Re: [silk] Looking for some material on Linux

2007-06-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Deepak, If you do get something, would you mind sharing it with me? I have been looking for similar information for a little while now. Venkat Deepak Misra wrote: I am looking for some material on The importance of Linux in India. Content is basically market size potential etc and why it is

Re: [silk] Freebase

2007-06-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi
I have 5 too... private mail please... Venkat Deepak Misra wrote: I have some too. let me know by email if anyone wants some Deepak On 6/28/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some more freebase invites available. You know the drill - ask in private mail, please. Udhay

[silk] anyone needs freebase invites?

2007-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
Just got 5. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:02:13AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Explain? Is your IP being blocked by the IRC ops due to your being a Tor exit node? No. It is being blocked because it's a middleman node. Which shows that IRC ops know shit about Tor. -- Eugen* Leitl a

[silk] 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources

2007-06-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Like it says - an enormous list of online photography resources. I guess the cameraheads here will find lots to play with in this list... Udhay http://mashable.com/2007/06/23/photography-toolbox/ 90+ Online Photography Tools and Resources Photos are everywhere on the web. From sharing with

[silk] a nice history of fiat money

2007-06-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2007/06/why-does-fiat-money-seemingly-work.html Why does fiat money seemingly work ? written by Trotsky, edited by Mish Imagine that you live on a small island mining the local salt mine, together with Pete the fisherman and Tom the apple grower.

Re: [silk] The most annoying words on the web

2007-06-28 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Udhay Shankar N wrote [at 01:15 PM 6/25/2007] : http://www.techtree.com/India/News/The_Webs_Ten_Most_Irritating_Words/551-81821-643.html The Web's Ten Most Irritating Words Techtree News Staff Email Print Jun 24, 2007 Can you believe that the World Wide Web has actually spawned words

Re: [silk] Are menus and recipes intellectual property?

2007-06-28 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 27-Jun-07, at 10:20 PM, Thaths wrote: I believe jace has been to the restaurant and can attest to the goodness of the food there. Only ate there once and it was good. Tried finding accommodation there on my way through Bangkok last week, but the darned airport phones only allowed long

Re: [silk] Looking for some material on Linux

2007-06-28 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
I have a blog on Linux and open standards at www.osindia.blogspot.com. Hard numbers on Linux market share is difficult to come by but IDC is now planning to start tracking it. If I come across some info, I'll send it across. Venky On 6/28/07, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepak,

Re: [silk] Freebase

2007-06-28 Thread Jeremy Bornstein
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 07:07:11AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Some more freebase invites available. You know the drill - ask in private mail, please. Same here! -Jeremy -- jeremy bornstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- Like so many

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-06-28 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 6/28/07, Vinayak Hegde [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/28/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? - Frank Zappa, in response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-06-28 Thread Raul Siddhartha
Ah This reminds me of an Ogden Nash poem from school Personally, I think The Octopus is unmatched :-) -- Tell me, O Octopus, I begs Is those things arms, or is they legs? I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us. - The Octopus, Ogden Nash -- Raul

[silk] Bugs in Intel dual core processors?

2007-06-28 Thread shiv sastry
Lifted from elsewhere http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118296441702631 http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40567

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-06-28 Thread Deepa Mohan
Is those things arms, or is they legs? That reminds me of a piece of verse that I read in Arnold Silcock's Verse and Worse: Long before I was Solomon and you were the Queen of Sheba We lived life togther..as one amoeba. .. Anon came division, fission, and divorce... A lonely pseudopodium,

Re: [silk] Bugs in Intel dual core processors?

2007-06-28 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On 6/28/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lifted from elsewhere http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-miscm=118296441702631 http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40567 There have been bugs before on Intel Processors. The most famous of them being the FDIV bug[1]. Another well known one