The service manager tool is mostly a distro specific tool. We have one common tool in KDE. Gnome lacked one. I always preferred doing it manually. It seems that the problem is now solved and there is a distro independant service manager tool for Gnome. Ubuntu's Breezy pulled in ...

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Atlast the European Parliment rejected a law for patents on software with a huge majority of 648 - 14! (18 didn't turn up for voting or didn't vote; absentees here too?!) A wonderful victory for all the people who where fighting against the software patents. The very first news ...

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Here is yet another Linux distribution. OpenLX! This time from India. Should wait and see if it suceeds!

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Open Source Victoria (OSV), an industry cluster of more than 60 open source and free software providers, has responded to a group of IT teachers who want a simple way to test and deploy Linux servers in schools with a free server software CD.

OSV has developed a free product ...

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Dual boot machines with Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux is more widely seen in the Desktop PCs than a machine which is operated by GNU/Linux alone. Most of the newbies somehow manage to install GNU/Linux on their machine by stealing some space which is used by Windows. But ...

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Eric Raymonds' view that we don't need GPL anymore kindled a flame war again in ILUGC. I hope not only in ILUGC!

What the heck does it mean? I don't go with Eric Raymond!

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I am going home (Tiruvannamalai) today after a couple of months. Tomorrow is my grandparents' 50th marriage anniversary. We planned to go to Tiruvannamali temple and do a small pooja. I am just going to attend it. I will be back at Bangalore by tomorrow evening.

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After a long thoughts, I have settled with the IRC nick prav33n for FreeNode. It was not registered luckily and I have registered it. Because of the unavailabilty of my usual nick 'rocky' on FreeNode, I was forced to do this. As a result, I am now prav33n on GimpNet ...

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Here some IRC snippets that I have recently read from bash.org

<anamexis> oh man
<anamexis> I was opening a coke, right
--> Beefpile (~mbeefpile@cloaked.wi.rr.com) has joined #themacmind
<anamexis> and it exploded
<anamexis> ALMOST all over my keyboard
<anamexis> but I got it away just in time ...

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It was a busy week altogether. Development of new features for Evolution 2.4 kept me fully accoupied throughout this week. I bought my new guitar on last Sunday and there will be a separate post on that topic! Otherwise, this post is to just remind that I am alive.

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