Lorenzo Rubbo-Ferraro

Well, in Melbourne Australia we have Saturday and Sunday feasts (oh, now I'm boasting). Seriously though, I agree with you wholeheartedly on the evening feasts. People like to spend the last part of thier weekend really relaxing before the next days work - not going somewhere, especially if they have already been busy all weekend. I personally think the daytime lunch feasts are much better. They are better for kids (who can't handle staying up late again) and adults (who want to do something in the daytime not the evening). I think it's more of a point to hold them at lunchtime rather than the evening. As to which day it is, I don't think it matters all that much. Although you're right, evenings would be more appropriate for Saturdays and lunchtime better for Sundays. Hare Krishna, Lorenzo.

Has anyone run the Vedabase successfully under WINE on Linux? I'm currently running it with QEMU, an emulator which requires Windows. Ideally it would be nice for it to work nativelly under WINE. I'm running Ubuntu 7.10, I've got the latest WINE, and 3 versions of the Vedabase. Versions 4.11f and 4.11fxp require the hardlock and the hardlock crashes on installation (api errors). The latest Vedabase, 2003.1, has safedisc v2.9 on it and although WINE can install programs with safedisc 2 on them the Vedabase loads the safedisc image, flashes up the "beginning installation..." then stops. The CD winds down and that's it. So, have you run any Vedabase versions successfully under WINE? Cheers, Lorenzo.

Haribol Prabhujis, I once came upon a website that was all about plants that were important to Vaisnavas. It was very informative, with botanical descriptions and stories from the sastra as to their significance. But I can't seem to find it. Googling isn't any help (a first!) Can anyone point me to this (or a similar) website please? Thanks, Lorenzo.