Amit Varma wrote:
aligned towards putting in place safeguards that do not allow its employees
access to sensitive data, and to make it too risky for those with access to
Banks in India are just beginning to implement security measures. Banks
have been swindled and this cannot be possible if
Deepak Misra wrote:
Shoddy scripts. I would expect them to validate inputs at a minimum
FOr those on Airtel wanting to avoid spam SMS, send an SMS to 222 with
the text BLOCK. It has worked for me so far.
Venkat
Gautam John wrote:
And they're pimping Firefox
Nothing wrong with that... Any means to get IE wiped out is fine by me...
Madhu Menon wrote:
I think I need a new procmail recipe, which filters anything with
iphone in it right to /dev/null
So you meant to say, iDontCare?
I think he meant iBored...
Try Project Open (http://www.project-open.com). It is an enterprise
project management software. It's free and works best on a SUSE Linux
box with PostgreSQL.
Venkat
ashok _ wrote:
I have a friend who is managing a project which is being rolled in
schools across 14 districts.
There are
What do you all think of this concept? Does this prevent RSI?
http://www.dontclick.it/
Venkat
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
No fans of a thinkpad's clitmouse?
I prefer that over the touchpad. But a mouse is way more comfortable, IMO.
Venkat
Welcome back to India!
It seems to me that Ford Endeavour might suit your palate. Mitsubishi
Pajero is another nice car.
I think a large car is going to be a pain in Bangalore. Which is why I
chose the Suzuki Swift. Ample legroom for the driver and shotgun.
Zippy 1.3l engine that gives many
Biju Chacko wrote:
I'm up for lunch in the Indiranagar/Airport Rd Area.
Count me in for lunch. Wednesdays, though, are out...
Vh
Biju Chacko wrote:
I have to admit there isn't much to beat a good South Indian filter
coffee. This may get me excommunicated but I also think that, in
general, you get better coffee in Madras than Bangalore.
I agree with the former statement. But Kalmane coffee's Bluegrass by
the cup
Charles Haynes wrote:
So Venky, this is a throw down. Where do you think you can get a good
espresso in Bangalore. I'll meet you there.
That's Venki, not Venky. And I think that the best espresso is probably
at your place and I will meet you there before you become a
non-resident. :-)
My
Amit Varma wrote:
Were these those red and gold/silver machines with a prominent spout
on one side? I remember seeing them at movie theaters, many moons ago,
but cannot recall the brand/trade names of those machines.
Can't remember brand name, but I do remember the spout. Suitably phallic,
Charles Haynes wrote:
Oops! Sorry. At my place is only my super-automatic. The cappucino I
make is actually at work when I can convince the helpers not to
helpfully pre-grind a hopper full of coffee. I've finally got the
So I guess I will have to meet you officially... ;)
tweakish like add a
shiv sastry wrote:
I believe that I can make Mysooru coffee that tastes a lot better than any of
the coffees illustrated in that link and does not have an unpronounceable
foreign name.
A good filter coffee is hard to come by these days... Have you tried any
of the fresh roasted and ground
shiv sastry wrote:
I currently use Kalmane's Mysore nuggets which is delivered home when I
call
and ask.
Nice choice... Very good coffee...
http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/2007/08/20/an-illustrated-coffee-guide/
I wish all the baristas in the cafes in the US educated themselves at
least minimally from this site. It might not be a gourmet coffee
drinker's definitions, but surely better than what most of the baristas
dole out. Many of them
Dinesh Venkateswaran wrote:
approve of the for-no-sensible-reason name change, like Bangalore to
Bengaluru
I feel your pain, Dinesh. :-)
Welcome to Silk!
V
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Hey man. Yup, remember you well. How're you?
Welcome to Silk... We are fine here. Hope the same from you! ;)
Oh, almost forgot. Srini mama sends his regards as well as Savithri mami. :)
Venky TV wrote:
Hey Jim,
Welcome to Silk! We've talked often on the OpenSolaris mailing lists.
Looking forward to meeting you at FOSS.IN. I could certainly use
some help getting some of the Linux zealots here to try out
OpenSolaris! :) (Biju, you there?!)
Is it really that good? I
Charles Haynes wrote:
On 8/19/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nandkumar Saravade wrote:
http://indiatogether.org/2007/jul/ash-btis.htm
www.btis.in is impressive... move over, google maps (for bangalore)
You think the btis.in maps are better than Google's maps?
It has more
Nandkumar Saravade wrote:
http://indiatogether.org/2007/jul/ash-btis.htm
www.btis.in is impressive... move over, google maps (for bangalore)
V
I am not so sure it is confined to the west, but this is an interesting
take on journalism as well.
http://edstrong.blog-city.com/noam_chomsky_how_propaganda_works_in_the_west.htm
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Let the arguments begin. g
As Shiv would put it, the writer is a blithering idiot. Sorry for
stealing your limelight, Shiv.
Interesting collection of web based tools.
http://www.tzunami.com/No-More-Harddrive.php
Thanks, both of you... Just experienced xkcd. Here is something I felt
was quite funny...
http://xkcd.com/232/
Venkat
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i may have said this before, but i love xkcd. this one [1] is just so
sweet.
-rishab
1. http://xkcd.org/162/
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 13:07
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
Thunderbird sucks at various levels. :)
How many? Which are these?
Raj Shekhar wrote:
Heh! I had already used up rajlist@ and rajlist2@ email ids for
subscribing to usenet groups. spamme@ came up when I wanted to use some
other email id to subscribe to mailing lists that I would read once
every day.
Since you own the domain, why not silk@ ???
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't
found a MUA to replace it for me. Thunderbird comes close, but the
Tried Evolution?
I came across this wonderful piece of work that I feel compelled to
share with the list.
http://www.scottberkun.com/essays/53-how-to-detect-bullshit/
Raj Shekhar wrote:
in infinite wisdom Venkat Mangudi spoke thus On 08/02/2007 12:49 PM:
^^^
I wish!
What interests me more is your email address... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is that an invitation or a challenge?
Venkat
sriram balasubramaniam wrote:
All the Silksters meet in India.
Two things...
1. We are known as Silk-listers, methinks.
2. We already do FOU except for the big hoo-haa and sponsors.
But seriously, I think a TED-like conference would really not be
silk-like. FoU, I would attend...
Venkat
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a
collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that
Right-ho! Finest minds by whose standards?
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
http://whenhernameyouwriteyoublot.blogspot.com/2007/07/xx-xxx---xxx-xxx-26.html
Absolutely loved it. Reminds me of Wodehouse...
Venkat
About a year ago, I read the Left Behind series. It was a very nice
work of fiction, at best. After the second or third book, it had a very
strong similarity to all the God Vs Devil (or your favorite demon) like
the numerous Bollywood/vernacular Indian movies. I was literally ROFL
reading the last
Thaths wrote:
Some years ago, I read Amar Chitra Katha's Dasa Avatar series. It was
a very nice work of fiction, at best I was literally ROFL reading
the last book because this Kali avatar is supposed to just kill his
enemies in assuming the shape of some weird animal. Whether he talks
to
Abhishek Hazra wrote:
And also Eco's _Foucault's Pendulum_, at the risk
Could I borrow any of the books mentioned in the didn't get it list in
this thread? Very curious now...
Venkat
ashok _ wrote:
On 7/18/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Let me end this post with a barbed semi insult - even if it is
flamebait to
jog minds. is it possible at all that my thoughts are more advanced
than those
of a lot of people on this issue in that I do not seek to dispute or
fight,
but rather
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Bioengineered viruses kill bacteria
So who/what will contain these viruses? You cannot, after all, assume
that these would be entirely good for us human. With due respect to the
scientists, I suspect anything bioengineered, possibly influenced by too
many
Nice compilation...
http://haacked.com/archive/2007/07/17/the-eponymous-laws-of-software-development.aspx
Madhu Menon wrote:
Deepa Mohan wrote:
And the other thing is, these kind of
cameras do not have the long-life batteries that the higher-end DSLR's
carry.
Buy higher capacity rechargeable batteries perhaps? My Canon A95 runs on
4 AA batteries, and the ones I use have a 2300 mAh charge.
http://www.slate.com/id/2167870/
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
I said it was a toss up, and that religion was one of the factors that
might influence the protection pilgrims received.
Let me get this straight... Your conjecture is that there were
guards/soldiers/police/protectors provided to travelers on the road. And
if the road
Charles Haynes wrote:
Are there not Hindus who believe Hinduism is under attack and needs
active protection by humans? It certainly appears so from here. I
would certainly call the destruction of the Babri Masjid active.
Yes, there are fanatics who believe that Hinduism needs protection. One
Aaah, the much awaited addition of arguments to the thread. ;-)
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
At 2007-07-13 09:37:29 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All were just people who had (as far as I know) free access
to travel to areas that they felt they needed to travel to on
pilgrimage no matter which
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
At 2007-07-13 12:01:51 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Considering how tolerant the religion is, not to be confused with the
people who purportedly practise it, there is no attack.
Ah yes, the good religion, bad practitioners argument again.
Yes, you hit the nail
Thaths wrote:
On 7/13/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
have you read Romila Thapar's book about Somnath? It's very good.
ISBN number would be appreciated.
http://www.amazon.com/Somanatha-Voices-History-Romila-Thapar/dp/1844670201/
Thank you, thaths... Udhay and I were
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
OK, I'll try to remember that the next time I want to call a people
hostile. But what relevance does it have to what I actually wrote in
*this* discussion?
*** Whether a given ruler treated them well seems to have been a toss
up, and often did depend on the religion of
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
Er, yes. I didn't say it was. But so what if it wasn't? The fact remains
that pilgrimages could not be depended upon to be free, either in the
monetary sense or in terms of security and easy passage.
But the point is that you cannot call a people hostile based on this.
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
I said pilgrims were preyed upon by bandits where they were not
protected by the local ruler. You said I don't think that this
was something specific to this part of the world.
You also said that this was because the pilgrims did not believe the
same God the ruler
Charles Haynes wrote:
But national, religious, ethnic or cultural borders are necessarily
fluid in time and space. It's all too easy to pick the time and place
that suits one's agenda. Unfortunately it's also easy for people who
disagree with you to pick equally convincing times and places
http://www.langston.com/Fun_People/1998/1998AWJ.html
Venkat
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
Consider this case. A popular actor/chief minister dies. His wife and
his concubine contest his legacy and fight the election. The people
vote the concubine as his heir. By what yardstick do you call this
cultural conservatism?
Is there any mention to the fact
Eugen Leitl wrote:
The better ones are good enough for family-type events and
snapshots. You can't beat the law of optics, but I'm not going
to lug a kg of glass, metal and electronics around, unless I'm
on quest.
Quite agree with you there. But what about small discrete functionally
http://www.thetraveljunkie.ca/articles.php?articleid=146
I am not sure if other governments have passed any regulations in this
matter. Does anybody know?
Venkat
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Another Venky on this list? Reminds me of the time when I worked in a
cubicle farm for Citicorp way back in 1992. When someone shouted Venky,
five heads would pop up :-) You could shout Subbu with the same results.
Welcome to Silk List.
Venky (The original one
http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-06-03--this-modern-life.png
This is an interesting piece doing the rounds on http://del.icio.us
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2007/07/a_cyclic_universe.php
Venkat
Deepak,
If you do get something, would you mind sharing it with me? I have been
looking for similar information for a little while now.
Venkat
Deepak Misra wrote:
I am looking for some material on The importance of Linux in India.
Content is basically market size potential etc and why it is
I have 5 too... private mail please...
Venkat
Deepak Misra wrote:
I have some too. let me know by email if anyone wants some
Deepak
On 6/28/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some more freebase invites available. You know the drill - ask in
private mail, please.
Udhay
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
blog is my #1 on the annoyance scale .. funny thing, sounds like
blob in the sense of something sticky and loathsome you step on
without warning, and its sound, the way it is pronounced, sounds
similarly disgusting too (diarrhetic, almost)
Given the verbal
If you want some tasty food check out Crystal near Wilson college across
from the beach. No drinks, mostly college crowd the food is awesome.
So are the old hindi tunes...
Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
Mee too. Will be there. Not too familiar with Bandra but Just Around the
Corner is a good
Danese Cooper wrote:
Hi Jeremy. Nice to see you here. We really should have lunch soon,
man. Everybody in India is sleeping now (but you'll get some pings from
Just some of us night owls up, eh?
On Jun 19, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Jeremy Bornstein wrote:
Greetings all! I just joined this
Jeremy Bornstein wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:02:11PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Welcome, Jeremy. I'll bite... why don't you like long walks on the beach?
I included that bit of information because, in personal ads (at least
in the US), long walks on the beach used to be a canonical
Interesting article in The Economist
http://economist.co.uk/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9249262
The truth about recycling
Jun 7th 2007
From The Economist print edition
As the importance of recycling becomes more apparent, questions about it
linger. Is it worth the effort? How does it work? Is
Eugen Leitl wrote:
If our Ops/J ratio is horrible, it's because we're not doing
things right. We're a long way from KT ln 2, and even that
is not really a hard limit.
I don't usually say this, but that waay over my head! I would love
to learn more, though.
I'm running two nodes, and so
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
This is, at the moment, more a thought experiment than anything else -
I was looking to see if it was worth replacing my ~3yr old Olympus
MJU-410 point-and-shoot camera. I am about as far from a camera /
photography geek as it is possible to get - my pictures are mostly
Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
Though, I'm firmly in agreement with others -- why is it that guys can't
just make the freakin bowl when they urinate? Is it that hard?
the problem is not so much aim but managing flow transitions, especially
descending flow.
i.e., dribble ... hence the invention
Gautam John wrote:
*Swaroop R writes:*
*Very happy that someone had their cameras ready when this thing flew
past!
Infact, I had seen the similar thing in 2004 November 5 and when I had
called the newspaper offices, they laughed and ridiculed me and
advised me
to stop calling. However, I
Charles Haynes wrote:
Hi,
I'm offering my place as a place for us to get together, have some
takeout from Imperial, swap books, have a few drinks.
My house, Wed May 16, food at 8pm, show up any time after 7pm. RSVP
for directions so I can get an idea of how much food I should send
Udhay out
shiv sastry wrote:
I'll wear my best saffron robes..
shiv
This is going to be fun!
Charles Haynes wrote:
I'll have beer and wine, but if people have preferred tipples it would
I'll bring some wine as well?
Venkat
Chirayu wrote:
There may be many different majority beliefs and
morals and with a large enough group, you'll likely always be a part
of the majority for a bunch of beliefs/opinions and in the minority
for a bunch of others. How important is it that the whole group should
genuflect to the
http://opensourcecinema.org/
Will this be destructive or constructive? Going by the open source
revolution, it is surely going to change the way audio-visual art is
being sold/presented to the world.
-Venkat
Thaths wrote:
On 5/15/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://opensourcecinema.org/
How is this different from a liberally CC licensed collection of work?
I think the difference is that everyone can be a part of creating the
cinema. As I understand it, they have requests out
Remember those objective question papers and the myriad of techniques to
get through without reading anything? One student seems to have
stumbled on the truth of one of those techniques. ;-)
http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1730017
image snipped, but it is a scan of an answer sheet that
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals.
And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com
Far far better than what passes for an online ticketing site in india
(makemytrip.com, yatra.com etc suck bad, have more than their
Just heard about this on the radio. Looks like an interesting
conference. Before I register, is there a chance for a mini silk meet?
Any experience with attending this conference in the past would be
appreciated.
Venkat
Gautam John wrote:
Via Slashdot:
An astonishing number of stories related to HD-DVD encryption keys
have gone missing in action from digg.com, in many cases along
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/07/05/02/0235228.shtml
http://rudd-o.com/archives/2007/04/30/spread-this-number/
Related story. The
Nice things this guy learnt from random stock pictures. Enjoyed everyone
of them and I think it is hard to just notice these things if you are
not looking for it. I am sure that I will look at the pictures in ads
with more interest now. :-)
There's light at the end of the tunnel. :-)
(Images have been deleted in the post. But you have to see it to be
convinced)
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/396-helpful-distortion-at-nyc-london-subway-maps
Eddie Jabbour, graphic designer for Kick Design, is obsessed with
replacing the
http://bullnotbull.com/archive/dow13k-1.html
Inflation, Dow 13K and the Second Great Depression
April 26, 2007
Michael Nystrom, MBA
When I was about 9 years old, my father took my elder sister and I to
see a performance by a famous magician called Blackstone
It feels nice that one can get so much good information to understand
art... Being rather art-illiterate (I can appreciate good landscapes, is
all), I have newfound respect for art. But, I still do not understand
art any better than I did yesterday. I guess this is how my wife feels
when I
Came across this set of nice pictures. What is more interesting are the
comments after the pictures.
http://amazingfiltered.blogspot.com/2007/04/creative-sculptures-made-with-smoke.html
Venkat
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
On 05/04/07, Madhu Menon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Danese Cooper wrote:
I had the scariest ride ever on an airplane on one of these two (and I
forget which because their names are too similar, IMHO).
Must be Air India. Alcohol is not served on domestic flights.
I
Welcome to Silk, and to Bangalore.
If you ever feel the need to quench your thirst with a Riesling during
your Bangalore trip, look me up. Picked one up in FRA the last time I
was there...
Cheers,
Venkat
voornaam achternaam wrote:
Hi,
I was accepted to join silklist about a month ago and
Will one of the 5 silklisters who used Udhay's invite please invite me?
Thanks,
Venkat
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote: [ on 10:13 AM 3/16/2007 ]
This is a VERY interesting (note that it is still in alpha) attempt
to leverage folksonomies on a grander scale than has yet been
ashok _ wrote:
true...
my point was that turning video games into movies does not really
result in good movies.
it is like watching a fat pimply teenager sitting on a sofa, playing
the video game for me, and me being forced to watch it.
But if the player is really good at it and better than
Charles Haynes wrote:
On 2/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
There is a suspicious silence from the person who is involved in the
organization of this event. ;-)
Personalized invites based on work-ex make it sound suspiciously like
GOOG's on
Udhay Shankar N wrote:
http://www.workfriendly.net/browse/Office2003Blue//http/silk.arachnis.com/
Note the button at the top left.
Udhay
I like what the button does. Interesting read on procrastination. :-)
Venkat
Biju Chacko wrote:
easy to miss. The food there tends to finish quickly, so before 9am or
between 4pm and 6pm are the best times to go.
This seems to have changed... The last time I ate there was around 11am
on a weekday and the idlis were still piping hot.
Another great place for Idlis used
Thaths wrote:
On 2/1/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yahoogroups is having big problems. I'm about to jump ship on
them -- this time for real, if they don't fix it.
snip
I'd really hate to learn mailman (apt-get install mailman is easy
enough,
but afterwards), but apparently this
Charles Haynes wrote:
I've tried a few of the wines, not so many yet though with import
prices the way they are I'm sure I will come to love them pretty
quickly!
One thing that has me greatly confused though is a distinct lack of
any beers other than light lagers (and the occasional Guiness.)
Deepa Mohan wrote:
To add to what Biju said:
4)Your spelling of choice is wrong.
So you are actually saying, Fail, right?
shiv sastry wrote:
nerves daktar
Is this similar to chainees fried rice and selves less tap? Kinda,
sorta reminds of a picture Udhay once sent; it was a crudely painter
store sign that proclaimed child bear was available.
Venkat
Please sign if you think Novartis is not doing the right thing.
http://www.gopetition.com/online/10972.html
Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11053
Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk
* 15:52 29 January 2007
* NewScientist.com news service
Another petition. Please pass it on to your friends. Maybe we can make a
difference.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Novartis/petition.html
Venkat
Eugen Leitl wrote:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11053
Legal wrangle puts India's generic drugs at risk
* 15:52 29 January 2007
Charles Haynes wrote:
eat anything, I thought the Andhara food at Nandhini was nicely hot
but I prefer hotter... Who has favorite places to recommend to the
newbie?
Looks like we belong to the same category. Come home sometime and I will
cook something real hot. My wife and kids will not touch
Biju Chacko wrote:
On 30/01/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look for the Imperial on residency road. Cheap, tasty food - famous for
kerala muslim meat dishes .. hot enough to require a stomach lined with
cast iron .. probably not the most hygeinic place but well, it might
Biju Chacko wrote:
Good Grief! Are you trying to kill him? Even I've stopped going there.
Kairali near Christ College is a better restaurant at the greasy spoon
range of the market.
On a different note, did you study at Christ College? :-)
Thaths wrote:
There is also an excellent Dosa place on Margosa road near the
playground opposite Malleshwaram club.
I was just going to recommend this place. I think it is called Shree
sagar or something like that. Be prepared to wait, sometimes upto half
an hour.
Another great place for
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