The lens of my SLR / and CCD sensor of my camera have dust patches on
them... How do i remove these ? I tried wiping it with a microfiber
cloth but it doesnt seem to work .
Any ideas ?
ashok
On 11/1/07, Gautam John wrote:
The New Nostradamus
Words By Michael A.M. Lerner
Photos By Ethan Hill
Can a fringe branch of mathematics forecast the future? A special
adviser to the CIA, Fortune 500 companies, and the U.S. Department of
Defense certainly thinks so.
It sounds suspiciously
On 10/31/07, Gautam John wrote:
The provision likely to be of most interest to consumers is the one
allowing cell phones to be unlocked and used on other networks. The
Copyright Office allowed this exception because the software that
prohibits users from accessing their phone's firmware has
On 10/13/07, Sriram Karra wrote:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/12/business/12cars.php
1. more cars and fewer motorcycles/scooters/cycles means more
homogeneity in road traffic. I feel that's a good thing. Cars are
less maneuverable than two wheelers, which is a good thing to keep
even the nobel prize for literature surprised me.
On 10/12/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://almaz.com/nobel/peace/2007b.html
Surprised me.
Binand
On 10/9/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Well, it makes sense to me that you would first want to help these
people make a living before equipping with a laptop.
What parts did not make sense to you? Just curious.
basically the parts where the writer quotes the UN to make comparisons
which are not
For all the criticism of the OLPC project, i personally think the
project is on to something. That it will probably fail at the
implementation stage is an entirely different story... However many of
the criticisms that the guy has in the article dont make sense...
Many moons ago a host of
On 10/4/07, shiv sastry wrote:
The US has responded robustly to one single attack on one September day.
Would there have been another attack? Your guess is as good as mine - but the
US was ripe for a terrorist attack (in my view). The US was sitting pretty
and secure in its relative
On 10/4/07, Aditya Kapil wrote:
what is the best was to present slides in real time over the net while
allowing both ends to edit?
Adit
http://show.zoho.com maybe ?
On 10/4/07, Nandkumar Saravade wrote:
entire world! To lead from the front, this is the officers creed, not Rs
15,000 a month!
(http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/showcolumns.aspx?id=COLEN20070021325)/
One of the reasons why the army is experiencing a severe shortage of officers.
Also why ,
On 10/3/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
Funny, I was reading this piece on the same topic. Nice one in the New
Yorker...
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=2
What struck me most about the speech, were the answers that the
audience expected. I think its
On 10/3/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
The allowed to write was directed at us, the receivers, not the powers
that be. I believe that some percentage of people who read such articles
are gullible enough to believe it. Freedom of speech is abused big time
to such a point that it has become a joke.
On 10/3/07, shiv sastry wrote:
A robust response to terrorism such as that displayed by the US comes with its
own price. Other current threads on this list lament the price that is being
paid, but hey the US _HAS_BEEN_ safe from terrorism hasn't it?
You mean statistically safe?
If you
I have a Creative 2.1, havent had any sound shielding issues with it,
i have 2 mobile phones, a TDMA router and a shortwave radio in the
same room.
On 10/2/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
That said, I'd like to believe my audiophile abilities do not merit
speakers priced over Rs 5000. I have
On 9/26/07, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Also I want to say that often, those with simple lifestyles (let's
say, for example, the Gond tribes, or the Irulas, or the Soligas) are
not counted as people living with Nature; they are counted as poor,
because poverrty is measured by how much money you have
On 9/22/07, Kamla wrote:
Would appreciate any suggestions or tips about how to get there,
accomodation etc. for either Karnataka or Kerala. What about weather
in the next 8-10 weeks in these areas?
there is this small village driving distance from mysore called
talakad... which has a lot of half
Another bit of trivia on the same lines... :
the first jet fighter aircraft built in india, the HF24-marut was designed by,
a german aircraft designer who was the designer for various WW2
german aircraft.. most notably the Fw190
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_HF-24_Marut
On 9/19/07, shiv
Even the BBC is not sacrosanct... it wasnt long back that there was a
controversy
about video media players on their site. Then yesterday, on their
Digital Planet
radio show on the world-service.. the program was almost entirely devoted to
microsoft...they even had a guy come on and flay
On 9/13/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Anish Mohammed wrote:
hop from your to be malicious. As routing schemes seem to be random, I
would have assumed, the system could tolerate a level of malicious nature.
And it would be an entirely wrong assumption, especially given the
On 9/11/07, shiv sastry wrote:
When I was in the UK (until 1990) it was already a very highly
surveilled (does that word exist?) society. Revisting the place from time
to time I have found that surveillance has only increased - but surprise
surprise - people are no longer able to break laws
On 9/9/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Does that make every one of
us cultural Nazis?
One person's security is another man's breach of freedom.
shiv
You are a brave man indeed. You must have utmost faith in the
competence of the police to handle such information.
On 9/9/07, shiv sastry wrote:
In fact there is an element of irony in the complaint that cyber-cafes are
going to come under big brothers eye. A significant proportion of people
doing the complaining either do not use cyber cafes or will stop using them
henceforth and shift to what they
On 9/5/07, Amit Varma wrote:
And what is a vengefully consumerist society? Even if you can be consumerist
-- I regard that as a bogeyman term -- how can you be vengeful about it?
Unthinking jargon, this.
Well even failure of rule of law sounds like jargon to me... the
writer of the
to each district level (or school
level).
Can anyone recommend a software for this ? (Something cheap, or free ...)
thanks
Ashok
On 8/31/07, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
i just got back from 10 days in ethiopia, where coffee was first
discovered and where the beans grow wild. ethiopian coffee is really
good, although i suspect this is more due to the initial preparation
(good beans, , carefully and often freshly roasted,
On 8/27/07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Talking of coffee shops in Madras, I'll vouch for Amethyst. They brew good
stuff there.
C
there is also this idli-dosa joint in raja annamalai puram (its part
of some bigger chainforgot the name), they make very good
kumbakonam degree
http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/maintenance/childrens_reviews_xo_technology.html
Then twelve year old SG made a surprisingly well-written literary
statement about the $100 laptop on Freedom to Tinker:
My expectations for this computer were, I must admit, not very high. But
it
On 8/23/07, shiv sastry wrote:
On Thursday 23 Aug 2007 6:21 am, Indrajit Gupta wrote:
Wouldn't any Indian author asked to write on Pakistan at 60 tend to
compare
Pakistan with his own country?
No IG. Not necessarily. At least, I don't think so.
shiv
I think it would be quite
On 8/10/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
There's parts of sikkim where the preferred currency is bottles of army
canteen rum ..
Heh... this even applies to Indian Railways TT inspectors... if you want to
bump yourself
up the waiting-list
I know I am in a minroty, but I kinda agree with the guy.
I personally hate supermarkets and shopping malls; people driving around
slowly looking for a parking slot; various
people in promotional gear shoving soaps and creams up my nose, none of
which i really want ; spotless aisles neatly
ordered
On 8/9/07, Deepa Mohan wrote:
The shop sells everything below the Maximum Retail Price (which I
think happens to be one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on a
consuming public). A one-kg pack of detergent, for example, costs
I always believed Maximum Retail Price was a bad thing... (maybe
On 8/5/07, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
The next generation will IMO handle this much better.
The next generation will probably decide to be single. Women will finally
figure out (just like they have done in europe) that they dont need a man
anymore. I have a couple of cousins who are slaving
On 8/5/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Not so easy for an indian outside india, I assure you - if only because
other indians actively seek you out and drag you kicking and screaming if
necessary into the local community
i had this neigbour for a while, a kenyan-born indian. he had this
On 8/4/07, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
You missed out the important adjective symbolic in what Charles
said. I would be willing to bet that you were indeed aware of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_%28liturgy%29#The_Communion_Rite
On the other hand, there is a tradition of saintly Relics
If the internet does have a hand in wiping out elton john... bravo
Lets have five more of these internet things
On 8/3/07, Gautam John wrote:
I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the
whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced
over that
There is an interesting documentary about a famous architect called Rem
Kolhaas, who
(rather controversially) believes that there is much to learn from chaotic
social networks in
a city like Lagos... as opposed to the chinese model of shiny mega-cities.
Pretty interesting stuff
On 8/2/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
in abuja, internet connectivity is generally dreadful and
expensive(its
a strange wind swept
city in the middle of nowhere... lots of dusty modern, empty buildings -
Yeah - but brand new, landscaped roads and such - exclusively populated by
On 8/2/07, 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
runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and
not in good spirit. That did put me off TED.
Isnt TED
On 8/1/07, Gautam John wrote:
Of course, the kids have figured out how to surf porn on them OLPC's.
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL19821905.html
Let me tell you what probably happened. A bunch of teachers figured out
this free
laptop thing was really nice. Some of them started
On 8/1/07, Eugen Leitl wrote:
Since monkeys are the same everywhere your analysis is likely
mistaken.
Of course, i am not discounting that possibility
just that one part of the story was that the school did not have electricity
or water...
so i am guessing the school didnt have an
On 7/29/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
thousand years, so I don't think we need to worry much that Kalki is
around the corner waiting for us sinners :)
There is an old bearded guy, quite popular in chennai who has declared
himself
Kalki bhagwan... He seems to have quite a following. An
IB Ministry bans Lux Cozy Amul Macho ads
http://www.televisionpoint.com/news2007/newsfullstory.php?id=1185462935
The Lux Cozy Underwear and Amul Macho Underwear advertisements, which are
being
telecast on several television channels, have been considered indecent,
vulgar and
suggestive and thus
Curious to know how this story ha been covered by the indian newspapers ?
Tata chemicals factory may destory natural wonder
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2124251,00.html
Tata Chemicals, part of the giant Tata industrial group in India,
plans to construct a soda-ash
I showed this video to the people in my office (mixed demographic,
some govt. staff) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_g72GcaIdc
most people found the video fascinating not just for its content but
for the dramatic style, background music, special effects and the way
people appeared and spoke
On 7/20/07, Thaths wrote:
4. The video, and the fact that it as been uploaded to youtube gives
me great hope for government in India. We may not be into non-gaudy
production values yet. But we are definitely on the road. The glass
appears to be a quarter full.
I rather liked the animated
you have written a voluminous
tome on Pakistani society , whether ever having traveled there :)
On 7/18/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 18 Jul 2007 8:55 pm, ashok _ wrote:
I dont get the hindu connection ? how does being more hindu prevent you
from crapping on the road
On 7/19/07, shiv sastry wrote:
As far as i can see, nobody on this list is denying any of the social
ills you speak off.
The psychological explanation for this type of paranoia came from you in the
getting a bit touchy eh?
et.al Would similar social stratification in another country
On 7/17/07, shiv sastry wrote:
On Tuesday 17 Jul 2007 3:32 pm, ashok _ wrote:
I would say hindu kingdoms (rather than indians do not document
anything ) did not document anything. The arab tradition of
documenting everything was followed by muslim kingdoms...
er.. a very small percentage
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 seek to resolve by
On 7/18/07, Divya Sampath wrote:
Not _Beulahland_, surely? Wouldn't that be a concatenation of the wrong elements
of mythology, history and geography for the particular sort of person you have in
mind?
erno.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/beulah%20land
land of milk and honey,
On 7/18/07, shiv sastry wrote:
In the early 1900s Hindus studied for government jobs. In the late 1900s
Hindus became doctors and engineers and are now slobbering after software
engineering.
Since your objective seems to be to define who a hindu is, arent you
being a bit
elitist here? Last
On 7/18/07, shiv sastry wrote:
India is a society stuck in a time warp and needs to be kicked forward in a
variety of ways. One way in my view is to recognize that Hindu does not
mean what the RSS says but all of us and our relatives who live double
standards all our lives perpetuating societal
On 7/17/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Basically Indians do not document anything. Everything is handed down as a
verbal anecdote. For that reason you can rarely get any serious information
and the little that you get is so badly written that it becomes easy to
I would say hindu kingdoms (rather
I did a google search and came up with this.
http://www.twf.org/Library/Renaissance.html
I have a friend who is a librarian and a catholic historian. he told
me that the tradition of written history within the catholic /
orthodox church (one of the main sources of older european history...)
it was a sort of hub earlier... five years ago i could get good
technology / it consultants from zimbabwe... most of them have either
fled the country or fallen back to doing other stuff.
On 7/16/07, Biju Chacko wrote:
Zimbabwe could have been the hub of the regional economy - it's well
the commentary on William Easterly's is a valid one
however, his comments on the Gate's speech seem misplaced ... how
does he propose turning corrupt governments into ones that behave
nicely...? How does he propose that a fair free market will appear ?
in many cases these unfair markets
the only real free market i have seen that works is the one related to
subsistence economy People growing cabbages, pineapples, maize and
rearing cattle - for their own consumption or to trade for other goods
or cash. (i have used agriculture as an example because most
african countries
the sudan, nigeria, dr congo, kenya, tanzania, zambia... any of these
countries would fit that picture.
On 7/9/07, Amit Varma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
every other sector tea, coffee , oil, diamonds, copper, real
estate, aid, telecom is a market controlled by a clique or a
cartel
On 7/9/07, Amit Varma wrote:
the sudan, nigeria, dr congo, kenya, tanzania, zambia... any of these
countries would fit that picture.
Thanks, don't know enough about those countries to comment further. But any
cartel that exists can only do so either with government collusion or in the
On 7/9/07, Amit Varma wrote:
the stossel guy comes from the point of view that the markets in the
west are free markets
Er, he doesn't. In fact, he rants fairly often about how they could be
freer. His position -- and one that I agree with -- is that the closer to
free they are, the more
Can anybody recommend a network projector, that has an rj45 interface,
tcp-ip, and supports projection of computer desktops via a protocol like RDP ?
A sub $2,000 price tag would be good.
i have sometimes had the police officials in immigration (the ones
with the metal detectors) ask me for some money (for chai ...) but
it always sounded like a waiter requesting a tip... the other thing i
notice with customs and immigration whenever i travel in a suit or a
decent looking jacket i
I noticed a lot of aid agencies...especially the ones operating in the
sudan using
this water purification attachment called Zero-B (an indian company makes it...)
which is quite compact and comes in different sizes (tap attachment
to refrigerator
size purification systems...) i wonder how
I have heard the same reasoning for a burqah from different muslim women
On 6/12/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
course, but that's only the rubric. The real reason to wear the
mask is to spare others the discomfort of seeing your facial
expression, to make your face into a
Why not just replace every public toilet with a turkish squat toilet ?
On 6/7/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
I think it makes economical sense to buy one of those toilet seat
cleaning apparatus that is installed in the Frankfurt/Main airport. It
cleans the darn seat after every use.
looks like another case of me-too disease (previous incidents were
related to stone statues drinking milk, and sea water turning
curatively sweetand at least one incident of a boy with magic
powers, you could poke his arm with a pin and he could feel no pain -
it was only later his followers
there is an extremely funny description of the wife, and the
circumstances of the marriage in the biographical book about naipaul
Sir Vidia's Shadow... by naipaul's former protege...paul theroux
On 5/29/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Must be true love because they do not seem to allow personal
Though not sci-fi, but with the indian-in-silicon-valley theme (with a
big dose of bollywood) Transmission by Hari Kunzru
(http://www.amazon.com/Transmission-Hari-Kunzru/dp/0525947604) was
quite fun
On 29 May 2007, Thaths wrote:
I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a
I dont get your point, simply because its possible to potray any
religion in a fanatical way, depending upon who you ask.
You seem to make it sound as if only hindus have been potrayed as fanatics...
Why do you feel so victimized ??
On 5/20/07, shiv sastry wrote:
So if fanatical is
On 5/20/07, shiv sastry wrote:
Do you agree with my characterization of Hindus or do you think it is
inaccurate?
the description may be literally accurate, but whether it would
characterize fanaticism is really very subjective...
you said:
How much more difference could there be between
by the way, how do you handle clients who refuse to pay their bills at
the restaurant...?
At some upper end restaurnts (tested only in kenya and uganda...) I
have eaten a nice meal and told them at the end that I am sorry, I
dont have money to pay the bill, i am willing to wash dishes etc...
there was this book published sometime back called Mohandas its
a biography
of Gandhi by his grandson its pretty interesting in that it
explores Gandhi's strong
desire to remarry after his wife's death and things like how he
strongly opposed the
wedding of his son to a south
Isnt Ambaji the temple on top of a giant rock?
I remember going there as a kid...and there were pilgrims walking on the road
to this place, and they were all pushing small trolleys with models
of the temple...
some carried it up the steps barefoot...
On 5/16/07, Nishant Shah wrote:
Well
i was in gujarat for a week recently, i noticed a strange phenonmenon
of toy shops (i saw at least 4 different shops...) which exclusively
stock toy guns (nothing else, not even stuffed toys or rattles or toy
trains...), and most of these toy guns look frighteningly like the
real thing.
that
what i found most offensive was the status of toilets in most temples
across gujarat... it is as if people have forgotten that there is a hole in
the ground they have to aim for since in some cases the aim seemed
to by off by a couple of metres
i am sure it was one of these blind people
i dont think stitching raw pieces together can make any kind of
watchable cinema
it should probably not be called cinema... but something else.
On 5/15/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote:
I think the difference is that everyone can be a part of creating the
cinema. As I understand it, they
On 4/15/07, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I am hunting for the Max Brand fix-up, _Dogs of the Captain_ [1].
Does anybody here have a copy they can lend me?
I didn't know max brand books were still in print
(I have a particular weakness for the superhuman-like Sudden a.k.a
James Green books ..the
On 4/9/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Sriram Karra wrote:
And how about Ponnusamy's?
Or Buharis, Topsee, Runs, or that place opposite the egmore museum.
--
i am surprised no one has suggested velu militaryor amma or
kalpaka (at least those used to be the cool non-veg joints
On 4/9/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Venkat,
The maps you pointed out (http://eatliver.com/i.php?n=1305)
show one of the many brutal aspects of political Zionism.
Obviously, there are several dimensions to this situation
that maps alone cannot express:
What i find most
Can anyone suggest a good restaurant in chennai
It should have a decent menu for vegetarians. NOT a chinese
restaurant...something traditional would be good.
(No saravana bhavan, mathura, etc... i have been to all of those...and
the rush hour traffic atmosphere in such places is
are there any natives of gibraltar...?
by that i mean, people who are born, die and procreate within the 6 sqkms...
On 4/3/07, Binand Sethumadhavan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
how's life there?
In one word, weird :)
It is such a small place (slightly more than 6 sq. km.), with more
cars than
Reminds me of Major Major Major Major the guy from Catch 22 - who
gets promoted to Major upon joining the army, but can never get
promoted thereafter because he is the world's only Major Major.
On 4/2/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Indeed, for any n [greater than or equal to]
or... president Rev.Canaan Banana of Zimbabwe
On 4/2/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
Like Cardinal Sin from the Philippines?
Ram
Hmm... Jet is sort of pricey i am looking for fairly reliable
cheaper alternatives...
(cheap as in not crash land cheap)
On 4/1/07, Danese Cooper wrote:
I swear by Jet. I even have frequent flyer miles with them (although
I live in San Francisco). IMHO, they are the only domestic
On 4/1/07, Binand Sethumadhavan wrote:
For fare comparisons, you should look at makemytrip.com or yatra.com.
Did not know about this site ... thanks.
ashok
are they related to Paban Das Baul ?
I have some strange albums by Paban Das Baul... a kind of new age remix of
Baul music in collaboration with the group called State of Bengal
On 3/29/07, Abhishek Hazrawrote:
yes! parvathy sings like a dream
:)
amazing presence.
interestingly, she had an
Hi:
I am looking for someone who has skills in XML database
technologies...(preferably an open source flavour) for a project I
am involved with.
Please contact me offline if you do know of someone
thanks!
Ashok
secure would you think that is?
thanks
ashok
Yes... i took a look at tor... its too complicated for this person...
apart from the authorities the person is a little frightened and
suspicious of technology
(they monitor SMS traffic in the country a few people have been
appartently banged up behind bars for seditious smsing so i
maybe people do disappear like that sometimes in that country
but the person is a bit of a hard head and has seen enough shit, to
stop giving a shit about the authorities... (at least in private...)
On 3/17/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Y'know, you dont need
Any recommendations for a laptop insurance that works ?
I need something that I can buy online, and is valid for African countries.
i found http://www.worldnomads.com who provide health insurance with
coverage for loss of electronic equipment i dont really need
health insurance, i just
well... i want to insure a $800 laptop:)
in the last few years i have lost 3 (all three were pretty battered,
one was lost
for my own stupidity the other two times circumstances beyond my control)
and apart from the above i have a laptop without a screen after i dropped it...
On
On 3/14/07, Neha Viswanathan wrote:
Deep fried dough and soaked in thick sugar syrup is more like it.
Deep friend to crisp squiggly dough, drenched in thick orangy sugar syrup.
Usually eaten together with (yet again, deep fried) Ganthia...
On 3/13/07, Neha Viswanathan wrote:
Or are you strictly referring to bilateral/ multilateral aid?
Primarily, I mean this
You say foreign aid in any form - what about - contributions from
individuals of another nationality?
Even this
I agree there a bunch of people, who know and
On 3/13/07, Deepa Mohan wrote:
Oh nowith so many of our politicians stashing money away
abroad, *I* say, let's use the money, wherever it comes from, and try
to utilize it a little better...having worked with some social work
while it might look like free money, unfortunately, such a
On 3/13/07, Casey O'Donnell wrote:
I don't disagree, but shouldn't that be cross-ref'ed with some
content? I mean sounds like porn doesn't make it so, and especially
with academics which love to pick catchy titles.
Actually, i was kidding :)
Not unusual at all
i have had conversation on such subject matter with a whole cross
section of women from different backgrounds : secretaries, waitresses,
nuns, colleagues, prostitutues, entrepeneurs, teachers...from
different age groups, from both african and (slightly less so)
european
doesnt work (since it appears that
the recipient server requires spf setup too in terms of reverse
lookups..) ?
thanks
ashok
The thing is - even if I enjoy the humour - I
have to pretend I don't - because apparently that gives out crazy messages
too.
This is very interesting.
because, yesterday, i was visiting a certain office in an official
capacity. I had to wait because there was somebody in with the person
i
Just the word Infy always cracks me up
I knew this old white kenyan guy... typical colonial cowboy, probably
dead by now. but he used to call people he didnt like infy ( i
wasnt sure if he mean inferior or infidel)
On 3/9/07, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's another
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