Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
There is/was a story in the Panchatantra about four students who each
possessed special powers. They come across the skeleton/few bones of a
tiger, and using all their powers, bring it to life.
Is that something you can use?
Actually, I think there were
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
That's how I got 'no'. Yes, I thought would be included. Wasn't. I got up
and down too.
So we say No much more than we say Yes, how interesting
Alok G. Singh wrote:
On 5 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want to learn about ACH:
I was hoping for a little more detail.
You might have to supply more detail about what you're trying to do
exactly. :)
I (as a business entity) want to send funds to N
Gautam John wrote:
And while on food:
http://www.nationalgeographicfood.com/
Arora Creations have sponsored the Indian recipes there?
Gautam John wrote:
And while on food:
Another observation... Indian recipes are an exact match between
ngfood.com and aroracreations.com... Now back to the regular lurking...
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
but that's because head-wobbling south indians are overrepresented in the US of
A!
No true... The number of south indians are nowhere close to the gujjus
there...
Dave Long wrote:
The source of naming that amuses me is web browsers: Navigator,
Explorer, Safari, etc.
Are Firefox and Konqueror deviating from the norm then?
V
Biju Chacko wrote:
Not really. The VW Phaeton is a direct competitor to Audi. The Audi R5
is a Lamborghini competitor. Seat and Skoda have comparable products.
Phaeton competes with which Audi model? A8? But that would not make
sense since they share the same powertrain with the A8 having a
http://xkcd.com/327/
-V
http://lukeplant.me.uk/blog.php?id=1107301645
Convincingly written... Non-programmers will enjoy it too.
Perry E. Metzger wrote:
One wonders if we are missing a large potential alternative power
source here. All this turning over could easily drive turbines.
Bangalore is severely short of power these days... Can the politicians
be convinced to take a look at this yet to be exploited power
Biju Chacko wrote:
Is Microsoft finally starting to grok Open Source? Or is this just a
few guys in a corner somewhere? Or should I put on my tinfoil hat
because it's all part of some bigger conspiracy?
The first time I heard about http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/ I was
sure it was a
What's going on in this country?
Sumant Srivathsan wrote:
Disclosure: I'm TamBram, IIT-educated, multiple advanced degree-owning,
America-returned, member of elitist invitation-only groups, intellectually
arrogant, extremely articulate in English, deluded by imagination of
grandeur, and mostly quite tolerable company. If you're
Divya Manian wrote:
I find it very interesting and curious that we tambrams love to analyze
ourselves to death. Non-tambram brothers and sisters[1] of India seem
And everything else as well... We don't stop with analysing ourselves.
Madhu Menon wrote:
Er, how did the conversation shift from silk to my list? Wasn't the
original point that silk was elitist? (And it's relatively easier to
join, even if Udhay does have to approve membership now.)
I don't think it shifted to your list. It just triggered a thread shift
Deepa Mohan wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
( I run an invitation-only discussion list that Udhay is a part of,
and that would probably seem quite a bit more elitist. But that's because I
chose very opinionated people to be members. ;)
I
Bharath Chari wrote:
Silk started off by us forcibly subscribing people we knew in the real
world. To that extent, its origins were in the comfort zone. More
often than not, in the flaky days of the Internet in India, the
posting would be followed up by a call to the person to check if the
Gautam John wrote:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/iggypop/iggypop1.html
Gautam,
Many thanks for this link. It was a wonderful read. I think I will try
their music. :-)
Seriously, this guy can write very well. And he has a wonderful sense of
humor, except for the reality show
ashok _ wrote:
If you have a cybercafe with 20 users... and if most of them are using something
like hotmail... how will having my photograph and fingerprint and time
i used a cybercafe identify who the anonymous sender of a 'threatening
mail' is... ?
Even if they were able to track date/time
Deepa Mohan wrote:
Oooh VenkatI am sending the CID to your place to take your
Surely the Core of INTUITIVE Detectives do not need fingerprints and
other such nonsensical scientific data to crack the case. :-)
email!) But maybe, like Forsyth or Archer,you are only going to write
a book
http://www.readatwork.com/
Alok G. Singh wrote:
I want a Thinkpad X300. However, the difference between the INR and USD
price is substantial enough (about 20k) to be worth the effort of
getting one from the US.
Would any of the jet-set silklisters who are coming down to BLR be
willing to lug one for me ? I would of
Thaths wrote:
What are prices in SE Asia? Are prices equally bad in Singapore or
Bangkok or KL? I recall a return flight to BKK on Jet costing around
Rs. 10,000 (might have been a promotional fare).
SGD or THB are worse off. What I would pay Rs 86.5k would end up being
Rs95k plus airfare.
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Tiger Airways is starting discount flights between Bangalore and
Singapore from June 1. The price for a round trip is about Rs 10,500.
At that price you can get your laptop and a weekend holiday. A
Singapore visa takes two days and Rs 500.
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
sue the company for unfair employment conditions if anyone dared to
fire him.
Did they fire him? I think there are clauses that protect and employer
from such ridiculous and frivolous lawsuits.
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
http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-gentle-introduction-to-learning-calculus/
Venkat
Biju Chacko wrote:
I'm a definite maybe.
me too...
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
of posts. Get enough silklisters drunk - aka call a silkmeet in bangalore.
Then start the assembled people posting to silk, sometime after midnight or
so, once the vodka and beer stocks have been sufficiently depleted.
Isn't that a good idea, now? I have been
Balaji Dutt wrote:
Venkat - I'm not sure I should accept those thanks, for I fear I have
inadvertently helped create a monster here :)
Monster? You created it? Naaah! All of us were just waiting for some
reason, methinks. If you feel so bad about it, you should join us and
tell Madhu to send
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2008/03/17/internet.shtml
Dave Long wrote:
Personally, the mid-90's don't seem long enough ago to be nostalgic
(well, perhaps except for a certain naive belief in the XXIst century),
but that Vectrex in the upper-right corner, that takes me back.
As does the screen with Windows NT Server during the interview... Not
ss wrote:
On Tuesday 18 Mar 2008 2:16:48 pm Gautam John wrote:
I don't know how far this is true though
http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fnskipauth=truep
li=1
Brilliant!
That is an understatement. But, I cannot come up with a better word...
So Brilliant!
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
(though I forget exactly how). I was sufficiently annoyed that I decided
to get the license the right way, i.e. by going to the nearest RTO and
I have had a very good experience with the RTO in Yeshwanthpur,
Bangalore. When I first got my license way back in 1996 it
va wrote:
On 2/26/08, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Vid...I wish you could come and learn Carnatic music from me. I have
... would love to :)
hehe, ...one of my students was the opposite, started coming in
Any of you near Marathahalli or nearby? My six year old daughter loves
music
Biju Chacko wrote:
shameless plug for my new employers' product:
Mingle: http://www.thoughtworks.com/mingle
Mingle is a project collaboration and management tool for Agile
software development. It adapts to the way a project team thinks and
works, enabling them to get work done and deliver
www.project-open.com
ashok _ wrote:
Hi:
I am looking for a project management software something free and web-based.
web-based is important because there are people on the project from 5
different timezones
Any suggestions, something that someone may have used in a similar scenario ?
Sajith T S wrote:
But the thread drift, ehm...
And your point is? Thread drifts are the most normal thing to happen in
Silk, eh?
When and Where?
Biju Chacko wrote:
That would be me.
I was hoping you would say that. :-) So I can hitch a ride with you, then?
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
But then again I found out that Hassath is usually the name of a
woman, so my theory shows signs of failing to the exception rule.
So what you are really saying is that it is time for lunch?
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Can anybody on the list get me some of this chili? I want to try it.
Some for me to, thank you, please...
Brian Behlendorf wrote:
arriving in the early afternoon, so something like 7pm at the hotel,
once I figure out what it is? The conference itself will be at the Taj
Well, let us know when you get in. Assuming it will be in the Central
Business District, it should take most of us no more than
Thaths wrote:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/02/03/fine-news.html
Congratulations, Cory!
Congratulations, Cory.
And what is the Fibonacci doing in the name? Please enlighten me...
Venkat
Welcome to Silk, Brian.
When you are in Bangalore (I refuse to call it Bengaluru), we should
meet. I run a small consulting firm (www.venkatmangudi.com) that
implements Open Source solutions. We might find it interesting to talk
to each other.
Cheers,
Venkat
Brian Behlendorf wrote:
Thank
Biju Chacko wrote:
Silk meet anyone? One with, say, Brian victim ... uhh ... guest of honor?
On the 10th? I'm game...
Venkat
Biju Chacko wrote:
On Jan 30, 2008 5:07 PM, Cory Doctorow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've started reading a couple Indian newspaper RSS feeds and I've hit an
acronym I can't seem to find a definition for, though I can winkle out
the meaning.
The acronym is RI and it appears to refer to prison
Cory Doctorow wrote:
Can you recommend a place that is both a plausible setting AND somewhere
where you can introduce me to people who'll get me in to see factories,
bureaucrats, regular people, entrepreneurs, and other nooks and crannies?
Why do both have to be the same place? Would it not
I will write to him and get in touch with him directly.
Venkat
Eugen Leitl wrote:
A well-known critical care practicioner
Prasanna Simha M [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Bangalore
is really trying to get on the Linux train, but sometimes
runs into issues. It would be really nice if any of you
who're
Charles Haynes wrote:
visit after dark. [Though the best Pakistani-style food (Shalimar) is
I miss Shalimar food... Although there are quite a few Shalimars in the
Bay area, Jones Farrell is the best IMO.
What has been your experience with Yank Sing ( the dim sum place near
Market St,
components of my clients'
business.
I would like to know your views in details
- Vinit
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From:
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et] On Behalf Of Venkat Mangudi
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 11:33 AM
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
The autos and of course the stray cows - why don't they drive you
insane ?
Autos do drive me nuts, but then compassion kicks in. Those poor chaps
hardly make any money out of it at the end of the day.
Stray cows are not so common these days, human foot traffic
Welcome to SILK, Krish.
Only some of us would understand your piece of code or the intricacies
of writing Object Oriented code.
You may not find a lot of Silk discussion, in fact many silk listers
do not know who Silk Smitha is, let alone that she was an item girl.
But I can foresee a nice
Valsa Williams wrote:
So is Opentaps suitable for small and medium businesses. Would you recommend
that ?
Opentaps is suitable for small, medium and large enterprises. It scales
very well and can serve the needs of most businesses who need an
integrated solution for their ERP, CRM and SCM.
://www.weberp.org/HomePage
J.
On 13-Jan-08, at 12:25 PM, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Take a look at Opentaps (www.opentaps.org), based on Apache's OFBiz.
Opentaps is a much better ERP system and I recommend it to all my
clients.
Venkat
Bharath Chari wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone on the list implemented
Take a look at Opentaps (www.opentaps.org), based on Apache's OFBiz.
Opentaps is a much better ERP system and I recommend it to all my clients.
Venkat
Bharath Chari wrote:
Hi,
Has anyone on the list implemented Openbravo ERP in a production
environment? Was looking at it as an alternative
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Gautam John wrote:
| http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4250#
Open source is a relatively new concept in India, says Hariharan of
the Open Source Foundation /me glares at Venky
I guess I have to agree with Venky Hariharan to a
Done...
89% say yes... We should support FOSS. But then, is it necessary to take
PC penetration to the next level? I am not so sure about that.
Should India support free software to take PC penetration to the next level?
Yes 89%
No 10%
Can't say 1%
Venkatesh
Valsa Williams wrote:
Besides just the free software, awareness campaigns should be loud and
pervasive. I just got a new laptop with Ubuntu 7.10. ISPs like Tata Indicom
We need a lot of people talking to the common man to bring this about.
How can I help?
Reliance still do not support Linux
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
What happens when there is a preloaded Windows at a pittance (and
official at that) ?
Just *boot* it out and replace with Ubuntu. It is not just the cost of
the OS. The other apps add up. What people don't understand that a linux
OS does not just replace
Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Just *boot* it out and replace with Ubuntu. It is not just the cost of
the OS. The other apps add up. What people don't understand that a linux
OS does not just replace Windows, but also Office, AntiVirus, Firewall,
Outlook, MS Project
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Just *boot* it out and replace with Ubuntu. It is not just the cost of
the OS. The other apps add up. What people don't understand that a
linux
OS does not just replace Windows, but also Office, AntiVirus, Firewall,
Outlook, MS Project, Anti-Spyware all those
http://codeulate.com/?p=7
Charles Haynes wrote:
The Top Indian Red was Seagrams Nine Hills Cabernet Sauvignon 2007.
I tasted the Seagarms Nine Hills Cab Sauv and did not think it was
anything to write home about. Considering my experience, I would be
cautious about taking the ratings seriously. This is my opinion, YMMV.
We are planning to do a small trip, say 4 days, later this month. Trying
to decide between Kochi and Kabini. Many of you seem to have traveled
extensively in India. If I had to make a choice between the two, what
should it be and why? Your thoughts may give me additional reasons to
choose one over
Grover La Reserve Cab-Shiraz, Reveilo Syrah Cabernet Sauvignon,
Mandala Valley Shiraz... all good wines. Albert Bouchet Cab Sauv is a
good french wine, good as in value for money at Rs 555...
But what are you *really* looking for?
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Are there any recommendations? I
Alok G. Singh wrote:
On 16 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me - light, fruity and well, fresh tasting whites or rosés
The Ivy Zinfandel scores 2 out of 3 on that scale.
Which two? I think that is quite important to know.
Nice piece on energy wasted. How many of these are you guilty of?
http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/008/trans008vampireenergy.html
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
OK, I give. Let's do it on the 17th at your place. Who else is in?
I'm in for the 17th. Where is Bharath's place?
Dinesh,
Thanks for letting us know. I will probably attend on the 14th. I assume
quite a bit of Open Source is being used and will be used going forward
in governance.
Venkat
Dinesh, Servelots wrote:
Technology, Governance and Citizenship
12th, 13th and 14th December, 2007
Indian Institute
Anybody going for just a day? I will be attending only on Saturday. I
need a ride Wifey wants the car. :-)
Biju Chacko wrote:
On Nov 26, 2007 5:43 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 10:29 AM 11/23/2007 ]
This would be a good time to finalise
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/cheeni
In case anyone is on it...
Udhay is for sure. So am I.
If any of you want invites, just ask.
An invite would be nice. Thank you
Thanks, now I have two invites. :-)
Venkat
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Done
On Nov 15, 2007 3:36 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/cheeni
In case anyone is on it...
Udhay is for sure. So
Didn't know that they were the US Military's contribution to English...
=
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/personal/10/22/o.panic.button/index.html
A 'fit' of panic is good when bad things happen
* Story Highlights
* Expert: Physical reaction to panic is natural, healthy
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Or Sally, who ditto?
HB Deepa and Sally. All 32 mins that's left of it...
Venkat
Sandhya aka Sandy wrote:
It's a little surreal and maybe unsettling to be in the middle of this
maelstrom. Is this the start of a long bidding war? What will we find when
Charles Philips and Larry Ellison are good when it comes to this. I was
part of PeopleSoft and we fought long and hard. But
shiv sastry wrote:
BTW I recall reading long ago that this already at the end of a sentence
such as that used in the name of this thread is common usage in Yiddish and
was introduced into American English by Jews in the US.
Hmmm... Jews, you say...
Add this to the list of their
sandhya_san wrote:
Inheritance of Loss,. We plan to meet again with our favourite
P.G.Wodehouse book just because we all like PGW. :) We have a small
Where in Bangalore can I find a good library with PGW and such?
Madhu Menon wrote:
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
We were charged Rs. 150 per 30ml, i.e. $93.75 for 750ml. A bottle of
750ml
costs $6. A profit margin of 1465%
Because, of course, a restaurant has zero setup and operational costs,
and import duties on liquor are nil too.
Nice counter-argument.
Aditya Kapil wrote:
Hey Venkat,
Thanks a lot. That worked well. And my colleagues thought I was resourceful
for having found a solution with 2 hrs notice. HA!
You are resourceful. You have a whole community (or more) supporting
you. ;-)
BTW, you are welcome. If you need something else from
Take a look at Yugma. (www.yugma.com)
Venkat
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
On 04/10/2007, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In google docs, the updates happen pretty quickly and are reflected on
all participant versions, though I find it helpful to have an open
teleconference at the same
Venky TV wrote:
I know only one other Venky here. The other one is a Venkat. Nah
nah nah nah naaah nah! So there!
This is the other Venkat. You are right, I prefer Venki not Venky.
Thaths wrote:
Because the tyranny of the masses is still a tyranny.
Where did tyranny come into the picture? Don't remember anybody ordering
someone to cease and desist. I used tell someone to cease and desist.
Not allow was used in the sense of using public outcry to make a
person stop.
ashok _ wrote:
Going by that argument, the first thing that would disappear would be
religious freedom. If people are gullible enough to believe something,
they should be allowed to.
Good idea, let's do away with religion.
Deepa Mohan wrote:
And I also object to anyone being allowed to do anything...it
reminds of the Omani minister who told me, in Oman women are allowed
to be the equal of men.
Why is allowed always associated with a government? Can it not be that
the people don't allow someone to write crap by
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
If that doesn't make sense, consider this one: Virtue is triangular.
True or false? Discuss.
V, r and u are the three points of the triangle. I,t and e are the sides.
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Very interesting question. I must admit my first reaction on hearing
something intreesting is to toss it out to some friends (on silk and
elsewhere, too) to see what they think - a form of contextual peer review.
Does it make the news more believable?
Venky TV wrote:
examples. I'd reduce the article to this -- People outside your
social circle are a faceless mass. Be careful of people who might try
to take advantage of that.
IMO the article also says something to the effect that you should try
not to take it personally when someone on the
shiv sastry wrote:
Excuse me for being facetious - but why should anyone object if Microsoft
does
what everyone else has been doing with impunity all these years - i.e make
Windows download and do things that you never intended.
Well, for one it means that Microsoft can download whatever
Eugen Leitl wrote:
Try reddit and heise (achtung, kraut) as well.
Thanks, will try.
Do you think the things are outrageous because they are true, or
because they are not true?
Outrageous if they are true, and outrageous if they are not and allowed
to write...
Thaths wrote:
Outrageous if they are true, and outrageous if they are not and allowed
to write...
I find your position on free speech fascinating. I would like to find
out more about where else you would like to not allow people to
express their opinions. Please add me to your mailing list.
ashok _ wrote:
I watched the full speech and qa of ahmadinejad at columbia Univ. It seemed
to me (by the nature of some of the questions put to him) that he has
been painted as some kind of modern day hitler by the media in
america. Its probably just a matter of time
before bombs start
Well written piece that makes sense to me. What do you folks think?
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=Newssid=2417
Apparently, even if auto updates are turned off, Windows Automatic
Updates pushes 9 updates to Vista and XP. Not very surprising, IMO, if
this is true. Can someone with the huge virus (a.k.a Windows) on their
system verify if this is true?
Eugen Leitl wrote:
I'm throughly annoyed at my co-citizen units, who have voted these
Nice choice of words!
Biju Chacko wrote:
* sounds good (but not necessarily audiophile grade)
* looks good
* inexpensive
* reasonable life span (7-10 years)
I have an Onkyo 5.1 HTS510. I had similar criteria a couple of years
ago. It met all of it... Still enjoying it... You are welcome to try it
out at my
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Exactly right .. it was a political statement tilak made, and it caught on
rather well as you can all see
Hmmm... I doubt that this was a political statement. Tilak's statement
might have something to do with the way it is celebrated in Mumbai and
nearby areas.
http://www.hrworld.com/features/101-reasons-to-freelance-091007/
Interesting theory.
http://margaux.grandvinum.se/SebTest/wvs/articles/folder_published/article_base_54
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