Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com writes:
Gautam John likes to leave fish fry out overnight to get a nice
souring taste in...
Works well with a nice oily fish like mackerel. Don't skimp on the oil
for frying either. The fish seems to become softer and more delicate.
--
Alok
Corry's Law:
Rajesh Mehar rajeshme...@gmail.com writes:
I would second (or is it third) the Amrut range. They have 3 variants.
So during the tour of their distillery, I discovered that they actually
have some 26 variants. It's hard to find anything other than Fusion in
the usual booze shops though. The PR
Mahesh Murthy mahesh.mur...@gmail.com writes:
Not sure why the crowd here seems to be against the idea, but I find Sula's
wines as good as any I've had anywhere else.
I think I've mentioned it before but Grover's have a wine tasting tour
and you can buy the wine there. The wine from there
Bharat Shetty bharat.she...@gmail.com writes:
Anyone on this lists borrow books regularly from libraries in
Bengaluru ?
I still frequent Eloor (Infantry Road). They are a bit old-school and
not as easy as Just Books but if you like that sort of thing, it's a
good nostalgia fix.
--
Alok
This
Hey Rajesh. Small world. Do share your gourmand adventures. There are a
fair number here.
--
Alok
Mix's Law:
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building.
There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.
Charles Haynes wrote:
Anyway, I found Indian wines (including Grover's La Reserve, Reveilo,
and top end Sula) of five years ago basically undrinkable
Grover's do a wine tasting session at their vineyards near
Bangalore. Here you get to taste their wine as it was intended and it is
world-class.
Deepak Misra wrote:
As might have been obvious to all except me, I see now that the mails
intended for Deepa have gone to silklist.
This is particularly a problem with silk-list as it uses
mail-followup-to in a non-standard way. I mitigate it setting
broken-reply-to in the group parameters in
Charles Haynes wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Ingrid ingrid.srin...@gmail.com wrote:
In the situation we currently find ourselves in as a species, it might be
nomadic values - the
Apropos the time period, I recently read Jed Ruberfeld's Interpretation
of Murder. A middling psycho-thiller but he has lovingly described
fin-de-siècle New York.
--
Alok
In general, if you think something isn't in Perl, try it out, because it
usually is. :-)
-- Larry Wall in
A friend of mine is organising a PyCon in Bangalore during the last week
of September. More details are available at the conference site [1].
#pyconindia is the hashtag, if you would like to talk about it.
Footnotes:
[1] http://in.pycon.org/2009
--
Alok
You are not dead yet. But watch for
Charles Haynes wrote:
Pure capsaicin oleoresin is probably manufactured in some foreign country
Probably? Why do you think OC is not manufactured in India?
I thought there was a plant in Kerala.
--
Alok
Comedy, like Medicine, was never meant to be practiced by the general public.
lukhman_khan wrote:
Can anyone tell me where i can find the whole TINTIN and Asterix set?
(on the net)
To order or to mutter download /mutter ? Easy enough with the
former, I've seen it on Rediff Shopping and indiaplaza for about 10k for
Asterix and 6k (iirc) for Tintin. The latter is just a
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Wasn't able to find the specific article, but based on your post I did some
searching and found this instead -
I did search as well but the book that I must have read it from is
either not online or is so poorly structured that even Google can't find
it.
However, I
There was a fascinating account that I read between the arms race
between giraffes and the acacia trees that they feed on. One of the
finest examples to illustrate the complexity and sophistication of the
plant kingdom. I do not have a link to share but perhaps one of you do ?
--
Alok
The
Ravi Bellur wrote:
When do they shut down the alcohol purveyors?
I've seen notices at two of my regular haunts that they will be closed
_all_ of the 16th and 17th. YMMV, of course. Happily, booze doesn't
expire.
--
Alok
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to
Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:
BSNL's EVDO data cards don't have roaming and are limited to 144
kbps.
The speed is dependant on the exchange. 144 kbps is the limit for all
CDMA 1x (called 1xRTT, I think) exchanges. For EVDO capable exchanges,
I've seen speeds upto 1 Mbps. I have not been able to
Pranesh Prakash wrote:
The ZTE card repeatedly crashed my system with the Linux
2.6.27-11-generic kernel / Ubuntu 8.10. YMIsV, I suppose.
The black one ? AC800 ? I'm surprised that it crashes your system. It
only needs usb-serial to work. I'm on Debian sid myself.
--
Alok
One planet is all
Amitha Singh wrote:
Register again at Mumbai or vote through post? Is the latter option
even available for non-armed-services folks in India?
AFAIK (I did try this when I was in college), postal ballots are only
allowed for the armed forces or people of 'official duty'. Say an
official is sent
Nikhil Mehra wrote:
Some of you know me from that other venerable list called Satin,
Or from the venerable centre of excellence in sunny Nagarabhavi :)
--
Alok
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently
than they do.
-- Turgenev
Charles Haynes wrote:
I'm hoping for new cool stuff. How does one strike a balance?
Ah. Point taken. Personally, I've never bothered about whether cool stuff
is new or not before posting it. Cool stuff stands on its own,
imho. Checking list archives to see if it has been posted before is
From today's Miscellanea [1]: Unskilled and Unaware of It: How
Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated
Self-Assessments [2]
Abstract:
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in
many social and intellectual domains. The authors
Charles Haynes wrote:
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:17 AM, Alok G. Singh alephn...@hcoop.net wrote:
I'm surprised no one has forwarded this to me already with a snarky
comment ...
We knew you wouldn't get it.
Heh. I did get the snarkiness of your comment though. Don't try so hard
next time
Ingrid wrote:
Try Gideon Levy in Haaretz: http://makom.haaretz.com/face2face.asp
Thank you. I had forgotten to mention that I was looking for English
editorials but this is just fine :)
--
Alok
I don't know what Descartes' got,
But booze can do what Kant cannot.
-- Mike Cross
Wow is right. Are there are similar editors in Israel whose editorials are
available ?
--
Alok
Old Grandad is dead but his spirits live on.
Rishab Ghosh wrote:
or even a palestinian one.
Sure. I am just looking for similarly intellectually honest editorials
from Israel.
--
Alok
About the only thing on a farm that has an easy time is the dog.
ss wrote:
With respect you have no idea how Pakistanis have refused to respond
to offers of trade and the idea of giving each other a most favored
nation status for trade.
Nations still do the MFN-dance ? I thought that went out of fashion with
the y2k bug. Didn't make particular sense
ss wrote:
Try Wiki. It might make sense
Wikipedia does. Sometimes. Not in this particular case though. Even the
article you cite says that it is a misnomer. I did not intend to debate
the MFN status and its status in the current global economy, I was just
trying to understand your original
Giancarlo Livraghi wrote:
The real problem is that most of those movies are quite boring - and
the imagination is unimaginative.
I agree. Many /good/ movies play fast and loose with the laws of physics
as we know them.
--
Alok
BOFH excuse #112:
The monitor is plugged into the serial port
Gautam John wrote:
... there is a scene where the bus jumps over a break in a bridge
[2]. My question is what speed would the bomb/speedometer register
when the bus is airborne? I'm thinking the bomb should have gone off
when in the air...
AFAIK, the speedometer relies on wheel/transmission
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote:
P.S. I've been planning on flashing my WRT54G for a while now - to run
DNS and other cool stuff
Do so without delay. I also didn't do it for a long time assuming that
it would take some time to setup. But with Tomato [1], the entire
process of downloading, flashing
Is there any readily available tiles in some wkb format ? I see that
Mapunity have some decent maps for Bangalore, but their website doesn't
say too much about their GIS data.
I took look at OpenStreetMap and it seems low on content. Also,
extracting the tile data for Bangalore look a little
On 22 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gah. Am I the only one who's got his ssh screen session garbled?
rxvt-unicode [1]. Should be packaged already for your distro.
Footnotes:
[1] http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode
--
Alok
Breadth-first search is the bulldozer of science.
On 17 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
his arguing that all this is solely caused by groupthink of the sort
that drives inner city kids into gangs is missing the forest for the
trees.
I don't think he was arguing that this was _solely_ groupthink. Or were
you saying that groupthink has no
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM, ss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UHT yogurt is sterilized. Natural yogurt should have culture in it.
On 6 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been wondering about this. Is the milk UHT sterilised or the
yoghurt?
I've been wondering about this too. It is
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Alok G. Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been wondering about this too. It is possible to start a culture
with store-bought, packaged yogurt but it takes about 3 cycles before
The Nestle Probiotic one or the regular one?
Either. I had some half-baked
On 7 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
most yoghurt sold in western supermarkets is sterilised. obviously, it
became yoghurt because there was a live culture, and was _then_
sterilised.
Is there a difference between sterilised and pasteurised ?
--
Alok
Yawd [noun, Bostonese]: the
Judging by the registration, the witty guy is from Dharward. Makes sense.
--
Alok
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
-- Oscar Wilde
For some reason I need to find such a book. English preferred, but a
regional language would do in a pinch.
Please do feel free to forward to anyone whom you think would be able to
help.
TIA.
--
Alok
A rolling stone gathers momentum.
On 6 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hope this helps...
Thanks everyone. I found ACHWorks [1] and they seem to have a SOAP
interface that seems to do what we need.
Footnotes:
[1] http://ww2.achworks.com/
--
Alok
All his life he has looked away... to the horizon, to the sky,
to the
On 5 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want to learn about ACH:
I was hoping for a little more detail. I did spend about half a day
reading about CHIPS [1] and how it works but it was tenuous on actual
software interfaces to it.
Footnotes:
[1] http://chips.org/about/pages/000702.php
On 5 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think standard banking practice is to do this via standing
instructions ...
Yes, one off transfers can be done by NEFT/RTGS too. AIUI, NEFT does
involve human interaction and can take upto 7 business days for
international transfers.
I am looking for
On 5 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are asking this question for personal use, then
www.ingdirect.com does a pretty good job.
No, it's not for personal use. Business A (me) needs to be able to
disburse funds to N customer checking/savings accounts.
--
Alok
f u cn rd ths, u cn gt
On 5 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You want to learn about ACH:
I was hoping for a little more detail.
You might have to supply more detail about what you're trying to do
exactly. :)
I (as a business entity) want to send funds to N personal checking
accounts. The N accounts are not
On 5 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Again, if you want HBCI/FinTS, check out aqbanking.
While this is something like what I was looking for, the territory is
not of much use to me at this time. Do you know of an equivalent service
for the US ?
--
Alok
BOFH excuse #153:
Big to little
Hello,
This is a sort of work-related question but I don't have much experience
in banking interfaces, and I don't know any one who does.
I need to be able to transfer money from my account to a number of
accounts (which change from time to time) automatically. While there are
several products
On 1 Sep 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
resurgent Hinduism had almost completed defeating it ideologically,
How so ? Are you referring to the debates ?
--
Alok
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
On 26 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, who in silk-list is going to buy it and post a review?
There is an Indian distributor[1]. I have placed an order and they were
quite cool about payment. They don't accept credit cards but they have
offered to send me the phone as soon as they have it
On 23 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At this point in time, US looks to be the cheapest place to buy a
Thinkpad.
This agrees with my research. It seems backwards considering the laptops
are actually manufactured in SE Asia.
--
Alok
Flugg's Law:
When you need to knock on wood is
On 8 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://broadband.mpi-sws.de/transparency/bttest.php?busy=1ip=74.64.19.240measure=yesport=6881down=yesup=yesport2=4711tcp=yesduration=20;
I have not been able to test it yet.
Did anyone try this ? Anything interesting ?
--
Alok
Boy! Eucalyptus!
I want a Thinkpad X300. However, the difference between the INR and USD
price is substantial enough (about 20k) to be worth the effort of
getting one from the US.
Would any of the jet-set silklisters who are coming down to BLR be
willing to lug one for me ? I would of course, express my
On 2 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Though I needed a sudo wvdial rather than a plain wvdial to get it to connect.
Add yourself to the dialout (might also be called dip) group.
$ sudo adduser `whoami` dialout
--
Alok
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a
On 22 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
meeting at Shiok 7pm on Monday?
I'm in. But not for dinner though.
--
Alok
I'm so broke I can't even pay attention.
On 16 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Was that Gerry Machado and band with the tongue-in-cheek name Gamgamma's
Pleasure?
I don't remember the name, but /Gangamma's Pleasure/ does ring a bell.
A good jazz band.
That it was (imho, at least).
--
Alok
Positive, adj.:
Mistaken at
I'm looking for laptop recommendations. I need mobility, not a desktop
replacement. I will be running Debian GNU/Linux (sid) on it. I don't
need an optical drive or those dinky SD card readers. A nice high
resolution screen (XGA and above) would be nice. Wi-fi is a
given. Priorities are:
1. A
On 15 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why bother with refunds hassle when one can get a laptop sans OS (free
dos actually)
Not this model apparently (7669-A24). At least, that's what the reseller
tells me. An eloquent shrug when I asked him if there was any way of not
installing an OS at
On 10 Apr 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't remember the name of the place.
Pinch of Jazz ? On the 5th floor ?
The food was not really Mexican or even Tex-Mex (think chappatis with
rajma),
I remember the cuisine being billed as Cajun. I agree with the not very
good part though.
but
On 13 Feb 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have never had the time to clean out the entries though - there's a
tool in GNOME these days that allows that.
GConf Cleaner[1] ?
Footnotes:
[1] http://code.google.com/p/gconf-cleaner/
--
Alok
Everything that can be invented has been invented.
On 29 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
READ CAREFULLY.
Have many people commented on your disclaimer ? Any responses from the
composers of those fine corporate disclaimers which their fine MUAs
quote /ad nauseam/ ?
--
Alok
FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #15
A: The
On 16 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which two? I think that is quite important to know.
Light and fresh tasting. I suppose it could be fruity as well, if you
squint a bit. Quite a nice colour too.
--
Alok
Established technology tends to persist in the face of new technology.
On 16 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For me - light, fruity and well, fresh tasting whites or rosés
The Ivy Zinfandel scores 2 out of 3 on that scale.
--
Alok
I don't wanna argue, and I don't wanna fight,
But there will definitely be a party tonight...
On 6 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you are driving down to Cochin, take the scenic route through
Gundulpet, Bathery, and Calicut. It's quite a lovely drive.
1) Food
When in Calicut, go for lunch to the Paragon hotel (ask anyone, it is
a small town). Ask for 'meen pollichathu'. Eat it
On 7 Nov 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I disagree. Aikura is the local name for seer. Ask for kari-meen or
pearl spot. That's the one to be had as 'meen pollichathu'.
Balderdash. Karimeen is generally associated with the backwaters and
Calicut isn't. Malabar and Moplah cuisine doesn't have
On 18 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Another interesting piece to the picture:
http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20718
LL's take [1] on the study.
Footnotes:
[1] http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005046.html
--
Alok
In the misfortune of our friends we find
On 9 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Huchamma - Mad woman
I don't know if it applies to female names (I don't see why not), but
'Huchche' refers to Shiva and not to vanilla lunacy.
--
Alok
BOFH excuse #429:
Temporal anomaly
On 19 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
it is really great to see the traffic police managing the resources
so well.
I have always had this idea that the traffic police are in many ways
similar to sysadmins. One common trait is that no one appreciates them
when things are going right, but
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/#1265
On the front page of the site a hidden iframe has indeed been
inserted and it loads a URL from another website.
This file in turn uses three iframes to load three other URLs.
And so on.
This is the first I've heard of an Indian
On 29 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is only one man sized wheels in India in my humble and
rarely expressed opinion, and that's an Enfield Bullet.
There's also the Yezdi.
In particular, the 350 'Roadking'. You also do not need to honk to get
people out of the way.
--
Alok
On 30 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wasn't the RoadKing a 250?
It was. My bad.
--
Alok
A man is like a rusty wheel on a rusty cart,
He sings his song as he rattles along and then he falls apart.
-- Richard Thompson
On 3 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are many ways to minimize desktop suckage, Ubuntu 7.04 with
nVidia hardware acceleration, rdesktop, VMWare server (free as in
beer)
You can replace VMWare with qemu + kqemu (-kernel-kqemu, ftw). As easy
to configure as VMWare (minus the
On 2 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This isn't the 15th century. You can't go around the world and just
plant flags and say 'We're claiming this territory',
No flag, no country.
-- Eddie Izzard, Dress to kill
--
Alok
Remember -- only 10% of anything can be in the top 10%.
On 11 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could you elaborate?
I presume camera adds design complexity and price. They wanted the
basic design out of the door first, and maybe there will be enhanced
models after.
I suppose that this was the 'business' reason why the camera wasn't
included,
On 10 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No WiFi in v1 of the FIC1973 (GTA01), which limits VoIP
capabilities
And no camera either. Like the iPhone, I'll wait for version 2.
The camera is not going to be present in GTA02 either. Wi-Fi will,
though. Harald Welte said that it was a concious
On 28 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't IRC. For some reason the server operators can't tell the
difference between Tor exit nodes and middlemen.
Explain? Is your IP being blocked by the IRC ops due to your being a
Tor exit node?
Freenode has some less than optimal ways of dealing
On 27 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So why does the word blog evoke such feelings of hate?
I guess it is the same as when management speaks about 'leveraging'
and 'competencies'. It's not the word, per se, but the person who is
using them. And it isn't the right thing to do either. I tuned
On 13 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.eurekaforbes.com/aboutus/popup.htm
How does this differ from say,
http://www.eurekaforbes.com/products/product.php?catid=35prid=209
From what I understood, both of them, properly used, would qualify as
'potable water'. I don't mean that the
On 1 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are quite a few Indians who write pretty good English.
Judging by the comments on /., digg and others, there are precious few
of them worldwide. (People using English 'well' worldwide, not Indians
who have above average facility with the language).
On 29 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I came across Ian McDonald's _River of Gods_ [1] at a remote
Northern California bookstore yesterday. Judging this book by its
cover, it is supposed to be a near future sci-fi book set in India.
There's also _Wetware_ [1] by Rudy Rucker, a part of
On 21 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My house, Wed May 16, food at 8pm, show up any time after
7pm. RSVP for directions so I can get an idea of how much food I
should send Udhay out for.
I would like to know where I can find a time travel device,
thanks. ;)
Ok ok. Wed the 23rd.
I
On 4 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought
those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people
use cybercafes)
I thought cybercafes (at least in urban centres) to be a dying
breed. A lot more laptops to be seen on
On 2 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I am price conscious about a trip I usually choose the cheapest
on cleartrip.com - they don't seem to have an extra fee for booking.
I like the general layout of cleartrip.com. The price you see when you
make the selection of flights is the amount
On 16 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/freebase_will_p_1.html
Heard on #emacs:
[12:49] jordanb Advantage to folksonomies: Idiots can put them
together. Disadvantages: an idiot put together your
taxonomy.
--
Alok
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:32:23AM -0800, Thaths wrote:
So, am I left alone in an echo-y silklist chanber listening to the
sound of one hand clapping?
On 27 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Happens to me all the time.
I recently found that the phenomenon even has a name: being
Warnocked
On 12 Feb 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW if anyone on silklist bangalore would like to go to this talk
and hasn't gotten a reply to your invitation let me know.
I would. I sent in the registration form but I just got the auto-reply
again, so I'm not sure if I did something wrong.
--
Alok
On 28 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Should I stay away from VSNL? Although most machines at home run
Ubuntu, my kids' desktop still runs WinDoze. Your suggestions
greatly appreciated.
I would recommend the unlimited 256 kbps plan from Airtel. I've had a
really good experience with it
On 10 Nov 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In comparison, what are our cops taught?
The state police training curriculum varies a lot despite following
guidelines framed by the Police Training Academy. I do know that the
Bangalore police have sensitivity training and some sessions on crowd
On 26 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you will be able to attend this year's FoU camp, speak up now.
FoU ?
--
Alok
I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal,
but that's my general style.-- Ian Jackson
On 8 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that you still have your old VSNL address ... :) I wonder how
many still use them.
Is that some how worse than airtelbroadband.in?
No.
ISP provided email addresses are IMO never the best choice for at
least two reasons - one, most ISPs are
On 7 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
like genetic populations, they're doomed by the mathematics of
random walks to circling about their summum bonum* (should by chance
any achieve it, it's only a transitory condition).
An argument could be made that the local optima themselves exhibit
On 6 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Welcome to Silk Alok - it's been a long time.
I see that you still have your old VSNL address ... :) I wonder how
many still use them.
--
Alok
A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions
that make it fail.
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