Re: [silk] Chinese counterfeiting Cisco routers
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huawei in other words? Or other, worse knockoffs? :) Yeah, I suspect so. And what's of concern is the very real possibility that there are back doors known only to China that can shut down the system. Cheeni
Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux
On 05-May-08, at 7:52 AM, ss wrote: Microsoft software is as expensive as jewellery for the vast majority of Indians. I haven't checked prices recently but the cost of a Vista Home Basic is well over the monthly average salary in India. I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been trying (more or less successfully) to tell people that they are human and therefore different from animals, and that they should therefore respect IPR and copyright etc. But in the real world, humans are also animals - they are no different. Shiv, You have to realise that Microsoft is a recognised monopoly and subject to anti-trust regulation in the US and Europe. This means they *cannot* license their software at different rates around the world (unless as part of a scheme that their lawyers clear as being non- discriminatory, which is how retail and OEM licenses are differentiated).
[silk] shifting .pst files to a mac
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Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i do it? I tried Entourage ... unsuccessfully. Export it as an MBOX and drag and drop that into Mail/Entourage? I assume PST is from Outlook? -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/ Join our Facebook Page too: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pratham-Books/9307274926
Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Export it as an MBOX and drag and drop that into Mail/Entourage? I assume PST is from Outlook? Doh! I don't think Outlook or Express support MBOX export. One other way, which is what I did, make folders on your desktop, inbox, sent etc. Select all the messages from the matching folder in Outlook, drag and drop to the folder on the desktop. Copy the folders to the Mac. Make matching folders in Entourage/Mail. Drag and drop the messages from folder into application. One other way, use Thunderbird as an intermediary, import PST and export as MBOX and then copy the MBOX over to the Mac and import that. -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/ Join our Facebook Page too: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Pratham-Books/9307274926
Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac
A quick google gives me - http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/pst.html Gautam John wrote: Doh! I don't think Outlook or Express support MBOX export. One other way, which is what I did, make folders on your desktop, inbox, sent etc.
Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux
On Monday 05 May 2008 12:48:46 pm Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been trying (more or less successfully) to tell people that they are human and therefore different from animals, and that they should therefore respect IPR and copyright etc. But in the real world, humans are also animals - they are no different. Shiv, You have to realise that Microsoft is a recognised monopoly and subject to anti-trust regulation in the US and Europe. This means they *cannot* license their software at different rates around the world (unless as part of a scheme that their lawyers clear as being non- discriminatory, which is how retail and OEM licenses are differentiated). In practical terms what difference does this explanation make? They could make it uniformly cheaper in the US, Europe and the rest of the world. But they wouldn't would they? Good corporations (like Microsoft) working out of successful economies that support such corporations have built in systems to make more profits, not give concessions. When this system comes into contact with grabbing hungry animals, the animals will grab and the corporation will squeal and try and punish the animals for being themselves. The rationalization that it is good practice to keep the rates the same because they are a monopoly subject to anti-trust legislation is a convoluted excuse for maximizing profits by keeping rates high in the US and in countries that can afford such high rates, while merely whining about piracy in countries that cannot afford such rates, where penetration is, in any case low. They could in theory drop their rates everywhere (US, Europe and elsewhere) and not face anti-trust lawsuits for that - but the maximum profits have been coming from the US and Europe, so that would never have made sense. Now suddenly they do not see growth any more and the shareholders will scream - so they must show growth in BRIC - the growing economies outside the US and Europe. Hence the focus on piracy and punitive crippleware, but not a chirp about price - which as you say is kept stable (and high) to maximize existing profits where they do have a monopoly. For some reason, I see a connection between this and something else I read today: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/305307.html shiv
Re: [silk] Neil Gaiman on LIttle Brother
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 5:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cory, Please let us know when this one's available for download -- it sounds like fun. Udhay From: Cory Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Neil Gaiman gave me an unexpected Christmas present this year -- a stellar review of my forthcoming novel Little Brother (a YA novel that pits hacker kids in San Francisco against the DHS in a bid to restore the Bill of Rights to America) The site seems to be live (including free, CC-licensed downloads as well as HOWTOs from teh book and other fun stuff): http://craphound.com/littlebrother/ Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
[silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
Hi, I've been thinking about buying a new camera. My main annoyance with my present camera, a Canon Powershot A400, is it's long shutter lag. I could also use a better zoom range. A bit of googling led me to the Canon Powershot S5 IS (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/). It seems a reasonable compromise of price and performance. It also looks like something I could use to improve my photography skills with. Any suggestions for something better that would fit my needs? -- b
Re: [silk] Strange Job requirements
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:04 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the below appeared as part of a completely serious mailer for a position of IT Officer at Christian Relief Services, Kenya : There is this guy I heard of who went through a fairly complex interview process just fine, and got hired. Within a few weeks of starting at the job though it was apparent he just sat there and did zero work. At his first appraisal meeting with his manager he announced even before the manager could begin that he was depressed and any negative news would be terribly hurtful to him. He then began stonewalling any requests to work with this argument and threatened to sue the company for unfair employment conditions if anyone dared to fire him. So, yeah, I was reminded of this incident when I read the emotional / psychological clause. I bet Scott Adams could get by for at least a week on this plot. Cheeni
[silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
I think this is going to be an important book. I also think that this intro does a great job of putting the book in context. The fight against Big Brother gone mad is going to be one of the defining vens of our age, and this looks like a worthy contribution. Udhay excerpted from http://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm INTRODUCTION I wrote Little Brother in a white-hot fury between May 7, 2007 and July 2, 2007: exactly eight weeks from the day I thought it up to the day I finished it (Alice, to whom this book is dedicated, had to put up with me clacking out the final chapter at 5AM in our hotel in Rome, where we were celebrating our anniversary). I'd always dreamed of having a book just materialize, fully formed, and come pouring out of my fingertips, no sweat and fuss -- but it wasn't nearly as much fun as I'd thought it would be. There were days when I wrote 10,000 words, hunching over my keyboard in airports, on subways, in taxis -- anywhere I could type. The book was trying to get out of my head, no matter what, and I missed so much sleep and so many meals that friends started to ask if I was unwell. When my dad was a young university student in the 1960s, he was one of the few counterculture people who thought computers were a good thing. For most young people, computers represented the de-humanization of society. University students were reduced to numbers on a punchcard, each bearing the legend DO NOT BEND, SPINDLE, FOLD OR MUTILATE, prompting some of the students to wear pins that said, I AM A STUDENT: DO NOT BEND, SPINDLE, FOLD OR MUTILATE ME. Computers were seen as a means to increase the ability of the authorities to regiment people and bend them to their will. When I was a 17, the world seemed like it was just going to get more free. The Berlin Wall was about to come down. Computers -- which had been geeky and weird a few years before -- were everywhere, and the modem I'd used to connect to local bulletin board systems was now connecting me to the entire world through the Internet and commercial online services like GEnie. My lifelong fascination with activist causes went into overdrive as I saw how the main difficulty in activism -- organizing -- was getting easier by leaps and bounds (I still remember the first time I switched from mailing out a newsletter with hand-written addresses to using a database with mail-merge). In the Soviet Union, communications tools were being used to bring information -- and revolution -- to the farthest-flung corners of the largest authoritarian state the Earth had ever seen. But 17 years later, things are very different. The computers I love are being co-opted, used to spy on us, control us, snitch on us. The National Security Agency has illegally wiretapped the entire USA and gotten away with it. Car rental companies and mass transit and traffic authorities are watching where we go, sending us automated tickets, finking us out to busybodies, cops and bad guys who gain illicit access to their databases. The Transport Security Administration maintains a no-fly list of people who'd never been convicted of any crime, but who are nevertheless considered too dangerous to fly. The list's contents are secret. The rule that makes it enforceable is secret. The criteria for being added to the list are secret. It has four-year-olds on it. And US senators. And decorated veterans -- actual war heroes. The 17 year olds I know understand to a nicety just how dangerous a computer can be. The authoritarian nightmare of the 1960s has come home for them. The seductive little boxes on their desks and in their pockets watch their every move, corral them in, systematically depriving them of those new freedoms I had enjoyed and made such good use of in my young adulthood. What's more, kids were clearly being used as guinea-pigs for a new kind of technological state that all of us were on our way to, a world where taking a picture was either piracy (in a movie theater or museum or even a Starbucks), or terrorism (in a public place), but where we could be photographed, tracked and logged hundreds of times a day by every tin-pot dictator, cop, bureaucrat and shop-keeper. A world where any measure, including torture, could be justified just by waving your hands and shouting Terrorism! 9/11! Terrorism! until all dissent fell silent. We don't have to go down that road. If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don't hurt others, then you have common cause with the kids whose web-browsers and cell phones are being used to lock them up and follow them around. If you believe that the answer to bad speech is more speech -- not censorship -- then you have a dog in the fight. If you believe in a society of laws, a land where our rulers have to tell us the rules, and have to follow them too, then you're part of the same struggle
Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What they actually do is partially fund computerization by providing licenses gratis. uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works so well. The organization then implements various systems on the gratis software. After, a couple of years, they are back in the hole when they realize the upgrades were not gratis, and migrating means spending thousands of man hours and millions of dollars. I have heard that MS does a lot of charity through their foundation in India, as a part of which the software is given at throwaway prices (initially). When the receiving organisation decided to go the Libre software way it annoyed folks who thought the charity-org was being ungrateful. On that note, excluding the company provided laptops, I seriously doubt if an MS employee in India would buy the full version of MSOffice for his/her home PC. IIRC, they make do with beta versions which, although buggy, is still legal.
Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux
On 5/5/08, va wrote: What they actually do is partially fund computerization by providing licenses gratis. uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works so well. they peddle a $3 license here for govt. orgs (usually interest is only shown for large-by-african-standards deployments i.e. 1,000+ seats...). and the $3 is usually waived (and hence gratis). this gives them leverage to organize raids (using the govt. machinery) on cybercafes etc... its easier buying knock-off viagra here than pirated ms-windows.
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've been thinking about buying a new camera. My main annoyance with my present camera, a Canon Powershot A400, is it's long shutter lag. I could also use a better zoom range. A bit of googling led me to the Canon Powershot S5 IS (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/). It seems a reasonable compromise of price and performance. I used the S3 IS for a short while and can tell you honestly it is a good camera. The S5 should only be better. It has an inbuilt flash and a hot-shoe, and a few other improvements over the S3. Any suggestions for something better that would fit my needs? How about the Nikon Coolpix range? My first digital camera was a Coolpix 3100 and that's where I learnt a lot. The range has been expanded and comes with both simple point shoots and decent bridge cameras. The coolpix P80 looks and sounds a lot like the S3/S5 of Canon. http://www.nikon-coolpix.com/e/p80.html C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.linkedin.com/in/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ +91-9884467463
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: I used the S3 IS for a short while and can tell you honestly it is a good camera. The S5 should only be better. It has an inbuilt flash and a hot-shoe, and a few other improvements over the S3. It's also bulky as hell (more than half a kilogram.) Not easy to carry around. What's your budget? -- * Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Indiranagar, Bangalore Visit us @ http://www.shiokfood.com Book your table online: http://www.shiokfood.com/reserve.html Shiok on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bangalore-India/Shiok/7498426855
Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac
That task is a pain in the interface. Without paying for any tools, I used a local imap server as an intermediate store. Drag drop to an IMAP account from PST folders to IMAP. Then drag drop from IMAP to your client on mac. -- VaibhaV Sharma http://vsharma.net ** Typed on an iPhone, please excuse any typos. ** On May 5, 2008, at 1:18 AM, Aditya Kapil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do i do it? I tried Entourage ... unsuccessfully. Thanks, Adit. -- ...But always remember that irritation is what allows oysters to create pearls. Thank goodness for oysters because ulcers make crappy necklaces [Scott Adams]
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the Nikon Coolpix range? My first digital camera was a Coolpix 3100 and that's where I learnt a lot. The range has been expanded and comes with both simple point shoots and decent bridge cameras. I had a Nikon Coolpix 7900. I used it a lot even when I got a DSLR until I lost it. I would recommend this particular model having used it myself. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp7900/ -- Vinayak
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the Nikon Coolpix range? My first digital camera was a Coolpix 3100 and that's where I learnt a lot. The range has been expanded and comes with both simple point shoots and decent bridge cameras. I had a Nikon Coolpix 7900. I used it a lot even when I got a DSLR until I lost it. I would recommend this particular model having used it myself. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikoncp7900/ -- Vinayak I would also think about what use you are going to put it to. Obviously, for serious photography you might want to think of a DSLR, but I have been using my husband's Canon 20 D regularly and I can say that the S3IS, which I have (S5 minus a few whells and bistles) is also great for general pictures...particularly, in Tanzania, I took those smashing videos of the tree-climbing lions (climbing the trees, what else!) and without changing the lens (which IS a dust-ridden process that can damage the sensor) on the S3 I can go from macro to ordinary to video too. For GP (general photography) I find it excellent, indeed. For specific birding/wildlife...the 20D, but now I almost exclusively use the lens which I find the best for birding, that's the 300mm prime lens. Er, I call the S3 my MLC (Mary's Lamb Camera) and I carry it around simply everywhere. You can email Kalyan and Madhu, who are very good photographers, perhaps off-list and you will get excellent advice. (I feel like some student of Class Six sounding out about Physics when the Profs are around!) I am a canonical person and I know nothing about other brandsit's just that I have enjoyed the S3 so much, I thought I'd let you know. Deepa.
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But 17 years later, things are very different. The computers I love are being co-opted, used to spy on us, control us, snitch on us. The National Security Agency has illegally wiretapped the entire USA and gotten away with it. Car rental companies and mass transit and traffic authorities are watching where we go, sending us automated tickets, finking us out to busybodies, cops and bad guys who gain illicit access to their databases. The Transport Security Administration maintains a no-fly list of people who'd never been convicted of any crime, but who are nevertheless considered too dangerous to fly. The list's contents are secret. The rule that makes it enforceable is secret. The criteria for being added to the list are secret. It has four-year-olds on it. And US senators. And decorated veterans -- actual war heroes. The 17 year olds I know understand to a nicety just how dangerous a computer can be. The authoritarian nightmare of the 1960s has come home for them. The seductive little boxes on their desks and in their pockets watch their every move, corral them in, systematically depriving them of those new freedoms I had enjoyed and made such good use of in my young adulthood. snip I hope Cory's book is instrumental in creating a new generation of civil libertarians and cyber activists (a la what _The Hacker Crackdown_ did to a previous generation). However, I cannot help but nitpick Cory's comment about 17-year-olds understanding the peril. While they may know the dangers of surveillance by TLAs, I am amazed to find the naivety with which my young nephews and nieces happily live their lives publicly on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Orkut and a dozen other social networking sites. I wonder if the public exposure (and recording, indexing and preserving forever) of highly personal lives in social networking sites today is merely the next incarnation of injudicious flame wars on Usenet of my generation. Somehow I cannot help but think that there is a difference between the two. Nobody could accuse Usenet of getting a nerd laid. Thaths -- Bart: We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip. Homer: Hehe. You don't have a son. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:51 +0530, ss wrote: When this system comes into contact with grabbing hungry animals, the animals actually, indians (or brazilians) may be hungrier than americans, but they are hardly less animal in this colourful language. some years ago, i wrote a paper [1] comparing GDP-per-capita-adjusted prices for windows XP + office in 100+ countries to their rates for software piracy. there is a clear correlation between piracy and poverty; however, this is non-linear and the US, where income is a large multiple of that in india or brazil, actually has a piracy rate (25%) which is not that much smaller than brazil's 56% or india's 70%. so we're all animals; when we're hungrier, we're more likely to grab what's available. especially when it's clear to everyone that with software (or music) the original is not lost when i get a copy, unlike with the fruits from shiv's garden, which are lost to shiv when i take them away. -rishab 1. http://www.firstmonday.org/ISSUES/issue8_12/ghosh/
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
Thaths wrote, [on 5/5/2008 9:07 PM]: I hope Cory's book is instrumental in creating a new generation of civil libertarians and cyber activists (a la what _The Hacker Crackdown_ did to a previous generation). However, I cannot help but nitpick Cory's comment about 17-year-olds understanding the peril. While they may know the dangers of surveillance by TLAs, I am amazed to find the naivety with which my young nephews and nieces happily live their lives publicly on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, Orkut and a dozen other social networking sites. One way of looking at this is as follows: If one wants to prevent people from knowing some particular thing about you in an age where both ubiquitous onlines presence as well as ubiquitous search/surveillance technologies are realities, then one approach is to just make so much data available that it becomes difficult to pick out the embarrassing bits. Example: http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22num=100 Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what you're searching for) you will not find my n00b usenet posts in this mix. Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22num=100 Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what you're searching for) you will not find my n00b usenet posts in this mix. if i was looking for your early posts i wouldn't have to know what i was looking for already. i could just specify a date range. i don't know how to do this on google, but altavista still works: http://tinyurl.com/553la4 The daterange: query parameter is the equivalent Googleism. However, I have so far been unable to get results equivalent to your Alta Vista query. Possibly because Google did not exist pre-May 5th 1998 [1]. If I bumped up the end date of the range to May 5th 2001, I am able to get results[2]. the difference between me putting my information out on facebook, say, and having the state or corporations track my spending and travel habits, is that _i_ decide what information i release and when in the former case. True. There is an element of choice in what (and when) one chooses to publish online as our twitter or facebook feed. The TLA mining of data, OTOH, is done mostly involuntarily. My concern with my younger family and friends is that they do not seem to realize that their flirtations, flame wars and flickr will be easily searchable five years from today by their future employers. Back in my day having an online history corroborating one's resume was a good thing. What our online trails becoming more and more personal in nature, I wonder if leaving this trail is wise. Thaths [1] http://google.weblogsinc.com/2005/09/07/googles-7th-birthday/ [2] http://www.google.com/search?hl=enclient=firefox-arls=com.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficialq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22+daterange%3A2444239-2452034btnG=Search -- Bart: We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip. Homer: Hehe. You don't have a son. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:52:55AM -0700, Thaths wrote: My concern with my younger family and friends is that they do not seem to realize that their flirtations, flame wars and flickr will be easily searchable five years from today by their future employers. bernhard and i have had many discussions about this, so maybe he'll chip in. when the entire cohort of your nephews is looking for jobs, future employers won't be able to discriminate against them due to their facebook pictures; indeed, someone _without_ such a documented personal life may be seen to have inadequate socialisation (what were _you_ doing while your friends were partying and getting drunk? sitting alone somewhere... maybe you can't really work in a team?) -rishab
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One way of looking at this is as follows: If one wants to prevent people from knowing some particular thing about you in an age where both ubiquitous onlines presence as well as ubiquitous search/surveillance technologies are realities, then one approach is to just make so much data available that it becomes difficult to pick out the embarrassing bits. That is a possibility. However, it is merely a matter of a better search algorithm to fish out the juicy bits. Example: http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22num=100 Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what you're searching for) you will not find my n00b usenet posts in this mix. Let me take a dig First off, I will do a groups (usenet) search instead of a straight up web search. Usenet usually has juicier bits: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22udhay%20shankar%20n%22num=100um=1ie=UTF-8sa=Ntab=wg Looks like your divorce from Eudora is a long and painful one starting circa 2002: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows/browse_thread/thread/c79691f379ab929b/9656e92ae9f59f19?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#9656e92ae9f59f19 Hmmm. What a strange fascination with Amazonia http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.written/browse_thread/thread/24c4f339e67d86a4/92c4f2b69a5b9d0a?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#92c4f2b69a5b9d0a U A test message to sci.logic. You must not have heard of misc.test? http://groups.google.com/group/sci.logic/browse_thread/thread/2074a359a023f9f1/0930f85088e8f6fe?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#0930f85088e8f6fe Tut, tut! Spam on usenet. What next? Green card lottery?: http://groups.google.com/group/biz.marketplace.non-computer/browse_thread/thread/c8b019064d292946/7715932902f62e10?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#7715932902f62e10 Lookee here, an early reference to silk on usenet: http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.new-lists/browse_thread/thread/f3c2b70f11741677/7d725da9d29d1752?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#7d725da9d29d1752 etc. I agree that there isn't anything truly damning. But it took me less than 10 minutes to dig the above. Someone with more time, a better profile of the subject, an axe to grind and a subject that is active on social networks can turn up better stuff than this. Thaths -- Bart: We were just planning the father-son river rafting trip. Homer: Hehe. You don't have a son. Sudhakar Chandra Slacker Without Borders
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A bit of googling led me to the Canon Powershot S5 IS (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/). It seems a reasonable compromise of price and performance. It also looks like something I could use to improve my photography skills with. Any suggestions for something better that would fit my needs? -- b Heh I don't actually *own* an S5 (or an S3) but that hasn't stopped from dreaming about one for about 2 years now (in the meanwhile like you I learn to live with my dinky PnS). Another model from Canon that you might want to consider is the Powershot G9 - it doesn't boast the huge zoom range of the S5 and reviews suggest that you have to work with RAW to get the best out of the camera - but the results even at High ISO are quite lovely[1]. One advantage of the S5 over similar super-zooms (the G9 or the Coolpix 5100) is the fact that the lens diameter is relatively standard - so you can buy filters meant for dSLR bodies and use it with the S5 as well [2]. -- Balaji [1] http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/canon-g9-review.html(Possibly NSFW due to ads) [2] http://www.lensmateonline.com/newsite/S2.html
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22udhay%20shankar%20n%22num=100um=1ie=UTF-8sa=Ntab=wg Looks like your divorce from Eudora is a long and painful one starting circa 2002: Ah I guess I would a member of that unhappy club as well, although in time I've found that outlook's rules engine is almost powerful as Eudora's was - although not as secure, and definitely not as bloat free. I agree that there isn't anything truly damning. But it took me less than 10 minutes to dig the above. Someone with more time, a better profile of the subject, an axe to grind and a subject that is active on social networks can turn up better stuff than this. Thaths I suppose it's the axe to grind bit that keeps me using completely independent alter-egos for when I dip into the seamier side of the Internet, and those alter-egos loop back to each other (and have for about a decade or so now).. What can be linked to me directly is mostly the stuff I'm comfortable associating with [1] -- Balaji [1] I say mostly because I'm sure there is mildly embarrassing (in a awkward teenager sort of way) stuff out there that I've forgotten about.
Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: U A test message to sci.logic. You must not have heard of misc.test? http://groups.google.com/group/sci.logic/browse_thread/thread/2074a359a023f9f1/0930f85088e8f6fe?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#0930f85088e8f6fe Tut, tut! Spam on usenet. What next? Green card lottery?: http://groups.google.com/group/biz.marketplace.non-computer/browse_thread/thread/c8b019064d292946/7715932902f62e10?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#7715932902f62e10 Lookee here, an early reference to silk on usenet: http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.new-lists/browse_thread/thread/f3c2b70f11741677/7d725da9d29d1752?lnk=stq=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#7d725da9d29d1752 etc. I agree that there isn't anything truly damning. But it took me less than 10 minutes to dig the above. Someone with more time, a better profile of the subject, an axe to grind and a subject that is active on social networks can turn up better stuff than this. Sure, but 1. I *told* you where to look by mentioning usenet 2. You *still* haven't found the embarrassing stuff. :-P (No, I'm not going to tell you what it is) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
Balaji Dutt wrote: consider is the Powershot G9 - it doesn't boast the huge zoom range of the S5 and reviews suggest that you have to work with RAW to get the best out of I have a G5, an ancestor of G9. I bought it because it had more features than a PnS. I love the camera, still have not invested in a DSLR, wifey wants me to get rid of all my other electronics before I do that. :-) The Canon Powershot G series is a prosumer camera and is excellent for casual and in some cases reasonably good non-casual pictures as well.
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: I used the S3 IS for a short while and can tell you honestly it is a good camera. The S5 should only be better. It has an inbuilt flash and a hot-shoe, and a few other improvements over the S3. It's also bulky as hell (more than half a kilogram.) Not easy to carry around. What's your budget? Obviously, I'd like to spend as little as possible. But a quick survey of point-and-shoots tells me that budget isn't a major constraint. -- b
Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously, I'd like to spend as little as possible. But a quick survey of point-and-shoots tells me that budget isn't a major constraint. -- b Another option that you might want to consider is the Ricoh Caplio GX100[1][2] - it doesn't have quite the optical capabilities of the S5 or the G9, but comes pretty well recommended for street/casual photography as well as macro stuff. [1]http://www.ricoh.com/r_dc/caplio/gx100/ [2]http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/ricohgx100/ -- Balaji
