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Biju Chacko wrote:
> PS: As a matter of mailing list courtesy, it's a good thing to trim
> off text from older mails that is not relevant to your post.
there you go, done :)
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> Why not? I've been working for a long time now but I still haven't
> gotten around to growing up.
Hear hear ...
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> You do realise that joining this list is a counterproductive step for
> your stated goal of being ignored by the whole world (before taking
> over that is). My recommendation would be to disconnect your internet
> connection, don
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savita rao wrote:
> I've ordered from indiaplaza.in a couple of times, and it's worked well.
I have been trying out indiaplaza for a while now. While not generally
bad (they can sure improve their packaging *and* their website) the only
gripe I have h
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Deepa Mohan wrote:
[interesting exercise I must admit]
> Why things are so bad even in "Big" companies:
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> 1) Popular feeling among both the elite and common man
> that we can't change things as they are.
> (imagine if Mahatma Gandhi had felt the s
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ashok _ wrote:
> I have heard some good things about a new book by Ramachandra Guha
> called "India after Gandhi - the history of the worlds largest
> democracy" ... Has anybody read it?
>
Aside from the fact that it is a heavy tome and thusly makes
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> They haven't yet finished processing one booking for me, and I already
> hate them. Their web site is dismal. Their feedback form doesn't work.
> Their people are as broken as their web site.
Yeah, that site needs some love
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ashok _ wrote:
> Any suggestions on which budget airlines in india to avoid / go for.?
>
> Have been warned about the one called Air Deccan by many people...
Air Deccan seems to be taking a large bundle of flak these days it was
good earlier. Ind
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Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> Bruce: I didn't know what funnel cakes were (I always imagined them to
> be like conical muffins), but based on your message, I now realise that
> they are like large, non-syrup-soaked Jalebis. ;-)
A distant cousin of the B
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Was watching a rerun of a show on Discovery last night when the
incongruity of "babies learning computers" struck me (a lot of the cases
where babies have been known to be comfortable in front of a PC etc) so
is there a corpus of work relating to aware
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Ingrid wrote:
> The article of yours (in the E.T) engenders the de-gendering or
> deconstruction of the hegemony of patriarchy which has constructed specific
> norms of masculinity and femininity. This construction has confined people
> to look not be
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Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> 3. Suppose they take the GPLed POP3 server and modify it substantially
>to suit their needs, and modify their program to talk to it.
Releasing the modifications (in readable and compile-able format or
such) and/or the m
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Charles Haynes wrote:
> It looks like invitations for this event are closed. I put in my
> requests, but I don't know if they made it in time. Good luck
> everyone.
Any chance of seeing this talk on video.google.com ?
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Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> Taking 40 winks in the middle of the day may reduce the risk of death
> from heart disease, particularly in young healthy men, say researchers.
and I never did buy the argument when Biju propounded it ;)
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shiv sastry wrote:
> I believe veg only restaurants in Bangalore have a serious problem - because
> they are the worst places to sit down and eat. They have too many customers
> and there are places where the queue consists of people standing right
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> I'm not sure if it's the best place for steak, but I like Herbs and
> Spice in Indira Nagar.
Don't know if that's the branch/sibling of the one in Pune, but the one
here serves oh-so-passable fare
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Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> Also among Palakkad Iyers.
>
> Venkatesh Hariharan
> (whose father is Hariharan Venkatesh)
Now that gets me even more confused :(
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Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Wow, Beena Biju Benjamin...Congratulations!
Bedazzling :)
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output, this measure can have serious repercussions in applications where
high-quality reproduction of content is vital. For example the field of
medical imaging either bans out
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Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
> ashok _ wrote:
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>> there wasnt enough time
>> to clear all the plates. so everyone pushed their plates with great
>> violence
>> onto the aisle ... when we
>> took off, the food trolley which was on the side of the
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> This is extremely accurate. For the last six months, I've been
> spending 30% of my time on interviews. Our current hit ratio is
> something like 3% -- our conversion ratio is more like 1%. So we
> interview a 100 people -- give o
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Deepa Mohan wrote:
> A point of view that comes from someone whose ideas I respect
> (actually, Maya Venkat, mmk's sister.)
[quote]
The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally
create yourself. (Especially code from companies
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Every year, 1.5 million women attempt to take their own lives, and a
further 150,000 succeed in doing so.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/5086754.stm
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Ravi Rao wrote:
> And to answer your question, I've heard good things about Citibank ...
If only there transaction portals worked on Firefox *sigh*...
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Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> Interesting, and not surprising...
>
> http://www.voyantes.net/blog/?p=160
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> ’some did not even have passports…’
Wag the Dog ehh ? Always works...
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Deepa Mohan wrote:
> fear not...I think there are several people in their 50's or 60's...I
> was merely addressing the youngsters, who generally talk of death so
> casually ("I'll DIE if I don't buy that lens!") but don't think much
> about death...
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Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Many of you on Silk are very young...do you think about death? If so,
> what do you think about your own? Am very interested in your thoughts...
eww !! this is a list of young whippersnappers ?
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Madhu Menon wrote:
> (No, the lamps are not pink; they're red.)
If the lamps are red (and not pink) then what are the reds ?
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> BTW, I notice that a favourite restaurant of mine has shut down -
> http://biryanimerchant.com/. Evidentally, having full tables and a
> regular clientele isn't enough to ensure success.
Something was wrong with it anyway - a fir
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Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> So. Where is everybody located these days?
Bangalore with occasional excursions to Pune and very infrequent
journeys to Kolkata
:SM
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Udhay Shankar N wrote:
> The intention here, however, was to present a web-accessible archive. A
> database might be of use there.
http://www.mhonarc.org/ ? Don't know how it will scale/behave for a
large mailDB
:SM
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Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> I spoke to Havoc Pennington and Donald Fischer early this month. Their
> motivation is to make open source more mainstream. Has anyone on Silk
> tried MugShot (www.mugshot.org)?
A few of them are on mugshot last I checked
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Deepa Mohan wrote:
> I meantthe lines you have given,by Gwendoline Brooks, are lovely,
> can I quote them..etc etc.
Googling on the name throws up
http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/archive/index.php/t-28677.html I guess it
is fair enough to quote wit
On 6/16/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd sign up for that. I've always been a sucker for steaks.It shows too :P:Sankarshan-- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were;
and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw
On 6/13/06, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When I try out a new restaurant, I almost invariably ask the waiter toorder for me. I figure if *he* doesn't know, then it's probably notworth my time.Did you not try this out at the joint near your earlier office ? With disastrous consequences one
On 6/13/06, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But what usually happens is that at weekends, my husband and I avidly consider all the eating places we know and then look at each other's waistlines and then quietly go and eat idlis at the local Darshini...well, I did take him to that Ballyg
More likely to be Debian, Morphix or even Ubuntu - certainly not Fedora Core (and of course not FC2)On 6/13/06, Sean Doyle <
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I'm not asking to be snarky - I've only been to Bhutan once and know no Dzongkha
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> In my experience, outsiders get the cushy jobs. Sometimes it seems
> that the only way to get a promotion is to change jobs.
Did you miss the 'clueless' adjective before outsiders ?
:SM
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> What's the deal with all the D70s and EOS 350Ds on this list?
Insurance I would assume ;)
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> Why is it that for photogeeks the only serious cameras are Nikons or
> Canons? What's wrong with all the other well-known brands?
And what do you use... ?
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Dave Long wrote:
> As a niekulturny, I can't tell the difference between bollywood music
> and the (presumably turkish?) pop songs that get played at the kebab
> shop. What should the neophyte listen for, to distinguish the two?
> (and, that having
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sastry wrote:
> On Fri April 28 2006 13:26, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
>> One nitpick though - 'Sankarshan' and not 'Sankarsan'
>
> Strictly speaking shouldn't it be Sonkorshone?
Err... I guess not. The &
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Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
> On 27-Apr-06, at 6:36 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
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>> I provide hosting space for Planet
>> FLOSS India (http://planet-india.randomink.org) and now and then feel
>> motivated enough to
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Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> The last time I posted some info about myself must have been 4-5 years
> ago. The world has changed since then and so have I!
In the spirit of things and in the rush of introductions I realised that
I got on to the list an
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Venkatesh Hariharan wrote:
> That's not a function of weight and depends on individual preference.
> For example, Tendulkar uses a heavy bat but still moves like lightning
> :-) For the record, I am fairly trigger happy and shot some 1,500
> photos du
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Ashok Hariharan wrote:
> i am considering the nikon d70s, but am confused by opinions ranging from
> "crap" to "marvellous" to "overpriced".
> (all of them are professional photographers)
>
Would 'overpriced crap' be good for you ? :)
It is heavy
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> But seriously, this was the funniest thing I ever saw written on a vehicle:
>
> http://www.nixcartel.org/~botsie/autorickshaw.jpg
>
> Gives you good warning about how he drives!
Travel down Dehradun - Delhi sector in a bus and
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> However, that finally does imply that one cannot blindly point at
> these cases and say that they are major wins for open source. They're
> good, but they aren't that significant in the greater scheme of
> things. Certainly nothin
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Biju Chacko wrote:
> Sounds impressive. But I wonder how much of a benefit these companies
> derive from Open Source. If you look at how they handle it and how the
> deals were structured, all they're getting is cheaper software.
The large 'enterpris
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Madhu Menon wrote:
> http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3487041
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> Perhaps not news to some people on this list.
>
http://www-db.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html
http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
Somehow the article manage
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