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Contrary to what some zealots will tell you on this forum, the "Nafees Web Naskh" fonts from CRULP are completely free and can be distributed without restrictions and also bundled with other GPL stuff. Moreover these are the best Urdu fonts that can be used on the web.

The config files for Linux Urdu keyboard with Unicode control characters are available here.

http://www.geocities.com/urdutext/linux_kb.html

The future in UAE is bleak. People with a lot of money to burn do not care about Linux. They need ready support. Only freedom-loving people have any use for Linux

Thanks guys, lot of useful and new information. From what I can understand, it seems that there really is no internet in Pakistan. The ISP's only have pipes to the PTCL gateway in Karachi. The ISP's have no routing intelligence, all traffic is forwarded to PTCL Karachi gateway. If the COMSATS ISP in...

[1]. [2] - they were not accessible the last time this happened mainly because most isps are not connected to each other (peered). They are just resellers of bandwidth that they buy from PTCL. For example I could not connect to metrobank.com.pk despite the fact that it is hosted by cyber, when I co...

In the backdrop of UN conference on internet governance, a question came to my mind: Suppose the country was completely cut-off from the outside internet (fibre, satellite, and all). In this scenario, I put some vague questions below (since I have limited knowledge of how the internet works and am t...

Why should one care about a daily build?

FSK tones are just sine waves, one frequency for "1"-bit, another frequency for "0" -bit.

I would prefer scilab. It can save wav files.

http://www.scilab.org/

If the change in recording procedure works, that's good.

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does not look like a noise issue. can you post the two wave files somewhere?

How about "aplay" for ALSA?

Can't anyone in Pakistan make a website without heavy graphics or flash?

On fossfp site, under "Linux Urdu Localization," I found some *.doc files!!!

Screenshots was empty!

Are these guys serious? Does anyone know?

The only Urdu wording is from some Malysian guy.

Check your # dmesg if there is any problem reported regarding it. Note that it requires at least 32M videoRam, so the option in xorg.conf should be Section "Module" Load "dbe" # Double-buffering Load "GLcore" # OpenGL support Load "dri" # Direct rendering infr...

If you are having difficulty reading Urdu on Google Groups, it is because that GG specifies Arial fonts and the older Arial fonts on WIN 2000/ XP cannot handle Urdu. The solution is 1) to patch XP (SP2 or whatever) which includes new Arial fonts OR 2) Force your browser to use Urdu capable fonts thu...