Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
Biju: This raises the question -- do rats have nits that you can pick? And why is pedantry associated with delousing? Do pedants have lice? Ram On 5/3/08, Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:15 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short - its a rat race in India, and

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . you know if it weren't for the nit-pickers we'd all be knee-deep in nits! And then we would be called kneets? Sorry, in the Sunday post-prandial comatose state..even that seemed a good one...! Deepa.

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 12:12 +0400, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: why is pedantry associated with delousing? Do pedants have lice? no, they pick them. you know if it weren't for the nit-pickers we'd all be knee-deep in nits!

[silk] Chinese counterfeiting Cisco routers

2008-05-04 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37100/108/ By Humphrey Cheung TG Daily April 24, 2008 Washington DC - An unclassified government PowerPoint presentation documenting Chinese counterfeiting of Cisco routers has been published on the net. The Federal Bureau of Investigation document was

Re: [silk] Chinese counterfeiting Cisco routers

2008-05-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Huawei in other words? Or other, worse knockoffs? :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Srini Ramakrishnan Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2008 3:34 PM To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] Chinese counterfeiting Cisco routers

Re: [silk] Mother knows best.

2008-05-04 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote, [on 5/4/2008 1:42 PM]: This raises the question -- do rats have nits that you can pick? And why is pedantry associated with delousing? Do pedants have lice? Or other kinds of ants, for that matter? So nat'ralists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him

Re: [silk] Canon L series lens

2008-05-04 Thread Charles Haynes
On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 2008-05-03 14:19:38 +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: General photography... thats why I want something with a zoom range... Then the 100-400 ought to be good for you. I just wanted to comment on your exemplary

Re: [silk] delete your files before you travel abroad?

2008-05-04 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Well, I've never had a laptop checked so far (and indeed it'd be crazily long lines if everybody with a laptop got checked). This is not very new .. has always been the case, but reaffirmed by a ruling I think. Earlier, the TSA was being

[silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-04 Thread Gautam John
http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/why-brazil-loves-linux _ Brazil often makes Linux-related headlines, the latest being the adoption of KDE in Brazilian public schools. It's clear that Brazil is enamored with Linux, but why? This is an important question for Microsoft since emerging

Re: [silk] delete your files before you travel abroad?

2008-05-04 Thread Dave Long
Coming back in June from a trip to China, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, I had a border agent ask for my digital camera, and he proceeded to walk through every photo, about 800 pictures, asking me questions about where I had gone and what I had done. For what it's worth, this is much more

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-04 Thread ss
On Sunday 04 May 2008 10:12:43 pm Gautam John wrote: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/why-brazil-loves-linux any hope of widespread computer access, then surely we can't expect people to spend 7.8% of their annual income on Microsoft software snip When I was growing up in Brazil, paying