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Last updated on 20080107

About the name of this site

Some of the material available at this site is configured to be downloaded by the visitors.  Reasons are here .  Links on this page allow you to download all such material.

Material suitable for direct access is listed first :

current  feature

This is usually a short media-file, sometimes in the .mp3 format.  The current feature is changed at irregular intervals; but never more than once a week.    access  the  current  feature

material  for  direct  viewing

deschool        "Deschooling Society" by Ivan Illich
bird                Virinchi's essay "If I were a bird",  while in Std 4
indo-us deal  article by PK Nigam:  "The Nuclear Chessboard" (published on 20070911)
USpassport   article by Boris Johnson:  "My right not to be American"
careers          article by Prayaag Joshi: "Morality of career choices"
gnu/linux           transcript of talks  "gnu/linux ... sociological observations from an Indian perspective"
haroldpinter      Playwright Harold Pinter's acceptance speech for the 2005 Nobel prize
desiderata     things to be desired
byop              Build Your Own Privacy (point-to-point encryption); GPL
keylilla           Keyless protocol for secure file-exchange; GPL
knrica            about  a  new  Indian  organisation
signs             `signs  of  the  times '
science          transcription of Ohmkar's Science Experiment in Std 2
kalaam          transcript of an old speech by  Dr  APJ  Abdul  Kalaam
gujarat           a report from gujarat
chuckles          amusing  stories ,  pictures , . . .
how2talk        suggestions on how to talk at PLUG meetings

`items'  for  download

Material available for download is divided into `items', tabulated below. Each major item is a single compressed archive to be downloaded by the visitor.  For linux systems, each archive is a  .tgz  file.  For dos/windows systems,  each archive is a  .zip  file.

Before downloading any other items, please take a few minutes to download and expand the appropriate version (linux or dos) of the item  how2xpnd .  This is a 4-step procedure  :

1.  Choose your OS : gnu / linux   or dos / windows

2.  Expand the archive you just obtained in 1 :

     For linux, you downloaded the archive  1how2lnx.tgz .
    To expand it,  do the following :   $ gzip  -cd  1how2lnx.tgz  |  tar  xf  -
    This yields the desired local directory,  ./how2xpnd.lnx

     or  [ If your OS is dos or windows, you downloaded the archive 1how2dos.zip .
             To expand it, do the following at the dos-prompt :
             > pkunzip  -d  1how2dos.zip
             This yields the desired local directory,  .\how2xpnd.dos  ]

3.  Familiarise yourself with the contents of the local directory how2xpnd.xxx .  It contains information which enables you to easily acquire, expand, and install/use all other items.  It also provides means for checking each downloaded archive against contamination, before you accept it.

4.  Read the item checkvalues.
 

You are now ready to obtain any item in the following table, by clicking its link below :

item
description
   select
(your
 link for
O.S.)




how2xpnd
   how to download to your machine. download this first.
  then do this:  ... $  gzip  -cd  1how2lnx.tgz  |  tar  xf  -
  (for dos, do this:   >  pkunzip  -d  1how2dos.zip )		   for linux    for dos
 checkvalues
   table of check-values for all downloadable archives
  for linux
for dos




gandhi
   some gandhi quotes.  also complete autobiography in english   for linux   for dos
wrprs
   some pictures (.bmp) and sounds (.wav)
  for linux
 for dos
byop
   `build your own privacy' comm programme, v 0.3.  GPL
  for linux
 for dos
keylilla
   `keyless' protocol for secure exchange of files, v 0.6 .  GPL     for linux for dos



yet to come ...






mhrastri
   devnagri font, Postscript Type 1

gita
   BhugvudGita in Sanskrit, using mhrastri font

nasm
   the NASM assembler.  also sample programmes in NASM. GPL







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date of last site-update :  20080713