Ubuntu Linux is a Linux distribution which Ubuntu promoters ship to enthusiasts all over the globe. The distribution was featured recently in a daily at Mysore. Excited by the article, Satish places an order for Ubuntu CDs at the Ubuntu shipit webpage.
The CDs arrive promptly, and so does a show cause notice from the Indian customs department asking Satish to provide
“Importer Code Number, Invoice, Purchase Order, Order Confirmation and Technical write-up” failing which he would be fined and/or have the goods confiscated. Here is the letter that Satish sends to the editor of the article (Link):
Yes, it is over an year old now. I never posted them publicly because, frankly, I felt others had better cameras and better photos from the event. But rather than having them languish in some forgotten corner of my computer, I am uploading them to my Flickr account. So here is:
Novell “open sources” its
Netmail product to start off Hula
Server - a new calendar and mail
server available under both LGPL and MPL.
Interestingly, the licence is the more permissive LGPL and not GPL. Perhaps,
this is so that the result of the community work can be integrated into
proprietary solutions like Novell’s own enterprise offerings.
The screenshots look real pretty. I dont see any mention of Evolution in any of
the initial pages. Am sure hoping that Evolution would sure be able to work
with it - after all both the software are now from Novell!
Updated my blog to Wordpress 1.5. The new release has lots more than the last version.
Currently it is running the default Kubrick theme, which I don’t find too bad. Not too many new templates available right now for this version of WP, so I will wait till I decide to change the theme later.
One feature I like is the new anti-spam features. There is an option to prevent open-proxies from posting. You can tag pending comments as spam, so I assume there is an internal blacklist.
From today, I have decided that anybody who wants a copy of any Linux distros
from me, has to buy them from me. In
other words, I am withdrawing the option of giving me blank CDs in exchange for
copies that I burn using my CDs.
The cost per CD is Rs. 20. So an FC3 copy (4 CDs) will cost Rs. 80. I am also
offering an FC3 update CD with updates that I have downloaded from four major
FC3 repositories. This update CD will cost Rs. 20 more (I am not into bundling
freebies :-P ).
Health is going to be a major issue in India in 2005. My previous post in this topic talks about what Brazil did out of desperation to get out the trap in which India just went into.
Yes, I am against product patents in medicine (apart from software patents, of course). Leaving public health care access to companies with only profit-maximizing as their primary motives, and giving government granted monopoly( aka patents) to these companies, is a REALLY BAD MOVE, IMO.
Have come back online somewhat after the motherboard of my workstation got fried. It is still in repairs, and I am having to use a spare box that I had loaned to a friend sometime back. I just had to fit the motherboard from the other box with my present hard disks.
Seeing an existing Linux installation adapt to a completely different system, with hardly any problems gives me such a warm fuzzy feeling, coz’ I know the kind of problems that can happen if you do this with, say … Windows XP? ;) Your machine will lockup and you will have to ask for Microsoft’s permission to work in a different machine with the existing installation.
“I’ve always been skeptical of Rediff’s technical chops (they still have a
bug in their email system that I mailed them about 2-3 times many years
ago) so this comes as no surprise:
My friend Srini from Chennai, who runs a logistics firm, booked a domain
name along with some web space on Rediff. Now, my friend wanted to host his
site elsewhere. So, he had to change his DNS entries on Rediff. Guess what?
Rediff does not allow one to change Name Server entries.
How tall are you, compared to dozens of Hollywood celebrities? This site lets you enter your height and then check how you compare to Brad Pitt, Brooke Shields and scores of others.
After a while, the web login began to irritate me. I couldnt any more do the first thing I normally do in the morning - stretch my hands out underneath the rajai(warm blanket), grope for the power button, switch on the computer and squirm back into the cozy blanket waiting for the mails to get downloaded by the time I really get out of bed.
