On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks everyone! I am leaving India tonight with a full suitcase.
Another book by a silklister to keep an eye out for:
http://www.tulikabooks.com/whereilive4.htm
Udhay
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Abhijit Menon-Sen [19/01/11 15:27 +0530]:
My general reaction to Net4 is uniformly negative and I'd really rather
not host with them, but I'm told they've become better recently. But
they charge a hell of a lot, and their monthly data transfer limit is
netmagic solutions is probably the only
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
My general reaction to Net4 is uniformly negative and I'd really rather
not host with them, but I'm told they've become better recently.
Whosoever has told you about them getting better should either get off
your friend
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
(a) experience with Net4India's VPS hosting, and
Net4 sucks. Like a blackhole.
(b) recommendations of any other VPS hosting providers in India?
I have been using Nettigtitty and have to say they are excellent.
At 2011-01-19 02:10:10 -0800, sur...@hserus.net wrote:
i'd rather not touch net4india with a bargepole
Yeah. I've been not-touching-them-with-a-bargepole for so long that it's
sometimes difficult to explain to people why I prefer to avoid them. :-)
-- ams
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:27:04PM +0530, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
Personally, I'd much rather get a Linode or Hetzner VPS, but for this
particular application, better connectivity from India would be good.
Can you give me an IP or a network to traceroute to?
According to
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
Personally, I'd much rather get a Linode or Hetzner VPS, but for this
particular application, better connectivity from India would be good.
Amazon EC2 instances in Singapore. The pricing seems very complicated
though.
At 2011-01-19 15:44:57 +0530, sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote:
That is, if the said limits can actually be attained.
Limits? We don't need no steenkin' limits.
I asked the Net4 chap what peak transfer rate they could give us, and he
said 10GB. So I said *rate*, not *size*, and he said
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen a...@toroid.org wrote:
I know about E2E networks already (hi Tarun!), and it's really the
leading alternative. It is also more expensive than Linode, but not
disproportionately so.
I know Tarun so I guess these guys must be pretty clued in.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 02:34:00AM -0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
france or europe quite close to india, traceroute wise?
Wasn't at all sure, just the cable landing site in
South France could indicate a data center near Paris
might be well-connected. Apparently, not.
not too much. you'd
Eugen Leitl [19/01/11 11:59 +0100]:
not too much. you'd find that - for most ISPs, singapore would be a safe
bet for network proximity and quality datacenters. not cheap though
Good to know. How is mainland China?
Painfully slow because traffic in/out of the mainland goes through the
great
Yes, but Shakespeare is believed to have been the first to use the
phrase in print. Technology (having the advantage of wider distribution
by means of printed text) contributed to Shakespeare's place in the
English language today, as a playwright and as a contributor to the
English language
Item #1. Write a Bucket List
Item #0. Create your own bucket list, and make everyone else think that
is the one they should have. (Make it reach the New York Times
Bestseller list)
Anand:+:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/138
--- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com,
shiv writes:
I don't think the organization that built the pyramids lasted as
long as, or
organized as many people (in absolute numbers) as Christianity or
islam. I am
not a management literate person and am unable to use management
jargon, but
if asked to judge, I would judge Christianity
On 1/18/11 11:30 PM January 18, 2011, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
I saw this phrase on a blogpost and it has stuck in my head.
Basically, this is a list of things you want to do before you kick the
bucket (i.e stuff to do before you die)
I seem to be singularly lacking in ambition, as I can't think
I don't have a long list of things I want to do before I die, detailed
requirements are a trap. :)
I do know what I would like to do next short term and long term. Short
term I'd like to explore southern Tasmania a bit. Expect to do that
this weekend.
Long term I'd like to live in China for a
The Egyptian kingdoms beat Christianity by far.
Anand
:+:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/144
--- In silk-l...@yahoogroups.com, Heather Madrone heather@... wrote:
shiv writes:
I don't think the organization that built the pyramids lasted as
long as, or
Finish my screenplay and a modest chapbook of poems to my satisfaction
before my son turns 2. if that doesn't get done i don't care about the rest
of my time.
Yes and No. I would think the aim of poetry is to get away from idiom and
cliches. My teacher encouraged us to read pulp fiction because the cliches
are amazingly similar to the ones in English and those that are different
are quite humorous to the foreign ear!
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:31 PM,
On Thursday 20 Jan 2011 1:23:55 am Heather Madrone wrote:
I think that Ancient Egypt still holds the longevity record:
http://tenthletter.com/Timeline.htm
That is an interesting data point.
More to the point of this thread - both Christianity and Islam were/are early
adopters of the
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.comwrote:
This is a good thing to try after you've accomplished the others on your
bucket list, methinks. For obvious reasons of not missing out on the
others, by accident. :-)
Ah! Let me know how long you took to get your
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Venkat Mangudi s...@venkatmangudi.com wrote:
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 01:16 PM, Vijay Anand wrote:
Skydiving has been there for a while. So has getting my Pilot license
This is a good thing to try after you've accomplished the others on your
bucket list,
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 09:00 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
Interesting, but certainly too complicated for me to follow. Especially
with the new spot pricing model. I tried the calculator, but I wasn't
quite sure that I had all the right sort of ducks lined up in a row to
get a
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
What's on *your* bucket list?
Over the last two years, I've learnt I am a fairly good cook.
Only way to validate that assumption: find out what others say. Hence one of
my not-too-many wishes on the bucket-list:
work in a
On 19 January 2011 13:00, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
What's on *your* bucket list?
I will list the more practical achievable stuff that is there on my list:
* explore parts of India for two weeks every year.
* publish a coffee table photography book/s from the travels. USP - shot
On 20 January 2011 13:07, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
What's on *your* bucket list?
Over the last two years, I've learnt I am a fairly good cook.
Only way to validate that
On Thursday 20 January 2011 12:55 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan wrote:
Ah! Let me know how long you took to get your tongue out of cheek.
Glad you got that, :-). Always wondered about this phrase, found this
[1]. Now I am slightly enlightened.
--Venkat
[1]
On Thursday 20 January 2011 01:10 PM, Ashwin Kumar wrote:
You better start preparing for the next Masterchef India then :)
Hah! But for that, you need to master the food that Akshay Kumar's
mother fed him when he was a small kid. And you've got to learn to cry
at the drop of a hat.
--V
--V
(getting tired typing out the same 6 characters over and over again)
Type the 6 characters I say! What if I also (and I often do) get tired?
V.
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