Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-03 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On 8/2/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is time to kick off a discussion about a IRL silklist meet. For lack of imagination, we began calling these things FoU (Friends of Udhay; also means crazy in French). We started with a really small meet in Coonoor in 2005 and followed it up with a

[silk] Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India

2007-08-03 Thread Gautam John
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/google_uses_cro.html Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area. After the data has been uploaded and then verified against other participant's data it becomes a part of the map. The process is

Re: [silk] Murdoch and the WSJ

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote [at 12:38 PM 8/3/2007] : Her quote appeared nicely formatted in my mail client just as yours did. Whatever cut and paste she did turned out exactly like a mail client's inbuilt ability to quote would have. I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing. Do you have a

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
savita rao [03/08/07 11:27 +0530]: Suggestions for locations: http://www.silveroakfarm.com/ http://www.farmweekends.com/nandih.php silklister bala's got a place near ooty that might come in handy

Re: [silk] Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India

2007-08-03 Thread Biju Chacko
On 8/3/07, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/google_uses_cro.html Google has been sending GPS kits to India that enable locals to make more detailed maps of their area. Is that legal? One of the reasons that there are very few good maps available

Re: [silk] Elton John has an idea...

2007-08-03 Thread ashok _
If the internet does have a hand in wiping out elton john... bravo Lets have five more of these internet things On 8/3/07, Gautam John wrote: I do think it would be an incredible experiment to shut down the whole internet for five years and see what sort of art is produced over that

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-03 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 8/3/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: savita rao [03/08/07 11:27 +0530]: Suggestions for locations: http://www.silveroakfarm.com/ http://www.farmweekends.com/nandih.php silklister bala's got a place near ooty that might come in handy http://www.greenhotelindia.com/ A

Re: [silk] Elton John has an idea...

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: [ on 06:25 PM 8/3/2007 ] In any case, the stuff that is released in the old-fashioned way - isn't most of it also equally amateurish and/or unreadable these days? Indeed, as Sturgeon's Law will indicate. :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com))

Re: [silk] A Young Lady's Illustrated (Math) Primer

2007-08-03 Thread Neha Viswanathan
The book includes horoscopes, testimonials, cute doodles and quotes from girls. Word problems are brought to life with descriptions of lipstick, beads, cookies and similarly girly examples that might make the feminist in some women cringe. Maybe they use recipes to explain fractions Take

Re: [silk] Google Uses Crowdsourcing To Create Maps In India

2007-08-03 Thread Thaths
On 8/3/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is that legal? One of the reasons that there are very few good maps available in India is because there are a whole bunch of legal impediments to private mapping and map publishing, IIRC. The laws surrounding maps were relaxed a few years ago. It

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-03 Thread Thaths
On 8/2/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 09:26 PM 8/2/2007 ] 2. When should it be held? A three day weekend is usually good (except for Biju if the three day weekend happens to be Easter). One of the constraints would be the India schedules of various

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Venky
1. Kiran is right - Eudora is screwing up display of some posts, such as Divya's post [1] that started this exchange. It seems that Eudora is not recognising line breaks in some posts properly. Any ideas why? Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines encoded as =0A. Venky (the

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 07:00:53AM -0700, Thaths wrote: On 8/3/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? If you keep all of your

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: Thunderbird sucks at various levels. :) How many? Which are these?

Re: [silk] BS Detection

2007-08-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Raj Shekhar wrote: Heh! I had already used up rajlist@ and rajlist2@ email ids for subscribing to usenet groups. spamme@ came up when I wanted to use some other email id to subscribe to mailing lists that I would read once every day. Since you own the domain, why not silk@ ???

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Thaths
On 8/3/07, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? Thaths -- Homer: He has all the money in the world, but there's one thing he can't buy. Marge: What's that? Homer:

[silk] The Top 237 Reasons of Why we Have Sex

2007-08-03 Thread Lawnun
My personal favorites: 31. My hormones were out of control 39. The person was intelligent (Nothing says turn-on quite like a href= http://xkcd.com/55/;this/a for instance). 110. IT would allow me to get sex out of my system so I could focus on other things. Of course, many of the answers (I'm a

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venky [03/08/07 19:39 +0530]: 1. Kiran is right - Eudora is screwing up display of some posts, such as Divya's post [1] that started this exchange. It seems that Eudora is not recognising line breaks in some posts properly. Any ideas why? Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines

Re: [silk] BS Detection

2007-08-03 Thread Raj Shekhar
in infinite wisdom Venkat Mangudi spoke thus On 08/02/2007 07:49 PM: What interests me more is your email address... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is that an invitation or a challenge? Heh! I had already used up rajlist@ and rajlist2@ email ids for subscribing to usenet groups. spamme@ came up when

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Udhay Shankar N wrote: 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. Thunderbird comes close, but the Tried Evolution?

[silk] Return of the robber barons

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2263.shtml Return of the robber barons By Paul Craig Roberts Online Journal Guest Writer Aug 3, 2007, 01:10 As the Bush Regime outfits B-2 stealth bombers with 30,000 pound monster bunker buster bombs for its coming attack on Iran, the US

[silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: [ on 06:51 PM 8/2/2007 ] on another note, you should stop using the new UI for Yahoo mail. See what a mess it's made of your post? Her post came through fine for me. Maybe it's time to give Eudora its golden handshake? OK, this sequence of messages inspired me to

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Venkat Mangudi wrote: [ on 10:17 PM 8/3/2007 ] 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. Thunderbird comes close, but the Tried Evolution? Yes, and mutt, which somebody else suggested. Currently, I'm running Windows on my home

[silk] dilbert on open source

2007-08-03 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
today... http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007018331803.gif

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote: [ on 07:30 PM 8/3/2007 ] 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? Doesn't work for me. I already use gmail as a backup mailstore (which will last until my paranoia outweighs the convenience

[silk] Oil from bacteria

2007-08-03 Thread Udhay Shankar N
And another claim of replacing fossil fuels comes up, joning (inter alia) anything into oil [1] and pigoline [2]. Anyone have more details? Udhay [1] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/8305 [2] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/silk-list/message/17606

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:01:23PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tried Evolution? All GUI MUAs suck. It's canonical. mutt's the one MUA that sucks least, and that's not just a motto. Running mutt server-side and having the following .bashrc function mutt () { if ps x | grep [m]utt;

Re: [silk] Oil from bacteria

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:16:26PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: And another claim of replacing fossil fuels comes up, joning (inter What's wrong with electrons? Fully recyclable, and there are certainly no free electron (these are pretty blue, at least in solvated form) pollution

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 11:07:15PM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Thaths wrote: [ on 07:30 PM 8/3/2007 ] 3. I've been meaning to move away from Eudora for ages - but haven't found a MUA to replace it for me. *cough*gmail*cough*? Doesn't work for me. I already use gmail as a backup

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Abhijit Menon-Sen
At 2007-08-03 19:39:09 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lack of UTF-8 support? Divya's posts have newlines encoded as =0A. =0A is the quoted-printable encoding of an ASCII line feed, and it has nothing to do with UTF-8 (beyond all ASCII codepoints being valid under UTF-8). Divya's message header

Re: [silk] Rapture

2007-08-03 Thread Charles Haynes
On 8/1/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 Jul 2007 9:58 am, Charles Haynes wrote: Animism is a religion so that syllogism is obvious. But even if Hinduism is not animism it's clearly a religion. Is anyone seriously suggesting that Hinduism is not a religion? My

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 23:01 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Tried Evolution? Yes, and mutt, which somebody else suggested. Currently, I'm running Windows on my home machine, so neither is an ideal solution. as a longtime eudora user, the fact that linux had a good outlook clone (evolution)

Re: [silk] Organizing a conference like TED in India

2007-08-03 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 02-Aug-07, at 8:02 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: And why is TED a good thing? I always felt the banner about a collection of the world's finest minds coming under one roof that runs at the beginning of every TED talk to be kind of unwarranted, and not in good spirit. That did put me off TED.

Re: [silk] Eudora, mail clients, etc

2007-08-03 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 3 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are many ways to minimize desktop suckage, Ubuntu 7.04 with nVidia hardware acceleration, rdesktop, VMWare server (free as in beer) You can replace VMWare with qemu + kqemu (-kernel-kqemu, ftw). As easy to configure as VMWare (minus the