Re: [silk] Hello

2009-05-20 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Doc, Hello. m...@cix, m...@infomart. Good to see you again. Was going over the archives Jace (jckiran) put up of the CiX msgs. Those were good times indeed. Venkat On 5/20/09, Dr. John Marshall Johnson johnso...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just subscribed to this List, thanks to Udhay. (In the

Re: [silk] Best Science book you would recommend to a friend ?

2009-05-05 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
A short history of nearly everything by Bill Bryson is an interesting read. http://www.amazon.com/Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0767908171 - Venkat On 5/6/09, Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com wrote: Hi *, A friend asked me minutes ago - suggest to me, a nice and interesting

Re: [silk] Statistics on development taken by politicos

2009-04-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Agreed, it is Rs 5/day/application. If it was 10x it might make a small difference. Rs 5 ia too paltry a sum for them to scare them to action. They probably earn 1000x as cutbacks. Sorry, but my opinion is not very high. I also hear Zainab's statement a bout frivolous pleas and such. But the act

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up

2009-04-10 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
You chaps beat us to it. You and your mobile devices, you! 'Twas fun meeting all of you. Need to do this often. Yeah, and could you please start that thread, kiran? Can't wait to see the drift. On 4/10/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: Yep...good conversation...good

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up

2009-04-09 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
So seven of us. 11:30 am sounds good? On 4/9/09, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Amit Somani thesom...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote: s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: We're in for Friday. Shall

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up

2009-04-09 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
So seven of us. 11:30 am sounds good? On 4/9/09, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Amit Somani thesom...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote: s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: We're in for Friday. Shall

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up

2009-04-07 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
We're in for Friday. Shall we say 11:30 am? 1. Venkat 2. Usha On 4/8/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: Usha and I will be joining if it is on Friday and in FB :-) If we have a headcount, I can try to arrange a small discount... So its final then, lunch on Friday? I

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up

2009-04-06 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
I second FB, might not make it though. Can arrange for a discount if there are more than 6 ppl. On 4/6/09, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote: re: Lunch Ignorant of proximity issues, may I innocently recommend F B off of St. Marks? I went there this past weekend with Udhay and it rocked!!

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up

2009-04-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Not sure if that would be central to all the other attendees. Going by the number of yea-sayers, not much attendance methinks. I might have to miss this time, client visiting from out of country the coming week. On 4/4/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: If it's dinner,

Re: [silk] Bangalore silk meet up previouslyTED India Registrations now open

2009-03-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Sunday is out. Will be going to CloudCamp. On 3/26/09, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/26 Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: Venkat, Ravi, and Myself so far. Anybody else? Someone mentioned dinner on Friday or Saturday, both

Re: [silk] TED India Registrations now open

2009-03-25 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Me too. On 3/24/09, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm game! Why don't we have a silk meetup there since there have been some newcomers to the list (myself included)? Need the latest food guide for Bangalore. Kiran -- Sent from my mobile device

Re: [silk] TED India Registrations now open

2009-03-25 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Me too. On 3/24/09, Ravi Bellur rav...@gmail.com wrote: I'm game! Why don't we have a silk meetup there since there have been some newcomers to the list (myself included)? Need the latest food guide for Bangalore. Kiran -- Sent from my mobile device

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
I know this is going to be a top post. Gmail for blackberry will just not allow me to do otherwise. :-) So what have we decided? Crap^D^D^Dedars or benjarong? On 3/11/09, sur...@hserus.net sur...@hserus.net wrote: Introducing myself. Raja Venkataraman MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type:

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Am ok On 3/11/09, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:15 PM, gabin kattukaran gkattuka...@gmail.comwrote: what happened to the grt idea? Between Benjarong and Cedars, I prefer Cedars solely because I lunched at B only last week. So, if

[silk] OT Re: Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Folks, I screwed up and left home without my power cord. Do I have any hope of getting it when I come in at 9:35 pm on the shatabdi? I have a T61. :( On 3/11/09, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: SO, it's grt then? GRT. How many people? Suresh Ramasubramanian Krish Ashok

Re: [silk] OT Re: Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re:

2009-03-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Have asked the hotel, never mind my previous request. Thanks for not flaming. :-) On 3/11/09, Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote: Folks, I screwed up and left home without my power cord. Do I have any hope of getting it when I come in at 9:35 pm on the shatabdi? I have

Re: [silk] What is Indian culture?

2009-03-11 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Can I norrow this book if someone (from silk) in Bangalore has it? V On 3/11/09, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday 11 Mar 2009 3:21:27 pm gabin kattukaran wrote: Which book is this? Lost Ciivilizations of the Stone Age - Richard Rudgley, Arrow 1998 -- Sent from my mobile device

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re: Introducing myself. Raja Venkataraman

2009-03-10 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Posting from my blackberry. Am staying at Ramada Raj Park, alwarpet. Folks, is that a reasonably good place to stay? Venkat On 3/10/09, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.netwrote: gabin

Re: [silk] Post locations too .. RE: Chennai Meet - was Re: Introducing myself. Raja Venkataraman

2009-03-10 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Dinner please. Am at CTC during the day, till a little after lunch. Would love to catch up with anyone attending OSI tech days (www.osidays.com) during the day. I will be speaking in the IT Managers track on 12th and the Cloud computing/virtualisation track on 13th. Venkat +91-99001-80761 On

Re: [silk] US returnees wanted for interview

2009-02-27 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Me. Returned 2 yrs ago. On 2/27/09, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: How recent? On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: From a reporter friend. Any ideas? Udhay Original Message Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:05:36 +0530 From:

Re: [silk] Determining gender from IP address.

2008-11-17 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Think I ought to wash my hands off this 'thread' with SOAP and get on with work. On 11/18/08, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J. Andrew Rogers

Re: [silk] Internet access for senior citizen in special care facility

2008-02-14 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
If you can buy an old WRT54G that can use DD-WRT firmware, signal can be boosted or two of them can be used for repeating forming a kind of mesh if u know someb ody who lives between the two places. I understand WRT54G-L can be used similarly. Tons of info about this on the Net. On 2/14/08, ashok

Re: [silk] Do you think Ubuntu is dead?

2008-02-12 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
The random installs might have a hand in the current state of affairs. I did something like this and after a year did a clean install of Gutsy. On a different hard disk ;-) my thinkpad is quite happy now, mostly. Still have swap problems. Discovered today at IISc that connecting to a

Re: [silk] greetings and salutations

2008-02-05 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Which Venky? On 2/5/08, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko wrote, [on 2/5/2008 11:05 AM]: Does anyone know a nice place in that part of town? Preferably slightly more wallet friendly than the Taj or the Sheraton? Windsor Pub comes to mind ... Windsor Pub sounds good,

Re: [silk] greetings and salutations

2008-02-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi's Silk Account
Cool, sounds like a plan. It might be easier for the lot if you could post your hotel's address and phone to Silk. I know it will be for me. PS: Top posting courtesy of GMail on a blackberry. :-) On 2/5/08, Brian Behlendorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Brian Behlendorf wrote: