Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Photowalk followed by a food walk work for you guys? Absolutely... I promise that I will make it this time, although I am not a big fan of Madras. er...when is this FoUL

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
OMG, another Googler, welcome. Cheeni (one of 3 (?) Googlers on board) (+1 Xoogler) -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:38 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 Oct 2008 1:08:11 am Perry E. Metzger wrote: Your claim, reproduced above, is that somehow the US has patched its weak spots in its security and that we are therefore now more secure. Neither activity you cite has any

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Charles Haynes wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:38 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 28 Oct 2008 1:08:11 am Perry E. Metzger wrote: Your claim, reproduced above, is that somehow the US has patched its weak spots in its security and that we are therefore now more

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Charles Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I have been spinning counterclockwise three times each morning in order to prevent domestic terrorism. Seem to be working. But Charles...if you are spinning counter-clockwise in Australia, isn't that clockwise Up Here

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:08:25AM +0530, ss wrote: But the fact remains that the US has seen virtually no terorist acts since it undertook thse emasuers as opposed to India wheer terrorism continues Your sample size is nil. You don't know who orchestrated the attacks. In general no

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you familiar with the cargo cult? No, *I* am not...would rather ask you than google...what IS the cargo cult? Deepa.

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:16:34AM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: The one thing I miss in Tomato is VPN. If that were there, this would rock! Try OpenWRT, then. Plenty of packages there. Notice that the hardware is underpowered, depending on your Internet connection. I personally recommend

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:24:22PM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you familiar with the cargo cult? No, *I* am not...would rather ask you than google...what IS the cargo cult? Asking Google is never wrong:

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
2008/10/28 Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenDNS is no better, perhaps worse: In addition to redirecting nonexistent I was using OpenDNS for a while for both my home and office networks, but have stopped recently. Am currently using Level 3's servers. Ram

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Gautam John wrote, [on 10/29/2008 11:13 AM]: Photowalk followed by a food walk work for you guys? Yum! Yes... Sounds good, but in the spirit of exploring all options, how about Mysore? I had a great time there earlier this month, and wouldn't mind another trip. We stayed at the Sports Club,

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
The one thing I miss in Tomato is VPN. If that were there, this would rock! It's there in recent releases...

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Jude Britto
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am currently using Level 3's servers. Thanks for the tip. Ping to these servers is actually slightly faster than OpenDNS. Still about five times slower than BSNL. -Jude

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:26:20PM +0530, Jude Britto wrote: Am currently using Level 3's servers. Thanks for the tip. Ping to these servers is actually slightly faster than OpenDNS. Still about five times slower than BSNL. The ping to my DNS server is half a microsecond, or so. --

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Jude Britto
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: OMG, another Googler, welcome. Cheeni (one of 3 (?) Googlers on board) (+1 Xoogler) Thanks :).

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (+1 Xoogler) Thanks :). Heh. did you just thank Sumant for quitting your company? :)

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gautam John wrote, [on 10/29/2008 11:13 AM]: Photowalk followed by a food walk work for you guys? Yum! Yes... Sounds good, but in the spirit of exploring all options, how about Mysore? I had a great time there

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
I just saw that! I didn't think I was that bad! :) On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (+1 Xoogler)

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread ss
On Wednesday 29 Oct 2008 3:17:35 pm Eugen Leitl wrote: Have you ever considered a career in politics? Exactly! I think you hit the nail on the head. Looking at shampoo bottles may be a completely useless exercise, but as long as there are no more terrorist attacks on the US mainland

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But Charles...if you are spinning counter-clockwise in Australia, isn't that clockwise Up Here or something?! It's like that Hitler's Swastika Is The Reverse of The Hindu Swastika thingy The Sydney Public Library was

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 20:37 +0530, Jude Britto wrote: OpenDNS is no better, perhaps worse: In addition to redirecting nonexistent domains to their own error pages, they resolve google's domain names (and perhaps others) to their own range of IP addresses.

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 10:08 +0530, ss wrote: But the fact remains that the US has seen virtually no terorist acts since it undertook thse emasuers as opposed to India wheer terrorism continues unabated. The obvious conclusion that one can reach, despite your disagreement is that the

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want to do it somewhere near Madras this time? Auroville, Pondicherry. Cheeni *predictable of course if you know where my last two vacations were*

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
please, no real or wannabe ashram places for silkmeets.. Not even ashram places that look like giant golden golf balls, as this one does On Thu, October 30, 2008 5:05 am, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Want to do it

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread ss
On Thursday 30 Oct 2008 4:53:53 am Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: classic confusion between causality and correlation. and not even good correlation, I really don't know about the US but among Indians in India this is rampant. It is a huge problem in medical practice because there are a large

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Amit Varma
One has to marvel at the kind of fight put up by people like Galileo or Semmelweiss (in medicine) fighting against easy conclusions that are reached regarding causality. I'm thinking of Sisyphus, actually. -- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com

Re: [silk] The Seven Habits of Highly Ineffective Terrorists

2008-10-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
hint? they ASK here, and haggle if they think their diwali bonus is too low Charles Haynes [30/10/08 09:01 +1100]: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:27 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But Charles...if you are spinning counter-clockwise in Australia, isn't that clockwise Up Here or

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Madhu Menon
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: please, no real or wannabe ashram places for silkmeets.. Agreed. :) -- * Madhu Menon Shiok Far-eastern Cuisine Moss Cocktail Lounge 96, Amar Jyoti Layout, Inner Ring Road, Bangalore @ http://shiokfood.com | http://mosslounge.com

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
I don't think it as anything like that. The Aurobindo Ashram within the precincts of Auroville has the golden ball and other ashramesque trappings. That does not make the rest of the place an ashram. In any case, that's just my view, believe what you will... Cheeni On 29-Oct-08, at

Re: [silk] Time for another FoU Camp

2008-10-29 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Srini Ramakrishnan [29/10/08 21:33 -0700]: I don't think it as anything like that. The Aurobindo Ashram within the precincts of Auroville has the golden ball and other ashramesque trappings. That does not make the rest of the place an ashram. In any case, that's just my view, believe what