http://bunny.medhas.org Things I want to say out loud Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:53:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is an article at law.com titled "Open Source Software Shows Its Muscle". It has been quite some time I have seen a close to 100% pure FUD article. So, I decided to write something in reply. 1) "a round of lawsuits filed by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) against ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2008/06/05/re-open-source-software-shows-its-muscle/ So, I decided to move out of Gmail. I am not moving to Yahoo or any other commercial-they-own-your-data company. We've had our own server space for some time now at medhas.org. I simply installed RoundCube on my server in about 20 minutes and configured it to use my hosting provider ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2007/10/29/moving-out-of-gmail/ Like many others, I've noticed a lot of things over the past few months of Google doing that are definitely evil. Here is the latest one: Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web (The New York Times) Saying that the deals are not exclusive is not an excuse to what ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2007/10/29/more-google-evil/ Many who do the wrong thing do not feel the guilt, but everyone who consciously chooses to do the right thing feels the pleasure. http://bunny.medhas.org/2007/03/09/why-do-the-right-thing/ I wrote another article to the Prajasakti Telugu daily newspaper. In it, I have described problems with using non standard encodings on Indian language websites and solutions available to the users and content providers to convert the content to Unicode. Unlike other articles I have posted, this one is tomorrow's article ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2006/09/20/unicode-for-indian-language-websites/ Recently, I talked at a session to faculty and students of Vignan Engineering College, Hyderabad as a part of two day workshop on Free Software Technologies. I used Fedore Core installer as a means of explaining fundamental concepts like partitions, boot loader and user accounts that are a necessity for ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2006/09/03/installating-fedore-core/ I wrote an article on GNU General Public License to Prasakti Telugu daily newspaper last month. I did not write the introduction to it and I do not like it. http://bunny.medhas.org/2006/09/01/the-gnu-general-public-license/ Sometime back, I gave a tutorial to branch managers at a divisional office of Life Insurance Corporation of India. The tutorial included basics of email communication and word processing in OpenOffice.org Writer. OpenOffice.org tutorials are not in plenty and I spent quite some time deciding the topics for the tutorial. ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2006/09/01/tutorial-on-openofficeorg-writer-and-email-communication-at-lic-india/ I went to my home town and there I helped a buddy install GNU/Linux onto his laptop. Even these days, you sometimes have to tinker with configuration files to get things working. So, I thought I should write it down. Network card - No special configuration required. Goto System->Administration->Networking and specify ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2006/09/01/configuring-ubuntu-drapper-drake-606-on-toshiba-satellite-r15-s822-tablet-pc/ I attended the Workshop on Internationalisation conducted by W3C-India office at Noida on 3rd and 4th of August 2006. The workshop was organised by the W3C Indian office. CDAC and Department of Information and Communications Technology (MIT) are the major participants in the W3C Indian office. W3C works on setting up ... http://bunny.medhas.org/2006/08/09/w3c-india-workshop-on-internationalisation/