Re: [silk] Introductory Email

2011-02-17 Thread Lahar Appaiah
Hello, Kunal, and welcome- lovely post on Jamshedpur. My wife grew up there, my in-laws live there, and I visit it at least once a year. In my brief visits, I've managed to do a lot of the things mentioned in your mail! Cheers Lahar On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Welcome,

[silk] Call for Papers - Special Issue on Open Data, Journal of Community Informatics

2011-02-17 Thread Zainab Bawa
Dear all, Below is a the Call for Papers (CfP) for a special issue on Open Data which I am guest editing along with Tim Davies. I would be very grateful if you could consider submissions either as articles, field notes or opinion pieces. Also, please circulate this call among your colleagues, frie

Re: [silk] Virtualized VPS or shell account providers in India?

2011-02-17 Thread Vinayak Hegde
Are you looking for http://www.planet-lab.org/ ? Curious about what experiments you are planning to run. -- Vinayak On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Daniel Moniz wrote: > Hello Silk Hive Mind, > > A quick request: can anyone recommend a virtualized VPS provider (e.g. > Linode, AWS) or shell a

[silk] Virtualized VPS or shell account providers in India?

2011-02-17 Thread Daniel Moniz
Hello Silk Hive Mind, A quick request: can anyone recommend a virtualized VPS provider (e.g. Linode, AWS) or shell account provider (providing isolated shells on Linux or BSD hosts) in India that I can pay per month to use from the U.S.? Just looking to get a low-cost shell account to run some DNS

Re: [silk] Introductory Email

2011-02-17 Thread Kunal Kapoor
i do enjoy the exotics, anish :) On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Anish wrote: > Welcome to the list, hope u enjoy the mix of exotics :) > > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > -- > *From: * Kunal Kapoor > *Sender: * silklist-bounces+anish.mohammed=gmail@l

Re: [silk] Introductory Email

2011-02-17 Thread Kunal Kapoor
thanks deepa. grew up in jamshedpur, still helplessly remember that town. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Deepa Mohan wrote: > Welcome, Kunal, liked your post on Jamshedpur :) > > Cheers, Deepa. > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Kunal Kapoor > wrote: > >> all, >> >> my name is Kunal Kapoor.

Re: [silk] Introductory Email

2011-02-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
Welcome, Kunal, liked your post on Jamshedpur :) Cheers, Deepa. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Kunal Kapoor wrote: > all, > > my name is Kunal Kapoor. I joined this group some time back, and have not > had an opportunity to introduce myself. > > apologies. > > this is where i scribble my thoug

Re: [silk] Introductory Email

2011-02-17 Thread Anish
Welcome to the list, hope u enjoy the mix of exotics :) Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Kunal Kapoor Sender: silklist-bounces+anish.mohammed=gmail@lists.hserus.net Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 20:45:27 To: Reply-To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [sil

[silk] Introductory Email

2011-02-17 Thread Kunal Kapoor
all, my name is Kunal Kapoor. I joined this group some time back, and have not had an opportunity to introduce myself. apologies. this is where i scribble my thoughts http://zentricks.blogspot.com/ sincerely, kunal.

Re: [silk] silklist Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17

2011-02-17 Thread Pranesh Prakash
On Wednesday 16 February 2011 05:19 PM, Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: I don't see the relevance to this discussion, so I'll digress to say that it always annoys me when Postel is quoted to justify accepting all sorts of malformed nonsense in protocol implementations. The idea is to be accepting where