[silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug) in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio.

Re: [silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:34:01PM +0530, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug) in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio. What are you going to do with it? Reflash the firmware? -- Eugen* Leitl a

Re: [silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 04-May-07, at 2:06 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: What are you going to do with it? Reflash the firmware? Yes. I need HFS+ support. I haven't tried USB Audio on Linux yet, but if I can get it working, Soundflower + EsounD should make for a nice, cheap wireless audio setup. I miss my Airport

[silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread freeman murray
http://telegraphindia.com/1070106/asp/weekend/story_7202699.asp Casting a wide net Young Indian entrepreneurs are creating a buzz on the Internet with a spate of new websites, says Shrabonti Bagchi What's common to the new generation of entrepreneurs on the Indian Internet? They are young,

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals. And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com Far far better than what passes for an online ticketing site in india (makemytrip.com, yatra.com etc suck bad, have more than their share of bugs). Cleartrip's

Re: [silk] Linksys Slug in Bangalore?

2007-05-04 Thread Biju Chacko
SP Road? On 5/4/07, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know where I can pick up a Linksys NLSU2 (aka the Slug) in Bangalore? I'm in the mood for wireless storage and audio.

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals. And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com Far far better than what passes for an online ticketing site in india (makemytrip.com, yatra.com etc suck bad, have more than their

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Badri Natarajan
Except for Kavita Iyer's minglebox.com that also figured in TOI today, have not heard of any of them. Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? I've seen ads for Fropper, but that's about it. With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [04/05/07 18:06 +0530]: Except for Kavita Iyer's minglebox.com that also figured in TOI today, have not heard of any of them. Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? Funnily enough, I know merasnap.com (or at least, I've seen its founder VV Kadam around on

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Badri Natarajan [04/05/07 14:04 +0100]: I've seen ads for Fropper, but that's about it. With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people use cybercafes), the market has got to be pretty small for these guys.

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 4 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people use cybercafes) I thought cybercafes (at least in urban centres) to be a dying breed. A lot more laptops to be seen on

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Venkat Mangudi wrote [at 05:36 AM 5/4/2007] : Except for Kavita Iyer's minglebox.com that also figured in TOI today, have not heard of any of them. Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? I know Kavita - she's smart. That said, I have no idea what her offering does, except

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Thaths
On 5/4/07, Badri Natarajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people use cybercafes), the market has got to be pretty small for these guys. I heard Vint Cerf mention the number 40

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 04/05/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Funny, funny .. I've not heard of 90% of these portals. And they missed out probably the best new kid on the block - cleartrip.com They seem to do Referer-based access control at least of their website. Apart from numbers that

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alok G. Singh [04/05/07 20:05 +0530]: Also, Internet World Stats [1] gives a projected figure of 42 million for March 2007 (based on a Nov 2006 survey). That's about 4% of the population. Which reminds me of that 2001 experiment in a Delhi slum by someone from NIIT. A computer (no keyboard,

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Binand Sethumadhavan [04/05/07 17:32 +0200]: Are they really a great site? I'd love to see one that actually understands that some flights of IA are International, and hence require longer connection times (and arrive at/depart from non-standard terminals, especially at Mumbai). Y'know,

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread shiv sastry
On Friday 04 May 2007 6:06 pm, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Just curious, has ANYBODY in silk heard of these sites? Ah - but silk-list was part of India 1.0. Comparing Opples with Aranges shiv

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Vinit Bhansali
Also, Kavita's usually seen or Orkut sending scraps (they are short notes/comments on your profile) asking people to check out minglebox.com That's fine till orkut catches up with her. But spamming always sucks, no matter how smart you are or what product you are pitching. - Vinit

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-04 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 04-May-07, at 11:08 PM, Vinit Bhansali wrote: Also, Kavita's usually seen or Orkut sending scraps (they are short notes/comments on your profile) asking people to check out minglebox.com That's fine till orkut catches up with her. But spamming always sucks, no matter how smart you are