Re: [silk] New York City Silkmeet this week(?)

2013-04-16 Thread Aditya Chadha
+1 on NY silk meet details. :) Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/) On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:43 PM, John Sundman wrote: > Has one been established? > > If so, I would appreciate the details. > > Thanks, > > jrs > > >

Re: [silk] New York City Silkmeet this week(?)

2013-04-16 Thread Aditya Chadha
+1 on NY silk meet details. :) -- Aditya Chadha http://twitter.com/ac On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:43 PM, John Sundman wrote: > Has one been established? > > If so, I would appreciate the details. > > Thanks, > > jrs > > >

Re: [silk] Can you separate tradition and culture from religion?

2012-07-26 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Shoba Narayan wrote: [snip] > I find a curious disjointedness between my generation and my parents'. The > things that mean a lot to my mother's generation, for instance, like > Varalakshmi Puja, doesn't seem to resonate so much with mine. Indeed, many > shu

Re: [silk] Library Management

2010-07-15 Thread Aditya Chadha
If you're on a Mac, this is worth the $40: http://www.delicious-monster.com/ -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/) On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:43 AM, Biju Chacko wrote: > Hi: > > I find that my collection of books is growing beyond what I can > conveniently keep in my head. Can anyone suggest

Re: [silk] online banking security analysis

2010-03-13 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Pradeep Kapur wrote: >> Perhaps you need to understand why 8 character passwords are better: >> >> http://trn.n0t.net/post/374883143/i-wish-that-i-could-use-a-stronger-password-for >> 8) >> >> Cheers, >> Aditya >> > Useful info indeed. Thanks. > Pradeep Er, I hop

Re: [silk] online banking security analysis

2010-03-12 Thread Aditya Chadha
> I did notice that Standard Chartered rejected the twenty-four character > password (including non-alphanumerics) I tried to create. I had to set > a much shorter alphanumeric password instead. Unfortunate. Perhaps you need to understand why 8 character passwords are better: http://trn.n0t.net/po

Re: [silk] OFFLIST

2009-03-05 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:26 AM, Bonobashi wrote: > OK, it's Manticore99. Give me ten minutes to change it. This is truly hilarious. Good job Udhay and IG. :-) -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

Re: [silk] Shazam! A Projector Is Shrunk

2008-11-05 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Cheeni *who thinks TV is over rated and found most happiness during 3 > years of TV less existence, but sadly right now has a 12 year old CRT > at home* Haha. That reminds me of: http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.co

Re: [silk] Shazam! A Projector Is Shrunk

2008-11-05 Thread Aditya Chadha
There's also this: http://www.shop3m.com/78923677021.html -- ~$80 cheaper and has a slightly higher resolution. Much better replacement for an aging CRT based TV. -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/) On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 20

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-27 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Need to see > http://www.linux-magazin.de/news/video_linux_handy_neo_freerunner_mit_openmoko That's still the old GTK based openmoko UI, the qtopia UI looks more like this: http://www.darwinsys.com/tmp/contacts1.png and th

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-26 Thread Aditya Chadha
unner does well, but don't really have high hopes. Cheers, Aditya -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com) On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2007 at 12:58 PM, Aditya Chadha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone seen/used

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2008-06-25 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 9, 2007 at 12:58 PM, Aditya Chadha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Has anyone seen/used one of the FIC 1973 / OpenMoko phones? It sounds >> like a very viable alternative to the closed apple/a

Re: [silk] Laptop recommendations

2008-04-16 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Sajith T S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 a

Re: [silk] Laptop recommendations

2008-04-15 Thread Aditya Chadha
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, t

Re: [silk] Introductions

2008-02-21 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Feb 21, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Madhu Menon wrote: Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] i don't want to turn silk into flyertalk, but... I usually just toss my miles away, I can't be bothered to keep track of them. First

[silk] Bay area silkmeet?

2008-02-20 Thread Aditya Chadha
So, I'm in SF for a week and was wondering if any silklist folks were around and up to shooting beers or something along those lines? Downtown SF works best - otherwise Mountain View, etc. are also okay. Cheers, Aditya -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

Re: [silk] Project Management Software (web based)

2008-02-12 Thread Aditya Chadha
> I am looking for a project management software something free and web-based. How about just using trac? http://trac.edgewall.org/ Trac is not as pretty as Basecamp (which is cheap, but not free) and takes a little setup but works pretty well, especially for managing bug requests/milestones etc.

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Feb 7, 2008 1:48 AM, Hassath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because I couldn't think of a better introduction. > > From right to left... [Long list of 'teh awesome' things snipped] I like the gaps analogy - It feels like something out of a Michel Gondry movie - random stuff strung together to co

Re: [silk] Where to buy an unlocked iPhone?

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Chadha
> Ain't that going to hold only a very short time, given that you're > locked out from the official firmware upgrade path? You could theoretically just keep running the old firmware with the 3rd party apps ecosystem that is flourishing, no? > And of what use a smartphone without applications? Th

Re: [silk] Where to buy an unlocked iPhone?

2008-01-12 Thread Aditya Chadha
> I _am_ in the US. I just don't know where to look. I searched ebay > and found unlocked phones going for somewhere between $550-700. Why not just get a new one, downgrade to 1.1.1 and unlock it? [1] [2] [3] Honestly, I've noticed some instability on my unlocked phone running 1.0.2 but I have n

Re: [silk] Where to buy an unlocked iPhone?

2008-01-11 Thread Aditya Chadha
> I will be traveling to Singapore, Madras (India) and Bangkok RSN. What > would be the best place to buy an unlocked iPhone? A pirated version > of the iPhone is acceptable if it really runs the same OS as a "real" > iPhone. Can't answer your original question, but I heard today that you can buy

Re: [silk] Gmail on the E61 (was New iphone ad)

2007-11-22 Thread Aditya Chadha
On Nov 22, 2007 3:28 AM, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope OpenMoko second hardware edition will be here soon. > I no longer trust mobiles devices with proprietary firmware. PS. The FIC 1973 GTA02 also has closed source/binary GSM firmware, and they're having a lot of trouble getting

Re: [silk] The age of the Superworm

2007-10-09 Thread Aditya Chadha
> Not really (Shockwave Rider it's not). And it's from 20070410, a blast from > the past. 20071004 not 20070410 :-) Cheers, Aditya -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

Re: [silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-10 Thread Aditya Chadha
On 7/10/07, Srini Ramakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OpenMoko and H.323 or SIP - now that's something. Cheeni No WiFi in v1 of the FIC1973 (GTA01), which limits VoIP capabilities... Still a nice phone to hack on. Apparently, the touchscreen is super-high rez - and you 'need to see it to b

[silk] OpenMoko - Thoughts? (was Re: IPhone - Thoughts?)

2007-07-09 Thread Aditya Chadha
Has anyone seen/used one of the FIC 1973 / OpenMoko phones? It sounds like a very viable alternative to the closed apple/att hell. Cheers, Aditya On 7/9/07, VaibhaV Sharma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:36 AM, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: > Unlocking an iphone doesn't get you th

Re: [silk] Art, or what

2007-05-16 Thread Aditya Chadha
There is great difference between what is tolerated nowadays and what was perfectly Ok a few centuries ago. so, what happened? I keep thinking about this -- how did we go from kama sutra -> shiv sainiks beating up couples on Valentine's day for holding hands? -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.c

Re: [silk] India 2.0

2007-05-06 Thread Aditya Chadha
Interestingly, Slideshare is missing from the list in the article. Slideshare isn't India 2.0 though, they're not really developing for the Indian market (which IMHO is still not quite there) and they're partially based in Mountain View... Cheers, Aditya -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

Re: [silk] in the eye of the beholder

2007-04-25 Thread Aditya Chadha
Is there anything that's not up on youtube? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dgLEDdFddk On 4/25/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 2007-04-25 16:26:37 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > to repeat an often repeated anecdote: when the Lumiere brothers > showed their film of a tr

Re: [silk] pearls before swine

2007-04-13 Thread Aditya Chadha
On another list, we had a short discussion last year on the art of busking. Someone pointed out that the set of things that impress jugglers, and the set of things that impress a tipping crowd, are nearly disjoint[0]. A friend of his had discovered that he ate far better by intentionally "messin

Re: [silk] indian budget airlines

2007-04-02 Thread Aditya Chadha
On 4/1/07, Abhijit Menon-Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 2007-04-02 06:09:22 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I still get mail from makemytrip for one booking I made 6 months ago. Oh great. [snip] -- ams, who will avoid makemytrip.com in future. They sold my email address. I still get spam f

Re: [silk] 802.11a on the MBP C2D

2007-02-19 Thread Aditya Chadha
As far as I know the MacBook Pro C2D supports 802.11 a/b/g officially, and draft "n" unofficially. However, my notebook doesn't detect an 802.11a network. Any particular reason for using an 802.11a network, btw? -- Aditya (http://aditya.sublucid.com/)

Re: [silk] Productivity ideas

2006-12-27 Thread Aditya Chadha
I am looking therefore for a solution that will allow me to keep my thoughts together, reducing the time needed to switch tasks while retaining maximal task efficiency. It would be ideal if there was also a way to get the fun back into the tasks without having to allocate time on the calendar to s

[silk] Phlip K. Dick on reality

2006-11-28 Thread Aditya Chadha
Really long, but interesting piece that forms the basis for a lot of his books too. Interesting inspite of the theological color... (stolen from the 37signals blog) http://deoxy.org/pkd_how2build.htm How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later by Philip K. Dick, 1978 First,

[silk] Children as energy source?

2006-09-22 Thread Aditya Chadha
Just saw news of the Clinton Global Conference, and this one paragraph caught my eye: First lady Laura Bush announced a partnership aimed at bringing clean drinking water to communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Called Play Pumps, it involves installing specially designed playground equipment that w

[silk] Waterproof & Yellow Wireless Crack Machine

2006-08-31 Thread Aditya Chadha
I want one of these! [link via Engadget] http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/08/30/defcon2006_janus_project/ "This creative genius has built the ultimate network hacking PC, the "Janus Project," which can focus its eight WiFi cards to break your standard WEP encryption in under five minutes. Beyond tha

Re: [silk] irc forensics

2006-08-09 Thread Aditya Chadha
You should take no such thing. I'm using a dog as a pillow right now, and my cat is dead. What is up with all this death and morbidity? Is silk going through externally induced mass depression? -- ams -- Ferric (http://ferric.net/)

Re: [silk] Vietnam man handles three decades without sleep

2006-08-04 Thread Aditya Chadha
Isn't there someone on silk that was experimenting with producitivity and a varied sleep cycle at some point? (Eugen?) I'd be interested in hearing more about sustaining altered / reduced (<5h / day) sleep cycles... seems like a non-trivial problem to solve. Cheers, Aditya On 8/4/06, Abhishek H

Re: [silk] Geographic spread

2006-08-02 Thread Aditya Chadha
> So. Where is everybody located these days? New York.

Re: [silk] Censorship: here we go again

2006-07-20 Thread Aditya Chadha
Which of these ASFs did you mean? Advanced Streaming Format Alaska Satellite Facility Alabama Shakespeare Festival Applied Science Fiction Atlantic Salmon Federation Air Safety Foundation American-Scandinavian Foundation ? Apache Software Foundation? -- Ferric (http://ferric.net/)

[silk] Eight Indian Startups to Watch

2006-07-13 Thread Aditya Chadha
6 out of 8 still cater to the non-domestic market. I've often wondered how 1billion+ people is a great market for a low overhead startup to be in, granted that these are tech startups and tech penetration is still quite low (Drishtee is interesting from that perspective). But what about non-tech,

[silk] India (Un)shining?

2006-07-07 Thread Aditya Chadha
Wow.  Glowing negativity. Kinda surprising given all the recent positive press. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/opinion/06mishra.html?ex=1309838400&en=63b065e1403c4316&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rssJuly 6, 2006Op-Ed ContributorThe Myth of the New IndiaBy PANKAJ MISHRA LondonINDIA is a roarin

Re: [silk] Global warming and its sceptics

2006-06-06 Thread Aditya Chadha
A long and interesting article about the sceptics of Global Warming: I'm not posting the entire thing - go and read it at the URL. The short version of my response to the sceptics would be to point them at realclimate.org - but I found the following two snippets from the article fascinating, and n

Re: [silk] Why your Boss is overpaid ?

2006-05-26 Thread Aditya Chadha
Actually I don't know how much my CEO (Bruce Chizen, Adobe) makes. Is this information supposed to be public for public companies in the US? I've seen CEO salary surveys on the web but I don't know how they obtain the figures. Yep - 10K filings include executive comp. A mere 1.997MM in your CEO'

Re: [silk] Living the slow life

2006-02-27 Thread Aditya Chadha
> Great idea. I know there are a handful of Silklisters here in the Bay > Area. What say, you guys? I'm in for the Bay Area meet. It's been a while since I visited the warmer climes, anyway. -- Ferric (http://ferric.net/)