Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 06-May-08, at 11:32 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: Perhaps a more useful question to the photo geeks is: What are the criteria that you would use if you were buying a point and shoot? My criteria: comes with a cell phone attached. There's no point having an instant camera if there's no instant sh

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Balaji Dutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Obviously, I'd like to spend as little as possible. But a quick survey > > of point-and-shoots tells me that budget isn't a major constraint.

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Balaji Dutt
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Obviously, I'd like to spend as little as possible. But a quick survey > of point-and-shoots tells me that budget isn't a major constraint. > > -- b > > Another option that you might want to consider is the Ricoh Caplio GX1

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Madhu Menon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > > > I used the S3 IS for a short while and can tell you honestly it is a good > > camera. The S5 should only be better. It has an inbuilt flash and a > > hot-shoe, and a few other impro

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Balaji Dutt wrote: consider is the Powershot G9 - it doesn't boast the huge zoom range of the S5 and reviews suggest that you have to work with RAW to get the best out of I have a G5, an ancestor of G9. I bought it because it had more features than a PnS. I love the camera, still have not inv

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > U A test message to sci.logic. You must not have heard of misc.test? > > > http://groups.google.com/group/sci.logic/browse_thread/thread/2074a359a023f9f1/0930f85088e8f6fe?lnk=st&q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22#0930f85088e8f6fe

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Balaji Dutt
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22udhay%20shankar%20n%22&num=100&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wg > > Looks like your divorce from Eudora is a long and painful one starting > circa 2002: > Ah I guess I would a member of that unhapp

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Balaji Dutt
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A bit of googling led me to the > Canon Powershot S5 IS (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/). It > seems a reasonable compromise of price and performance. It also looks > like something I could use to improve my photo

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Thaths
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One way of looking at this is as follows: > > If one wants to prevent people from knowing some particular thing about you > in an age where both ubiquitous onlines presence as well as ubiquitous > search/surveillance tec

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Rishab Ghosh
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:52:55AM -0700, Thaths wrote: > My concern with my younger family and friends is that they do not seem > to realize that their flirtations, flame wars and flickr will be > easily searchable five years from today by their future employers. bernhard and i have had many disc

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Thaths
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > > http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22&num=100 > > Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what > > you're se

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 21:47 +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: > http://www.google.co.in/search?q=%22udhay+shankar+n%22&num=100 > > Unless you are specifically looking for it (i.e., you already know what > you're searching for) you will not find my n00b usenet posts in this mix. if i was looking for

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Thaths wrote, [on 5/5/2008 9:07 PM]: I hope Cory's book is instrumental in creating a new generation of civil libertarians and cyber activists (a la what _The Hacker Crackdown_ did to a previous generation). However, I cannot help but nitpick Cory's comment about 17-year-olds understanding the p

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:51 +0530, ss wrote: > When this system comes into contact with grabbing hungry animals, the animals actually, indians (or brazilians) may be hungrier than americans, but they are hardly less "animal" in this colourful language. some years ago, i wrote a paper [1] compar

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Thaths
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:13 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But 17 years later, things are very different. The computers I love > are being co-opted, used to spy on us, control us, snitch on us. The > National Security Agency has illegally wiretapped the entire USA and > gotten

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:55 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How about the Nikon Coolpix range? My first digital camera was a Coolpix > > 3100 and that's where I learnt a lot. The range

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about the Nikon Coolpix range? My first digital camera was a Coolpix > 3100 and that's where I learnt a lot. The range has been expanded and comes > with both simple point & shoots and decent bridge ca

Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac

2008-05-05 Thread VaibhaV Sharma
That task is a pain in the interface. Without paying for any tools, I used a local imap server as an intermediate store. Drag drop to an IMAP account from PST folders to IMAP. Then drag drop from IMAP to your client on mac. -- VaibhaV Sharma http://vsharma.net ** Typed on an iPhone, please

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Madhu Menon
Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote: I used the S3 IS for a short while and can tell you honestly it is a good camera. The S5 should only be better. It has an inbuilt flash and a hot-shoe, and a few other improvements over the S3. It's also bulky as hell (more than half a kilogram.) Not easy t

Re: [silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Biju Chacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been thinking about buying a new camera. My main annoyance with > my present camera, a Canon Powershot A400, is it's long shutter lag. I > could also use a better zoom range. A bit of googling led me to the > Can

Re: [silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Anish Mohammed
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I think this is going to be an important book. I also think that this > >>intro does a great job of putting the book in context. The fight > >>against Big Brother gone mad is going to be one of the defining vens > >>of

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread ashok _
On 5/5/08, va wrote: > > What they actually do is partially "fund" computerization by providing > > licenses gratis. > uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer > is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel works > so well. > they peddle a $3 li

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread va
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:59 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What they actually do is partially "fund" computerization by providing > licenses gratis. uh, oh... not gratis, isnt the cost inbuilt ? Its just that the buyer is unaware of it. Partly why the reseller distribution channel work

[silk] Cory's introduction to _Little Brother_

2008-05-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
I think this is going to be an important book. I also think that this intro does a great job of putting the book in context. The fight against Big Brother gone mad is going to be one of the defining vens of our age, and this looks like a worthy contribution. Udhay excerpted from http://craphound

Re: [silk] Strange Job requirements

2008-05-05 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 4:04 PM, ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the below appeared as part of a completely serious mailer for a > position of "IT Officer" at Christian Relief Services, Kenya : There is this guy I heard of who went through a fairly complex interview process just fine, and got

[silk] Recommendation for a good point-and-shoot camera

2008-05-05 Thread Biju Chacko
Hi, I've been thinking about buying a new camera. My main annoyance with my present camera, a Canon Powershot A400, is it's long shutter lag. I could also use a better zoom range. A bit of googling led me to the Canon Powershot S5 IS (http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/). It seems a reasona

Re: [silk] Neil Gaiman on LIttle Brother

2008-05-05 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 5:10 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cory, > > Please let us know when this one's available for download -- it sounds like > fun. > > Udhay > > > > From: Cory Doctorow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Neil Gaiman gave me an unexpected

[silk] Strange Job requirements

2008-05-05 Thread ashok _
the below appeared as part of a completely serious mailer for a position of "IT Officer" at Christian Relief Services, Kenya : (I suspect it was meant to indirectly eliminate people with physical handicaps, without explicitly saying so) Physical and Mental Requirements: * Mobility: frequent

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread ashok _
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > This means they *cannot* license > their software at different rates around the world (unless as part of a > scheme that their lawyers clear as being non-discriminatory, which is how > retail and OEM licenses are differentiated). > What

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 05-May-08, at 2:51 PM, ss wrote: The rationalization that it is good practice to keep the rates the same "because they are a monopoly subject to anti-trust legislation" is a convoluted excuse for maximizing profits by keeping rates high in the US and in countries that can afford such high

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread ss
On Monday 05 May 2008 12:48:46 pm Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > > I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been trying (more or   > > less > > successfully) to tell people that they are "human" and therefore   > > different > > from animals, and that they should therefore respect IPR and   > >

Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac

2008-05-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
A quick google gives me - http://www.entourage.mvps.org/import_export/pst.html Gautam John wrote: > Doh! I don't think Outlook or Express support MBOX export. > > One other way, which is what I did, make folders on your desktop, > inbox, sent etc.

Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac

2008-05-05 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Export it as an MBOX and drag and drop that into Mail/Entourage? > > I assume PST is from Outlook? Doh! I don't think Outlook or Express support MBOX export. One other way, which is what I did, make folders on your deskto

Re: [silk] shifting .pst files to a mac

2008-05-05 Thread Gautam John
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Aditya Kapil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do i do it? I tried Entourage ... unsuccessfully. Export it as an MBOX and drag and drop that into Mail/Entourage? I assume PST is from Outlook? -- Please read our new blog at: http://blog.prathambooks.org/ Join our

[silk] shifting .pst files to a mac

2008-05-05 Thread Aditya Kapil
How do i do it? I tried Entourage ... unsuccessfully. Thanks, Adit. -- ...But always remember that irritation is what allows oysters to create pearls. Thank goodness for oysters because ulcers make crappy necklaces [Scott Adams]

Re: [silk] Why Brazil Loves Linux

2008-05-05 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
On 05-May-08, at 7:52 AM, ss wrote: Microsoft software is as expensive as jewellery for the vast majority of Indians. I haven't checked prices recently but the cost of a Vista Home Basic is well over the monthly "average" salary in India. I suspect that corporations like Microsoft have been