Links 20/04/2008: Lots of GNU/Linux Distro Releases This Month, Many Conferences
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2008-04-20 10:23:57 UTC
- Modified: 2008-04-20 10:23:57 UTC
Recent Techrights' Posts
- Microsoft Windows Barely Exists in Haiti Anymore
- This trend in Haiti is a "story in progress"
- Free Speech Around the World is Curtailed in the Name of "Protecting Us"
- We have spent many years speaking about how to combat this trend
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- Distractions. Distractions Everywhere.
- distracting from the real solution
- EPO Concerns About the Education and Childcare Allowance Reform (ECAR) and School Liaison Officer (SLO)
- The public deserves to know as it impacts thousands of families
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Monday, March 17, 2025
- IRC logs for Monday, March 17, 2025
- Links 17/03/2025: Weather Changing and Connecting Docker to Localhost
- Links for the day
- The EPO Might Face Critical 'Brain Drain' (Abandonment by the Most Experienced Patent Examiners) This Year
- "a number of colleagues might feel compelled to inform the Administration before the end of May 2025 of their intention to retire as of 1 December 2025."
- Links 17/03/2025: Forced Labour and Memory on Tenstorrent
- Links for the day
- Links 17/03/2025: Live Nation’s DOJ Antitrust Battle Carries on, as Does the Demise of the "Hey Hi" Bubble
- Links for the day
- Links 17/03/2025: "Badly Misled About Covid" and "Gag of America"
- Links for the day
- The Lie or Half-Truth of Clownflare (or Equivalents) Improving Things
- It may seem "cheap" (temporarily) and "fast", but that's just bait
- Enshittification of Online Media
- Now more than ever we must fight for independent press
- War Readiness Means Removing Every Windows Installation and CALEA-Compliant Equipment
- Finland is vulnerable for a whole bunch of reasons
- Reporting Facts is Not a Privacy Violation
- Techrights has long valued and defended privacy
- In the Russian Federation (Russia), Microsoft Isn't Even the 1%
- the government builds "homegrown" (not pertinent parts of them) distros with which to replace Microsoft, not just Windows
- Gemini Links 17/03/2025: "Hack the Planet", Klingnauer Stausee, and Enshittification
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Sunday, March 16, 2025
- IRC logs for Sunday, March 16, 2025
- Slow News Cycles Are Part of a Trend, Technology Gravitating Towards Rich People's Interests
- This issue isn't limited to the Web
- Recent Site Changes and Looking Towards 2026
- In November 2026 we turn 20
- Mozilla Firefox is Probably Already Below 2% in the UK (United Kingdom)
- LibreWolf identifies as "Firefox" by default
- When You Don't Want to Tinker Much You Just Use GNU/Linux, Not Windows
- With GNU/Linux upgrades are possible and, failing that, one can just back up the home directory and copy it "back into" the new OS
- Facebook REALLY, REALLY, R E A L L Y Does Not Want You to Read This Book
- It would be a CRIME to read it
- Coming Soon, the Next Chapter About the Crisis of the Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- We're far from done
- Illuminating Microsoft's Code of Conduct (CoC) Hypocrisy
- Oppressor victimhood? Leadership claimed by the worst offenders?
- Planet Ubuntu - or Ubuntu Planet - Has an LLM Slop Problem (Called Faizul "Piju" 9M2PJU)
- Does investigative reporting have any future at all?
- Links 16/03/2025: Handwriting Comeback and "MElon’s Attack on U.S.A.I.D."
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/03/2025: "Differences Distance" and "Dopamine-addicted Pigeon"
- Links for the day
- Expect GNU/Linux to Rise Sharply in China
- But Red China won't trust Red Hat (IBM), which works for the Pentagon and keeps the "secret sauce" for its OS secret (just what Americans accused China of doing with its distros)
- Links 16/03/2025: American Press Under Attack, "France Offers to Take in US Scientists"
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 16/03/2025: Threats to Canada and How to Process News Online
- Links for the day
- Links 16/03/2025: Growing Tariff Hostilities and Social Media Surveillance
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, March 15, 2025
- IRC logs for Saturday, March 15, 2025
Comments
CoolGuy
2008-04-20 14:34:53
http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm/browse_thread/thread/5187fd263da0e0da
Infosys is running a program called CTY (Catch them young) :There was a preliminary test 4 school children in 9th std.....Then 31 students were selected and given a 10 day class....it covers MS Office 2007,Database design(ms access),ALICE,Introduction 2 SDLC, HTML,VB and a SDLC project.....Food and transportation free...In between there is test 4 wat they hav taught.....atlast one test is there and then 2 children will be selected 2 do a project in infosys in may 2009 with stipend.
more>> http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/08/14/stories/2004081400640200.htm >> http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760194.cms
CoolGuy
2008-04-20 14:35:53
http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm/browse_thread/thread/5187fd263da0e0da
Infosys is running a program called CTY (Catch them young) :There was a preliminary test 4 school children in 9th std.....Then 31 students were selected and given a 10 day class....it covers MS Office 2007,Database design(ms access),ALICE,Introduction 2 SDLC, HTML,VB and a SDLC project.....Food and transportation free...In between there is test 4 wat they hav taught.....atlast one test is there and then 2 children will be selected 2 do a project in infosys in may 2009 with stipend.
more>> http://www.hindu.com/yw/2004/08/14/stories/2004081400640200.htm >> http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/760194.cms
Roy Schestowitz
2008-04-21 00:01:43
It's like a drug industry, isn't it? They even call it "Catch Them Young". They don't even try to hide the plan.