic Dachary) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:22:09 +0200 Subject: [FSF-India] FSF France activity report Message-ID: <15162.63297.795588.239607@dachary.org> Hi, I'd like to share with you our activity report. You will find more information about our activities in France at http://france.fsfeurope.org/index.en.html. You will also see links to GNU or FSF reprensentations world wide in the top right menu bar, including FSF India ;-) Take care, ----- http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-20-01.en.html FSF France activity report The [1]FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the [2]FSF and the [3]FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. Building the [4]administrative and [5]informational infrastructure came first. It's an endless task but we had to create something to begin with: a [6]machine located in France that is integrated to the [7]GNU project and a [8]French non profit organization. Then it was necessary to establish working relationships with the French association acting since years for the Free Software movement in France: [9]APRIL. Cooperation between organizations requires some amount of magic. After two [10]brainstormings, an [11]exhibition, a [12]fiesta and many GNU project related activities the magic apparently worked. [13]APRIL members feel they belong to [14]the french chapter of FSF Europe (FSF France) and [15]FSF France members feel they belong to [16]APRIL. A French association dedicated to Free Software in education ([17]OFSET) recently united to [18]FSF Europe and we expect the same symbiosis From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 1 14:26:52 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 19:56:52 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller Message-ID: <011501c0eaa8$12bc27a0$a6e8013d@compaq> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 = microcontrollers in missiles and space vehicle control. 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------=_NextPart_000_00DF_01C0EAD5.00725380-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 1 17:26:59 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Anil Kumar) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller In-Reply-To: <011501c0eaa8$12bc27a0$a6e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: did you try VSSC library? On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nitin S wrote: > I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 microcontrollers in > missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. > > regards nitin > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " > > * Nitin Skandan > * Second year > * M tech Control systems > * College of engineering > * Trivandrum > * Kerala 691021 > > * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > ______________________________________________________________________________ > > > -- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sat Jun 2 18:15:43 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 23:45:43 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] microcontroller References: Message-ID: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> tryingg but it would have been nice if theres somebody working in that area ----- Original Message ----- From: Anil Kumar To: Cc: Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [FSF-India] microcontroller > > did you try VSSC library? > > > On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nitin S wrote: > > > I am looking for a seminar baseed on application of 80C51 microcontrollers in > > missiles and space vehicle control. But even after trying hard i cudnt find any reference about it. can any body help me. with some idea. > > > > regards nitin > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > > > " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " > > > > * Nitin Skandan > > * Second year > > * M tech Control systems > > * College of engineering > > * Trivandrum > > * Kerala 691021 > > > > * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > > ____________________________________________________________________________ __ > > > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 3 11:32:05 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Satyakam Goswami) Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 17:02:05 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS itenary In-Reply-To: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> References: <005301c0eb90$0adabfe0$7898c5cb@compaq> Message-ID: <1364.192.168.0.1.991567925.squirrel@mail.archeanit.net> Hello, What is the iteinary of Mr Stallman, can anyone brief us on that. especially where all he will be visiting apart from Kerala. S.Goswami ---------------------------- Archean Infotech Victory Vihar,Himayatnagar Hyderabad 500029,www.archeanit.com Ph:3228666,6570704,3228674 Mobile:9849016667 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 4 07:36:27 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:06:27 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS itenary In-Reply-To: <1364.192.168.0.1.991567925.squirrel@mail.archeanit.net> Message-ID: On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 at 17:02, Satyakam Goswami wrote: What is the iteinary of Mr Stallman, can anyone brief us on that. especially where all he will be visiting apart from Kerala. 17 July 2001 -- Bombay -- arrival 17 July 2001 -- talk at the Homi Babha Hall (TIFR) 18 July 2001 -- Trivandrum -- arrival 20 July 2001 -- Inauguration of FSF India 21 July 2001 -- talks to the students (foornoon) College of Engineering, Trivandrum session with Technopark community (afternoon) 24 July 2001 -- talk at the Model Engineering College, Kochi 24 July 2001 -- departure to Baroda (we dont have any idea of (evening) RMS' Baroda program) 3/4 Aug 2001 -- talk at the IIT, Delhi 4/5 Aug 2001 -- Fly out of India -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 4 08:04:23 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 13:34:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' talk at New York Univ. Message-ID: If you are interested to read Richard Stallman's talk at the New York University on 29 May 2001, please visit our `what's new' page, the pointers for downloading the document in pdf format and TeX sources are available there: http://gnu.org.in/news/whatsnew.html The document is 24p long, 290 KB file size and source file size is 110 KB. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 6 04:21:34 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:51:34 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Interview Message-ID: <3B1DAFCE.D4B2AA0B@ti.com> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/05/122240&mode=thread Anyone who is interested in legal aspects of Free Software *must* read this interview. -- Ramakrishnan M World Wide Web: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win." -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Fri Jun 8 19:37:37 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 01:07:37 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] schools, trinity, australia Message-ID: Here is an exciting story. Trinity drinks deeply at learning's open source Tuesday 05 June, 2001 By NATHAN COCHRANE A non-stop flow of students interrupts the interview in the Trinity College computer lab. "You can tell it's popular," system administrator and programmer Tim Bell says of the lab. Trinity College, at Melbourne University, threw open the doors to open source in December last year when it discarded its Windows NT network. Educators and technical staff wanted a better, cheaper way to teach the 750 overseas students in its Foundation Studies tertiary bridging course, which introduces Western concepts and computing skills. The old PCs were replaced with Hewlett-Packard e-pcs, referred to as thin clients because they do not not run bulky software on hard disk drives. They boot up with the Debian Linux Free Software operating system either off the network or from flash memory cards. The biggest benefits to educators of open source are cost, simplicity and flexibility, says Trinity ITT manager Richard Wraith. The idea to go with a network-centric open source strategy came to him after spotting Sun Microsystems' Sun Rays at a Canberra conference last year. He says after initial scepticism, students and staff have taken to the network with enthusiasm. "We saw the idea for Sun Rays, although they missed a fundamental point," says Wraith. "The Sun model means you need a high-capacity network and powerful servers." "It needs a gigabit backbone - that's stupid," Bell chimes in. "This makes sense for Sun because they have these big boxes they want to sell but ... it didn't make sense for us because our old fibre backbone will only support 100 Mbps." Although the lab uses Debian with the GNOME desktop environment, Trinity was stuck with its Windows 2000 desktop licences. They sit, unused and unopened, in a cupboard. After being assured the HP clients would run Linux, "we couldn't get through to anyone who could give us boxes without Windows," says Wraith. By booting from the network, desktop administration is streamlined as software is deployed from a central server, saving time and cost. Clients are swapped in and out quickly, and consistent and rigorous security is maintained. The result is a lower total cost of ownership, Bell says. The transition removed the need for Microsoft's Office. Word, Excel and Powerpoint were replaced with open source equivalents AbiWord, GNUmeric, and the Photoshop-like GNU Image ManiPulator (GIMP). Presentation packages are not taught but if they were, KPresenter, part of the free KOffice suite, would be the likely candidate, says Wraith. The team stresses that software selection is not fixed and the easy availability of open source applications means the curriculum can quickly change tack. "We're educating, not training," Bell says. "The argument we're talking about here is: `You have to teach Microsoft Word'. "Why are you teaching people Hamlet? They won't use it in the real world. You can take that argument and put it in another area and it's nonsensical. So why do people insist on using it in computing?," Wraith says. "We do teach them word processing and spreadsheets and GIMP," says Linux guru and computing lecturer Mike Williams, "but we're also teaching the students the concepts behind them." By discovering the concepts, students are less fearful of computers than they might be if they were only narrowly trained to use a program, he says. Williams was brought in by computing lecturer-in-charge Simon Wilkinson, a self-confessed former "Bill Gates man". Wilkinson says his transition from complete ignorance of open source to user and finally evangelist was swift and painless, in part due to his computer science background. "The beauty of open source is we could find applications if we needed to," Wilkinson says. "We can go from one word processor to the next seamlessly. "We're developing a culture where (students) are not afraid to try new things, and that was due particularly because I wasn't scared of anything." Part of that culture is the free, object-oriented programming language, Python. It is the first language to gain wide and growing acceptance since Sun's Java started percolating through businesses and universities. Python's streamlined syntax is well suited to education while its object orientation makes it attractive to commerce. Dutch mathematician Guido van Rossum invented Python in 1990. It evolved from a '80s programming teaching language, ABC, which "subliminally influenced" Python's design, he says. He has lobbied Trinity to release its course materials so other educators can benefit. Code is interpreted so the feedback loop between language and student is not slowed by compiling. This speeds the learning process because mistakes are rapidly corrected and good style immediately reinforced. "Since early 1999, I've been actively lobbying for the use of Python as a teaching language," Van Rossum says. "Before then, I knew that people were teaching Python to beginners succesfully, but it wasn't something that was particularly on my own radar." Python has spread to schools throughout the world. It sports an active e-mail list and Web-based materials to support its spread among educators. Python runs on Windows, UNIX, Linux, DOS, OS/2, Mac, Amiga and hendhelds such as Palm and WindowsCE. Vancouver software tools maker, Active State, is porting Python to Microsoft's .NET initiative. Python exhibits all the hallmarks of a modern language - modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing - and interfaces to modern windowing systems such as Mac, X11 and Motif. It supports XML for e-commerce and mobile applications. Integrated development environments are widely used. The commercial world has seen the benefits, with Infoseek coding 28,000 lines of its UltraSeek Server search engine in Python. Google, Nortel, ABN Amro, Real Networks, and NASA are among hundreds of commercial and research users. Animators at Industrial Light and Magic used Python to code parts of the new Star Wars trilogy. Disney animators and games designers code multimedia sequences with it. Van Rossum says Python teaches object-oriented programming without the intellectual overhead of other learning languages. "Pascal totally misses the trend of object-oriented programming, which is essential for building or using today's large systems. "BlueJ is Java-based, and the main problem I have with Java as a first language - although it's much better than C++ - is that the students have to memorise a lot of meaningless details in order to do the simplest things. "Every time there's an opportunity to get a weird compilation error due to a missing or misplaced semicolon, teacher and student time is wasted finding, explaining and correcting the problem that could be better spent learning the fundamental concepts of programming and algorithms." "We don't have to deal with vendors or licenses. From a management perspective it's so compelling," says Trinity's Wraith. "We'd rather have skills in-house and invest money in our own people rather than other companies' people. If you're tied to a vendor it takes the control out of your hands." LINKS trinity.unimelb.edu.au www.python.org www.hp.com/desktops/epc/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 12 14:11:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Jayan S R) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 19:41:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: <3B1DAFCE.D4B2AA0B@ti.com> Message-ID: hi all while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. XFree86 complied with no errors, but when i run make install ( this is where it compiles some of the X programs like xterm etc ) I got few errors. 1. cannot find lz ( this is the Zlib library. All the libz.so.. are present in /usr/lib but the static lib was missing. oops I did not install it ok I unpacked the src and built a static lib and copied to /usr/lib and ran ldconfing. -- that error was fixed!! 2. ncurses was missing ok i managed to get the source compiled and installd and -- that error too fixed!! after all the process It is giving one more error which I could not fix. Too many levels of symlinks aborting ...................... Error make failed... ........ any ideas why this happens? or am I missing something. regards -- jsr From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 08:32:19 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:02:19 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian References: Message-ID: <3B272513.443746D9@ti.com> > while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. > > XFree86 complied with no errors, but when i run make install ( this is > where it compiles some of the X programs like xterm etc ) I got few > errors. > > 1. cannot find lz ( this is the Zlib library. All the libz.so.. > are present in /usr/lib but the static lib was missing. oops I did not > install it ok I unpacked the src and built a static lib and copied to > /usr/lib and ran ldconfing. -- that error was fixed!! > 2. ncurses was missing ok i managed to get the source compiled and > installd and -- that error too fixed!! First of all where did you download the sources from? The best thing would be to download the sources from debian archives itself, as it will have (probably) debian specific fixes to Makefile and other things added. Also it will download and install (if you use 'apt-get source packagename') the various dependencies of the source required to compile. -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 08:56:55 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (harshu) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:26:55 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20010613142655.A261@hd2.vsnl.net.in> hi, i had faced this problem some time ago. i have attached the suggestions made on the ilughyd. hope that helps. i couldn't test it out as my machine crashed beyond recovery. regards harsha On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 07:41:11PM +0530, Jayan S R wrote: > while compling XFree86-4 on Debian. > > > Too many levels of symlinks aborting > ...................... > Error make failed... > ........ > > any ideas why this happens? or am I missing something. > ---------- hi, i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this error occur ? harsha make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/oclock' installing in programs/proxymngr... make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' + install -c -m 0444 PM.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM + install -c -m 0444 PMproto.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM install -c proxymngr /usr/X11R6/bin/proxymngr install -c -m 0444 pmconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic links ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ make[3]: *** [install] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' make[2]: *** [install] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs' make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc' make: *** [install] Error 2 --- bsd_linux wrote: > hi, > i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. > too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this > error occur ? This happens when one of your symlinks is directly or indirectly pointing to itself. Example: >> ln -s file /tmp >> ls -l /tmp/file lrwxrwxrwx 1 prakashk prakashk 4 Apr 2 16:40 /tmp/file -> file >> cat /tmp/file cat: /tmp/file: Too many levels of symbolic links >> namei /tmp/file f: /tmp/file d / d tmp l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file l file -> file *** EXCEEDED UNIX LIMIT OF SYMLINKS *** As you can see, 'namei' shows where the circular reference is. /prakash > harsha > > > > > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/oclock' > installing in programs/proxymngr... > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/work/xc/programs/proxymngr' > + install -c -m 0444 PM.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM > + install -c -m 0444 PMproto.h /usr/X11R6/include/X11/PM > install -c proxymngr /usr/X11R6/bin/proxymngr > install -c -m 0444 pmconfig /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig > install: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/proxymngr/pmconfig: Too many levels of symbolic > links > [..snip..] bsd_linux [Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:18:05AM +0530] > hi, > i was trying to compile XFree86 4.0.3. the result was this error. > too many levels of sym links. what does this mean and when does this error occur ? > > harsha > Looks like Ur installing over an existing installation by using 'make install' Right. If so please rm or mv the existing installations and then give it a try. I am sure it will work then on. This problem occured to me when I tried installing xf 4.0.2 over my 3.3.6. And I did the same. Bye Raghuram Vijapurapu From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 13 12:03:44 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Jayan S R) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 17:33:44 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] compiling XFree86-4 in debian In-Reply-To: <20010613142655.A261@hd2.vsnl.net.in> Message-ID: On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, harshu wrote: > hi, > i had faced this problem some time ago. i have attached the suggestions made on the ilughyd. hope that helps. i couldn't test it out as my machine crashed beyond recovery. > > regards > harsha thanks harshu, it worked. It was because i was doing make install over the same dir after making corrections to the missing libs. regards jsr From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sat Jun 16 11:51:04 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Nitin S) Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 17:21:04 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets Message-ID: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy logic _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy=20 logic
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0021_01C0F688.B91944C0-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 18 03:53:00 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Preetham Shimoga) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:23:00 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets References: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: <3B2D7B1C.9B8452ED@wipro.com> hi, i dont know how my name got attached to this club, can anyone take out my name from this mailing list thanks Preetham Nitin S wrote: > Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy > logic ______________________________________________________________________________ " > One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. > No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin > Skandan > * Second year > * M tech Control systems > * College of engineering > * Trivandrum > * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 > ________________________________________ > _____________________________________ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 18 03:45:46 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (R Sreekumar) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:15:46 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets References: <002401c0f65a$b24db320$c1e8013d@compaq> Message-ID: <000901c0f7a9$29b782c0$770110ac@ncb.ernet.in> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Genetic Algorithms by Goldberg gives a complete picture about GE. There = are lot of sites which give examples of usage of genetic algorithms. Sreekumar ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Nitin S=20 To: fsf-india@gnu.org.in=20 Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 5:21 PM Subject: [FSF-India] fuzzysets Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and fuzzy = logic = _________________________________________________________________________= _____ " One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.=20 No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man " * Nitin Skandan * Second year * M tech Control systems=20 * College of engineering * Trivandrum * Kerala 691021 * Ph no: 91-474 740259 = =20 = _________________________________________________________________________= _____ ------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Genetic Algorithms by Goldberg gives a = complete=20 picture about GE.  There are lot of sites which give examples of = usage of=20 genetic algorithms.
 
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Is there anybody here who has idea of genetic algorithms and = fuzzy=20 logic
 
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------=_NextPart_000_0006_01C0F7D7.426330C0-- From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 15:50:54 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (fsf-india@gnu.org.in) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 21:20:54 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Software Message-ID: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> Hi - I need to prepare a network for a construction firm for the sections: * General Accounts * Cash * Registration certificates offered to their associates * Building plans and * Service file of their employees. It's mandatory to have GUI as the building plans would be scanned copies of the original sanctioned building plans. I think MySQL should be a good for the database part but can the building plans thing, be incorporated in that too ? And, what software would you people recommend, if we have something in open source, that would suffice these for me. Also would it be possible to implement something like, a main server connected with the terminals on a LAN or it would be mandatory to keep every machine with hard disk support. I'm basically a novice and this is sort of a project work for me. Any and all suggestions would greatly be appreciated. Thanks! From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 18:25:54 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Raju Mathur) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:55:54 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' visit to Delhi Message-ID: <15151.39218.304826.244781@mail.linux-delhi.org> Hi, Any updates on when RMS is likely to be in Delhi and if anything is fixed up? We'd like to plan given the itinerary. Regards, -- Raju -- Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 19 18:27:03 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Raju Mathur) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 23:57:03 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Software In-Reply-To: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> References: <005401c0f8d9$2511f760$1871c5cb@corp> Message-ID: <15151.39287.786087.648274@mail.linux-delhi.org> You can use GNUCash as the base for building on. http://www.gnucash.org/ Regards, -- Raju >>>>> "charmie" == charmie writes: charmie> Hi - I need to prepare a network for a construction firm charmie> for the sections: charmie> * General Accounts * Cash * Registration certificates charmie> offered to their associates * Building plans and * charmie> Service file of their employees. -- Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Wed Jun 20 10:19:58 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (titty jacob) Date: 20 Jun 2001 04:19:58 MDT Subject: [[FSF-India] Software] Message-ID: <20010620101958.15406.qmail@nwcst281.netaddress.usa.net> charmie@caltiger.com wrote: >Also would it be possible to implement something like, a main server >connected with the terminals on a LAN or it would be mandatory to keep >every machine with hard disk support. Link to the site www.ltsp.org for remote booting Diskless Workstations over a network. Lv. Tt ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 21 04:47:58 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:17:58 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] what constitutes your GNU/Linux? Message-ID: <3B317C7E.83D939B8@ti.com> A detailed analysis of RH7.1 distro about the various constituents, and their licences... As expected GPL remains at number one... http://www.dwheeler.com/sloc/redhat71-v1/redhat71sloc.html -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 24 05:35:37 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Denish Makadia) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 11:05:37 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Freedom First - Activities. Message-ID: <001601c0fc6f$855b5aa0$6d6efea9@jignesh> Hello all, Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. denish _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 25 05:34:25 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:04:25 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Freedom First - Activities. In-Reply-To: <001601c0fc6f$855b5aa0$6d6efea9@jignesh> Message-ID: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 at 11:05, Denish Makadia wrote: Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. In the first place there is enough time of three weeks left now for the event. And the tentative dates of the program are available on the web site. Secondly, the working group convened on the last weekend to finalize dates and logistics. It's only Monday morning now, the authorized persons have to draft it and release to the main list. After all, FSF India do not enjoy the luxury of an office with supporting staff, so all things are at the mercy of time and efforts of the volunteers. As you can imagine, volunteers have pressures at their work especially in the beginning of a week. Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with What a few at Trivandrum can accomplish without the help and support of you people? I'm afraid the question ebbs from misapprehensions which is unwarranted in the light of what we have done so far. offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. I would respectfully disagree with this demand, it relates to the privacy of other persons. Are we authorized to reveal the names of the participants? The list has to decide. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 03:02:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Ramakrishnan M) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 08:32:11 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Half God, Half Dirty GNU Hippy Message-ID: <3B37FB33.D3DCDC78@ti.com> This is about Richard M Stallman http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2001/6/24/235140/350 -- Ramakrishnan M GPG: 1024D/6A9F3C38 WWW: http://www.symonds.net/~rkrishnan/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Mon Jun 25 04:53:11 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 10:23:11 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] MS provides GPLd software Message-ID: Hi, For all the MS ranting about GPL, they infact provide software under GPL and the source is available in a microsoft.com address. After all, All we said that GPL is not good for YOUR business not ours :) ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/developr/interix/ make sure to read gpl.txt in this directory. This is the main page http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/interix/ raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Sun Jun 24 09:50:23 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 15:20:23 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat Message-ID: Hi, I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 05:46:28 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Tirthankar C.P) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 10:46:28 +0500 (GMT+0500) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rajkumar S. wrote: > Hi, > > I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The > ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? > Freshmeat is fine. No problems there. -tir > raj > > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india > Tirthankar C.Patnaik Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research Ring:+91-22-840 0919/20/21 From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 06:36:17 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Denish Makadia) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:06:17 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] [LONG] Freedom First - Activities. References: Message-ID: <00e001c0fe0d$05666340$6d6efea9@jignesh> Hello, Sorry for being impatient and shooting a mail with questions only, instead of offering some help.and Thanks for taking all the pain. I feel that i am misunderstood, and would like to clear contentions of my previous mail.For more clarity, few lines about me. I am not connected with Computer Profession, and attracted to FSF purely by the Philosophy it ( would have used WE) holds, and quite exited to meet the people in person who leave by that philosopy and unselfish motives. Moreover I would be attending first Conference in *Computers * field, at which I am a novice.{I am an Engineer in Plastics and work as a Works Manager with some organisation in Baroda. } ----- Original Message ----- From: Radhakrishnan CV > Doesn't hear much about Conference on the list. I am having the knowledge about FSF-I limited around the website and this list, (doesn't have any idea about how can I help, so anticipated that if anything ) > In the first place there is enough time of three weeks left now for > the event. And the tentative dates of the program are available on > the web site. > > Secondly, the working group convened on the last weekend to finalize > dates and logistics. It's only Monday morning now, the authorized > persons have to draft it and release to the main list. After all, > FSF India do not enjoy the luxury of an office with supporting > staff, so all things are at the mercy of time and efforts of the > volunteers. As you can imagine, volunteers have pressures at their > work especially in the beginning of a week. > > Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Will not be impatient, (I now think I had been impatient in process of Registration also), but now you might have got the idea of my eagerness, and again beg your pardon for spoiling The fine Monday Morning. > Is everything arranged by few at Trivandrum? or its dealt with > > What a few at Trivandrum can accomplish without the help and support I fully agree, and extend my support at anything i would be able to do, and can detail more of my capabilities offlist if required. But my contention was : Are all the Arrangements left to them only, without any helping hands ?or People are helping them but the discussions are offlist/ in person. > of you people? I'm afraid the question ebbs from misapprehensions > which is unwarranted in the light of what we have done so far. I have a little idea about it since my lurking around FD.net and FD india. (hope i am there in Archives :) and I highly appriciate the efforts put by all of them who had made this to happen in India, and I always wish to be a part of it if time permits. > offlist? Would like to know about Participants to be present. > > I would respectfully disagree with this demand, it relates to the > privacy of other persons. Are we authorized to reveal the names of > the participants? The list has to decide. > I didn't intended to break the privacy of anyone, but i was eager to know more about people I am going to see, and if it was a unfair, I dont have to ask anything about it. OTOH I request those prticipants to give me their contacts offlist, if they can help this newcomer to understand this field when i am there at Tutorials and Conference.... Hope that I had cleared the things, and would be allowed to know the things at depth ( to the extent i am found to be fit.) Thanking Again. Denish Makadia _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 07:29:26 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Radhakrishnan CV) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 12:59:26 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] [LONG] Freedom First - Activities. In-Reply-To: <00e001c0fe0d$05666340$6d6efea9@jignesh> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 at 12:06, Denish Makadia wrote: Sorry for being impatient and shooting a mail with questions only, instead of offering some help.and Thanks for taking all the pain. No problems, it is all part of any such efforts. I am not connected with Computer Profession, and attracted to FSF purely by the Philosophy it ( would have used WE) holds, Excellent. We need people like you to come forward to take the message to the people. and quite exited to meet the people in person who leave by that philosopy and unselfish motives. Moreover I would be attending first Conference in *Computers * field, at which I am a novice.{I am an Engineer in Plastics and work as a Works Manager with some organisation in Baroda. } It is the user community that we value much and indeed they are the starting point of any change that Free Software can bring forth. I am having the knowledge about FSF-I limited around the website and this list, (doesn't have any idea about how can I help, so anticipated that if anything ) You can help if you come a little earlier to the event, because we need volunteers to do a variety of things. You can choose any type of work that is fit for your mood, attitudes, abilities and so on and it will be all the more fun and exciting for all of us. > Be patient, the details will appear very very soon. Will not be impatient, (I now think I had been impatient in process of Registration also), but now you might have got the idea of my eagerness, and again beg your pardon for spoiling The fine Monday Morning. Dont be apologetic, we are all in the same boat and are eager to see things move fast. Within two days (possibly today itself) you will hear announcements about the details of topics and resource persons of the pre-conference tutorial. But my contention was : Are all the Arrangements left to them only, without any helping hands ?or People are helping them but the discussions are offlist/ in person. When an event is scheduled to happen at a particular geographical location, naturally those available around can only help in the logistics of the event at least in the initial period. Of course, those from other parts of the country can do help during the event which is always welcome from anyone. I didn't intended to break the privacy of anyone, but i was eager to know more about people I am going to see, and if it was a unfair, I dont have to ask anything about it. I was sure about your pristine intentions, but sadly everyone cant be expected to agree with your request. OTOH I request those prticipants to give me their contacts offlist, That would be fine. Also by around 5th July, we will create another list for participants to inform them programs, announcements and to answer if the partipants have any querries. if they can help this newcomer to understand this field when i am there at Tutorials and Conference.... Dont worry, most of the tutorial presentations will be made available well in advance and the URLs will be sent to you, so that you will be familiar with the topics/issues that are being covered in the tutorial. -- Radhakrishnan From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 09:09:16 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Vinay George) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 13:09:16 +0400 Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat References: Message-ID: <002e01c0fe1f$ae8aff00$c488a9ca@arackal.co.in> Hi I getting both slashdot and freshmeat................. Vinay _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 11:56:46 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Suraj Kumar S.) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 17:26:46 +0530 Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: ; from raj@gnu.org.in on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:20:23PM +0530 References: Message-ID: <20010626172646.A21642@in.inapp.com> raj, it was some local routing problem of asianet. On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 03:20:23PM +0530, Rajkumar S. wrote: > I am not getting the slashdot and freshmeat for the past 2 days. The > ip is not even pinging. Does any one experience the same problems? From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Tue Jun 26 13:16:55 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Rajkumar S.) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 18:46:55 +0530 (IST) Subject: [FSF-India] Slashdot and Freshmeat In-Reply-To: <20010626172646.A21642@in.inapp.com> Message-ID: On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Suraj Kumar S. wrote: > raj, it was some local routing problem of asianet. No. The main Andover.net router melted, taking /. fm and others off. That was the reason. I posted the mail on sunday, due to some problem it only turned up today. raj From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 08:15:30 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Amitabh Trehan) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 01:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [FSF-India] RMS' visit to Delhi In-Reply-To: <15151.39218.304826.244781@mail.linux-delhi.org> Message-ID: <20010628081530.17787.qmail@web5203.mail.yahoo.com> I've been hearing here(Delhi) that Stallman is likely to visit IIT delhi. Is that true? Amitabh --- Raju Mathur wrote: > Hi, > > Any updates on when RMS is likely to be in Delhi and > if anything is > fixed up? We'd like to plan given the itinerary. > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raju Mathur raju@kandalaya.org > http://kandalaya.org/ > _______________________________________________ > http://gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-india ===== ######============================############# TrYinG To TaCkLe (La)TeX & Co. #####=============================############# __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 09:22:09 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Loic Dachary) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:22:09 +0200 Subject: [FSF-India] FSF France activity report Message-ID: <15162.63297.795588.239607@dachary.org> Hi, I'd like to share with you our activity report. You will find more information about our activities in France at http://france.fsfeurope.org/index.en.html. You will also see links to GNU or FSF reprensentations world wide in the top right menu bar, including FSF India ;-) Take care, ----- http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-20-01.en.html FSF France activity report The [1]FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the [2]FSF and the [3]FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. Building the [4]administrative and [5]informational infrastructure came first. It's an endless task but we had to create something to begin with: a [6]machine located in France that is integrated to the [7]GNU project and a [8]French non profit organization. Then it was necessary to establish working relationships with the French association acting since years for the Free Software movement in France: [9]APRIL. Cooperation between organizations requires some amount of magic. After two [10]brainstormings, an [11]exhibition, a [12]fiesta and many GNU project related activities the magic apparently worked. [13]APRIL members feel they belong to [14]the french chapter of FSF Europe (FSF France) and [15]FSF France members feel they belong to [16]APRIL. A French association dedicated to Free Software in education ([17]OFSET) recently united to [18]FSF Europe and we expect the same symbiosis From fsf-india@gnu.org.in Thu Jun 28 09:22:09 2001 From: fsf-india@gnu.org.in (Loic Dachary) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:22:09 +0200 Subject: [FSF-India] FSF France activity report Message-ID: <15162.63297.795588.239607@dachary.org> Hi, I'd like to share with you our activity report. You will find more information about our activities in France at http://france.fsfeurope.org/index.en.html. You will also see links to GNU or FSF reprensentations world wide in the top right menu bar, including FSF India ;-) Take care, ----- http://france.fsfeurope.org/news/article2001-05-20-01.en.html FSF France activity report The [1]FSF Europe presence in France started its activity on April 12, a little more than a month ago. We worked hard to launch the core activities that will allow us to implement the goals of the [2]FSF and the [3]FSF Europe : provide Free Software for everything and everyone and protect its existence when it is threatened. Building the [4]administrative and [5]informational infrastructure came first. It's an endless task but we had to create something to begin with: a [6]machine located in France that is integrated to the [7]GNU project and a [8]French non profit organization. Then it was necessary to establish working relationships with the French association acting since years for the Free Software movement in France: [9]APRIL. Cooperation between organizations requires some amount of magic. After two [10]brainstormings, an [11]exhibition, a [12]fiesta and many GNU project related activities the magic apparently worked. [13]APRIL members feel they belong to [14]the french chapter of FSF Europe (FSF France) and [15]FSF France members feel they belong to [16]APRIL. A French association dedicated to Free Software in education ([17]OFSET) recently united to [18]FSF Europe and we expect the same symbiosis