Re: [silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread ashok _
On 10/9/07, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Well, it makes sense to me that you would first want to help these > people make a living before equipping with a laptop. > > What parts did not make sense to you? Just curious. basically the parts where the writer quotes the UN to make comparisons which are not

[silk] The trend gathers momentum

2007-10-09 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Dark days ahead in Mordor, for the content cartel (I hope). Interesting things have come together in the last few days. Two of the biggest bands around dump their labels very publicly. Radiohead: http://www.inrainbows.com/Store/Quickindex2.html Radiohead have made a new album. So f

Re: [silk] The age of the Superworm

2007-10-09 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: > maybe storm is a secret project of the Software Liberation Front, with > the aim of making people move away from windows to more secure operating > systems like gnu/linux. I really like this thought... On a more serious not, will it hold water if MS claims it to be so?

Re: [silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread Venkat Mangudi
ashok _ wrote: > For all the criticism of the OLPC project, i personally think the > project is on to something. That it will probably fail at the > implementation stage is an entirely different story... However many of > the criticisms that the guy has in the article dont make sense... Well, it m

Re: [silk] The age of the Superworm

2007-10-09 Thread Aditya Chadha
> Not really (Shockwave Rider it's not). And it's from 20070410, a blast from > the past. 20071004 not 20070410 :-) Cheers, Aditya -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Deepa Mohan
On 10/9/07, Binand Sethumadhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Kerala during the days when untouchability was prevalent, > apparently kids born in lower castes would be taken to the local > upper-caste overlord (usually the one from whom the dad would have > leased land for farming) who would na

Re: [silk] The age of the Superworm

2007-10-09 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 09:23 +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: > Redesigning the Microsoft Windows operating system would work, but > that's ridiculous to even suggest. maybe storm is a secret project of the Software Liberation Front, with the aim of making people move away from windows to more secure

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Binand Sethumadhavan
On 09/10/2007, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted > dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many > other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as, > something unattractive like "picch

Re: [silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread ashok _
For all the criticism of the OLPC project, i personally think the project is on to something. That it will probably fail at the implementation stage is an entirely different story... However many of the criticisms that the guy has in the article dont make sense... > Many moons ago a host of school

Re: [silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 09 Oct 2007 12:47 pm, Gautam John wrote: > MIT Prof. Nicholas > Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child non-profit this month is coming out > with its first machines, designed with kids in poor countries in mind. > (See this story by my colleague, Steve Hamm, about OLPC's attempts to > jump-st

[silk] g9 mouse

2007-10-09 Thread Eugen Leitl
Just received the mouse. Plugged it into my work Ubuntu box, works immediately. Instant love with the scroll whl. Not yet sure about the narrow/wide grip preference, and I don't think I'll need the weights. Resolution can be switched without drivers. Well worth the 60 EUR. -- Eugen* Lei

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On 09/10/2007, Deepa Mohan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In Tamil Nadu, at least, in the old days, children who contracted > dread diseases like smallpox or cholera, or who were born after many > other children died, had their names changed to, or christened as, > something unattractive like "pic

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Alok G. Singh [09/10/07 12:54 +0530]: On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Huchamma -> Mad woman I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but 'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy. And the thippeswami referred to a swami (holy man) in chitradurga d

Re: [silk] african names - iht

2007-10-09 Thread Alok G. Singh
On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Huchamma -> Mad woman I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but 'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy. -- Alok BOFH excuse #429: Temporal anomaly

Re: [silk] QotD

2007-10-09 Thread Amit Varma
Related: http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/08/so-you-think-yo.html Excerpt: > Our system for choosing presidents doesn't work very well. Voters are > woefully uninformed on the most basic of issues and many end up voting on > whim

[silk] Why India's Internet connections are falling

2007-10-09 Thread Gautam John
By Bruce Einhorn Here's some weird news from India: At a time when Internet usage is supposed to be on the rise, the number of Net connections in the country actually dropped in the second quarter, falling from 9.27 million to 9.22 million. As a somewhat incredulous Economic Times reporter comment