India plans free software for all

India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.

Promoting OSS: Baby steps

Our productivity suites are open source. Our operating systems are open source. Our database server is open source. I believe that it is only at this point that the suits give up Exchange and become willing to switch to an open source groupware product.

Hanse Colani Rotor House

Compact four-rooms-in-one house.
Designer Luigi Colani has created a space-saving house with a six square meter cylinder inside that contains a bedroom, kitchen and bathroom. The cylinder rotates left or right bringing the room you want into view of the main living room. There's a separate toilet and a small hallway, and everything is controlled with a remote. The house was designed for young professionals who need minimal space while they focus on career...

Open Source in the National Interest

If you haven't read it, you need to take a look. It is one of the most clear-sighted documents on open source that I've yet read, and should banish CIO doubts as to the core benefits of open source: cost savings, security, speed of development, robustness of development, etc.

How-to build a great company

N R Narayana Murthy, Chairman of the Board and Chief Mentor, Infosys Technologies, outlines the key ingredients to building a great company and the role of 'compassionate capitalism' in society.

Turn on PC instantly with LinuxBIOS

Forget Live CDs! Check of Linux Bios. When you start your PC, you have an OS running. You might have seen a Bios that's aware of your mouse. That's nothing. You can run Firefox from the Bios. Software to flash your Bios at this page. Instant On is here today.

Shaheed Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian revolutionary, considered to be one of the most famous martyrs of the Indian freedom struggle. For this reason, he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (the word shaheed means "martyr"). He is also believed by many to be one of the earliest Marxists in India and has been labeled so by the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was one of the leaders and founders of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association.

Leveraging India As India Stands Up

Google TechTalks May 25, 2006 Ashok Jhunjhunwala Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala is Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India and was department Chair till recently. He received his B.Tech degree from IIT, Kanpur, and his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maine. From 1979 to 1981, he was with Washington State University as Assistant Professor. Since 1981, he has been teaching at IIT, Madras. ABSTRACT Dr Ashok Jhunjhunwala has significant expertise in incubating technology to make a difference for the masses in India. Dr. Jhunjhunwala leads the Telecommunications and Computer Networks group (TeNeT) at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. This group is closely working with industry in the development of a number of Telecommunications and Computer Network Systems. TeNeT group has incubated a number of technology companies which work in partnership with TeNeT group to develop world class Telecom Access products. The group has also incubated a company which aims to install and operate telephone and Internet in every village in India. Come here what he as to share from his vast experiences in this field.

Discovery_The_Lost_Temples_of_India.avi

The old temple's of india and their history, its a must see for every indian, who dont know about india.. REMEMBER.. WE are the carriers of our Culture..

INDIA -- -- A Slide Show

A Slide show of INDIA. Just to show that INDIA is not still a slumbering nation. It is filled with energetic powerful capable workforce and youth. It is an attempt to change the minds of Foreigners inflicted by obnoxious portraits of INDIA being created by people (I don?t know who!!) It is also to show our people what we have achieved and what is to be achieved and to imprint strongly in their tender minds that INDIA IS GREAT and WE WOULD MAKE IT GREATER. It is WE who mould OUR country's futute. JAI HIND!! Humble presentation at the feet of Mother India. msyamp@yahoo.com

Uncovering progress in FOSS-based archeology

For a variety of reasons, it makes sense for software in archeology to be open, viewed as a service, and controlled by the user community, as it requires advanced geographical information systems (GIS) and 3-D modeling techniques. In this way, even institutes with very small budgets can play a significant role.

FYI:-

The Arc-Team recently released version 1.1.0 of the ArcheOS, Linux distribution for archeologists (screenshots here), and is eager to receive feedback from the community.

The Internet and Open Source in Archeology (IOSA) research group in Genoa maintains a portal full of valuable resources for the international community.

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