Re: [silk] Lens rental in Chennai

On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Thaths wrote: > Anyone know of a place in Chennai where I can rent (Nikon) lenses for 10-15 > days? Just in the off chance you're still looking, my friend Vinay Aravind recommends: http://www.istills.in/ and http://www.klachak.com/

Re: [silk] Indo-Mexican fusion restaurants and recipes

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Biju Chacko > wrote: > > Starting the obligatory thread drift: does anyone know of an authentic > > Mexican restaurant in Bangalore? I've experienced little

Re: [silk] What should I do with my money?

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Sumanth Cidambi scida...@yahoo.com wrote: The ancient law (for want of a better phrase) - source, Dharma 1/6 - spouse 1/6 - progeny 1/6 - parents 1/6 - spouse's parents 1/6 - charity (depending on your vocation) Remainder - self and general purposes But in

Re: [silk] This is what the Singularity looks like.

On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25068-wikipediasize-maths-proof-too-big-for-humans-to-check.html I present an anti-thesis: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/how_the_robots_will_take_over/

Re: [silk] Introduction

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 5:10 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of love, Deepa (Deponti) Does Deponti come from Deepa Aunty or is that just my fanciful imagination?

Re: [silk] Easily forgotten phrases

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 2:49 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Empirical Tabasco Hasselblad Dunning Kruger effect Dunbar number Ambergris Sapir-Whorf Fermi Problem Hasselblad? Ambergris? One learns all the time! And you forget Tabasco? What's the false positive your mind turns

Re: [silk] Silklisters in New Haven

Pranesh Prakash [2013-09-07 10:21]: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: I must remark on the modesty of those who go to Ivy League schools. If they are at Harvard, they say Cambridge...if at Stanford, they say, California...if Yale, it's New Haven...someone

Re: [silk] Silklisters in New Haven

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean you are going to be studying at Yale, Solipsist? I am indeed headed to Yale, but as a 'research scholar' (whatever that means) and not as a student. I'm not sure they'd admit me in as a student. I must

[silk] Silklisters in New Haven

Folks, I was wondering if there are any silklisters in New Haven, Connecticut. Do let me know if you're lurking about: I'll be heading that-a-side next week (and will stay put for a while), and would love to catch up. Cheers, Pranesh

Re: [silk] [ZS] Unconference: Catalytic Converter, Cambridge, MA

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: - Forwarded message from Bryce Lynch virtualad...@gmail.com - To: doctrinez...@googlegroups.com Is there a mailing list in existence that Eugen is not a part of? // Even I'm not sure if that's a rhetorical question.

Re: [silk] Is South India Really Richer? | This is Ashok.

On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: On a slightly tangential note, is the census data available for free. I was once told that if one wants to buy the complete set of census data, the cost runs into crores. Last year, the government published a National

Re: [silk] Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong | Video on TED.com

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:56 AM, Ingrid Srinath ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote: This TED Talk touches on some of the perverse disincentives non-profits face that hamper scale, innovation, sustainability and impact. They are issues I've grappled with, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, for

Re: [silk] Bangalore hot spots

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Thejaswi Udupa thejaswi.ud...@gmail.com wrote: For those interested in Bangalore's history, a must-read book is 'Promise of a Metropolis', by Janaki Nair. I've been dipping into Janaki Nair's book every now and then. What other books would silklisters recommend

Re: [silk] Is What Aaron Did, Right?

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote: So, did someone say that we dont use this forum to have debates on what goes on in the world anymore? I know there are some authors here and some folks from the Academic world. What is your take on Aaron? It looks like

Re: [silk] Is What Aaron Did, Right?

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Vijay Anand vi...@vijayanand.name wrote: So, did someone say that we dont use this forum to have debates on what goes on in the world anymore? I know there are some authors here and some folks from the Academic world. What is your take on Aaron? It looks like

Re: [silk] Introduction - Andy Deemer

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:42 PM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 15:15 +0530, Andy Deemer wrote: made some (fairly awful) cult movies, What is a cult movie? Without answering the question, I'd quite heartily recommend The Rough Guide to Cult Movies.[1] It made for many

Re: [silk] 'Yes, Prime Minister' returns

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: The updated James Hacker did not resonate with me. The new Jim is much more foul mouthed, craven and alcoholic than the part played by Paul Eddington. Have you seen the new HBO show Veep[1]? In it the VPOTUS (Julia Louis-Dreyfus)

Re: [silk] Fifteen

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Show of hands? Udupa Udhay Nikhil Mehra Badri (?) Pranesh (Inshallah I won't be asleep).

Re: [silk] 2 questions

John Sundman [2012-08-22 19:25]: Any comments [on North-East situation]? This is what I just wrote. Not exactly on your question, but you might find it interesting: http://goo.gl/1A9lm I wonder if this will change your buying habits? I don't have a dedicated e-book reading device, hence

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 06:29, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: So while you may not want to use anything else, or someone else may not want to move beyond mutt and emacs (both of which I use and top post with too..) - there's little or no connection between the client and

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)

Sirtaj Singh Kang [2012-02-25 23:00]: I'm using Thunderbird at the moment and it's also pretty bad. It's likely that there's some obvious trick that I'm missing, but I have a really hard time trimming quoted messages even in text-only mode. What kind of problems? I see you're using

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)

Sirtaj Singh Kang [2012-02-26 00:15]: Usually when I aggressively remove large chunks of text, the quoting indent disappears and the remained quoted text becomes part of the message body. That's odd, because you're replying in plaintext and not HTML. (The quoting indent that shows up for

Re: [silk] Freedom of Speech

Venky TV [2011-12-14 14:46]: So, calling the Times of India a newspaper is what you have trouble with? Not the content but the fact that it calls itself a newspaper, which by your definition it is not? Yes. A TV channel that dispenses only entertainment should not be calling itself a news

Re: [silk] Freedom of Speech

Biju Chacko [2011-12-08 10:01]: What with the Kapil Sibal brouhaha, I thought I'd better find out more about what rights I actually have. I do know that freedom of speech in India is not absolute and has constitutional limits. Could someone point me to some material that could help me

Re: [silk] Remember Shakti - India Tour dates

Ashwin Kumar wrote [2011-11-14 10:39]: http://deghelt-productions.com/concerts/concerts.html Can one buy tickets online? - Pranesh signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [silk] an-NRI again

Meera wrote [2011-10-23 09:24]: It's ok to shout because the hawker blocks your way, but not just because he is a hawker. My understanding is that the writer wanted to move back because he was Becoming A Person He Didn't Want To Be. But that would mean that opportunities to distrust people

Re: [silk] Impromptu Silk / FoU dinner tonight?

Anyone heading from/via Indiranagar? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [silk] Speed of light broken?

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 22:56, Venky TV venky...@gmail.com wrote: Must have been quite terrible in the bad old days before these laws were passed -- with brash young photons skipping mass and harassing poor, defenseless, church-going neutrinos.  (As someone once said, Neutrinos has mass? I

Re: [silk] Speed of light broken?

Deepa Mohan wrote [2011-09-23 07:07]: Just wish to point out that there are many concepts that are fact today...and which were considered utterly impossible beforean airliner weighing several tons, flying in the air; man reaching the moon; talking in real time, with hardly an effort, to

Re: [silk] some notes on frugality

++ Heather Madrone [2011-09-11 22:11]: This reminds me of the saying from the 1970s California drought: “If it's yellow, let it mellow; if it's brown, flush it down.” Gives a whole new meaning to Donovan's 1970s California-based lyrics about they call me mellow yellow (quite rightly), and

Re: [silk] new NYT website - india ink

++ Suresh Ramasubramanian [2011-09-10 10:23]: At least 2 silklisters and counting .. lots more familiar faces http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=105317p=irol-newsArticleID=1605549highlight Damn. Hadn't seen this your mail. Who's the silklister apart from Sidin? signature.asc

[silk] India Ink

So it seems that the New York Times is putting together a new India-specific blog/site/'initiative' called [India Ink][]. They've managed to get onboard a rather fabulous bunch of writers, including Samanth Subramanian, Nilanjana Roy, Dipankar Gupta, Sidin Vadukut, Naresh Fernandes and Sonia

Re: [silk] India's Selective Rage Over Corruption

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 09:17, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: Anna Hazare and his team will settle for leaving the judiciary and MPs out of the ambit of the Lokpal bill provided the corrupt logcal and state governmnt apparatus - RTO, excise, city corporations and the like are cleaned up.

Re: [silk] Red-letter day: I agree with Arundhati Roy

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 11:40, Dinesh Venkateswaran dinesh.mad...@gmail.com wrote: I think the Roys (including the Aruna one) are jealous in a most natural way, only because none of their protests for any cause have become national the way Anna's has. Roys, blame the media for not paying enough

Re: [silk] Red-letter day: I agree with Arundhati Roy

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 15:08, Dinesh Venkateswaran dinesh.mad...@gmail.com wrote: How so? Maybe you should also reply to the points I raised about the article? I didn't reply to any of the points you raised about the article because none of them seemed worth raising points about. But since

Re: [silk] I don't. And not with Nitin Pai / Amba Salakar either.Re: Red-letter day: I agree with Arundhati Roy

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 19:16, Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com wrote: So I do have a strong set of issues with the supposed 'intelligentsia' response to the Anna Hazara / IAC movement / Jan Lokpal bill  - I use the terms loosely and interchangeably. The key stands, summarising Nitin

Re: [silk] Charlie Stross keynote at USENIX

I just did a quick reading of this. Wow. It contains so many different interesting thoughts, that I will have to revisit it at least once or twice more. And FWIW, I don't think he falls into the security-versus-privacy fallacy at all. That security and privacy *can* be inversely related isn't a

Re: [silk] thunderbird conversation view

On Wednesday 27 July 2011 05:26 PM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: It also seemed to kill the right-click context menu items for move/ copy to folder - dealbreaker for me. That still works for me. You might want to file a bug, though. The developer of the Conversations add-on is *very* responsive, and

Re: [silk] PLU, PLT

On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 23:23, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Also because there' a notion that chatterati just talking on mailing lists can't cause or facilitate social change. I think that is a mistaken notion. Facilitate, perhaps, just as public spaces such as public squares and

Re: [silk] How can we call him Sachin?

On Tuesday 28 June 2011 06:56 AM, ss wrote: Folks - my Pakistan reference was meant to be a joke in response to a light topic (cricket) started by Deepa. Since when did cricket become a light topic? I demand to know. It's ironic that all content is taken seriously and only lack of content

Re: [silk] How can we call him Sachin?

On Saturday 18 June 2011 06:16 AM, ss wrote: earned X Rupees in foreign currency. That is odd. It could only have been Pakistani Rupees because no country other than india and the Real India (Pakistan) use the Rupee as currency. Other countries that use the rupee: Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives

Re: [silk] Why do we hate our girls?

On Sunday 10 April 2011 03:50 PM, Bernhard Krieger wrote: Udhay, how much of a financial burden do you expect your daughter will be when she comes into marriageable age in, say, 15+ years considering the current sex ratio and considering that the topic will be more prominent in the 2020s? A

Re: [silk] Losing the Apple habit

On Tuesday 22 February 2011 07:20 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: The very next day after I bought it I came across the Lenovo thinkpad x201 with SSD which is a beautiful machine too, and I would consider it if I was going to run Linux. I've got an X201i, sans the SSD drive, running Linux. The

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17

On Wednesday 16 February 2011 05:19 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: I don't see the relevance to this discussion, so I'll digress to say that it always annoys me when Postel is quoted to justify accepting all sorts of malformed nonsense in protocol implementations. The idea is to be accepting where

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17

On Tuesday 15 February 2011 02:43 PM, Dave Long wrote: singularity may not be the most interesting concept for a mailing list, but shenanigans are a waste of bandwidth. This talk of shenanigans and bandwidth conservation reminded me of Postel's Prescription: “Be liberal in what you accept,

Re: [silk] Books on Words Language

On Sunday 13 February 2011 09:25 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Any others to add to this list? A popular one, and I think an excellent choice for such a list, is Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [silk] TOO LOUD

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 02:28 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: The maximum loudness for a given digital medium is fixed. Nigel Tufnel: This is a top to a, you know, what we use on stage, but it's very...very special because if you can see...The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the

Re: [silk] How do I tell if I'm getting ripped off by the optician?

On Tuesday 04 January 2011 04:40 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: how can you tell whether your new lenses _are_ anti-glare, scratch resistant and what-not? Anti-glare coating (generally?) adds a greenish tinge to reflected light sources. So looking at the glasses with a light source behind you will

Re: [silk] New year meetup in Chennai

On Monday 03 January 2011 03:09 PM, Thaths wrote: Let us tentatively say we meet at noon at Azulia(sp?) at the GRT grand on Wed. I'd be able to make it if it is on Saturday. - Pranesh signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[silk] Sterling on Wikileaks Cablegate

http://www.webstock.org.nz/blog/2010/the-blast-shack/ One would think it'd be interesting to read Bruce Sterling on a topic like this. But other than good prose, there is surprisingly little new light that is shed. And while he does well in exploring the human side of it, it is troublesome

Re: [silk] nettime US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

On Monday 20 December 2010 07:58 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: People who design such systems can attack them. And do it so cleverly, you won't realize until the entire vote is stolen. And you won't even be able to prove it's been stolen. Eugen, can you imagine a system that is vulnerable to

Re: [silk] nettime US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

On Monday 20 December 2010 10:48 AM, J. Alfred Prufrock wrote: I've run one election with EVMs and been an observer in 3 more. It would be good to have views from JAP, Eugen, and others on each of the attacks demonstrated in Hari K. Prasad, et al., 'Security Analysis of India’s Electronic

Re: [silk] nettime US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

On Saturday 18 December 2010 05:24 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: Everybody knows that voting machines are dead, and anyone who pushes them should be regarded with extreme suspiction, right? (Presuming you mean electronic voting machines,) I completely disagree. Two points: 1. Not all EVMs are

Re: [silk] nettime US prof behind EVM study deported on arrival

On Saturday 18 December 2010 11:26 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: No, electronic voting is dead for fundamental reasons. It doesn't matter how secure or insecure the architecture is. Read what Schneier has to say about it. He's usually right on the money. I've almost never found myself disagreeing

Re: [silk] Diaspora

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 17:35, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: Invites if any left are welcome :) +1

Re: [silk] Interesting book review: _Property Outlaws_

On Monday 13 December 2010 08:51 AM, Zainab Bawa wrote: Does anyone (in Bangalore/Mumbai) on this list have a copy of this book that I can borrow? Had asked my library, where I am doing my Ph.D., to buy it last year, but no response yet from the librarian )-: Staff and researchers can issue

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Bangalore

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 18:47, Devdas Bhagat dev...@dvb.homelinux.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 09:07:30AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Current list of attendees looks like this (please edit as required): Udhay Madhu (?) Gautam Gabin Ashwin Venkat Vinit Surabhi Deepa (?) Shoba

Re: [silk] Biggest 419 scam ever? Or...

The video (someone's captured the relevant bit from the BBC iPlayer) is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaA-5_IjkeEfeature=youtube_gdata_player It's bloody amazing! These things can be done, if wished, but a senior member of the Government has to accept the invitation to a phone call to

Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

On 2010-10-27 09:27, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Slipped by Charles. I was just putting a copy up on http://silk.arachnis.com/anthro/ The spread of knowledge: Just another reason to love copycrime. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

[silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

Dear all, I read A.K. Ramanujan's 'Is There an Indian Way of Thinking: An Informal Essay' many years back in the form of a photocopy. Since then I've wanted to send that essay to some others, but haven't been able to locate a non-paywalled online copy[1]. Would any of you have a digital

Re: [silk] Is There an Indian Way of Thinking?

On 2010-10-26 16:56, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Google search: 4th result: Silk-list: the place where your lack of google-fu becomes public. (Heck, I even searched JSTOR!) http://www.cerium.ca/IMG/pdf/Is_there_an_Indian_Way_of_Thinking_An_Informal_Essay.pdf BTW, would anyone have a *text*

Re: [silk] The subaltern studies collective?

On 2010-10-14 14:07, Deepa Mohan wrote: This thread is getting as abstruse as its subjectABHISHEK! what is historiography?? Two excellent, lucid, and short introductions to historiography are E.H. Carr's *What is History?* and Keith Jenkins' *Re-thinking History*. (And surprisingly, I find

Re: [silk] Fw: NOTICES

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 11:52, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: This was rightly classified by gmail as SPAM. ~ashwin While all Gmails are created equal, some Gmails are more equal to the task than others.

[silk] Wikimath?

Could someone who follows this more closely explain how big a leap wikimath is from having these discussions on Usenet and mailing lists? So far as blogs go, I can see no difference at all -- the most complex commenting systems approach the thread-ability of e-mail. - Pranesh -

Re: [silk] Wikimath?

On Friday 20 August 2010 08:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: There are some important differences from email - wikis are multi-user by design, are available in a common location, and are editable by anyone with the appropriate permissions. True, but most of the work happened on blogs, and I can't

[silk] Bibliomania, or Two Years Before the Mast

Interesting article, touching on bibliophilia v. bibliomania. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/26/2913876/auburn-collector-has-more-than.html Auburn collector has more than 700 books -- all the same title By Sam McManis smcma...@sacbee.com Published: Monday, Jul. 26, 2010 - 12:00 am | Page 1D The

Re: [silk] No demat accounts for Hindu gods: HC

On Monday 19 July 2010 10:43 AM, ss wrote: On Sunday 18 Jul 2010 2:16:25 pm Anil Kumar wrote: Just in case there weren't enough schemes to scam on the exchange; but, the jolly part is that the Indian Income Tax Department seems to have granted Permanent Account Numbers to these dieties.

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 01:20, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: the meet - http://alexisohanian.com/photos-from-the-secret-xkcd-meetup How overwhelmingly white (with a token Asian dude).

Re: [silk] Chicago Now - 60 embarrassing ways to butcher the english language

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 22:37, Jon Cox j...@experiments.com wrote:   Look again and you'll see 3 or 4 Asian people and 1 Indian,   all of whom seem to be having a good time with their geeky   friends (which are predominantly heavy-set, male, under 50,   and a bit slovenly). Well that's just

Re: [silk] Hilton banned in India

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Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 05:11 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: The Emperor's New Mind by whatsisface Really? I felt Penrose made things easy to get through thanks to his in-depth explanations. I read more than half of it over four days I was sick (and was thus bunking work during an internship a few

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 11:26 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: I really wish I hadn't read Life of Pi. Ugh ugh ugh. Jude the Obscure. Why on earth did anyone care to write a story about a depressive who has a very depressing life that gets progressively more depressing until it reaches a crescendo

Re: [silk] no news is good news

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2010 08:58 PM, Heather Madrone wrote: I watched the clouds arrive, pile their black masses against the black mountains, and dump their bumper crops of rain on the vivid green muskegs. I read my way slowly through the contents of

Re: [silk] no news is good news

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 May 2010 10:42 PM, Thaths wrote: Surely being unplugged does not preclude being informed of and participating in _local_ politics and civil society? Engagement with even local politics would require being plugged in, would it not?

Re: [silk] India's Electronic Voting Machines Have Security Problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Biju, I found much to be disagreed with in the paper. In a nutshell, most of the attacks described in the paper have no bearing on the 'e'-ness of the Indian EVMs, and would apply to paper ballots as well. Some attacks on paper ballots

Re: [silk] Writing with the pack

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 May 2010 08:57 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: 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

Re: [silk] Writing with the pack

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 May 2010 09:43 PM, Thaths wrote: Would a left-leaning newspaper provide such unvarnished advertisement thinly dressed as an interview? Or take this other supposed food review:

Re: [silk] Writing with the pack

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 14 May 2010 02:07 AM, Thaths wrote: Do you think the review-reading audience has similar expectations of film and book reviews? FIlms? Yes. Books? Perhaps not. The consuming public has a lot to do with it. Nikhat Kazmi, for instance,

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 May 2010 11:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: CDAC's BOSS is the only one I can think of in recent times It seems there's an attempt at a School OS, a joint collaboration by NCERT, IIT-Delhi and Knowledge Commons:

Re: [silk] Writing with the pack

On Thursday 13 May 2010 10:24 AM, sankarshan wrote: Currently, ToI is too tempting a piece of entertainment to resist Entertainment that makes you cry and pull your hair out? I'll resist despite myself, thank you. given that they carry the schedules for water supply and power outages, that

Re: [silk] Writing with the pack

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 13 May 2010 11:05 AM, sankarshan wrote: And I agree. The Sakaal Times does that too among other papers available at Pune. For some reason, my newspaper vendor uses the ToI to wrap all the other papers I read and, so it gets the pride of

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [silk] India Govt to develop own operating system

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 May 2010 04:47 PM, ss wrote: Surely it should be possible to customize some existing code from Linux and use it on GoI computers. Or have I misunderstood? It is unclear what that story means, frankly. Because develop own OS could as

[silk] Moore's Law: Pining for the Fjords?

http://arst.ch/jo6 Moore's Law is not dead. It's merely pining for the fjords By Jon Stokes | Last updated May 5, 2010 11:04 AM What if I took to the pages of a major business magazine and made the bold recommendation that, because humans have run out of new places on Earth that we can migrate

Re: [silk] For the carnatic music lovers on Silk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 06 May 2010 10:54 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Enjoy .. you will find that the songs are in the true dikshitar bani (down to the re re phrasing at the end of chandram bhaja manasa, as described in http://www.guruguha.org/kmb.php)

[silk] PGP/MIME or inline PGP?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Silklisters, What do you folks generally prefer: PGP/MIME or inline PGP? My observations are that usage of PGP/MIME makes it more difficult to locate messages with attachments in clients that don't grok it (or most webmail), inline PGP, otoh,

Re: [silk] Silk Meet?

On 30/04/10 20:14, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Divya Madhu Naresh Udhay Freeman (?) + Pranesh signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [silk] Why Content Is a Public Good

Brilliant read. Good recounting of issues, thus a good way to introduce people to this issue. Some problems: it is slightly presumptive (uhh, other people *have* written, extensively I might add, about these very issues, from the same economic perspectives), and it glosses over some of the

Re: [silk] Uphill, both ways...

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 Bangalore are South Delhi, South Bombay,

Re: [silk] Generalized mailing list thread

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, Mike G's wise observation doesn't apply.

Re: [silk] Generalized mailing list thread

On Wednesday 31 March 2010 08:02 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Will that be a laden or unladen Nazi? Interesting that you didn't ask African or European :) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [silk] Meet-up in Bangalore?

On Monday 08 March 2010 08:07 PM, ss wrote: ..have friends visiting from 12th to the 15th. So, they'll join in? Or will that keep you from meeting up? And, how does Sunday (14th) evening sound? From the previous mails, it seems Aditya, Udhay and Suresh are in. - Pranesh signature.asc

Re: [silk] a big step for linux?

On Thursday 04 March 2010 06:53 PM, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: On 04-Mar-10, at 1:47 PM, Biju Chacko wrote: [snip] I disagree. 5-10 years ago, I had a pretty good idea of all the moving parts behind my desktop. When something broke (which was often) a bit of deduction would point me at the

[silk] Meet-up in Bangalore?

Dear all, Based on some sage advice[1], I propose a Bangalore meet-up. Does this Saturday work? Or is longer term of notice required? Cheers, Pranesh [1] (20:18:07) Pranesh Prakash: So, when will the next FoU camp (or even just plain meet up) be? (20:18:30) Udhay Shankar N: whenever

Re: [silk] a big step for linux?

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 19:41, Giancarlo Livraghi g...@gandalf.it wrote: The fact, as I understand it, is that unix has existed for forty years, linux for twenty, but they were for the experts. Now it's easy for everybody. And that is a *big* change. Strangely enough, nobody (including penguin

Re: [silk] a big step for linux?

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 08:44 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: I don't deny the advances made, I was pretty much happy with Linux usability too until last month when I had to spend 2 whole days getting sound to work on a realtek chipset that shipped on a HP machine that ostensibly supports

Re: [silk] a big step for linux?

On Wednesday 03 March 2010 10:03 PM, ss wrote: I have used Linux for a decade now and I am about as far from being a techie as anyone can be. It was Udhay who infected me. Linux has been easy to use for the non techie but informed user for about 6-7 years now. While I can guess that you use

Re: [silk] Losing the Apple habit

On Friday 26 February 2010 11:04 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: 4. I used to depend on ratings and play counts to build smart playlists, but Last.fm and iTunes Genius have made that obsolete, so it no longer matters that all my music is in one library. I find this quite interesting. Could you

Re: [silk] Losing the Apple habit

Picasa? Rather nice UI (for Linux) otherwise. That's because of (or despite?) the fact that it runs on Wine (built-in), and is not built using GTK+ or QT. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [silk] Losing the Apple habit

On Friday 26 February 2010 06:40 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Amarok's UI makes me cry. Rhythmbox and Banshee are no more than demo apps. iTunes on an ancient machine with the music on network storage, synced to an iPod via USB 1.1, was far more tolerable than these three. I believe you

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