clean wall or a bedsheet...
they show english premier league on football nights... hollywood / bollywood
blockbusters on other nights... soft-core (jag mundhra /ashok amritraj
productions appear to be a particular favourite) for late night shows..
a couple of months and you have recouped your setup
/StudentLaptop2008/index.php
http://www.elcot.in/StudentLaptop2008/bundled-software.php
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On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Bharat Shetty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
But in case anyone knows the better ones, guide me towards such sites.
Sacred Texts is pretty exhaustive.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/index.htm#maha
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
these articles tend to be all from a male perspective-would love to see
one
from a female perspective.
Try this:
http://www.amazon.com/Marrying-Anita-Quest-Love-India/dp/1596911859
An extract is visible at
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Gautam John wrote:
Have you seen it? What do you make of it?
Spoiler Alert:
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=75893f9a-3391-4ab5-88c8-cf7e74bcd835
Is pretty damn harsh on the movie while:
On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:19 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 01 Jul 2008 8:16:34 pm Amit Varma wrote:
Haysoos! I'm Bishop's as well, though many years after you kind folk, I
would imagine. (Did my tenth in 89.) That school's ignominy grows and
grows...
I have spent several
On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:49 AM, J. Andrew Rogers wrote:
in many parts of Asia to protect local farmers, due to the very high
efficiency of American rice production, and consequently it is not worth it
for American rice farmers to bother with the Asian export business.
Isn't that efficiency +
understand, is hopelessly outdated, and
requiring keys to be submitted to the government for just about anything
that uses 40bit is quite unwieldy.
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GTalk: krishashok
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On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Gautam John wrote:
The Indian producers who are banking on Stallone may be disappointed
by his star power. The latest Rambo film disappointed at the box
office and the British Odeon chain refused to show it for commercial
reasons.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Gautam John wrote:
Is conflict necessary for progress? Or is it an impediment? Would
individuals be able to reach their fullest levels of potential in the
absence of conflict or is conflict necessary to maximise potential,
individual and social?
Isnt it the
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:01 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
I was pointing out that the argument that conflict leads to progress
is only a few steps away from the invisible hand argument of the
Libertarianism. I jokingly (see the smiley?) characterized
Libertarianism as an abyss and pleaded for you to
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:41 PM, Amit Varma wrote:
Right. And calling belief in freedom an abyss is not silly?
If there is one single cause for human progress, it is our propensity to
trade with each other for personal profit. (Indeed, that's exactly what we
do at Silk-list as well, trading
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Is he already on the silklist?)
cough..cough. Thank you
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On 5/30/08, Sumant Srivathsan wrote:
Why, oh why, would you want to do such a thing? Although I must say, Die
Hard 4.0 was quite entertaining. Where else could you have a fighter jet
taken down by a truck?
Or the car that brings down a chopper...
On 5/30/08, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why, oh why, would you want to do such a thing? Although I must say, Die
Hard 4.0 was quite entertaining. Where else could you have a fighter
jet
taken down by a truck?
Or the car that brings down a chopper...
You folks
On 5/28/08, Gautam John wrote:
May 27: Crish, a newly-developed software, will automatically store
the photograph and fingerprints of Internet users in cybercafes in the
database of the computer, with the date and time of logging in, making
it extremely easy to identify persons who send
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Anil Kumar wrote:
My response is in reference to Point - 4:
I quite disagree with the 'less government 'support' the better' argument.
In India, good examples (IMHO) are the development of the Information
Technology sector, now followed by the Business Process
expected to tip helicopter pilots?
Cheeni
Don't they have motorcycle taxis ?
ashok
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 7:23 PM, B.L. Krieger wrote:
couldn't 'able-bodied' athlets not just use 'protheses' as well?
--bernhard
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics/athletics/7141302.stm
Paralympic 400m star Oscar Pistorius has failed in his bid to compete at
this year's Olympic Games
On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:36 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is not fundamental to Indians alone. And I don't think it has
anything to do with preserving dharma - real or imagined. I have seen
first-hand, and I am sure ashok has also witnessed, such summary mob
justice being meted
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
Asking a woman for her number can cause a young man anxiety anywhere.
And in neighbouring UAE, Emirati men and women come to malls with
rolled up pieces of paper with their numbers on them, which they throw
to people who
http://voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1122
India stands out from other emerging economies
because its growth has been led by the service
sector rather than labour-intensive manufactures.
This column summarises recent research showing
that India has a long history of strength in
services, and its
On 5/7/08, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote:
the MS anti-trust agreements are public, and neither in the US nor in
the EU do they require MS not to engage in differential pricing for
other jurisdictions, or even for different target markets in different
jurisdictions. MS does a lot of the latter
On 5/5/08, va wrote:
What they actually do is partially fund computerization by providing
licenses gratis.
uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer
is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works
so well.
they peddle a $3 license
was thinkin of...
thanks a lot for the advice !
ashok
, Cultural Coordination
officer)
ashok
a
long way.
I think the approach suggested by Srini is the best one... most non-profits
waste more money in transaction / administrative costs than actually putting
the money to good use.
ashok
Sigma lens ?
ashok
is to enable Mobile
Office (if you are using Airtel) and connect to your phone over bluetooth.
With a 3G phone, the speeds are much better than the Tata Indicom data card.
--
Krish Ashok
Blog: krishashok.wordpress.com
GTalk: krishashok
www.stage.fm/krishashok
this thread is now the second hit on google for the word 'janastu'
time to change the product name ...the thread makes
everyone involved look like a candidate crazy person?
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:15 PM, rene wrote:
ss wrote:
Question:
Did you misuse Dinesh's email id too? Would you
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Thaths wrote:
And parents don't help either by instilling cleaning up one's plate as a
value.
And insisting that cooking things in pure ghee is somehow healthy !
ashok
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Divya Sampath wrote:
In most of the Spanish speaking world, everyone has
double-barrelled last names: for example, Maria Gomez
Felix. In the US, they tend to hyphenate to aoid
giving the impression that the first surname is a
'middle name'. By
I dont know if this has been posted before, but i found it very interesting.
http://www.gapminder.org/world/
Select a Y-axis indicator, Select an X - Axis indicator, Check the
countries you want to compare,
Select a bubble sizehit play, rinse, repeat...
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
Tea BeeDi wrote, [on 4/16/2008 9:12 AM]:
va,
Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends.
Why?
Udhay
let me explain, because I completely understand... its like three
friends sharing a
toothbrush,
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Thaths wrote:
Nothing to see under this bridge, folks. Just your garden variety troll.
A garden-variety troll with a pony tail mind you...! they don't always come with
that (at least the ones i dig up in my garden)
In Kenya the World Bank is funding a bandwidth subsidy
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=5796Itemid=5847
(the article mistakenly says 114 million shillings, its actually $114
million so essentially the world
bank is supporting BPOs in Kenya by partially paying
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the latest news on landing fiber at Mombasa? IIRC, there were
2 or 3 parallel proposals including one for FLAG telcom to run fiber
across the Indian ocean to East Africa.
All three still appear to be alive. Though
it out.
there seems to have been some php stuff (old wordpress installation)
installed on the
server which hadnt been updated for ages...
ashok
things like subsituting the FROM: header
address...but to no avail. Also note the problem began recently, nothing
significant was changed on the server )
Any ideas, suggestions what the problem could be ? Google blacklisting
gone awry ?
ashok
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
ashok _ [10/04/08 11:24 +0300]:
I am on a mailing list that runs on a server hosted in Kenya, about 50%
of the email originating from the list gets consistently flagged as
spam by GMail... (Note: this does not happen to the many other mailing
lists that i am
. a
human resource system developed for a government
in an open source model...or an exam reporting system used by a government... )
This site for example, for the indian government, http://www.cdac.in
does not have any open source applications at all ...
any better suggestions, examples ?
ashok
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
If I understood Ashok's question right, he is looking for Governments
that have contributed back to Open Source, not just borrowed from it.
Exactly...thats what i am looking for.
There may be a few examples, however I don't know of
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
I bought that at Luz's Alwar's shop. He might still have a copy or two.
Is that the old guy with the flowing beard who has the books stacked
on the pavement ?
he is still alive ? must be a 100 now
on the Leviathan right now :)
ashok
... hence
my conclusion.
ashok
method as it
requires enabling
ports on the firewall and mapping public ips to the pc..etc... any suggestions ?
ashok
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Oh thanks. This guy is not even official apple btw.. just a geek who likes
repairing stuff like this (and iphones and treos too, or so I hear)
Someone...maybe you ? suggested this laptop repair outfit in chennai ,
ABM Infotech -
the Apple service center in
Bangalore or Mumbai.
--
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GTalk: krishashok
www.stage.fm/krishashok
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the collider could produce, among other horrors, a tiny black hole,
which, they say, could eat the Earth.
After which the 2 lucky survivors of this er..meal get to listen to Vogon
Poetry, I presume?
--
Krish Ashok
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 7:03 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
This is very Tolkien-esque. An imagination so fantastic and so well
defined, it's hard to believe it's not true. No wonder it works for
some people.
Dante's Inferno has a nice entertaining description of hell, and the labyrinth
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that immediately after
death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into
Hell.
But, but, but, don't souls supposedly just float around until
judgement day, when
you ;-) )
ashok
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Gautam John wrote:
Would anyone know if a similar project exists in Bangalore?
Sometime back I met someone who worked for this organization:
American India Foundation
http://www.aifoundation.org/
Don't know if they operate in the bangalore area
ashok
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
I was forcibly enrolled in Mridangam classes at age 7. I had to beat
out the same 4 notes for ever - I lost my patience after the first few
classes and asked the teacher when I was going to get a hand at trying
other things. I was
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Curiously enough, the Delhi airport lists items prohibited for
carrying on planes, with the exception of kripans carried by sikhs
measuring under specific dimensions.
Last night at Garuda Mall, we saw a Sikh security person
like a US cruise missile. It's pretty accurate to the
point of saying Baghdad is the target but when it gets real close, there's
quite a bit of collateral damage.
--
Krish Ashok
Blog: krishashok.wordpress.com
GTalk: krishashok
www.stage.fm/krishashok
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Charles Haynes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My point was only that it isn't that unusual even for democratic countries
to impose special immigration requirements on media.
As may be, but are all writers media? When asked she said she wrote
for her
to legality are still
pending from the
local council authorities... but its a small town so shouldnt be a
major problem.
thanks
ashok
On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
Does this sound feasible ? Is there a better way of doing this ?
What you've outlined seems unreliable without someone to support it,
is there skilled help available?
the senior citizen's son (no young man himself) lives in the
On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
If they are just 250m apart, string Ethernet or something across the
rooftops. Contact your local cablewallah, he can do that without too many
issues, knows the right cops to pay off etc.
this is in a European country so the
to talk about homebrew antennas :
http://www.instructables.com/id/WiFi-Directional-antenna-fix--from-Aluminium-can./
If i bought an off-the-shelf antenna how easy is it to hook it up with
a standard
dlink, linksys type wifi router ... ?
thanks
ashok
So primarily I want a point-to-point kind
software ? The OP never did mention that I think
Sorry forgot to mention, yes, I am looking at a PM tool that supports
Agile PM methods
I will look at mingle, but I also found RallyDev :
http://www.rallydev.com . Any opinions on that ?
ashok
I have the following scenario :
1) A senior citizen with alzheimers who has been confined to a special
care facility.
2) Senior citizen's residence is about 250 metres from the special care facility
3) The senior citizen has a part of her family living in the residence
mentioned in (2),
there are
to keep things running might be useful. One
of the relatives here or abroad could be designated sysadmin.
--
Krish Ashok
Blog: krishashok.wordpress.com
GTalk: krishashok
www.stage.fm/krishashok
My suggestion: Basecamp
link: http://www.basecamphq.com/
Quite the most elegant and intuitive proj mgmt apps I've seen.
On Feb 12, 2008 9:34 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi:
I am looking for a project management software something free and
web-based.
web-based is important
Hi:
I am looking for a project management software something free and web-based.
web-based is important because there are people on the project from 5
different timezones
Any suggestions, something that someone may have used in a similar scenario ?
ashok
seems, at first blush, to have injected some amount of stability into
my system.
We'll see how it goes.
--
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GTalk: krishashok
www.stage.fm/krishashok
On Feb 4, 2008 1:14 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in Chennai, and so are a few
more silk-listers. We could try do lunch.
C
I second Chandrachoodan. We should try doing lunch at Chennai.
--
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GTalk: krishashok
On Jan 29, 2008 9:41 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Us madras types are pretty eager in doing another silk meet, this time
with
Cory around .. admit it, Ashok :)
Sigh. Ok. I check Boing Boing at least 10 times a day. There, I've
confessed.
--
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Blog
as well as success.
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on their topics and invite a group of
peers to collaborate. So this part is close to the Brittanica approach. But
the twist here is that there can be several knols on a particular topic
and the crowd determines, through votes, rating and hits, which knol is
the best for a given subject.
--
Krish Ashok
Blog
On Jan 22, 2008 1:36 PM, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Eugen Leitl wrote:
A well-known critical care practicioner
Prasanna Simha M [EMAIL PROTECTED] from Bangalore
is really trying to get on the Linux train, but sometimes
runs into issues.
Linux Mint
%26pagewanted=all
--
Cheeni
Q: Why is this email 5 sentences or fewer?
A: http://five.sentenc.es/
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On Jan 22, 2008 7:54 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My questions about India were really to show that xenophobia style
territorial jealousy exists - even towards fellow Indians, and it's
fairly common.
In fact, it is an absolute miracle that India is still, for most part, a
On Jan 22, 2008 8:14 AM, Anish Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From what I gather, Bhutto dynasty is Shia ( I could be wrong).
The wikipedia articles on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Nusrat Bhutto do mention
that they were Shia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfikar_Ali_Bhutto
-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Anish Mohammed
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2008 7:27 PM
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: Re: [silk] Introduction
Hi Ashok,
welcome to silk{list/madhouse}
regards
Anish
On Jan 18, 2008 3:06 PM, Ashok Krish
/18/08, Ashok Krish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is not silkulist? I mean, the mailing list for fans of an erstwhile
South Indian item girl?
Oh, damnation. I have think of a new introduction then.
What is the output of this piece of code?
Class Krishashok
{
public String intro
() {
intro = Krish Ashok is a habitual blogger, perpetual
procrastinator, intermittent musician, careless reader and reckless driver
who is using his day job as head of Web 2.0 innovation lab at Tata
Consultancy services to pay for all the above;
}
public static void main (String args
is, let alone that she was an item girl.
But I can foresee a nice drift on this thread, they usually do at an
amazing pace.
What do you drive? I will add you to the list of BMTC and other BPO
vehicles which drive me insane in Bangalore. :-)
-Venkat
Ashok Krish wrote:
This is not silkulist? I
On Jan 14, 2008 3:02 PM, Charles Haynes wrote:
I confess that I actually already knew about Shakti, and have seen
Remembering Shakti live in the US. I've also seen Zakir Hussain
perform a fair number of times, including here in Bangalore when he
performed with Ustad Amjad Ali Khan. That may be
On Dec 18, 2007 1:08 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
Well the same office suite does have a Windows build does it not ? So,
are HDFC, ICICI the next level ? How does the notion of online
presence provided by Mugshot/OLPC fit in ?
You would still need to buy a Windows license to run that
On Dec 18, 2007 1:56 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
What happens when there is a preloaded Windows at a pittance (and
official at that) ?
I have never seen such a preloaded windows version being sold for a pittance ?
what happens when they need to upgrade this preloaded windows ?
will
On Dec 13, 2007 4:59 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
snippage
But there has to be a widespread self recognition that India is this way.
Only sociological studies can prove or disprove a hypothesis such as mine and
those studies do not exist AFAIK. Did someone say where's the research data?
Well
On Dec 13, 2007 5:54 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
You mean I could be as right or as wrong as Daniken?
Of course you are right. If you choose to believe Daniken, that is your
prerogative. If you don't, it's not Daniken's problem.
Credibility does not matter a whit in the absence of valid
...).
Will the American company providing the online services be obligated
to shut down services immediately ?
Any ideas / pointers ?
ashok
On Dec 13, 2007 2:02 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
Google has previously done this in the case of Iran
Is this something that just Google does or do other service providers also
actively shut down services ?
What options could be there for safer online service provision ... a
to government agencies in the
embargoed country.)
This is very helpful... thanks !
ashok
On Dec 10, 2007 8:39 AM, Gautam John wrote:
I'm currently working with a non-profit and as part of our work we run
~400 libraries across Bangalore and many more across the state. We are
hopeful, if we find sponsors, of putting a computer in each library
both to manage the library and as a tool
On Dec 10, 2007 12:07 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote:
data centrally. As an aside, we're currently looking for an open
source library management package.
Edubuntu + koha is just fine for that.
Yes, but Koha's a pain to setup. I tried it some time ago and gave up.
Yeah, koha has a
On Dec 10, 2007 12:28 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
A far larger percentage of Hindus and Christians in the West are likely to
behave secular and deny religious belief than Muslims.
Where do you get such information? i know very many expatriate / people-of-
indian origin muslims / hindus who behave
On Dec 10, 2007 2:55 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
I am not talking of private behavior. In public count the percentage of Hindu
women wearing bindis or mangalsutras versus Muslim women wearing hijabs in
say the UK.
how would such a count be attempted... ? You speak as if you already
conducted such
a
On Dec 10, 2007 4:21 PM, shiv sastry wrote:
er yes
shiv
maybe you counted the same women twice or thrice over... since
its hard to differentiate at a glance between two women wearing a
hijab :)
was listening and not talking since he had said talking while
crossing was bad. anyway, that pissed him off sufficiently, and I got
booked and fined in one of those mobile courts.
ashok
On Dec 5, 2007 12:20 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
EP has two types of amnesia—anterograde, which
means he can't form new memories, and retrograde,
which means he can't remember old memories
either, at least not since 1960. His childhood,
his service in the merchant marine, World War
II—all
I am looking for such a software preferably free, not an online
service, and which runs on either linux or mac os x...
any suggestions ?
ashok
On Nov 27, 2007 11:26 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
Would it be possible to setup an internet service that uses GPRS/EDGE
for uplink and
a one-way VSAT for downlink ? Here GPRS charges apply only for
downloads and upload
requests are essentially free...
Yes, but you'll need a server
charges apply only for
downloads and upload
requests are essentially free...
ashok
On Nov 22, 2007 1:09 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the sake of comparison: I've bought SIM cards in Malaysia, China,
Thailand and Singapore and would rate them in that order for ease of
activation, ranging from instant to half an hour in queue. All but
Malaysia required
On Nov 22, 2007 12:47 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote:
I must also get reasonably wealthy soon, it increasingly looks
as if Germany (EU?) is not the right place to retire, or even
to live long-term.
Any suggestions? So far Switzerland and some parts of Scandinavia
look reasonable. Apart from that,
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
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