[silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Hi ... I'm new to this list, so I thought I'd say hello. :) I run community development projects for Sun on the OpenSolaris project and have done so for 4 years now. I moved to Japan last year to focus on open source in Asia. I'll be traveling to Bangalore for the first time for FOSS.IN in

[silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Hello, I'm new on this list, though not new to the list. I'm Chandru, a copywriter. I worked for a while (and grew up) in Chennai, and have recently moved to Dubai. I make a complete fool of myself at first. And when enough people have ignored/overlooked me, I take over the world. That's right.

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Biju Chacko
On 8/22/07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new on this list, though not new to the list. I'm Chandru, a copywriter. I worked for a while (and grew up) in Chennai, and have recently moved to Dubai. I make a complete fool of myself at first. And when enough

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Nishant Shah
On 8/22/07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new on this list, though not new to the list. I'm Chandru, a copywriter. I worked for a while (and grew up) in Chennai, I was very intrigued by the parenthetical intervention. You worked and then grew up? ;)

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Biju Chacko
On 8/22/07, Nishant Shah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was very intrigued by the parenthetical intervention. You worked and then grew up? ;) Why not? I've been working for a long time now but I still haven't gotten around to growing up. -- b

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Sriram Karra
On 8/22/07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new on this list, though not new to the list. Hi Chandra, welcome :) Not sure if you remember, but we met a long time back at a party in Chennai... -Karra

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
Hi Chandra, welcome, though we never met at any party in Chennai or elsewhere... (got to keep on the right side of a world potentate-to-be.) Deepa. On 8/22/07, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new on this

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 ... - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
Welcome aboard Jim...there's some of us who might NOT be at FOSS.in...but who would like to meet you anyway! Deepa. On 8/22/07, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ... I'm new to this list, so I thought I'd say hello. :) I run community development projects for Sun on the OpenSolaris

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Nishant Shah
On 8/22/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome aboard Jim...there's some of us who might NOT be at FOSS.in...but who would like to meet you anyway! Seconded Nishant Deepa. On 8/22/07, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ... I'm new to this list, so I thought I'd say

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Venky TV
Hey Jim, Welcome to Silk! We've talked often on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. Looking forward to meeting you at FOSS.IN. I could certainly use some help getting some of the Linux zealots here to try out OpenSolaris! :) (Biju, you there?!) Venky. On 8/22/07, Jim Grisanzio [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Hey man. Yup, remember you well. How're you? C On 22/08/07, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm new on this list, though not new to the list. Hi Chandra, welcome :) Not sure if you remember, but we met a

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
Thanks, all. Biju: Alternatively you could join a software company and make sensible suggestions. That has always worked for me. Not just a software company, though. Pretty much any organisation ignores people who make sensible suggestions. C On 22/08/07, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL

[silk] YAII

2007-08-22 Thread Dinesh Venkateswaran
That stands for Yet Another Introduction Introduction, like YACC (for those who've studied compilers). I am a few messages old on the list as a reader (a cousin of mine had recommended it to me), and had conveniently forgotten to intro myself. So, here I am - grew up in Chennai, grew out of it,

Re: [silk] YAII

2007-08-22 Thread Biju Chacko
On 8/22/07, Dinesh Venkateswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That stands for Yet Another Introduction Introduction, like YACC (for those who've studied compilers). I am a few messages old on the list as a reader (a cousin of mine had recommended it to me), and had conveniently forgotten to intro

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: [ on 06:40 PM 8/22/2007 ] So whens the foUv3, going to be ? How about a meetup to figure it out? Charles has kindly offered his place, this Saturday evening. Who's up for an impromptu evening of food and drink and chatter? RSVP on the list, please. NOTE:

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Ramakrishna Reddy
On 8/8/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Udhay Shankar N said the following on 08/08/2007 14:53: So, what time suits everyone else? In the next few months? End of the year? January 2008? The earlier the better for me.

Re: [silk] YAII

2007-08-22 Thread Dinesh Venkateswaran
On 8/22/07, Dinesh Venkateswaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That stands for Yet Another Introduction Introduction, like YACC (for those who've studied compilers). I am a few messages old on the list as a reader (a cousin of mine had recommended it to me), and had conveniently

Re: [silk] YAII

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 :) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Casey O'Donnell
Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: [ on 06:40 PM 8/22/2007 ] So whens the foUv3, going to be ? If you shoot for December, it would be nice if it was at least the second weekend. Dec 1-2 is a big conference that I can't miss since I'm going on the job market. Keep us all posted on foUv3 developments.

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Jim Grisanzio [22/08/07 17:13 +0900]: info at my bio: http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris/page/bio ^^ All right, how many people got reminded of Harry Harrison here?

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Danese Cooper
Jim is one of my best pals from my Sun Days, and I'm really happy to see him here on Silk. He's expecting to attend FOSS.in, and I'm hoping by then he'll be a friend of Udhay's so he can come to FOU. He's one of the goodguys :-) Danese Sent from my iPhone :-)

Re: [silk] Re-architecting the music business

2007-08-22 Thread Jeff Bone
On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:49 PM, Gautam John wrote: On 8/16/07, Jeff Bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then they'll use the lobby influence to try to get a tax on all such equipment, media, etc... at which point, if it flies, we'll probably have arrived at about the best practical outcome. If

Re: [silk] YAII

2007-08-22 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Dinesh Venkateswaran wrote: approve of the for-no-sensible-reason name change, like Bangalore to Bengaluru I feel your pain, Dinesh. :-) Welcome to Silk! V

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: Hey man. Yup, remember you well. How're you? Welcome to Silk... We are fine here. Hope the same from you! ;) Oh, almost forgot. Srini mama sends his regards as well as Savithri mami. :)

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Venky TV wrote: Hey Jim, Welcome to Silk! We've talked often on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. Looking forward to meeting you at FOSS.IN. I could certainly use some help getting some of the Linux zealots here to try out OpenSolaris! :) (Biju, you there?!) Is it really that good? I

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:17PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Is it really that good? I wouldn't mind trying it out. How does it compare to Ubuntu as a desktop OS? Very, very badly. But Murdock is now at Sun, and tries to Debianize OpenSolaris (project Indiana).

Re: [silk] Pakistan at 60 from Rafiq Dossani

2007-08-22 Thread Indrajit Gupta
Shiv, The Oflag only allows occasional access to Silk and others, so I read this a few minutes ago. Aren't you complicating things a bit? Wouldn't any Indian author asked to write on Pakistan at 60 tend to compare Pakistan with his own country? Why would Rafiq be an exception?

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread shiv sastry
On Wednesday 22 Aug 2007 3:40 pm, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: Meditate upon the navel ? That's going to take some flexibility if not attain a permanent crick in the neck Also known as omphalocentrogenic cervical spondylosis. shiv

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Venky
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:17PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Venky TV wrote: Hey Jim, Welcome to Silk! We've talked often on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. Looking forward to meeting you at FOSS.IN. I could certainly use some help getting some of the Linux zealots here to try out

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Eugen Leitl wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:39:17PM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Is it really that good? I wouldn't mind trying it out. How does it compare to Ubuntu as a desktop OS? Very, very badly. Hi ... Well, sure it's not as good as Ubuntu as a desktop OS. It's not a desktop OS

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Venky
Charles has kindly offered his place, this Saturday evening. Who's up for an impromptu evening of food and drink and chatter? Cool! I'm in. Venky.

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
...if we plan on Wednesday for Saturday, how is it impromptu? ...I am out of town... Deepa. On 8/23/07, Venky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charles has kindly offered his place, this Saturday evening. Who's up for an impromptu evening of food and drink and chatter? Cool! I'm in. Venky.

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Biju Chacko
On 8/23/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...if we plan on Wednesday for Saturday, how is it impromptu? If you notice we're also planning something in December. Compared to *that*, this is impromptu. -- b

Re: [silk] I want the earth + 5%

2007-08-22 Thread Deepak Misra
On 8/8/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.relfe.com/plus_5_.html Very nicely put together. Cheeni A very delayed response. Got around to reading this and recommend it to all non-finance/economic folks who want understand the monetary system. Wish there were many

Re: [silk] FoU v3

2007-08-22 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 8/23/07, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/07, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...if we plan on Wednesday for Saturday, how is it impromptu? If you notice we're also planning something in December. Compared to *that*, this is impromptu. Ah. Then I will try and make it for

Re: [silk] Introduction

2007-08-22 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Venky TV wrote: Hey Jim, Welcome to Silk! We've talked often on the OpenSolaris mailing lists. Indeed. I'm on something like 200 lists now. That's why I figured I needed just /one/ more ... I'm just not busy enough, I guess. :) Looking forward to meeting you at FOSS.IN. Cool. My