Deepa Mohan [30/09/08 19:47 +0530]:
Does that kind of association-making really help you? It never does for
meI have tried, especially since I am extremely partial to
dark-chocolate-covered-marzipan, which means calories by the thousandsin
vein, as Dracula said when asked if he had made
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Fred, if at all possible please dont post these to silk
They are quite ontopic for india-gii (well, mostly).
Sumant Srivathsan [29/09/08 13:27 +0530]:
What? If the online service doesn't work, Kingfisher is cool with the
customer going to another airline, but not with engaging in offline customer
service? Bizarre.
These are being misquoted and/or misread. They are perfectly fine with you
booking
Udhay Shankar N [29/09/08 12:52 +0530]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, [on 9/29/2008 12:43 PM]:
Yup, no course around that teaches what i do, and i need abel's lemma,
thevenins theorem etc like i need a hole in my head.
A quote from Lizard comes to mind:
It is not math as much as advanced
Sumant Srivathsan [29/09/08 13:59 +0530]:
The bulk of CC fraud in India happens by way of international credit cards
which are used to book tickets, but end up defaulting on payments. Most
online booking services (OTA or airline) therefore do not accept
international cards (cards issued by
Deepak Misra [29/09/08 14:04 +0530]:
Given that one needs to provide a proof of identity for travel, it should be
possible to track down misuse quite easily.
Its too damn late by then. The time to do any of that is during the
transaction time. Or you get hit with chargebacks and penalties
Deepak Misra [29/09/08 14:10 +0530]:
I dont get it. How does asking the passenger for a copy of the credit card
help ?
For domestic cards?
1. Banks much sloppier at fraud mitigation
2. Some card frauds go unreported for ages .. like if you run up
transactions on your card randomly and
Venkatesh Hariharan [29/09/08 14:22 +0530]:
My mom flew Chennai-Mumbai on Kingfisher yesterday and she was not asked for
the credit card copy. Same for her Mumbai-Chennai flight a month ago.
If the airport is busy and they are working to clear a ton of people for a
flight .. sure. But I travel
Krish Ashok [29/09/08 23:02 +0530]:
Almost all vedic rituals involved slaughter of some kind. The Yajur veda
is particularly detailed on, for instance, which rib of a slaughtered
bull is to be offered to which deva (deity). I suspect the
vegetarianizers of the past had quite a bit of a job to
.
Hmmm ... I guess I'm vegetarian because I definitely object to eating
anything that's still moving when it reaches my plate.
-- b
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Suresh Ramasubramanian + suresh @ hserus dot net
EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Sysadmin
Divya Manian [28/09/08 09:02 +0800]:
I know a lot of coastal Americans call themselves vegetarian coz they eat
only fish and no meat.
I am vegetarian .. when I'm at home. Because my family is all vegetarian.
Elsewhere, vegetables are mostly what the food eats. Oh, eoe the odd
salad, mashed
Perry E. Metzger [27/09/08 22:01 -0400]:
I understand the existence of augmented definitions, but, technically
speaking, onions and garlic very rarely move under their own power. :)
Yeah.. just that the ancient hindus classified food into sattvic (stuff
that promotes pure thoughts, rajasic
Cory Doctorow [26/09/08 22:52 +0530]:
Anyone got a favourite secular kids' poverty charity in Mumbai? I feel
like my randomly arrived-at donations to beggar kids (plus the weird
baby-food scam in Colaba) have been an infinitesimal drop in the ocean
and I'd like to contribute to substantial and
Cory Doctorow [27/09/08 08:07 +0530]:
No way to donate on that page, though.
You missed the link to http://www.justgiving.com/cryuk I guess?
srs
Biju Chacko [11/09/08 18:27 +0530]:
The one on brigade road used to have it, the last time I was there
(admittedly - 2000 or so)
McDonalds opened it's first outlet in Bangalore in the Forum Mall [1] in 2006.
my mistake. that was a KFC right? the one right at the start of brigade
road
Gautam John [11/09/08 19:10 +0530]:
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my mistake. that was a KFC right? the one right at the start of brigade
road
Yep. They had waiters with ties when they opened?
and sit down service too. clip on bow ties
Can you consult?
I know nothing about consulting. I think I can.
Neither do most other consultants.
srs
This one had me rolling on the floor.
Need some urgent Tips to save maximum per diem for my US visit .
by aslam kuppusamy on Sep 10, 2008 11:35 AM
Jeez, it's a spoof but it cuts WAY too close to home
I was going through customs in SFO when the guy there asked me if I was
carrying any
Harry Potter, the final battle where the armor pieces in Hogwarts get
animated into knights? :)
There's random stuff like you describe in the Arabian Nights, and in various
other eastern folklore.
srs
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Ganesha. According to one legend, he was created from sandal paste
applied on Parvati's arms, and subsequently animated by her. The elephant
head
came later.
Other instances too .. asuras (demons) being formed out of sweat (andhaka,
from the sweat dripping off parvati's brow when shiva came
Charles Haynes [11/09/08 00:48 +1100]:
My colleagues told me visit Mac Donalads for Lunch and dinner. Is it cheap?
Even in Hyderabad they have McDonalds.
Yeah but the McDs in Hyderabad and Bangalore are in the swankiest part of
town, with sit down service from waiters in bow ties. When a big
Thaths wrote:
Is this different from the migrant labor in the middle east? In the
late 70's early 80's my second cousins would visit from their
slightly-white-collar jobs in the middle east with suitcases loaded
with bic pens, nylon t-shirts and ABBA and Boney-M cassette tapes.
Not very. But
Is this different from the migrant labor in the middle east? In the
late 70's early 80's my second cousins would visit from their
slightly-white-collar jobs in the middle east with suitcases loaded
with bic pens, nylon t-shirts and ABBA and Boney-M cassette tapes.
And here's the mallu in the
Madhu Menon [11/09/08 00:24 +0530]:
Eh? No McD's that I've seen in B'lore has any waiters in bow ties.
The one on brigade road used to have it, the last time I was there
(admittedly - 2000 or so)
Various other fast food chains (KFC, a malaysian McD clone called Marry
Brown etc) in madras seem
Thaths wrote:
I presume Nader and Barr are the wing tips of the same party?
Wingnuts, you mean ...
Eugen Leitl [03/09/08 18:08 +0200]:
I've been casting a bit for an educational toy for our kid
(20 months, likes letters and gadgets). So far the only decent
system I've been able to find is LeapFrog Leapster.
Any alternative suggestions?
vtech has some educational laptops. and I can
Deepa Mohan [04/09/08 08:11 +0530]:
One of the things that I found excellent for my daughter...it developed both
drawing and writing skills, and she expressed herself!...was a large-sized
magnetic slate (I think the brand was called Magna Doodle). At that time,
etch a sketch, its called.
such extents: he refused to accept a permanent security council seat at
the UN for india, when the US offered it in 1953, and suggested that
the seat go to china instead.
.. and there he shot himself in the foot, more than once (hindi chini bhai
bhai suddenly turning into his crying over ae
Gautam John [29/08/08 14:02 +0530]:
Oota aithe? Thinde aithe? Coffee aithe? Nashta aithe? (Roughly
translated, eaten lunch/snack/breakfast, partaken in a cup of coffee?)
Is this common to other cultures too?
very.
tamil - saaptacha?
chinese - chifanle meiyou?
thai - gin khao reung?
Nishant Shah [29/08/08 14:26 +0530]:
I am not very sure about the Chinese greeting. But only speaking from my
experience in Taiwan, where I was for ten months. I did not find random
people walking up to me and asking me if I have had my food. The standard
greeting was 'ni hao' and the question
Gautam John [29/08/08 18:40 +0530]:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:35 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
its a politeness thing. And not Asian
You don't have to ask if someone has eaten to be polite, yes?
I wonder if there's a culture somewhere where the question is have you
crapped today?
1. The
cultures also use tiffin in that sense?
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Gautam John [29/08/08 18:40 +0530]:
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 6:35 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
its a politeness thing. And not Asian
You don't have
Kiran Jonnalagadda [25/08/08 19:05 +0530]:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thaths wrote:
I guess you could say they gave out Gold, Lead and Lead.
Gold, Dead, and Dead, you mean? :P
Or, use golden bullets and let everyone have it.
Or strip them and
Cocktail olives and lounge bars are so damn interlinked it could be
anywhere..
http://www.pacific-regency.com/images/logo_olive.gif
http://www.hiltonmadison.com/Olive/images/hotel_logo.jpg
Not a copycat .. just an idea that occurs to several other people
srs
-Original Message-
This would be a good idea - and given the brushstroke work would prefer a
font that looks like brushstrokes / calligraphy rather than one of the neat
ones like Trajan
Smooth, flowing lines for the lower stroke of the M, that stroke into a
stylized (and fine brush stroked) cocktail glass. With
Dave Long wrote:
The source of naming that amuses me is web browsers: Navigator,
Explorer, Safari, etc.
Was watching a French detective thriller called Contre-enquête on an air
france flight.. just the sort of turkey that gets shown on airline inflight
entertainment, perfect for when you're
can get such info ?
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg EDEDEFB9
email sturmbahnfuehrer | lower middle class unix sysadmin
You just have to look at the fine examples of Lebanon and Palestine to kind
of predict what's going to happen.
srs
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Srini Ramakrishnan
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 5:47 PM
To:
Perry E. Metzger [19/08/08 11:06 -0400]:
1) The South was wrong for contending it had the right to enslave
people.
2) The North was wrong for contending it had the right to impose
itself on the South.
I believe the South did indeed have the right to leave -- I just don't
think it had the
Perry E. Metzger [19/08/08 13:02 -0400]:
1) Elimination of a major, perhaps the major, cause of conflict
between India and a neighboring state.
Er no. They'll fight with us and vice versa (and the hawkish bloggers and
wikipedians on bharat rakshak.com and the paki equivalent will do the same
They arent likely to use anything other than their smaller tac nukes, not
when there's every chance that the fallout from even a successful first
strike will reach them very quickly indeed .. not to mention that any
retaliation would leave them, as well, converted into glowing rubble.
[eoe
http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?tp=onautono=44835
Sigh, might have waited for next year rather than buying my Estilo now.
srs
Sean Doyle [18/08/08 13:23 -0400]:
Remember to stock up on the directional lights and headlights - they have to
be changed often (at least my experience with a 2000 Beetle). The first year
I had to replace at least one directional bulb a month; I still have to
replace the headlight bulbs every 6
Udhay Shankar N [10/08/08 13:35 +0530]:
I can find no hits on google for the phrase thanatorotational dynamics
and I therefore claim to have originated it.
We can brainstorm a more plausible meaning than the one I currently have
in mind if you like. Who wants to go first?
Turning around
Let's put it this way, I got forwarded the same thing some months back by
Shahid Akhtar (recently retired from UNDP/APDIP if that rings a bell - and
it should for anybody in the ICT space). Shahid is a guy that I respect,
and I'd have taken this on except that I'm not too good at BPOs anyway.
Guess who makes the most money in any war zone - from Rwanda to Afghanistan?
The local NGOs
srs
Isnt there a basic problem that the west has been a fighting a never
ending war
in Afghanistan for the last 7 years, and now companies from those
countries
will be happy to outsource
Tim Bray [31/07/08 00:23 -0700]:
Um, if you haven't clicked on that second one, I recommend it. -T
my personal favorite is this -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjXe52E5qBwfeature=related
suresh
Are we talking about the same band? The Avial I know is the one behind
_Nada Nada_ [1] and _Thakathara_ [2] - indipop and
electronica-influenced rock, and a vocalist who *certainly* doesn't
sound like any of the boybands such as nsync. The videos link at
phat-phish.com didn't work for me, so
Deepa Mohan [28/07/08 20:49 +0530]:
NYT has recommended in its editorial today, that USA should give F-16s
to the Pakistani Army, diverting the money for them from funds
earlier allocated to fight terrorism. This editorial has generated
more than 70 comments in less than 7 hours. Interestingly
Well, right now if some people fail courses in the IIT they approach the
SC/ST commission complaining about racial discrimination.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1171881
Oh, and any Amdavadi silklisters around, y'all ok? Looks like someone let
off 17 bombs there -
Bruce Metcalf [22/07/08 13:38 -0400]:
Unlike some of the earlier films, the art direction lacked style. Gotham
City looked like it was shot in the same urban neighborhoods as Streets
of San Francisco? without the hills. It seemed a city without substance,
and even the seedy docks were neat and
Udhay Shankar N [23/07/08 10:10 +0530]:
How does one lick one's tongue? This sounds most intriguing.
My mistake. Lips. And darting his tongue out. Seen a snake?
But those are all - if I dont miss my guess - fairly classic symptoms of
some nervous disorder, parkinsons, tourettes .. forgot
Madhu Menon [23/07/08 11:11 +0530]:
Actually, it bugged the living hell out of me. I guess he's no Kevin
Conroy, the living embodiment of Batman's voice.
Justice League of America is the definitive. I wish we had Conroy doing
voiceover for Bale.
Perry E. Metzger [20/07/08 20:00 -0400]:
The US, IMHO, should have open immigration to anyone with a job
offer. If the real worry were (as is sometime claimed) people going on
A real job offer at any rate. There is no shortage of indian companies
that are a hole in the wall office in
Kiran Jonnalagadda [15/07/08 14:16 +0530]:
On 15-Jul-08, at 3:01 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Given the current depressed market for mutual funds, I wonder if
anybody at
all is touching those with a bargepole.
Great time to pump money in, don't you think? I'm keeping my SIPs going
classics .. I watched Blues Brothers, Around the
World in 80 days and (again) Jungle Book on the flight over.
srs
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ss [14/07/08 20:29 +0530]:
I read, or heard today that Bollywood funding is increasingly becoming white
and legal - with 60% of productions now being funded with white money. Even
banks are getting involved - unbelievably. Hence the accounting.
There's even sector based mutual funds targeted
Ashok Krish [11/07/08 08:28 -0400]:
Somebody senior in ELCOT (Govt of TN) sure does not like MS. What do you
guys think? The price point is very impressive for the hardware
specifications (about Rs 30,000, or USD 730). How did they manage to
convince Dell or HP to get past MS' usual
11:41 AM
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] google email anonymity
On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 19:04 -0700, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
There have been a few fun cases where RIAA subpoenas have been sent
to IPs
that were actually permanently assigned to a university laser
Perry E. Metzger [09/07/08 12:12 -0400]:
ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(many online guides e.g.
http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/projects/guide/ recommend
gmail as sufficiently anonymous...)
gmail is not extremely anonymous. At the very least, google logs
all the IP addresses.
Golden rule when you are a plaintiff lawyer in such a suit - always ask for
far, far more (their proprietory video codecs and such)
You will get just about what you expected to get, with your more absurd
claims dismissed
Ask for what you expected and you will probably get a lot of it struck out
The biter bit, hoist by his own petar .. I'm running out of cliches.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/WB-minister-gets-a-feel-of-Leftsponsored-bandh/319452/
Commies call one of their usual bangla bandhs - this time for the nuke
deal. Some WB minister is in a train that stopped in the
va [06/07/08 17:21 +0100]:
nail...head...hit.
a sublime look at the better half in the land of milk 'n honey[0]
[0] http://www.hindu.com/mag/2008/07/06/stories/2008070650160400.htm
quoting from that article -
She will vociferously defend pati-parmeshwar.s taste for Budweiser and
Black
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [01/07/08 22:33 +0200]:
On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 22:11 +1000, Charles Haynes wrote:
If you read the article, you see that it is making a distinction
None of the comments so far have made this same distinction. I think
bi-culturalism is much rarer than bi-lingualism.
because
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [01/07/08 21:38 +0200]:
On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 09:00 +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
I guess it is just human (or
should I say, animal) instinct to want to belong.
and marxist to not want to belong? :)
Comrade Karat and the rest of his bhadralok faux communists (the sort that
Not just languages, dialects. Do you find yourself talking say regionally
accented Italian with someone who has a strong regional accent, and a more
BBC Italian (or is it RAI Italian) with someone who has that kind of
educated upper class accent?
suresh
-Original Message-
Actually, Charles .. a lot of the dialect has cultural overtones as well
Hyderabadi hindi for example, if you ever get the chance to speak it, is
more or less like cockney English (there's just as much cultural reference
as there's a change in accent)
I'd speak it with my friends on a college
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
They describe the system as being Tri-bang GSM. I wonder if it uses
all three bangs at once or sequentially.
Ram
More bang for your buck then.
Yes they are outdated, they're mostly poor copies of other laws (in
particular some from Singapore) that are fairly old.
And the regulators / law enforcement often need more training
But this is not a cyberlaw issue as such. These efforts at lawful intercept
are amateurish, yes.
Join the
Have various people file a suit against this congress activist for
harassment?
Similarly, a counter suit against any cyber law experts that try to
comment in favor of this arrest. Havent the usual idiots like Duggal, Naavi
etc chimed in yet?
suresh
-Original Message-
From:
J. Andrew Rogers [22/06/08 12:36 -0700]:
footprint. If I was on the receiving end, I'm not sure whether I would
care if I was killed by a large inefficient explosive or a small
efficient one, though my neighbors might.
At least you'd know you were killed by the most efficient technology
Ramakrishnan Sundaram [23/06/08 08:29 +0530]:
Deepa Mohan said the following on 23/06/2008 08:01:
Where is this Shallah that all of us want to be in?
It's a corruption of Shallott, as in The Tower of, as in where the Lady
of, stayed.
Alternatively, it could be an upmarket onion.
Didn't
since japanese old-age-home residents prefer to be served by robots
than
japanese-speaking foreigners, maybe they'll just rule a large
population of mechanical beings. the robots would be truly japanese,
too. no wonder the country is a favourite setting for cyberpunk authors!
They already
Danese Cooper [20/06/08 18:39 -0700]:
Well the Mark Hopkins (like the Imperial in Delhi or Raffles in
Singapore or the Oriental in Bangkok) is more than a hotel..its a
landmark. Heck, Kim Novak's character *lived* there in Vertigo. :-).
That's one thing that attracts me to it.
Price-wise
Gautam John [19/06/08 10:14 +0530]:
I remember reading a piece that indicated that the sole surviving hope
for the banana was a hundred year old tree in Calcutta or some such.
Long Mista Tallyman, Tally Me Banana ... one more reporter to point to
snopes.com I guess.
Perry is quite right. Some of this malware can do some very nasty things to
your PC - like make it a repository for child porn.
There's a very interesting paper by Provos too..
http://www.usenix.org/event/hotbots07/tech/full_papers/provos/provos.pdf
The Ghost in the Browser - An analysis of
Ramakrishnan Sundaram [19/06/08 22:54 +0530]:
Suresh Ramasubramanian said the following on 19/06/2008 18:46:
Perry is quite right. Some of this malware can do some very nasty things to
Wow, Suresh, top-posting? So tell me, Gmail or Outlook? I'm too sleepy
to look at the headers.
Outlook
Bella Ciao in Madras .. Karra and I landed there once to get a very weird
four cheese pizza (with pita and other such cheeses instead of the classic 4
- gruyere, emmental, brie, blue right?). Didn't make for a great
combination at all
And the pasta my wife and I ordered on another occasion
I like what 9W / IT do in India - checkin agents roam the terminal with
handheld PDAs and a small boarding pass printer strapped to their hip
If you just carry hand baggage, you can check in with these guys. If you
want to check bags, you can just checkin with them and drop your bags off at
a
Thaths [16/06/08 08:42 -0700]:
language: su chhey saru chhey danda leykey maru chhey.
The narrator also provides an English translation:
How are you?
I am well.
I will take a stick and beat you to hell!
not too accurate. from a fractured knowledge of gujju -
khem chhe is are you fine /
Perry E. Metzger [16/06/08 21:21 -0400]:
It is well past time that someone else started a better auction site.
Craig Newmark could start one, now that ebay went and sued him not too long
back after they started that craigslist clone kijiji
Gautam John [17/06/08 08:57 +0530]:
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080612/REVIEWS/545929629
Is surprisingly benign.
you dont want to believe all that ebert says. not too often at least.
Perry E. Metzger [15/06/08 16:35 -0400]:
Absolutely, it also doesn't in itself mean the person being seen naked
had the intent of displaying themselves naked in public.
Invasion of privacy etc etc yes. Quite possibly.
What I do take issue with is Lessig calling the guy who did this a hacker.
Abhishek Hazra [16/06/08 08:04 +0530]:
on the other hand, why i enjoy silk is precisely because one can find a post
here on flight ticket details as well as a sustained discussion on open
source and primary school teaching or neil gamin for that matter.
just my 2 paisa
It'd turn horribly
Analogies suck - and Lessig equating looking at that's on public display on
a website to hacking is plain silly. Some weird analogy about breaking in
through a window and hey, here's what the judge keeps in his den. What's
visible through the window then?
Hi, my eyesight is basically the sort that doesn't let me drive (keratoconis
/ tunnel vision of sorts where the cornea is a cone rather than a sphere /
cylinder). And due to one one reason or the other (including way too much
travel), I've never got around to buying a car till now. So, might as
Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 7:47 AM
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] This is getting silly.
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Analogies suck - and Lessig equating looking at that's on public
display on
a website to hacking is plain silly.
I think
Not exclusive to Indians. Chairman Mao was once quoted as saying I eat a
lot, I shit a lot when asked about the state of his health.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of ss
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 7:43 AM
To:
Niru is water
That portmanteau word actually expands to kubera nimage enu ira beku (what
[relation] might Kubera be to you)
srs (Kubera of course being the treasurer of the hindu gods, so
proverbially rich)
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL
When you consider kempa is shit / manure etc in kannada (with names like
kempegowda being given to people as part of an age old tradition of giving
unlucky or ugly names to a kid who is born to parents who have been long
childless / whose previous kid died etc.. to ward off the evil eye, kind
Srini Ramakrishnan [05/06/08 20:06 +0530]:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:33 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
for bookings before june 15th the 4th night is offered
a native english speaker may find this incomprehensible. but any
continental european would understand what it means.
Deepa Mohan [05/06/08 23:01 +0530]:
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When you consider kempa is shit / manure etc in kannada (with names like kempegowda being given
to people as part of an age old tradition of giving unlucky or ugly names to a kid
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [29/05/08 22:45 +0530]:
My bad.
And yes, books continue to come after his death. There was one called the
Tristan Betrayal. Couldn't go past the first 100 pages or so - too much BS
in each page.
Loved that pratchett quote .. about books starting with a letter of
Srini Ramakrishnan [22/05/08 14:01 +0530]:
Are you allowed to bring back more than one laptop as duty free? I
always have a laptop with me, so I never get a chance to buy one in
the US.
Technically, only one. Unless you can convince the customs guy that you
have two, one for your company work
Jim Grisanzio [20/05/08 09:14 +0900]:
Got reminded of that seeing an IP post some hours back about how Japan is
finally, reluctantly, hiring more engineers from abroad.
We're getting a tad off topic here, but you may want to stress quite
heavily the /finally/ and /reluctantly/ bits in the
Perry E. Metzger [18/05/08 18:10 -0400]:
The Narita Express was pretty fast when I last took it. Not a
Shinkansen by any means, but still pretty good, and it stops right
inside the airport. (Also very comfortable, and it has assigned
seating, although that's a bit of a problem for those who
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [16/05/08 00:27 +0200]:
similarly, the internet choke points are not due to some nefarious
design of the chinese government. that's what happens in most places
outside europe and the US, where physical limits of fibre capacity and
Actually no. China is large enough to have
http://dag.wieers.com/howto/ssh-http-tunneling/
http://wiki.kartbuilding.net/index.php/Corkscrew_-_ssh_over_https
Or of course, there are various java based ssh clients you can use, some
supporting quite elderly ssh versions - http://linuxmafia.com/ssh/java.html
This one seems to be quite full
(2) Nothing in sub-clause (a) of clause (1) shall affect the
operation of any existing law, or prevent the State from making any
law, in so far as such law imposes reasonable restrictions on the
exercise of the right conferred by the said sub-clause in the
interests of the security of the
It is a US brand (and a big one) of rum / port / sherry / brandy.
Appropriately enough, from a company called Heaven Hill
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Hill
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