via The RISKS Digest by Christopher Ketcham via PGN on 1/29/10 Ever worry that that gadget you spend hours holding next to your head might be damaging your...
Facebook open-sources an internal project to compile PHP to native code. HipHop for PHP: Move Fast http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=358...
"Pinta is an open-source, multi-platform attempt to recreate the Paint.NET experience. It's described as "early in development," but for a 0.1 release, feels...
Whoa...that's great news.... I personally am a huge fan of Paint.NET (It's one of the few s/w's I've recommended to everyone I know!!) Â love Paint.NET except...
... The real hurdle with Paint.NET, for me at least, was that it requires Windows :-) and I practically live in Ubuntu. ... Yeah, I agree... this is possibly...
http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20100215/news02.shtml Nothing really definitive in the article. But why is the GoI going for closed solutions for such...
... Shouldn't this sort of encryption be closed on purpose ? I mean I wouldn't want "good" coders to simply read the code and know everything about me or...
On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Makarand Tapaswi ... I would actually prefer everything being open source. I had a chat with a certain unnamed eminent kernel...
Speed Dreams is a fork of the famous open racing car simulator TORCS, aiming to implement exciting new features, cars, tracks and AI opponents to make a more...
When iPad was launched, LFY had tweeted that Linux based tablet computers will be the killer for iPad. Notion Ink, an Indian startup has been working on a...
<snip> ... Yes, and how do you protect data when the encryption is known to everyone ? Not a fight as such, genuine questions :) ... Yes, agreed! ... Regards...
... The feature I like the most is: Pixel Qi transflective display If it is the same as one I read about, it is possible to read this display in broad daylight...
... By not giving them the keys. Read up on gpg encryption. In a broader sense, compare India, with what was the former country of Tibet. Tibet was called the...
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Makarand Tapaswi ... Public key cryptography. [Apologies to the rest of the list for this one, but..] Aren't you regretting...
... Ah. This is exactly the response I expected from you. So, here we go. Tibet was the "forbidden land". Foreigners were forbidden from entering it. (being...
Forgot to put this link in my previous post - may be of interest. Particularly, the part where teh author was mistaken for a Kashmiri Pandit. Re-read that one...
... A really neat piece - wireless connectivity incl. 3G, AGPS ... the only question is, how much will they be selling it for? If it is below, or around the...
Dear all, This is a kind reminder about our very own FOSS conference GNUnify 2010. The event is sponsored by Mozilla!! Just one day left for the event now. The...
Hi there Can anybody tell me how to setup the BSNL WLL internet connection on Ubuntu as the drivers provided for the modem are for Winxp only Rgds Wilson ...
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, wilson colasso ... If you are on a recent ubuntu, in all probablity, network manager should be able to do it. Then again, I...
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:19 PM, wilson colasso ... In general: 1. Install and use the wvdial dialler package (as root, the first time) to dial out. 2. Once...
... The current versions of NetworkManager(on Ubuntu 9.10) have a tab Mobile Broadband, which is really a dialup connection. Adding one and choosing India as...
hi alll ... have tried this out with 9.10 and yes i can confirm what Dr anil seth says.. BSNL has an option and edgar. the username and pasword are BOTH "cdma"...
... Wait, wait... Dr. Seth, are you saying that it has some sort of dialler built in, to handle dialling? What I vaguely remember Arvind saying (and I may be...
