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I am going to try out PyNeko on school kids tomorrow at NIT Calicut as part of FOSSMeet@NITC 2008.

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For a man who once speeded in fancy cars, wrote film reviews for The Picture Goer, corresponded with Hollywood icons Greta Garbo and Norma Shearer, Baba Amte has come a long, long way since that rainy night in Warora. The sight of Tulshiram, a maggot-eaten leper, changed his life forever and Baba Amte was on […]

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I thought I will not touch USB stuff again - after some “exciting” work in the past with a Microchip PIC! Believe me, you have to be in a very peculiar state of mind to read the USB spec!
But host side USB is simple - especially if you don’t get into the kernel […]

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“Data lock-in and subsequent vendor lock-in are some of the most severe issues users are facing today,” says FSFE president Georg Greve. “Yet most people only realise this connection when it is too late and they have effectively lost control over their own data. We are supporting the Document Freedom Day to help raise awareness […]

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The FOSS India Awards have been announced!

Great to see Malayalam TuxType (Mobin and friends, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing, GEC Trichur) and Dhvani (Santhosh, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing) in the winners list!

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Bruce Schneier has this to say:

With enough lock-in, a company can protect its market share even as it reduces customer service, raises prices, refuses to innovate and otherwise abuses its customer base. It should be no surprise that this sounds like pretty much every experience you’ve had with IT companies: Once the industry discovered lock-in, […]

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Microsoft is like the Matrix!
Good writing - though calling Linus a `follower’ of RMS is going a bit too far …
Here are a few more things to read:
Why MS must control OLPC

Bill Gates invades the land of Linus

Yanking the Window shades
And finally:
Yahoo takeover …

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Snake Wrangling for kids, by Jason Briggs is a book for teaching elementary computer programming (through Python) to school kids.
Recently, a few of us had a discussion about translating the book to Malayalam. GNU/Linux is now available in a lot of schools - and a local language version would be a boon to many […]

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A Very Happy New Year to all of you dear readers!
As usual, people are making predictions for 2008 …
Here is one such: Technology in 2008
Prediction (3) should give us joy - we are moving closer to world domination!
On a personal note, I am still running after doctors/hospitals …

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Work on FreeBird has been stalled for some time - I am attending to a few other important personal matters - and, I will not be able to participate in FOSS.IN.
FreeBird is creating a few spin-off’s. The FreeBird-Mini will be a cheaper version based on Atmega processors. I am designing a small single-side PCB […]

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