Re: [silk] vengeance

2008-04-28 Thread Tea BeeDi
We had a vengeance lesson encounter, a couple of years ago with a Lakota Indian, we came across in the South Dakota area. After some sharing of Indian (them Indian) flute styles and hosting us for some local Sioux city foods he happen to mentioned that he was on Parole. We dared an intrusion and

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-28 Thread Dave Long
once they've bought the huge one, they will drink it all up! Drink sizes here tend to be 250 or 300 ml; after a couple of years of habituation I now occasionally find it a bit of work to finish a 500 ml soda. Apparently I'm not alone, I was discussing this with some other expats and

[silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Gautam John
I'm headed to Chennai for a few days and am contemplating lugging my laptop along. I was wondering if there are any free or paid wi-fi access spots in Chennai? Cheers, Gautam -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/ Join our Facebook Page too:

Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gautam John [29/04/08 08:42 +0530]: I'm headed to Chennai for a few days and am contemplating lugging my laptop along. I was wondering if there are any free or paid wi-fi access spots in Chennai? Most of the better hotels have wifi. Some of the cafe coffee days have it (though whether or not

Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most of the better hotels have wifi. Some of the cafe coffee days have it (though whether or not that service is on and working .. depends). Thanks. I'm not staying at a hotel but with non-networked family.

Re: [silk] vengeance

2008-04-28 Thread ss
On Saturday 26 Apr 2008 5:03:50 am Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_diamond?current Page=all Vengeance Is Ours State government is now so nearly universal around the globe that we forget how recent an innovation it is; the first states are

Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
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Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: there was an article in the LFY ~2 issues back around getting it to work on debian Might you have a link handy?

Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Ashok Krish
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a tata indicom usb thingy but I haven't been able to get it to play nice with Ubuntu. It works fine for me. Just had to put in the right settings in wvdial (#777, userid/pass = internet/internet). Your other option

Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Ashok Krish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It works fine for me. Just had to put in the right settings in wvdial (#777, userid/pass = internet/internet). Your other option is to enable Mobile Office (if you are using Airtel) and connect to your phone over

Re: [silk] Identity and so on

2008-04-28 Thread Charles Haynes
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:10 AM, rene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rene wrote: I am Rene ... How can you know? You have to trust me. But that trust works both ways, by deliberately obfuscating your identity, you created the impression that you were unwilling to trust us. va created the