On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:59 AM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Here are some thoughts I posted in my college alumni web forum. Thoughts
sparked off by the article above and general conversations with colleagues.
MY BOY WORKS FOR INFOSYS
Shiv,
Remarkably well written, you make a great
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:44 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
and that would be, what?
Cheeni
On 4/14/08, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Long wrote, [on 4/14/2008 10:56 AM]:
I can easily imagine pyramids of 4, 5, 10, and 14 stones but am coming
up blank on 7 stones. Is the opposing team allowed to throw the ball at
the partially rebuilt pyramid as well?
At 2008-04-15 14:57:53 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
and that would be, what?
http://klamath.stanford.edu/~molinero/html/surname.html
-- ams
Jace, BCB6 just got interesting. :)
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No comment. Make your own opinion.
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From: Balarama Varanasi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 April 2008 12:45:16 PM GMT+05:30
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an aunt that keeps insisting the ancient Indians had everything from
aircraft (pushpaka vimanam) to nukes (brahmastra). She would be in good
company with this guy
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Open source 3D printer copies itself
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/2F5C3C5D68A380EDCC257423006E71CD
Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and
artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source,
self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
I do like to see the Indian-integration surnames on this
list...Aiyer-GhoshMenon-Sen :))
My concern is that hyphenation doesn't scale. When hyphenated
individuals marry they become a double hyphenated couple,
Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:44 PM,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just use the Spanish system. It scales...
and that would be, what?
In most of the Spanish speaking world, everyone has
double-barrelled last names: for example, Maria Gomez
Felix. In
Rene,
IIRC you are involved with Janastu (incase you are in
Bangalore/India). Anyone else here know the folks behind Janastu ?- to
combine forces with schooltool.
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From: Ronald Wertlen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:43:28 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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In fact, the only relevant double-hyphenate I know is Rishab, and I
suspect, somehow, that he doesn't want to have my babies to further
the cause of quadratic hyphenation.
It's not that abnormal, I have
At 2008-04-15 14:44:14 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When hyphenated individuals marry they become a double hyphenated
couple, and when their offspring [...]
This is a story I've always heard while I was growing up (in Bengal).
I'm somewhat disappointed to note, however, that I haven't found
Vinayak Hegde wrote, [on 4/15/2008 2:47 PM]:
Open source 3D printer copies itself
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/2F5C3C5D68A380EDCC257423006E71CD
Aiee! Von Neumann machines on the loose! Flee!
Udhay
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On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
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I have an aunt that keeps insisting the ancient Indians had everything from
aircraft (pushpaka vimanam) to nukes (brahmastra). She would be in good
company with this guy
What do you mean, AN aunt..I have whole
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Vinayak Hegde wrote:
| Open source 3D printer copies itself
| http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/2F5C3C5D68A380EDCC257423006E71CD
'tis crazy i tell you ... what is the world coming to ? :)
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On 4/15/08, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/15/08, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a guy from Janastu on silk .. TB Dinesh (cc'd)
Erm... Tea Beedi [EMAIL PROTECTED] said she(he?) was Kavita (whom
I met at foss in Dec07) on the Linuxchix-India mailing lists. /me is
I wonder who brainwashes these relatives of ours. Probably their
parents. And them? their parents again. Seems like a never ending
cycle of brainwashing!
On 4/15/08, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you mean, AN aunt..I have whole hordes of relatives and
friends whose only aim in
On 4/15/08, Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aiee! Von Neumann machines on the loose! Flee!
Reminds me so much of Tintin and the lake of sharks[1] where Calculus
invents a 3D duplication machine!
divya
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Tintin-Lake-Sharks-Herge/dp/1405206349/
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va wrote:
| After getting Suresh's mail (told him am writing to the list) I
| checked the archives of Silk where one thread says the person's real
| name is Dinesh BUT the description (glasses, ponytail) matches that of
| a person who called himself
I laughed. I mean you (plural) are funny.
Interesting, how some mail somewhere in Africa got caught by the Silk.
Here below is the follow up conversation.
-dinesh! :) (am now curious about this prashanth, not about kavita)
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Subject: Re: [schooltool] More background on
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkrsna/2106560440/ is one Dinesh who was
there at the LCIN BoF - no clue if he was there was a Dinesh | Prashant
as well.
... was that picture taken at the LCIN BoF ? -which
All petitions etc are swiftly dealt with (even murder charges are
dealt with, within a year).
Moreover, Singapore govt provides scholarships for students at the
Junior College to study in LSE, Harvard, Stanford, in return for them
to come back and serve the govt as a highly placed official
I'm looking for laptop recommendations. I need mobility, not a desktop
replacement. I will be running Debian GNU/Linux (sid) on it. I don't
need an optical drive or those dinky SD card readers. A nice high
resolution screen (XGA and above) would be nice. Wi-fi is a
given. Priorities are:
1. A
At 2008-04-15 20:40:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My current top choice is the TP X60s.
I can recommend the ThinkPad X6* without reservation for use with Linux,
and I think the hardware is fantastic.
-- ams
At 2008-04-15 20:40:06 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My current top choice is the TP X60s.
I can recommend the ThinkPad X6* without reservation for use with Linux,
and I think the hardware is fantastic.
My days of being able to comment knowledgeably about Linux (or even PCs)
are far
Udhay Shankar N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's not a pyramid, in my recollection. It was just a vertical stack
of stones. The way we played it, the number of stones was not
constant, and the opposing team got a bonus for hitting the stack
directly, but it was also permissible (besides being
At 2008-04-15 16:51:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why not a MacBook?
Macbooks are heavy, and my impression is that the hardware (while very
nice, feature-wise) isn't as robust as the ThinkPads. If mobility is a
major consideration, then I personally wouldn't pick a MacBook.
(Obviously,
On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
At 2008-04-15 16:51:12 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why not a MacBook?
Macbooks are heavy, and my impression is that the hardware (while very
nice, feature-wise) isn't as robust as the ThinkPads. If mobility is a
major consideration,
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I expect quite an adventure to get a refund I'm going to try and get for
the pre-installed Vista.
why bother with refunds hassle when one can get a laptop sans OS (free
dos actually)
On 15 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why bother with refunds hassle when one can get a laptop sans OS (free
dos actually)
Not this model apparently (7669-A24). At least, that's what the reseller
tells me. An eloquent shrug when I asked him if there was any way of not
installing an OS at
Aditya Chadha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think the new Lenovo made Thinkpad hardware is pretty much equal
in quality to Apple hardware, if not worse.
Hmm. Is this true about R series too? Just a couple of months back a
Debian Developer I know chose Dell, after mightily disappointed by an
R
In Kenya the World Bank is funding a bandwidth subsidy
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=5796Itemid=5847
(the article mistakenly says 114 million shillings, its actually $114
million so essentially the world
bank is supporting BPOs in Kenya by partially paying
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:31 PM, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In Kenya the World Bank is funding a bandwidth subsidy
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=5796Itemid=5847
(the article mistakenly says 114 million shillings, its actually $114
million so
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the latest news on landing fiber at Mombasa? IIRC, there were
2 or 3 parallel proposals including one for FLAG telcom to run fiber
across the Indian ocean to East Africa.
All three still appear to be alive. Though
On Apr 10, 2008, at 10:58 PM, Madhu Menon wrote:
Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
Ten, at the YWCA on Parliament Street in Delhi, serves Mexican food
(Quesadillas, especially) that I enjoyed eating; but I have never
had an opportunity to sample authentic Mexican food.
I think that is indeed the crux
va,
Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends.
d
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:04 PM, va [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ramkrsna/2106560440/ is one
Tea BeeDi wrote, [on 4/16/2008 9:12 AM]:
va,
Not so much of a gender crisis I think. This id is shared by some friends.
Why?
Udhay
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