Re: [silk] Gmail on the E61 (was New iphone ad)

Gmail has opened up IMAP access (maybe it has been open for a while and I just found out). Works flawlessly on the E61. This means I don't need to use the gmail app for symbian. The nice part is that sent mail gets stored in the imap sent folder, saving the need to bcc yourself and do

Re: [silk] Gmail on the E61 (was New iphone ad)

: On 21-Nov-07, at 6:40 PM, Bharath Chari wrote: Beats the heck out of using a blackberry connect, with its silly 15 minute polling interval. I always thought Blackberrys had some instantaneous update magic. Thanks -- I'll keep my E61i. -Jace, using an 1200 in the interim while the E61i gets

Re: [silk] Gmail on the E61 (was New iphone ad)

At 12:14 PM 22/11/2007, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: What VNC would that be? Link please? http://developer.symbian.com/wiki/display/oe/P.I.P.S.+Home Download and install these files in this order: http://developer.symbian.com/wiki/download/attachments/1411/pips_s60_1_1.sis?version=1

Re: [silk] Memory, from NatGeo

Shoba Narayan wrote: Shiv: We have 5 years of accumulated old issue of National Geographic too :) How on earth do you get rid of them? Shoba I'm sure some school or library would be glad to take them off your hands. Bharath

Re: [silk] 10th Anniversary silkmeet

If we can shift the date to the 15th, it could be at my house. Penance for having sent the first message! Most likely won't be in town between the 17th and 24th. Bharath ps : Shiv, as I remember, is the reason the 1st message got numbered as the 3rd message. His computer clock was off. Udhay

Re: [silk] 10th Anniversary silkmeet

I think I can manage to be in town on the 17th. That's Monday. Does it work for everyone? Bharath Udhay Shankar N wrote: Bharath Chari wrote: [ on 07:32 PM 12/10/2007 ] If we can shift the date to the 15th, it could be at my house. Penance for having sent the first message! Most likely

Re: [silk] 10th Anniversary silkmeet

Shiv, Come on - I am sure we will let you go back home before the 18th or thereabouts. This was planned at my place on the 17th :-) Bharath shiv sastry wrote: On Monday 10 Dec 2007 7:43 pm, Bharath Chari wrote: I think I can manage to be in town on the 17th. That's Monday. Does it work

Re: [silk] 10th Anniversary silkmeet

Nope. Definitely not in town on 21st and 22nd. Bharath Udhay Shankar N wrote: shiv sastry wrote: [ on 08:26 PM 12/10/2007 ] My place is fine - but Thu being a working day for everyone at home we'll have to close up shop by 10-30 PM at the latest. Some beer will be needed, and no dinner

Re: [silk] 10th Anniversary silkmeet

If no one else is game, then we will have 2/3rd of the (statistically invalid) original eyeballs. On par for an Internet business, what say? Bharath Udhay Shankar N wrote: Bharath Chari wrote: Shiv, Come on - I am sure we will let you go back home before the 18th or thereabouts

Re: [silk] 10th Anniversary silkmeet

http://chari.arachnis.com. Click on Location. Bharath Gautam John wrote: I'm in as well for the 17th.

[silk] Confirming silk meet on 17th

All, Just confirming that the 17th is on at my place. Say around 7.30pm? Headcount please? So far I count: Deepak Udhay Bharath (me) Shiv Venky Venkat Gautam Ramakrishna and possibly Josey

[silk] OpenBravo anyone?

Hi, Has anyone on the list implemented Openbravo ERP in a production environment? Was looking at it as an alternative to Compiere. Bharath

Re: [silk] Acronym help?

As against SI = Simple Imprisonment Sthitaprajna wrote: Cory Doctorow wrote: I've started reading a couple Indian newspaper RSS feeds and I've hit an acronym I can't seem to find a definition for, though I can winkle out the meaning. The acronym is RI and it appears to refer to prison

Re: [silk] Do you think Ubuntu is dead?

I run Gutsy on a Lenovo R60. Suspend/Resume/Hibernate/Function keys/WLAN all work out of the box. I am running Gnome, but heard that hardly anything works in KDE. Bluetooth works, but am having trouble pairing it with my Nokia E61 and doing anything meaningful, such as using the phone as a BT

Re: [silk] Introduction

Deepa Mohan wrote: Ah. My aarghh was the same sort of argh! NOM..No Offence Meant, Cheeni! (apropos of which...could sugar have come from China, to get that name? How much more convenient to ask someone than to go a-googling...) Deepa. Hmmm. Sandeep Kapoor again. Shiv, don't think your last

Re: [silk] Do you think Ubuntu is dead?

Deepa Mohan wrote: Feisty Fawn (any more alliterative animals that Ubuntu has spawned?) Gutsy Gibbon is the latest. Bharath

Re: [silk] Print to Web Publishing Query

Gautam John wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Sajith T S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can't you use CSS to place text? I'm not really qualified to talk, just wondering. I will check on that. Thank you! I think it should be quite possible with CSS. Especially if you use a separate

Re: [silk] Print to Web Publishing Query

Gautam John wrote: A quick question, would you know of an easy way to mark the text box coordinates in an automated fashion or would that still have to be done manually? I wonder if the Adobe tool Kiran talked about can help with that. I think it may have to be manual. I suspect the tool

Re: [silk] Fwd: Moral Policing - This happened in Bangalore

The gentleman who wrote the note, is a friend of mine. Mail me offlist. I am sure he would like to be a part of what you are suggesting. Bharath - original message - Udhay Shankar N wrote, [on Friday 20 February 2009 10:57 PM]: Will anybody else join me in setting up a Legal Fund for pursuing

Re: [silk] Barah anno

Deepa Mohan wrote: On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote: and U..you never answered my question...who is the 2nd person on this list, and who are the first 12 to commemorate 12 years (or to have Last Supper)? Oops, Udhay's reply had slipped through the

[silk] Google Maps

Interesting that Google has three different versions of the India map. Google India shows Arunachal Pradesh as part of India, Google US treats it as disputed, and Google China, simply erases Arunachal Pradesh from the India Map. Similar situation for JK. http://maps.google.co.in

Re: [silk] Fw: [IP] Phil Agre is missing

Udhay Shankar N wrote: It appears Phil has been located. All seems very hush-hush at this point. No doubt there will be more on this in the near future. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2010/01/missing_internet_pioneer_phil.html So the poor guy got dragged back on to the grid? And

Re: [silk] Fw: [IP] Phil Agre is missing

Charles Haynes wrote: Did you read the article? Yes, I did. And the web site, and the facebook group. Leave the guy alone, if that's what he wants! That appears to be what's happening, at least to me. I doubt it. And hope I'm wrong. Bharath

Re: [silk] Any Mozilla Addons

Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: 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

Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read

I gave up on Umberto Eco's Island of the day before, after a dozen starts. Best of luck to the person who 'borrowed' it from me. I'd have paid to have it removed from my premises. Bharath

Re: [silk] The Sixth New India Lecture

On Wednesday 21 July 2010 08:26 PM, Thaths wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Bharath Chari ch...@arachnis.com wrote: On Wednesday 21 July 2010 05:26 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: http://digeratus.com/misc/NewIndia%20Invite.jpg Is there an IISc in another city? Thaths http://www.iisc.ca

Re: [silk] More on invisibility cloaks

On Friday 23 July 2010 11:29 AM, Vinayak Hegde wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: http://www.gizmag.com/invisibility-cloak-made-of-glass/15796 I don't buy it. I will believe it when I don't see it Aaahhh.. I feel a delicious headache

Re: [silk] TRRK

On Sunday 08 August 2010 04:22 PM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On 8/8/2010 3:27 PM, anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote: Some more detail and condolences here: http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/shifting-gears/86801-trrk-dr-t-r-rajesh-kumar-obituary.html Will someone who can read Malayalam translate the

Re: [silk] Close the Washington Monument

On Thursday 23 December 2010 11:52 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: 1. assume goodwill. 2. A well done rant is a thing of beauty. Incoherent ranting, however, becomes tedious very quickly. If your intent is to cause offense with the *content* of your post, then it is counter-productive to be

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

On Saturday 15 January 2011 07:53 AM, ss wrote: On Saturday 15 Jan 2011 2:49:36 am Jon Cox wrote: Pakistan too is an example of a group of people using Islam to change the sacrosanct borders of nation states. shiv delurk I notice that you refuse/omit to preface a lot of your posts about

Re: [silk] Stochastic Terrorism

On Tuesday 18 January 2011 08:34 AM, ss wrote: _India_, as a concept, has existed far longer than evidence/history warrants. What do you mean by India as a concept? A concept can be a very subjective thing based on individual perceptions and experiences. So unless we first sort of what the

Re: [silk] fish^N

On 06/02/2011 03:07 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:14:14AM +0530, Bharath Chari wrote: fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) fish(Noun) However, the sentence Slap slap slap slap slap

Re: [silk] fish^N

On 06/03/2011 07:21 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote: You can take alook at the posts to see if you are convinced. Otherwise, feel free to email me and I can try to convince you offline. In the meantime, you can take a look at my List to see if the posts on there convince you. I knew about language

Re: [silk] fish^N

On 06/03/2011 07:21 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote: You can take alook at the posts to see if you are convinced. Otherwise, feel free to email me and I can try to convince you offline. In the meantime, you can take a look at my List to see if the posts on there convince you. I knew about language

Re: [silk] (no subject)

On 06/20/2011 11:26 AM, Anand Manikutty wrote: I completely agree. If anyone has something to say on this subject, now would be a good time. :) Bharath

Re: [silk] (no subject)

On 06/22/2011 06:52 PM, Sean Doyle wrote: Surely the null hypothesis has to be better specified than that... My null hypothesis was that this collective could make a thread out of nothing. That has been amply demonstrated. But I'm vaguely disappointed that there hasn't been the usual thread

Re: [silk] (no subject)

On 06/26/2011 09:25 AM, ss wrote: Well done. I liked that. To me this has ended up being an interestimg psychological experiment. shiv

Re: [silk] (no subject)

On 06/26/2011 11:14 AM, Bharath Chari wrote: On 06/26/2011 09:25 AM, ss wrote: Well done. I liked that. To me this has ended up being an interestimg psychological experiment. shiv He hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. - William

Re: [silk] (no subject)

On 06/27/2011 06:37 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: There were PLENTY of us who did not say anything at all...so make that statement, SOME people can't not say anything Deepa. On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Christopher Kelty cke...@gmail.com mailto:cke...@gmail.com wrote: this just goes to

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

On 07/18/2011 07:51 PM, ss wrote: On Monday 18 Jul 2011 2:37:20 pm M.K.Pai wrote: Salman Taseer, probably said what he did for public consumption. Its difficult for a Pakistani politician to get elected unless he says unpleasant things about India. My My! That is odd isn't it? Why would a

Re: [silk] Why My Father Hated India

On 07/20/2011 09:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: The brown chaddi types hate muslims in general The pakistanis hate indians in particular what is the difference at all? and should I prescribe you stronger eyeglasses so you can go back and read what I wrote correctly? On Wednesday 20 July

Re: [silk] if we didn't have Pakistan...

On 07/22/2011 07:21 AM, ss wrote: On Thursday 21 Jul 2011 11:53:28 pm another.prufr...@gmail.com wrote: We need somebody from Pakistan in here. Ideas? I have been on a wildly jingoistic, largely right wing Indian defence forum which is very popular. About a decade ago there were similar

Re: [silk] Subramanian Swamy

On 08/05/2011 07:48 AM, ss wrote: On Thursday 04 Aug 2011 7:41:18 pm Charles Haynes wrote: Yet it is a predominantly Hindu country that writhes and struggles with an internal debate on secularism. If democracy is the will of the majority, then pluralism should be the rule in india, not

[silk] Good God!

http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years. The prevalence of this creationist view of the

Re: [silk] Good God!

On Saturday 09 June 2012 03:10 AM, John Sundman wrote: On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Bharath Chari wrote: http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/Hold-Creationist-View-Human-Origins.aspx PRINCETON, NJ -- Forty-six percent of Americans believe in the creationist view that God created humans

Re: [silk] Good God!

On Sunday 10 June 2012 06:30 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: On 10 June 2012 17:17, Bharath Charich...@arachnis.com wrote: If atheists and other nonbelievers were represented fairly, you would expect about 50 in the US Congress and another 50,000 at State and local level. In 2007, the

Re: [silk] Internet access advice

On Friday 28 September 2012 07:15 AM, Deepa Mohan wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: This is from a post grad student in the US (a friend of a friend). I'd think that one of the mobile broadband sticks (Reliance, Tata, etc) might be the trick, but I'm

Re: [silk] The Buckymobile Is Born

Hmmm. A Ricercar. Bach would have been happy. Bharath At 05:49 PM 10/25/2005, Indrajit Gupta wrote: Ribbing us, are you? Somebody'll draw a bead on you if you don't stop right away, and only a carcasse will be left to tread on. Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suresh Ramasubramanian

Re: [silk] Indian history spat hits US

Throwing random fuel into this agni: http://www.genome.org/cgi/content/full/11/6/994 Bharath At 08:21 AM 2/1/2006, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Maybe. I don't know. Let me check and see if I had my perceptions based on facts in the first place. looks like a close run thing ..

Re: [silk] 100 best first lines from novels

At 02:34 PM 2/3/2006, Nishant Shah wrote: And much as I dont like her, Ann Ryand's Anthem which says, if memory serves me right (it doesn't generally), This is a sin to write or some such thing. Unwitting flamebait? : Udhay , # Bharath

Re: [silk] Cartoon Row

Is it just me or does everyone get two copies of Rishab's mail? Bharath At 08:29 PM 2/20/2006, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: At 06:44 20/02/2006, Biju Chacko wrote: Yeah, it's ruled by bleeding heart liberals -- what's all this rot about freedom of speech, anyway? We need regime-change over

Re: [silk] The Silk Community Page

Sorry about that. I didn't do the redirect properly. Now http://arachnis.com/silk-list has been redirected to silk.arachnis.com Bharath At 09:15 PM 5/2/2006, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Biju Chacko wrote: [ on 08:51 PM 5/2/2006 ] Looks the same to me. Hm. That was supposed to redirect to

[silk] WTF?

Google returns something bizarre when you search for example.com eg site:example.com. (It doesn't return You have reached this page because blah blah.., which it should be doing) . It returns (from what I can gather) the Meta Description for a logistics and transportation company. I have a

Re: [silk] Data recovery specialists in Bangalore

You could try these guys: Stellar Information Systems Ltd. (ISO 9001:2000 Company) Bangalore S-712, South Block, Manipal Center Dickenson Road, Bangalore-42 Voice Fax +91-80-25327865, 25327866. Software Sales, Support Service Lab New Delhi, Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgoan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: [silk] The Silk Archive

At 06:51 PM 7/7/2006, Thaths wrote: On 7/7/06, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 06:44 PM 7/7/2006 ] grep, sed, awk, tr, wc and friends allow me to slice and dice an mbox archive quite well. SELECT silklist.from, silklist.subject WHERE ... is just too painful to

Re: [silk] Geographic spread

At 10:09 PM 8/2/2006, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: FWIW, I'm from Bangalore myself, and the Bangalore messages are irritating. Hear. Hear. It is a rather effective way of defeating the original purpose of the list - which was Interesting Conversations - (relevant to a wide section of the

Re: [silk] Fwd: NIAS-IDPAD study report

No problem. In fact, more articles are welcome. Bharath At 09:43 AM 9/25/2006, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Bharath maintains the Arachnis server. I think it should be OK as of now. (Bharath?) If the number of hits grows too large we have the option of removing the file. Udhay

Re: [silk] Hole in the wall project

http://www.hole-in-the-wall.com/ At 05:20 AM 10/3/2006, Thaths wrote: Reading yet another article [1] about the Hole in the Wall project I realized that I have not heard any updates on this project in the last 4-5 years. Anyone know if further tests were conducted as part of this proejct?

[silk] What are the odds?

Check the word verification image :-) http://silk.arachnis.com/whataretheodds.jpg Bharath

Re: [silk] Fwd: Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

On Thursday 30 May 2013 11:08 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 8:32 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On May 29, 2013 9:04 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: One must share your well-founded fears. One might go so far as to say that one is apPauled. Why Ring o the

[silk] The feeling of power

The first time I read this story by Isaac Asimov, I hadn't been introduced to computers yet. The second time I read it I wondered to myself in horror if such a day would actually come. I read it again yesterday, and was filled with dismay. That day may well have already come.

Re: [silk] The feeling of power

On Monday 03 June 2013 05:07 PM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/01/2013 10:26 AM, Bharath Chari wrote: The first time I read this story by Isaac Asimov, I hadn't been introduced to computers yet. The second time I read it I wondered to myself

Re: [silk] The least random number

18th December, 1997. Bharath On 12/13/2014 01:28 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: I never joined. Ram On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Next week, on the 19th, silklist will be 17 years old. A fair number of the regulars have been around (almost) that

Re: [silk] CAT5 vs CAT5E vs CAT6 cable for home

On 2017-06-06 22:18, Prashant P Kothari wrote: Folks We're moving in to a new house in Virginia this summer Q) The builder's default cable is CAT5... but I'm wondering if it makes sense to upgrade to CAT5e or even CAT6? Does anyone have first-hand experience with this Thanks Prashant I'd

Re: [silk] What's your primary computing device?

On 09/12/2017 11:32 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: As in, what do you spend the most time doing serious work/play on? For any definition of 'work' or 'play' that appeals to you? For me, it is still an assembled desktop computer running Windows. Notwithstanding the existence in the house of 3

Re: [silk] Kids and porn

On 09/05/2017 12:27 AM, Alaric Snell-Pym wrote: I suspect that porn viewing causes harm through misinformation, but not through some kind of "can't get aroused by real human beings" psychological damage. Although the misinformation may lead to psychological damage... Is porn addiction really a

Re: [silk] Searching in google is a result of prior synapse - true or false ?

On 08/11/2017 03:47 PM, Vasanth Kamath wrote: I had asked. - "Searching in google is a result of prior synapse - true or false ?” The word google was intentionally inserted to make it sound more real. In the backdrop of a simulated world, I believe that there is significant influence of cues

Re: [silk] Malware encoded in a strand of DNA

On 08/11/2017 07:44 AM, Thaths wrote: https://www.wired.com/story/malware-dna-hack/ "...a group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it

Re: [silk] Reintroducing myself

On 11/17/2017 08:51 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Bharath Chari <ch...@arachnis.com> wrote: Delurking to prove your point. I'm the definition of the active lurker. I'm member No.1 of silklist, and have posted around 10 messages in the past 5 years. But hav

Re: [silk] Reintroducing myself

On 11/17/2017 04:26 AM, Rajesh Mehar wrote: Out of curiosity: What is the difference between active and passive lurking? In my mind, active lurking is reading the post and enjoying the discussion but consciously (for whatever motive) not responding. Delurking to prove your point. I'm the

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

On 02/09/2018 04:11 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 7:22 AM, Tomasz Rola wrote: Lo and behold, my connection has been cut off for few hours... ​It looks like your ISP is on Microsoft's blocklist. You should check with them. See below, ​your message is bouncing

Re: [silk] Legal adulthood

On 12/14/18 6:43 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Next week, silklist will be 21 years old. Whee! > > Folks in Bangalore, meetup? Thursday 20 Dec seems most workable at this > point (I am traveling starting Friday 21 Dec). Vinit and Surabhi have > kindly offered to host at their place, which has seen

Re: [silk] Anil Kumar

On 10/18/20 5:37 AM, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > For those of you who knew him, I have sad news. Silklister Anil Kumar > passed away of a cardiac arrest a few days ago. > > We were friends for ~30 years. That involved many many shared experiences, > including youthful indiscretions, late night