Engrish as she is spooken .. a lot of it stateside, besides the old desi
favorite child bear
Don't miss the Eric Schmidt business card where he's the Chariman of google
And the mathematically inclined guy who wrote a check to Verizon (though that
shouldn't have come into this list at all)
Udhay Shankar N [07/07/10 14:55 +0530]:
Isn't Randall Munroe the xkcd guy?
Yes.
http://xkcd.com/verizon/
Looking forward to a new xkcd about how that article thinks he's illiterate
:)
Mahesh Murthy [18/06/10 10:30 +0530]:
snip
I rather like the thought of Paris Hilltone, actually.
The sound of music - 'hill tone'
Speaking of that .. Mr and Mrs Hill are on a hiking trip up in transylvania
when they fall down a cliff and are severely injured. They're brought to
the clinic
Indrajit Gupta [16/06/10 21:49 +0530]:
Obviously you like 'the Russians'; acid test: did you like the Inspector
General? But this lot, well, War and Peace was as good or as bad as one of
That gogol social commentary disguised as farce play? I love it. Anything
at all by Gogol in fact (darker -
Aishwarya Subramanian [16/06/10 22:05 +0530]:
I recently read my first Amanda Quick book and thought it was hugely
enjoyable. I only ever seem to read Regency romances (the influence of
Heyer, I suspect) but favourite authors are Loretta Chase (hilarious and
vastly underrated) and Julia Quinn
Venkatesh Hariharan [15/06/10 14:49 +0530]:
I abandoned The God of Small Things halfway after reading about turds
You mean there's more to the plot than turds? Even the name of that place
read rather funny in tamil (sort of) ayemenem = aayi manam (feces aroma)
How very apt
Forsyth has all these painstaking steps on everything from faking a
passport to making a nuke. The Fourth Protocol has all that as well as a
complete org chart of MI5, MI6, the KGB etc etc. Not bad, for all that.
If you want unreadable by those standards, there's always good old James A
J. Alfred Prufrock [15/06/10 16:12 +0530]:
Ayn Rand ... I no longer find her books difficult to read because I don't
touch them in the first place.
Faulkner, Scarlet Letter, Moby Dick, War and Peace - all digestible in
the tin-of-biscuits fashion i.e. one goes back to them once in a while,
Sean Doyle [15/06/10 19:27 -0400]:
Another book I had trouble with (finished only about 1/4 of it -
unusual for me) this last year was Austen's Pride and Prejudice. I
took a strong dislike to all the characters - I suspect it was class
Not pride and prejudice, for me. Wuthering Heights - for
Raj Shekhar [15/06/10 13:46 -0700]:
After I read Dune, I was very impressed. Then I picked up its
sequel, Dune Messiah and plodded through it. I then picked up its
sequel, Children of Dune and could not go beyond the first 10 or 15
pages and I gave up on that series. Today I learned that
Indrajit Gupta [16/06/10 07:50 +0530]:
It's addictive. Also, unlike Tolkien, he keeps picking up an obscure part
of the narrative and polishing it for a book at a time. The result is that
they won't finish until 2012!
... if at all.
Jordan is in full soap opera (or maybe what local tv calls
Sruthi Krishnan [16/06/10 10:36 +0530]:
I never read MandB growing up. Recently while I was cooped up in B'bay
recuperating unable to travel much, I had no recourse but to pick
some. The local library in Goregaon boasts an inexhaustible collection
of MandB and only that. So I did end up reading
Yes. The final part of the payment process is done through their phone
support agents. But it works smoothly.
I'm typing this on an inspiron 15 inch i5 that I bought from dell - that
looks to have the best price / performance mix I can find.
Sumant Srivathsan [24/05/10 15:35 +0530]:
On Mon,
divya manian [19/05/2010 6:59 PM]:
I am leaving at 6am on 28th morning to BLR :'(
Got to check from Samant where the bangalore, bombay etc launches are.
Ashwin Kumar [19/05/2010 7:27 PM]:
Could you update me on the launch in Bangalore ? I'd like to attend it.
The photo on the cover looks interesting.
And, there is always an opportunity to take some photographs during the
launch.
@samanth says The Bangalore launch has been scheduled for the
J. Alfred Prufrock [18/05/2010 12:25 PM]:
What, no bears?
She probably has barbeques in her backyard with guest bears in attendance :)
J. Alfred Prufrock [18/05/2010 12:46 PM]:
She probably has barbeques in her backyard with guest bears in
attendance :)
If her sometime neighbour Palin, S, is to be believed (which takes some
credulity) bears go ON the barbeque too.
Insert joke about making bear pie .. first catch
classic of western pulp, especially
several of them written by a guy called Lou Cameron.
On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Sruthi Krishnan [14/05/10 18:58 +0530]:
Divya
Suresh
Krish Ashok
Lavanya
Udhay
Vijay (?)
Sruthi
Shivakumar [per Vijay
Krish Ashok [14/05/10 12:04 +0530]:
I also strongly recommend Cafe Ashvita, run by a good friend of mine. Nice
ambience, great food (not sure about drinks though) and is located on
Cathedral road
Or Cornucopia on Cenotaph Road.
I've heard about the service being quite patchy there though
Udhay Shankar N [14/05/10 16:30 +0530]:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 5/14/2010 4:27 PM]:
time?
Lunch, eh - so 1 ish.
I'd prefer 12-ish, as that would give us some time to discuss weighty
matters like what beer to have.
time does hang heavy on our hands on a lazy sunday afternoon.
oh
Vijay Anand [14/05/10 17:05 +0530]:
Confirming for 2 Silklist members, and I guest?
eh?
me, krish ashok I guess, lavanya, then udhay. who else - there should be
two or three more in town (subash jeyan, sruthi and others)
Sruthi Krishnan [14/05/10 18:58 +0530]:
Divya
Suresh
Krish Ashok
Lavanya
Udhay
Vijay (?)
Sruthi
Shivakumar [per Vijay]
Udhay, is Lavanya (Mrs.Udhay) coming?
I (and a few other silklisters) stopped subscribing to The Hindu
Doesnt make me think that N Ram is going to care, any more than he cares
about having run a decent paper into the ground with his favoritism,
communism and a bunch of other isms, damn him
Shoba Narayan [13/05/10 20:31 +0530]:
On
Thaths [13/05/10 09:13 -0700]:
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/catalyst/2010/05/13/stories/2010051350020100.htm
City near Chennai to find out..
Would a left-leaning newspaper provide such unvarnished advertisement
thinly dressed as an interview? Or take this other supposed food
review:
Pranesh Prakash [13/05/10 22:13 +0530]:
For all its various faults (including some of those that Suresh accuses
N. Ram of) the Hindu is still much better than most, and ought not even
be compared to the Times.
Never done that. I HAVE compared the ToI to the Deccan Chronicle though.
I remember
Hmm. The Christian equivalent of Sri Sri XYZ Swamigal.
Now all we need is Rev 108 Jeremiah David, I guess.
Speaking of swamigals .. some guy called Nityanandan I heard of - promptly
got himself nicknamed Scandal for obvious reasons. I believe he's considering
getting his name changed legally.
Lavanya Mohan [12/05/10 15:27 +0530]:
Zara has a great weekday lunch menu. There's a new thai place called baan
thai in khader nawaz khan road, but not sure about the alcohol condition.
Sigree has good food, isn't too expensive, and meets the beer condition.
Baan Thai sounds authentic from the
Aditya Kapil [12/05/10 15:41 +0530]:
... And no beer!
Adit.
I can live with that, having quit it a few years back. The food is truly
good from all that I hear about it
Krish Ashok [11/05/10 11:20 +0530]:
How about Zara's?
very unimaginative food.
Pranesh Prakash [11/05/10 14:08 +0530]:
On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]:
Does anyone keep a score of how many times the GoI and their ilk have
traveled down this path ?
CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent
Vijay Anand [11/05/10 15:20 +0530]:
Given how the 10$ - or was it 5$ laptop was essentially a thumb drive,
wouldnt be surprised if this is another glitch by some reporter. The points
behind this development seems to be security - which also sounds ridiculous
that we want to develop simple OS to
expensive -
toscana, khader nawaz khan road, italian
azulia, grt grand, t nagar, mediterranan
medium
cascade, besant nagar (round the corner from the food world / spencers
daily) - sort of thai / malaysian / chinese etc. Not shiok quality, not bad
either.
cheap -
samco - ttk road - fish biryani
, 2010 18:07
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 5/10/2010 5:42 PM]:
expensive -
toscana, khader nawaz khan road, italian
azulia, grt grand, t nagar, mediterranan
medium
cascade, besant nagar (round the corner from the food world / spencers
daily) - sort of thai / malaysian / chinese etc
Ashwin Kumar [11/05/10 06:55 +0530]:
So, anyone game for capsaicin extract sauce from Bhut Jolokia?
We have enough amateur chemists (probably a professional chemist or three
too) so - yes, sounds like a plan.
Charles Haynes [11/05/10 13:25 +1000]:
It's not that difficult. Capsaicin is readily soluble in ethanol.
Which accounts for Udhay making chili flavored vodka from his bhut jolokia.
I was talking about the idea of making hot sauce out of it - which might be
a bit more involved than simply
CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent times
sankarshan [11/05/10 11:02 +0530]:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Valsa Williams
valsa.willi...@gmail.com wrote:
Gautam John [07/05/10 14:01 +0530]:
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Badri Natarajan asi...@vsnl.com wrote:
Well, I haven't practiced in India for some time but the JUDIS site has
judgments by the Supreme Court and many High Courts (although the search
engine is beyond atrocious and you
singing Chandram
bhaja...but have not got around to the rest.
Deepa.
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
http://rapidshare.com/files/384039475/kallidaikurichi_ramalinga_bhagavatar_dikshitar_kritis_-_old_rare_private_recording.mp3
Pranesh Prakash [07/05/10 00:31 +0530]:
Thanks ever so much! Will be downloading and listening to it this
weekend. I *must* grab lots more carnatic music from you when I'm down
in Madras.
Any time. There's like 3..4 GB worth of carnatic you're welcome to.
Pranesh Prakash [07/05/10 00:49 +0530]:
Is there a general rule of thumb that you've set for yourself as to when
you use one or the other? I'm currently experimenting with inline PGP
with my Gmail account, instead of PGP/MIME.
I dont use pgp for everything under the sun. Where I do use it (in
Udhay Shankar N [07/05/10 06:59 +0530]:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 5/7/2010 6:49 AM]:
I hardly ever sign my email .. what's not worth encrypting is almost always
not worth signing either.
More deniability too. :)
Nah. More than enough tells .. hardly anybody at all sends from
http://rapidshare.com/files/384039475/kallidaikurichi_ramalinga_bhagavatar_dikshitar_kritis_-_old_rare_private_recording.mp3
Kallidaikurichi Ramalinga Bhagavatar was my father's uncle - my mama thatha.
He was a disciple of Vedanta Bhagavatar, who was the president of
the music academy in
Can do one on a sunday, madras
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I am on my annual pilgrimage
Krish Ashok [20/04/10 12:21 +0530]:
In which case, I wonder if dogs living in a Hindu household automatically
become Hindu dogs
Tambram household dogs even become vegetarian, and I've seen at least one
pomarenian that had a dot of kungumam on its forehead.
Kiran Jonnalagadda [20/04/10 12:52 +0530]:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Tambram household dogs even become vegetarian, and I've seen at least one
pomarenian that had a dot of kungumam on its forehead.
Ah, yes. Dal rice and milk
Sriram Karra [20/04/10 13:07 +0530]:
(fried? what do you call it when you pour batter on a
griddle and make pancakes?)
A literal translation from Tamil would suggest a dosa is 'shot'?
to heat a dosa would be more literal / appropriate for chudarathu
being tirunelveli / deep south tambrams
Kiran Jonnalagadda [20/04/10 19:51 +0530]:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Why, in our country, is the word vegetarian invariably preceded by the
word pure?
Because those foul egg and mushroom eaters also claim to be vegetarian?
and bongs are wont
Show your mother this. And take ICICI down the same path - approach the
banking ombudsman as well.
http://www.moneylife.in/article/8/4751.html
ICICI Bank directed to pay Rs12.85 lakh to NRI customer
Abhijit Menon-Sen [13/04/10 23:21 +0530]:
BTW, after a month-long investigation, this is what
Pranesh Prakash [05/04/10 19:00 +0530]:
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 08:11, Andre Uratsuka Manoel an...@insite.com.br wrote:
Also, the richest part of Brazil is the south. On the poor northeast,
to go south is to go to a richer place, not go down.
In a sense, the posher parts of Delhi, Bombay, and
Thaths [01/04/10 08:57 -0700]:
I thought Ramesh Sippy's Ramayan or Kapil's Devils or Rahman's Jai Ho
all created a single India, no?
ramanand sagar you mean? the one with the constipated looking actors and
actresses who look like they need to find a toilet just as soon as the
current scene is
Andre Uratsuka Manoel [01/04/10 23:41 -0300]:
It's just that there are many expressions, like going south, that
don't exist here. I think there simply isn't such a strong association
civil society cliched jargon like north south etc dont really need to
have basis in any known language except
Well .. some states the stereotype fits. But mostly the south and the
southwest. Some of the central USA too.
Arkansas, Tennessee, West Virginia etc are the target of jokes about poverty
and illiteracy all the way to incest. Texas is mostly size jokes. Iowa,
Idaho etc are routine in the middle
Pranesh Prakash [31/03/10 19:57 +0530]:
On Wednesday 31 March 2010 07:49 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Implied thread drift.
Why you Nazi you, you are no better than Hitler.
Since that is ironic,
That must have been one helluva SLA
Venkat Mangudi [01/04/10 08:29 +0530]:
http://xkcd.com/705/
--V
Salil Tripathi [23/03/10 09:55 +]:
Many years ago, as I faced the keyboard, I remembered that distant
afternoon when a journalist near Ayemenem carefully destroyed
Arundhati Roy's plagiarism
Congratulations, an excellent article
Drop in at my place or somewhere in madras. Too big to email
--
srs (blackberry)
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From: J. Alfred Prufrock another.prufr...@gmail.com
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:10:06
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] Free to a good home - a lot of old books
Mail 'em!
Venkat Mangudi - Silk [26/03/10 09:00 +0530]:
I will be in Chennai on Apr 16. Leaving by the bangalore mail. Dinner
sounds like a plan. What says?
Somewhere other than Azulia. There's this italian place called Tuscana on
Khader Nawaz Khan Road that I've heard great things about.
Oh .. and
Venkat Mangudi [26/03/10 14:34 +0530]:
Oh .. and about the books? Anyone?
Is there a list somewhere?
I own quite a lot of the stuff I mentioned upthread.
There's a ton of colin forbes / sidney sheldon / jack higgins type stuff.
Ditto michener, carl hiaasen, lots of westerns .. a cupboard
I'm consolidating a large collection that's kind of heavy on pulp fiction and
novels
Thin to nonexistent on non fiction
Lots of westerns, thrillers and such. Most of the usual suspect authors.
People in madras ping me and drop in. Offers of other books in exchange that I
havent read before (and
Venkat Mangudi - Silk [26/03/10 09:00 +0530]:
I will be in Chennai on Apr 16. Leaving by the bangalore mail. Dinner
sounds like a plan. What says?
sure.
Mahesh Murthy [24/03/10 11:34 +0530]:
What's common to the lot that despise her is that they're all intellectuals
(or literary critics) - and to me it seems they think she hasn't paid her
dues in the Kanu Sanyal or Potti Sreeramulu sort of way to claim the
intellectual high ground that she does
Charles Haynes [24/03/10 19:49 +1100]:
I'm bemused by how much ill will is directed towards someone who, from
my point of view, is nothing more than an outspoken writer pandering
to popular prejudices. Is her brand of demagoguery appealing to a
demographic that is uncomfortably close to home in
For quite a few of them, certainly. Devreux's Venus in India was
accompanied by John Cleland's Fanny Hill for instance.
Wodehouse on Wodehouse certainly. Ditto Spike Milligan, Zen and the Art ..,
lots of Kipling.
Terry Pratchetts of course.
Then, Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin novels ..
J. Alfred Prufrock [23/03/10 13:22 +0530]:
Sir Richard Burton's The Arabian Nights. Complete and unexpurgated.
Where can I get it?!
Jaico publishes it, pick it up at any landmark or odyssey.
Westerns by Louis L'Amour
The only Western writer I really liked, even though he does recycle
and other favourites
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
which is why you need to expand your horizons a bit beyond jt edson / zane
gray / l'amour :) Try the longarms for example if you can find them. Some
of them are really very good. Or the Elmore
Madonna and Aamir don't pretend to be full time members of the chatterati civil
society activist set.
My contempt for various of those isn't restricted to arundhati roy, or to
various left leaning types. It cuts across the political spectrum.
--
srs (blackberry)
-Original Message-
Absolutely classic, thanks to Atanu Dey for pointing me (and the rest of
india-gii) to it.
http://exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=6487IBLOCK_ID=35
Great Literary Frauds of Our Time
By John Dolan
Too bad it compares the dog of small minded mallus to to kill a mockingbird -
which was
Indrajit Gupta [23/03/10 09:43 +0530]:
End of quote, end of breathless rush to immortalise essay.
Suresh, you really like this? Honestly? I need to hear you say that once again.
i would say that a lot of it - such as the copy of to kill a mockingbird -
is true enough
yes it is more vicious
Deepa Mohan [23/03/10 10:07 +0530]:
To Kill A Mockingbird is permeated throughout by two rare
characteristics: good writing, and goodness. Apparently Gregory Peck was, in
real life, a person like Atticus Finch; it's the goodness of his character,
and the innocence of the narrator, and the
Deepa Mohan [23/03/10 10:47 +0530]:
It's also wonderful to see children depicted as children and not as
mini-adults. R K Narayan and Bill Watterson have this gift, too.
my favorite in that genre is not even to kill a mockingbird
its betty smith's a tree grows in brooklyn if any of you can
Well well .. way to go.
suresh
http://www.pcworld.com/article/191633/meet_tim_bray_new_face_of_the_googleapple_rivalry.html
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google starts off
with a bang .. As of this morning I work for Google. The title is “Developer
Advocate”.
The aba recommendation is to use a dedicated non windows device - such as a
linux live cd - for companies transacting in high volumes (payroll etc) online
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Amazing.
A “human flesh search engine” certainly called up some 4chan / goatse (or maybe
hp lovecraft) imagery, to be honest.
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Srini RamaKrishnan [Monday, 8 March 2010 4:22 PM]:
China’s Cyberposse
A cyberposse in search of the killing of a cyberpussy
Deepa Mohan [09/03/10 21:42 +0530]:
Whenever I click on my address book to get to silklist, I get this
Intelligent Conversation appellation...that makes me cringe. How does
Gmail assign this kind of title to an email id?
Its in your address book as Intelligent Conversation
Blame N Ram for that, damn him
And didn't we discuss just this a few months back after I got tired of comrade
ram and dumped my hindu subscription?
--
srs (blackberry)
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Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 16:53:06
To:
Udhay Shankar N [08/03/10 13:08 +0530]:
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Aditya Kapil blue...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm definitely there on the 14th and 15th (leaving in the evening). But
could come a day earlier is there is serious interest.
Oh good. Come by, and we can party.
I'll come in
Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Made into a japanese anime cartoon that's much
stronger on the shoot up the bugs part of it than on the philosophizing. And
then translated into tamil.
I dont need that sort of experience so damned early in the morning, its hardly
7 AM here.
Eugen Leitl [05/03/10 14:06 +0100]:
[1] Too rushed for time to dig up the link that claims some two-thirds
of all Windows PCs are not under their owners' control, but I'm sure
Suresh will have it handy. :)
The numbers are somewhat between one quarter and one half, IIRC.
Of course it depends,
sankarshan [03/03/10 20:10 +0530]:
There has been a significant improvement upstream in terms of Linux
plumbing viz. Hal, udev, Xorg, PulseAudio, Cairo/Harfbuzz,
NetworkManager being a few examples which has ensured that the desktop
experience keeps getting better. If you start looking at
, 2010 16:07
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.net wrote:
you nailed it. they call it activist journalism and i hate activism - on
either side of the political spectrum (I detest the EFF and moveon as much
as I do the teabaggers)
Perhaps what you meant to say
Thaths [01/03/10 09:31 -0800]:
The epitome of Arabica and Robusta blend
*alarm bells going off*
I wouldn't feed Robusta to my pigs.
But its a favorite blend of indian coffee drinkers, especially when
adulterated with chicory.
Udhay Shankar N [02/03/10 07:04 +0530]:
Sainath speaks loudly, but too little, IMO, this merits more.
I have an allergic reaction to Sainath. He practices what one might term
'argument by vigorous assertion' (along with most people in politics,
but I digress). This is even if one ignores the
Charles Haynes [02/03/10 12:33 +1100]:
I'm a single origin arabica snob, but will admit that when making
espresso blends that a small amount of robusta often improves the
blend. On the other hand, the glut of cheap vietnamese robusta is
pretty much single handedly responsible for the collapse of
Charles Haynes [02/03/10 13:00 +1100]:
For the record, it is possible to like animals (pigs in particular can
be quite endearing) and still eat them. :)
Sentimentality isnt something you note when you breed animals for meat.
Even when you take good care of them.
I personally can grow up
Kiran Jonnalagadda [26/02/10 18:40 +0530]:
I want a machine that weighs no more than 1.3 kg. I'm not rich. I like
Ubuntu. What do I get?
If you were rich I'd have suggested one of the lighter thinkpads - x
series. Underpowered but feather light. Sony vaios too but they're way too
flimsy for
To mangle a sgt colon quote, The Jace tweeted can never be ignited
Damn, that's about the best news I've had in a while. Glad he's safe
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anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote:
Given we have quite a few lawyers on the list, especially the ones which
practice in UK.
I was wondering if they would share their insights :)
I kind of admire the guy's activism - but the best advice a lawyer could give
him, and I am not a lawyer, is to shut
Lots of articles about india's new missile that has a range sufficient to hit
beijing. So here's one that has an interesting comment. At least because the
man's channeled one of my (and most other people's) favorite movies.
http://www.strategypage.com/militaryforums/23-2418.aspx
(One could
ss [03/02/10 21:59 +0530]:
On Wednesday 03 Feb 2010 9:44:38 pm Deepa Mohan wrote:
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:57 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Bengalooru Blahnteru
(Secretly taped snappy snippets of day to day Benglur talku)
Sorry - try this
Alok G. Singh [02/02/10 00:37 +0530]:
This is particularly a problem with silk-list as it uses
mail-followup-to in a non-standard way. I mitigate it setting
broken-reply-to in the group parameters in Gnus. YMMV.
silklist is a standard mailman install. what is this non standard way you
refer
Deepak Misra [01/02/10 08:47 +0530]:
With a heavy heart I have started compressing my library with a ruthless
purging of books.
In madras - I have a bunch (but too many to catalog and scan covers)
Mostly picked up from 2nd hand bookstores like the abids sunday market in
hyderabad. so has all
Udhay Shankar N [01/02/10 10:19 +0530]:
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote, [on 2/1/2010 10:08 AM]:
Someone wants stuff like these, email me. Willing to give away books (or
maybe swap for them). Typically will swap fiction for fiction, I dont have
too much of a taste (or the time and inclination
Udhay Shankar N [28/01/10 07:10 +0530]:
I downloaded Thunderbird 3 [1] (and the update to 3.0.1) a couple of
weeks ago. A much-needed update to Thunderbird, especially in the area
of search.
imap flags / cache getting reset for some reason or the other
file a bug report with tbird. the imap
Srini RamaKrishnan [24/01/10 09:57 +0100]:
ack
testing out dkim. works for hserus.net one to one email i send
now checking its interaction with mailing lists on hserus
Charles Haynes [22/01/10 20:39 +1100]:
On the other hand, it sounds like appropriation of the term jugaad
by rich multinational corporations to describe some supposedly unique
Indian corporate mindset enabling white collar solutions to foreign
problems is a more than a little smug.
More than
Siddhartha Bala [20/01/10 07:06 -0500]:
Agree with the title of the email. Have to confess that I have never
heard the term 'jugaad' before. Although maybe its cousins 'chalta
hai' and 'adjust maadi, swamy' are more familiar.
This is the brand of innovation that will fit three riders on a
Udhay Shankar N [21/01/10 11:51 +0530]:
One one sense, you're right. The way I heard it, the very cheap
truck/vehicle Suresh is referring to above was actually called a
jugaad and the generic usage of the word for any hack of this nature
came later.
Any modern-day Hobsons or Jobsons care to
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