Right on the heels the Windows 7 Launch Tweetup, we are holding the Cochin Ubuntu Launch Tweetup at Somewhere Else Cafe, Kadavanthara on 1st November, 2009(Sunday). Join us if you are interested.
For the uninitiated, a tweetup is An organized or impromptu gathering of people that use Twitter. A meet up of people that ‘tweet’ using Twitter. (source)
Coming from a poor and destitute family, Urvashi is encouraged by her mother, Shanta (Sualbha Deshpande) to be on more than friendly terms with a much older male, Keshav Dalvi (Amol Palekar). Keshav takes a liking to young Urvashi, and encourages her to explore her talents in films, which she does, and does gain popularity, starting as a singer, than accomplishing herself as an actress/singer. She decides to marry Keshav, only to be discouraged by her own mother, but she is strong-willed, and does marry him. She has a baby girl after the marriage, but feels stifled and oppressed with Keshav, and has affairs with her co-star Rajan (Anant Nag), a film producer, Sunil Verma (Naseeruddin Shah), but ends up dissatisfied. Then she meets wealthy Vinayak Kale (Amrish Puri), and decides to settle down with him, little knowing that he is already married to another woman, and also has a son. By the time she finds out it is too late, she has already been accepted in his household, and any woman, whether his own mother(Dina Pathak), his present handicapped wife, and even Urvashi have to follow the rules laid down – no women can leave the house under any circumstances, except after death.
While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on television in a nearby village, Orgyen sets out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery. The enterprise becomes a test of solidarity, resourcefulness and friendship for the students, while the Lama, head of the monastery, contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of Buddha in a rapidly changing world
ILUG Cochin will be conducting a meet this sunday(25th Oct, 2009). The meeting is from 2:30 PM to 5:00 PM. The agenda for the meeting is Why Free Software and the technical pesentation will be PostgreSQL.
Details
This month’s meeting focus on people those who want to learn and use Free Software for doing their day to day activities. Free Software is getting more attention among the public and more and more people are interested in using Free Software. But what make them go back to their old setup after using Free Software for a while? Is it lack of proper technical knowledge or lack of support?
In Free Software there are lot of applications which are useful to a computer user for doing his day to day work. But most people even don’t know the name of the application. They may not know how to use/configure it. In this meeting we will introduce some of the Free Software applications.
Besides our usual discussion on Free Software, GNU, Linux etc we will have a session on PostgreSQL, an object relational database management system. This session demonstrates the installation, configuration and application
of PostgreSQL.
Venue
Jay’s Internet Club,
IInd Floor, AMI Trust Building,
Broadway Enclave
Broadway,
Kochi-682031
i.e. Behind Penta Menaka, On top of SBT Treasury wing,
In Moscow, the young couple Veronika (T. Samojlova) and Boris (Aleksey Batalov) are in deep love for each other. With the World War II, Boris volunteers to join the army and is sent to the front on the day before Veronika’s birthday, and they do not have the chance to say goodbye to each other. While waiting for news from Boris, Veronika is raped by Boris’ cousin Mark (A. Shvorin) and they marry each other. However, Veronika does not forget Boris, and keeps waiting for him.
We are planning the next Cochin Meetup. It will be at Somewhere Else Cafe, Kadavanthara on 24th October, 2009(Saturday). Join us if you are interested.
For the uninitiated, a tweetup is A gathering of nerds attempting social contact, likely for the first time. Usually disintegrates into everyone running to the nearest computer to type to one another. (source)
Two drifters are passing through a Western town, when news comes in that a local farmer has been murdered and his cattle stolen. The townspeople, joined by the drifters, form a posse to catch the perpetrators. They find three men in possession of the cattle, and are determined to see justice done on the spot.
Story of a young woman, Mrs. McBain, who moves from New Orleans to frontier Utah, on the very edge of the American West. She arrives to find her new husband and family slaughtered, but by who? The prime suspect, coffee-lover Cheyenne, befriends her and offers to go after the real killer, assassin gang leader Frank, in her honor. He is accompanied by Harmonica on his quest to get even. Get-rich-quick subplots and intricate character histories intertwine with such artistic flair that this could in fact be the movie-to-end-all-movies.
Daniel is a decent young man, married to Jane, still living at his father’s home. When his father dies, it is up to him to organize his funeral. On this painful morning, the suitable grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father’s friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such circumstances will be a hard task. Particularly with an undertaker who botches his work, the return from the USA of his famous but selfish brother, his cousin’s fiance who has accidentally ingested drugs, the presence a moron who takes advantage of the sad event to win back the heart (or rather the body) of a woman who is about to marry another, of a handicapped old uncle who is also the most unbearable pain in the neck. To cap it all, Daniel notices the presence among the mourners of a mysterious dwarf nobody else seems to know…
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