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Good Computing needs Good fonts
2008-05-03 16:15:00 I am blogging after a long break. Last entry was posted during foss.in. In between I posted some occasional responses on my Malayalam blog. But some situations force me to blog, and this is one such I am specifically referring to recent posts by Pravin Satpute and Rahul Balerao. Since they already set the flame on Planet FLOSS india and Planet Fedora , I am contributing my share to it Some Background Swathanthra Malayalam computing (SMC) team was reorganised in 2006 September by Praveen & me and it developed a lot of tools and improved malayalam support in GNU/Linux Desktop. We feel our major achievement is contributing atleast 20 new developers committed to free software. SMC works on upstream, but running our own yum repositories for Fedora 6, 7, & 8 & CentOS 5 and apt repositories for Debian etch, lenny & sid to support old versions in use & to address the delay in getting projects/patches in upstream. Malayam Rendering & Fonts While working on M... More About: Computing , Good
HOWTO Open an OLPC Laptop, Live Demo from FOSS.IN/2007
2007-12-08 08:12:00 See The video from FOSS EXPO Gnome stall in FOSS.IN/2007 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=- 911008751202235387 Karunakar Rocks!!! Conclusion: Total Time needed to open an OLPC Laptop is 2.52 Minutes (including time taken to takeout Battery) Thanks to Santhosh for the video comedy, FOSS.IN/2007, OLPC, UncategorizedShare This More About: Open , Live , Howto , Demo
Wikipedia Offline with Greasemonkey
2007-11-22 14:04:00 Ben Lisbakken writes an faq for usinggoogle gears +greasemonkey to make anysite available offline by describing Wikipedia as an example. Greasemonkey script for offline wikipedia is here google gears, greasemonkey, UncategorizedShare This More About: Offline
SMC-SFD07: Wide news coverage in malayalam dailies
2007-09-16 11:39:00 Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) got widespread support from malayalam mainstream print media for the 2 day (14th & 15th september) software freedom day celebration & the release of 7 software packages developed during last year. It is the time to look at our history. SMC is reactivated from a dead state, as a ... More About: News , Wide , Dailies , Coverage , Ayala
SMC-SFD07: Wide news coverage in malayalam dailies
2007-09-16 11:39:00 Swathanthra Malayalam Computing(SMC) got widespread support from malayalam mainstream print media for the 2 day (14th & 15th september) software freedom day celebration & the release of 7 software packages developed during last year. It is the time to look at our history. SMC is reactivated from a dead state, as a ... More About: News , Wide , Dailies , Coverage
Orkut says Iceweasel is not supported
2007-09-12 06:21:00 The new Joke from the buggy Orkut - The most ugly product from google. It says Iceweasel, a rebranding of firefox as a not supported browser They are recommending the use of Firefox 1.5 or IE6.0 while using Iceweasel 2.0.0.6 . It seems their check depending only on useragents Shame on you ...
Orkut says Iceweasel is not supported
2007-09-12 06:21:00 The new Joke from the buggy Orkut - The most ugly product from google. It says Iceweasel, a rebranding of firefox as a not supported browser They are recommending the use of Firefox 1.5 or IE6.0 while using Iceweasel 2.0.0.6 . It seems their check depending only on useragents Shame on you ...
India Vots No to OOXML with Comments
2007-08-24 07:02:00 Dr. Nagarjuna Writes in FSF-Friends List India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place. Venkitesh Hariharan also reports it. Todays Economic Times & business standard picked up the story. ET ... More About: Comments , Open Document
India Vots No to OOXML with Comments
2007-08-24 07:02:00 Dr. Nagarjuna Writes in FSF-Friends List India votes against ooxml unanimously. the decision of the committee was to disapprove ooxml with comments. The final meeting took place today after 3pm for about an hour and half, and no voting took place. Venkitesh Hariharan also reports it. Todays Economic Times & business standard picked up the story. ET ... More About: Comments , Open Document
Whose Freedom?? Whose Country?? -Some thoughts on India at 60
2007-08-16 19:04:00 Yesterday India n Republic marked its 60th anniversary (an average Indian’s life time) of its independence. yet another Independence Day for the people of India to openly talk of secession. About the secession of the Indian state from the citizens it is supposed to serve. The secession of Indian politicians from the people they are supposed to ... More About: Freedom , Country , Memory , Thoughts
Whose Freedom?? Whose Country?? -Some thoughts on India at 60
2007-08-16 19:04:00 Yesterday India n Republic marked its 60th anniversary (an average Indian’s life time) of its independence. yet another Independence Day for the people of India to openly talk of secession. About the secession of the Indian state from the citizens it is supposed to serve. The secession of Indian politicians from the people they are supposed to ... More About: Freedom , Country , Memory , Thoughts
The ODF vs. OOXML numbers
2007-08-15 06:31:00 Bob Sutor?s Open Blog Points to Ben Langhinrichs‘ s Post on some interesting stats via Google on the relative number of ODF vs. OOXML documents on the web. His numbers show that there are 162,700 ODF documents vs. 1993 OOXML documents, and 26% of the OOXML documents are on microsoft.com ODF vs ooxml, Open Document More About: Numbers , The O , Number
The ODF vs. OOXML numbers
2007-08-15 06:31:00 Bob Sutor?s Open Blog Points to Ben Langhinrichs‘ s Post on some interesting stats via Google on the relative number of ODF vs. OOXML documents on the web. His numbers show that there are 162,700 ODF documents vs. 1993 OOXML documents, and 26% of the OOXML documents are on microsoft.com Share This More About: Numbers , Open Document , Number
New LX installer for Debian GNU/Hurd
2007-07-26 18:02:00 GNU/Hurd aka Complete GNU system is a futuristic project. It was started by the end of 80’s . But was stagnant due to the architectural problems and lack of contributers after the arrival of Linux Kernel & GNU/LInux system. It is way forward from the monolithic kernel Linux to Micro kernel based systems. The Hurd ... More About: Debian
New LX installer for Debian GNU/Hurd
2007-07-26 14:32:00 GNU/Hurd aka Complete GNU system is a futuristic project. It was started by the end of 80’s . But was stagnant due to the architectural problems and lack of contributers after the arrival of Linux Kernel & GNU/LInux system. It is way forward from the monolithic kernel Linux to Micro kernel based systems. The Hurd ... More About: Debian
Harry Potter and The Seeds of Torrent
2007-07-25 06:50:00 When the manuscript of ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?? the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling?was carried by hand from London to New York, the attorney for Scholastic, the book?s American publisher, sat on it throughout the flight. When it was bound and printed, the factory workers who ... More About: Torrent , Seed
Defeat M$ efforts to push Ecma OOXML in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
2007-07-24 16:20:00 M$ is lobbying heavily in Bureau of Indian Stand ards (BIS) for valued Vote (India is a P-Member in ISO) in ISO/IEC JTC1 which is the International Standardization body of Information Technology standards. Dr. Nagarjuna is active in the campaign representing ODFAlliance & Free Software Foundation of India. The history of Discussion is archived at ... More About: Fort , Feat
Harry Potter and The Seeds of Torrent
2007-07-24 03:20:00 When the manuscript of ?Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows?? the seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling?was carried by hand from London to New York, the attorney for Scholastic, the book?s American publisher, sat on it throughout the flight. When it was bound and printed, the factory workers who ... More About: Torrent , Seeds
Defeat M$ efforts to push Ecma OOXML in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
2007-07-23 12:50:00 M$ is lobbying heavily in Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for valued Vote (India is a P-Member in ISO) in ISO/IEC JTC1 which is the International Standardization body of Information Technology standards. Dr. Nagarjuna is active in the campaign representing ODFAlliance & Free Software Foundation of India. The history of Discussion is archived at ... More About: Open Document , Push
Action Alert: Release Saroj Mohanty
2007-07-22 08:53:00 URGENT APPEAL FROM KASHIPUR SOLIDARITY GROUP Saroj Mohanty, poet and long-time activist with Prakrutik Sampad Surakhya Parishad (PSSP), which has over 15 years been opposing the entry of large bauxite mining companies in Kashipur, has been arrested. Saroj was picked up at a railway station in Rayagada District, on Saturday, 14 July. He is currently ... More About: Action , Release , Alert , Lease , Ease
Bergmanbits : a p2p memmorial to life and the films of Ingmar Bergman
2007-07-12 18:56:00 As a tribute to Ingmar Bergman , the Swedish peer-to-peer activists who created the Pirate Bay (a Bittorrent tracker web site) have set up a tracker site called Bergman Bits to help people download Bergman’s films via Bittorrent: Bergman Bits says With the death of Ingmar Bergman, one of the last great film creators, an era has passed ... More About: Life , Films , Piracy
Bergmanbits : a p2p memmorial to life and the films of Ingmar Bergman
2007-07-12 18:56:00 As a tribute to Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish peer-to-peer activists who created the Pirate Bay (a Bittorrent tracker web site) have set up a tracker site called Bergman Bits to help people download Bergman’s films via Bittorrent: Bergman Bits says With the death of Ingmar Bergman, one of the last great film creators, an era has passed ... More About: Technology , Life , Films , Piracy , Memory
OpenDNS shortcuts: Bookmarked web at DNS level
2007-04-30 05:03:00 Yesterday I amazed to see the OpenDNS’s new feature called Shortcut s . Shortcuts are very simple, similar to bookmarks in your browser. OpenDNS shortcuts let you pair a word with a URL so that when you type that word in your address bar, youâ??re taken to that website. These shortcuts work regardless of ... More About: Cuts
Rebirth (Intentional) with contexual ads
2007-04-29 20:02:00 moving republic to ~~unplugged!…. marks the time between ISF to ViBGYOR. In this period, GAIA’s Free Information Infrastructures Initiative renamed as moving republic. blog moved to this place. Last month GAIA decided to allow movingrepublic initiative to create its own society & organisational structure outside GAIA in order to meet ... More About: Tent , Rebirth
Free Software In Indian Social Forum
2006-11-09 11:40:00 I’m Now Blogging from the Media centre of Indian Social Forum (ISF) happening in new delhi. The media centre here is Completly equipped with free software as of WSF 2004 in Mumbai. In WSF 2004 for the first time in WSF history, Free Software helped to keep communications alive by using the technology suits ...
Audio, video & reports from 4th international conferece on GPLv3, Bangalore
2006-08-28 11:10:00 Audio & Video of the speeches of Richard stallman & Eben moglen at 4th Intern ational conference on GPLv3 are available online now. Sankarshan had an entry summarising the Discussions. Some other reports are on Sen’s blog & on Thejesh GN’s Techmag. There is a critical discussion is going on in Kalyan’s blog ... More About: Audio , Bangalore
Names?
2006-07-24 15:14:00 Kailas Raghoji Bichhewar, Bharat Devsing Akde, Sahebrao Gopala Kapse, Vasudeo Deorao Pote, Ganesh Bhimrao Thakare, Manohar Wamanrao Kadu, Jaipal Bhaurao Kharkar, Pralhad Wamanrao Nalakande, Abhay Shyamrao Chavhan, Vikram Maroti Rajurkar, Punaji Natthu Nare, Raju Nanaji Thakre, Mahadeo Motiramâ?¦ And those are just 13 of 655. farmers suicides in vidarbha & it still continues… what about wayanad..? death ... More About: Ames , Names
The long dawn of Indian internet activism
More articles from this author:2006-07-23 10:15:00 Jace summarises the indian internet censorship issue in a wonderful article here censorship, communication Rights , free speech More About: Internet , Indian , Activism , Dawn 1, 2 |
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