Re: [silk] Meen pollichathu (was: The Demise Of The Dollar)

2007-11-07 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Nov 7, 2007 10:46 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my home (in Calicut), Karimeen is an occassional delicacy whereas Aikura is almost daily fare. Proves your point I suppose :) I don't know their English names though. Karimeen is pearl spot fish - weird coinage but

Re: [silk] Dust patches on camera lens...

2007-11-07 Thread Sthitaprajna
Sthitaprajna wrote: ashok _ wrote: 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 ? Use a pressurised cannister of air - on the CCD sensor, that will be

Re: [silk] Dust patches on camera lens...

2007-11-07 Thread Sthitaprajna
ashok _ wrote: 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 ? Use a pressurised cannister of air - on the CCD sensor, that will be available at decent

Re: [silk] Dust patches on camera lens...

2007-11-07 Thread ashok _
On 11/7/07, Sthitaprajna wrote: Use a pressurised cannister of air - on the CCD sensor, that will be available at decent camera shops. Um, dust should come off with a microfibre cloth.. but, is this dust, or fungus? For removing fungus, you had best take it to a shop to remove the

Re: [silk] Why don't we do it in the road?

2007-11-07 Thread Biju Chacko
On 11/7/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: India was ahead of the curve, on this one... A new school of traffic design says we should get rid of stop signs and red lights and let cars, bikes and people mingle together. It sounds insane, but it works.

Re: [silk] Why don't we do it in the road?

2007-11-07 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Biju Chacko wrote [at 02:48 PM 11/7/2007] : IMO, this depends very much on the Western sense of community and civic responsibility. In Bangalore it just results in endless gridlock. I have seen this model work in various places, including Bangalore. Bangalore's current traffic woes [1] are a

Re: [silk] Mailing List Subscription Manager (Was Re: List admin?)

2007-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:16:52PM +, Sriram Karra wrote: Oh, I don't think so. Why so? There's a gazillion of list managers and modes of operation. Not all places are run by default Mailman. At times I have trouble figuring out how to get off a particular list. And automatic

Re: [silk] Why don't we do it in the road?

2007-11-07 Thread Gautam John
This is a little OT but has anyone seen the new Yahoo! Maps for India. They do an excellent job of giving you directions and include 'India' specific pointer such as: Slight Left (past Bata Showroom on the right) onto Banasvadi Main Rd Slight 1st Left (past Petrol Pump on the right) onto

[silk] Cutting-edge research...

2007-11-07 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
I saw this blog link from another blog that I read: http://horadecubitus.blogspot.com/2007/10/great-minds-think-alike.html If anyone knows Swedish, an approximate translation of this: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=597a=699836 will be much appreciated, I'm sure. Binand

Re: [silk] List admin?

2007-11-07 Thread Dave Long
Few people (especially the techies) realise that the server that gets the message is located in France and that server interprets the unsubscribe message as un subscription - or one subscription and responds with Yes you are a subscriber and will stay subscribed in fact, for a successful

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:13:35AM +0530, Gautam John wrote: # The US dollar has now lost more than a third of its value (-35%) against a basket of major currencies since Feb 2002. # The decline is accelerating. The USD has shed -12.5% of its value in the last year, -3.5% in the last month,

Re: [silk] Dust patches on camera lens...

2007-11-07 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 07 Nov 2007 8:00 pm, Thaths wrote: Careful with some of the air in a can things they sell Where do they sell them in bengaluru? I usually get someone to get me half a dozen cans from the US. I love them for dusting off various computer components. shiv

Re: [silk] Dust patches on camera lens...

2007-11-07 Thread Thaths
On Nov 7, 2007 12:03 AM, Sthitaprajna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ashok _ wrote: 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 ? Use a pressurised

Re: [silk] The Demise Of The Dollar

2007-11-07 Thread Gautam John
Getting back to the original thread, the demise of the dollar: # The US dollar has now lost more than a third of its value (-35%) against a basket of major currencies since Feb 2002. # The decline is accelerating. The USD has shed -12.5% of its value in the last year, -3.5% in the last month, and

Re: [silk] Dust patches on camera lens...

2007-11-07 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:48:01AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: Professionals use collodium on lenses, but I would be very careful, since it's an diethylether/ethanol solution which could damage some polymers/coatings. Apparently it's collodion in the anglosphere