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MIT OpenCourseWare is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
With the publication of 500 courses, MIT OCW offers educational materials from 33 academic disciplines and all five of MIT schools.
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Wikipedia is a multilingual project to create an accurate and comprehensive free-content encyclopedia. Started in January 2001 and they are currently working on 206270 articles in the English version.
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If you have not taken a test drive of Office Suite from OpenOffice.org, I would strongly recommend doing it. Great and cool features and fully compatable with Microsoft Office. Works on Linux, Windows and other UNIX/OS platforms. It is also available for Hindi, Tamil and plans for other Indian languages. It is opensource and costs zero $$$ or rupees. Spread the word around, share the software with your friends and copy it as many times as possible. So now you don't have to fork big money or illegally pirate or copy MS Office Suite:-).
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Project Gutenberg is the Internet's oldest producer of FREE electronic books (eBooks or eTexts). The Project Philosophy is to make information, books and other materials available to the general public in forms a vast majority of the computers, programs and people can easily read, use, quote, and search.
You can also search for Book Titles currently being offered. Happy reading!!
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OpenSource Software CD's in India, almost Free
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"btbytes.com puts the latest and greatest OpenSource softwares in your reach"
Came across this interesting site and valuble service being provided by a fellow desi out in Banglore, India. For all those folks in India, who want to try and use OpenSource Software[read: Free:-)], this service reduces the huge barrier of Net downloads[read: poor internet speeds].
If you are aware of more services like this in India, send a note. Thanks
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Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe
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Even if you don't live or work in EU, this issue will have wider/global ramifications and hence this link on JNTU.net. Make your voice heard. Click the link below and please register your protest. Petitions do work!  .
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Anonymous writes "While taking a nap during a particularly dry session at a scientific conference, a desi MIT professor of brain and cognitive sciences, dreamt that he was writing the entire Bhagavad Gita on a grain of rice.
When he awoke, he did a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the surface area of a grain of rice and the smallest typeface in microphotolithography one might use for 100 pages of Sanskrit. It seemed to him that it might actually work. Read the rest of the story here
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1) KNOPPIX is a bootable CD with a collection of GNU/Linux software, automatic hardware detection, and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices and other peripherals. KNOPPIX can be used as a Linux demo, educational CD, rescue system, or adapted and used as a platform for commercial software product demos. It is not necessary to install anything on a hard disk. Due to on-the-fly decompression, the CD can have up to 2 GB of executable software installed on it. Also check out this location. "Zero to GNU/Linux in Five minutes". Enjoy and spread the word around!
2) Morphix is a modular distribution, with live-cd support and without any configuration (you burn the CD, you put it in your CD-Rom drive, you boot and it works... out of the box).
3) While we are on the subject of Linux running out of a CD, Suse has Live Eval, a must desktop!
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IBM chief hardsells Linux platform
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IBM Corporation, the world's largest infotech company, is hardselling open source software (read Linux) in India. According to senior government officials, Samuel J Palmisano, chairman, IBM Corporation, who is on a three-day visit to India, has raised the pitch for open source software, particularly in government departments, during his meeting with the Information Technology, Communications and Divestment Minister, Arun Shourie, on Tuesday in Delhi. complete story
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Mars Global Surveyor passed a milestone earlier this month when its 100,000th image was added to NASA's online image gallery for the mission. The total number of photographs is now more than twice the combined quantity supplied by the Viking orbiters in the 1970s.....
Click here to read and view some amazing images about Mars!!. While we are on the space, don't forget to view the beyond through Hubble
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This news article is a little old, but still interesting to read that Indian ISPs are coming up with such creative(duh!) ideas. I wonder, does it hurt when they think so hard?:-).
To start, How about some better service and prices for the connectivity(huh!) they already provide?
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From Here to Infinity: Obsessing With the Magic of Primes
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There was an interesting article in "The New York Times (USA)" regarding "Prime Numbers" (prime number? refer to your high-school math notes:-) and how some good work by three Indian Computer Scientists from IIT Kanpur is making a whole lot of difference.
Want more details? check the IITK project and related links.
To visualise the prime numbers and wonder!!, check this cool link. What the techies on the net think? Check this troll on Slashdot.org"
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Interesting stuff on the OS front
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Government officials the world over (I wonder when would India join the ranks?) are getting drawn into the debate over the relative merits of using open source software rather than Microsoft Corp.'s Windows applications and other software developed by vendors who closely guard the intellectual property of their source code. read more about the details here.
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