Re: [silk] Monkeysphere

2007-10-01 Thread Venky TV
On 10/1/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well written piece that makes sense to me. What do you folks think? > > http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2417 Didn't really work for me. This article seems to be along the lines of Malcolm Gladwell's books -- a simple observati

[silk] While on the topic of media ...

2007-10-01 Thread Biju Chacko
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/10/the-future-of-n.html People often ask me to predict how long newspapers can survive in the Internet age. Ten years ago I believed newspapers would last another five years. Clearly I am not qualified to make this sort of prediction. But being

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-01 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Eugen Leitl wrote: [ on 10:35 PM 10/1/2007 ] > While we are on this topic, I would like to know how many of us on > Silk trust what the run-of-the-mill media reports on UFOs. How many of us on silk trust run-of-the-mill media, period? Very interesting question. I must admit my first reaction

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:52:23AM -0700, Thaths wrote: > While we are on this topic, I would like to know how many of us on > Silk trust what the run-of-the-mill media reports on UFOs. How many of us on silk trust run-of-the-mill media, period? -- Eugen* Leitl http://leitl.org";>leitl http://l

Re: [silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-01 Thread Thaths
On 10/1/07, Venkat Mangudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How many of us on Silk trust > what run of the mill media reported on 9/11? While we are on this topic, I would like to know how many of us on Silk trust what the run-of-the-mill media reports on UFOs. Thaths -- Bart: I want to be emancipat

[silk] 9/11 again

2007-10-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Does this article have any truth in it? How many of us on Silk trust what run of the mill media reported on 9/11? http://news.independent.co.uk/fisk/article2893860.ece

Re: [silk] Getting Things Done Guru David Allen and His Cult of Hyperefficiency

2007-10-01 Thread Jim Grisanzio
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: On 28-Sep-07, at 8:19 PM, Nandkumar Saravade wrote: After I got to know of GTD, I unsuccessfully tried to find the book in a couple of book shops in Mumbai. Ultimately, had to ask a frien

Re: [silk] Microsoft updates XP and Vista without notifying users

2007-10-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Eugen Leitl wrote: > I'm throughly annoyed at my co-citizen units, who have voted these Nice choice of words!

Re: [silk] Microsoft updates XP and Vista without notifying users

2007-10-01 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 06:25:44PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > It is true enough. These days (since my own government has declared intent to h4x0r my systems), I don't tolerate proprietary software on absolutely vital systems. In near future I will have to draft and follow a hardenin

Re: [silk] Microsoft updates XP and Vista without notifying users

2007-10-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Venkat Mangudi [Monday, October 01, 2007 6:23 PM] > > Apparently, even if auto updates are turned off, Windows Automatic > Updates pushes 9 updates to Vista and XP. Not very surprising, IMO, if > this is true. Can someone with the huge virus (a.k.a Windows) on their > system verify if this is tru

[silk] Microsoft updates XP and Vista without notifying users

2007-10-01 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Apparently, even if auto updates are turned off, Windows Automatic Updates pushes 9 updates to Vista and XP. Not very surprising, IMO, if this is true. Can someone with the huge virus (a.k.a Windows) on their system verify if this is true? http://windowssecrets.com/2007/09/13/01-Microsoft-updates-