Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2019-12-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
The books I liked are: * Bottle of Lies (Katherine Eban) - from having a very scattered awareness of the underbelly of generics, the book was useful to understand what goes on. * Coming Out As Dalit (Yashica Dutt) - aside from the topical nature of the memoir, the writing/prose has strength which

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

2015-12-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
ing-mortal> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23596977-the-colonel-who-would-not-repent> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27274955-for-king-and-another-country> <https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22535415-john-le-carr> -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay>

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2014

2014-12-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
---the-story-of-a-rocking-generation and https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18118195-illicit-worlds-of-indian-dance -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

2014-11-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
is an interesting read as well. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay

Re: [silk] Books and libraries

2014-11-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Foreign Eyes I was surprised by the last one. For some reason I hadn't expected it to be as engaging as it turned out. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://about.me/sankarshan.mukhopadhyay

Re: [silk] Employee-Employee agreement for open source activity

2014-06-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Biju Chacko biju.cha...@gmail.com wrote: A colleague wants to start an open source project and wanted to make sure our employer is ok with it. What does the phrase is ok with it mean in this context? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] have your reading habits changed?

2014-01-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
of bookshelf space) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] have your reading habits changed?

2013-12-31 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
than in the preceding 3 months. The availability of the Kindle app and my (converted to) mobi collection has indeed contributed to being able to read more. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Fwd: Wine tasting is bullshit. Here's why.

2013-12-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
it everywhere. Including the TV shows on cars etc -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Book of 2013

2013-11-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Shreshta (Aleph) ^^^ All 3 are great reads. And, the publishing value/aesthetics of the printed texts are much improved than how it has been since the past couple of years. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] MOOCs, Thrun, Udacity

2013-11-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
they reach a stage where learning routes become personalized. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Nandaja Varma - debian contributor / linux foundation awardee

2013-09-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Malayalam Computing) list and say hi :) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] [intro] Hello people of silklist!

2013-09-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
to download) at noto.googlecode.com A quick tangent - you don't have a font off the Noto family for Bengali, do you? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Valerie Wagoner: Tapping the missed-call trade

2013-08-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
about them? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises - NYTimes.com

2013-04-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
to bet him/herself against the (s)he opposed the anti-porn bill and betrayed our women tirade. Our current crop of elected representatives are not made of that stuff. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] bangalore treats

2013-04-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
a watery brew, with two sachets of sugar and some creamer There's that. And then there's the unrelenting attempt to sell their coffee kits etc. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Why don't women write or reply more on Silk?

2013-01-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: A film about Alatriste? Sensational! but what about more Indian bookstores storing Alatriste first? That's asking too much. But then the much vaunted Flipkart inventory will also fail to show any. -- sankarshan

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
by then these are borderline miniscule -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Chennai Silk meet this week?

2013-01-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: v. The Bay Lead - Bong food Except for some random stuff in the seafood section, there's nothing pretty much Bong on the menu. How's that for oddity ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Chinese martial arts movies

2012-12-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
with the sequel though) because of the effort he'd have put himself through to get the Wing Chun moves as documented. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Mumbai Silk List Meet - 16th December

2012-12-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: (I was wrongly referring to it as Salt Water Grill) If that is any indication then you should organize one at Pune ;) Have fun at the meet. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Chinese martial arts movies

2012-09-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Venkatesh Hariharan ven...@gmail.com wrote: To that list of movies, add The Banquet a stylishly mounted Chinese adaptation of Hamlet. Is this the same movie which is also The Legend of the Black Scorpion ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https://twitter.com

Re: [silk] The Invisible Bank: How Kenya Has Beaten the World in Mobile Money

2012-07-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
in an off-the-regulation manner - folks topping up cash cards of a person at a location in order to pass actual cash across (after deduction of a service charge). There was large coverage in the weekly/fortnightly magazines on this around a year or two back. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay https

Re: [silk] On Facebook? So Are Your Future In-laws

2012-06-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
incident when photographs were asked to be taken off public/social networks citing in-laws. This isn't new is it ? We have always liked to have more input sources for our gossip - real or, pretend, fodder. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/ https://twitter.com

Re: [silk] bih jolokia is bhut jolokia, right?

2012-06-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
anybody of Assamese origin use the term bih jolokia. Anyone? Probably a variant/form of the word for poison. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/ https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)

2012-02-26 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
and display threads. That pattern makes it easy to follow various conversation forks. If the Gmail WebUI does this differently, I'd be interested in understanding how it does so, and reading up on it. For example, the Y! and Zimbra WebUIs tend to mimic the offline client threading model. -- sankarshan

Re: [silk] Netiquette / Top posting (was: Re: aqvavit)

2012-02-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
. And, although I use the WebUI (and, the app), to avoid chunks of email folders all over disks, it still is an ugly path to a conversation. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Airtel 3G

2012-02-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
the handset to use 2G networks when not using data. Airtel couldn't care less about improving things as far as I can figure out. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Fwd: [ISN] Certified Ethical Hacker Ankit Fadia Hacked by TGH

2012-01-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
engineering/research institutes where he organizes talks/coaching etc. Reputation is relative and fickle. And, those making serious money have always ignored the first group. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2011

2011-11-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
the Christmas/New Year's holidays? Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro (although this seems to have been published during 2010) Opium War by Julia Lovell -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] an-NRI again

2011-10-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Bhagat chimes in as well http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/2011/10/24/happy-diwali-and-why-i-am-still-here/ -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] My Airtel Saga

2011-10-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
officers/offices ? Most ISPs have, at one time or the other, done this, Airtel reasonably more in recent times. The folks at the Nodal offices are generally patient enough to give a hearing and provide a resolution. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Why I love Hindi film music from the 50s and 60s.

2011-08-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
, is flawed. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] thunderbird conversation view

2011-07-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
than the Classic one. I'll probably stick with it for a while even though the grouping of Inbox(es) and Sent Items is something that I still need to get used to. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] thunderbird conversation view

2011-07-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Aadisht Khanna li...@aadisht.net wrote: It also seemed to kill the right-click context menu items for move/ copy to folder - dealbreaker for me. That's interesting. I can select emails and right click to move/copy them into desired locations. -- sankarshan

Re: [silk] thunderbird conversation view

2011-07-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] samsung 8.9 tablet

2011-07-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
works as a phone if you have that model.  -Tim The Androids (handset and tablet) don't handle Indic at all. And for me that's a good point when considering an Android Tablet or, iPad. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

2011-06-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
. The book picks up specific occupations and, not too diverse at that, and thereafter provides some narrative to the pleasures and sorrows part. Worth a read if you pick it up from somewhere. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] What's on your bucket list?

2011-01-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: Here, something to use as your mobile phone ring tone till I get there: http://madhumenon.posterous.com/madman-evil-laugh For those who are lazy, can we receive the same as an attachment offlist ? ;) -- sankarshan

Re: [silk] server hosting in india

2011-01-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
list ;) or, use their VPS within the limits imposed. That is, if the said limits can actually be attained. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Silk meet in Kolkata?

2011-01-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
Flame something. What's that ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Book recommendations

2011-01-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
to read a reasonably rich and complex novel. The caveat is that since I've read the Bengali and, other works from Bankim, I'd probably be prejudiced :) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Kindle readers?

2010-12-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
is interesting. Given certain limitations of the devices and, availability of content, I'd be interested in knowing who, after the purchase of a similar device, is shunning physical books completely :) -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: The time I ate it, it tasted like cardboard. So cardboard isn't one of the strangest things you've eaten ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Kindle your children?

2010-10-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
period during which the book disappears off the bookshelf/collection of the person lending. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Kindle your children?

2010-10-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
- http://www.gadget.com/2010/10/24/just-like-nook-kindle-will-have-lending-features/ Kindle would start this 'soon'. Nook already does that. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Techno-literacy and its implications

2010-09-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
or, stylized way of using English (or, any other language for that matter) as opposed to generalists who may want to keep things to a different tack. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: Invest in automating the installation. Have someone figure out how things like cfengine could be used to do automated installations. If the desktops and laptops your company is using are diverse, expect more troubles. Uniformity

Re: [silk] Migrating an organization to FLOSS

2009-01-20 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: So I've been using Ubuntu on my machine at work and the team I manage all use Ubuntu - the rest of the organization seems to wonder why I never have virus problems and have seen that the basics an office computer requires,

Re: [silk] Lyrics for song by Avial

2008-11-25 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
Biju Chacko wrote: I've heard them a few times, they're not bad. I didn't know about this gig though -- and I usually hear about them. Now you know.

Re: [silk] last-minute itinerary for southie lens workout

2008-11-25 Thread sankarshan . mukhopadhyay
ashok _ wrote: There is no national identity card system.. which probably makes having a dynamic voter registry impossible. They have been working on getting one for a while now. Turns out that one of the stumbling blocks is the need to have the name in native language and the searching for

Re: [silk] WiFi in Chennai

2008-04-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gautam John wrote: | I have a tata indicom usb thingy but I haven't been able to get it to | play nice with Ubuntu. there was an article in the LFY ~2 issues back around getting it to work on debian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [silk] One Laptop Per Hamster

2008-04-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: | I find the keyboard annoyingly small -- otherwise it's really nice. | It's the first linux box that I could get my wife to use on an | extended basis. the keyboard is a pain - i nearly got RSI-ed from extended usage of it. and,

Re: [silk] Calorie Count

2008-04-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Over the next five years, the city says, the labelling | will help prevent 1,30,000 New Yorkers from becoming | obese and 30,000 from developing diabetes. reminds one about the small entry in

Re: [silk] Very Novel Open Source Project

2008-04-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vinayak Hegde wrote: | Open source 3D printer copies itself | http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/2F5C3C5D68A380EDCC257423006E71CD 'tis crazy i tell you ... what is the world coming to ? :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7

Re: [silk] Fwd: [schooltool] Janastu and SchoolTool

2008-04-15 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 va wrote: | After getting Suresh's mail (told him am writing to the list) I | checked the archives of Silk where one thread says the person's real | name is Dinesh BUT the description (glasses, ponytail) matches that of | a person who called himself

Re: [silk] open source in government

2008-04-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valsa Williams wrote: | This distro is Debian based/GNU, and has Open Office in local languages and | other apps. They have done upstream contribution to Open Office.org and | claim to have even contributed to Debian kernel. it would interesting

Re: [silk] Ugadi

2008-04-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: | Where can I get a copy? The link to Amazon doesn't work, but in any | case Amazon also seems like a round about way of acquiring a book on | Tamil Nadu when I am in India.

Re: [silk] An interesting meeting

2008-04-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Valsa Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had the pleasure of travelling with Shubha Mudgal, the musician. We spoke of many challenges faced my musicians. The lack of an organised guild that takes care of artists and keeps the spirit of Indian music alive.

Re: [silk] romance and reading

2008-04-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rishab Aiyer Ghosh wrote: | i hardly ever re-read, despite building up a huge collection. i find i | almost always end up remembering the book quite well once i'm back in | it. some times that is the point of re-reading, of course. the added

Re: [silk] romance and reading

2008-04-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: | http://cheeni.net/books/ i'd be very interested to know as to how you got that going. it is time that i worked on arranging my bookshelf -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using

Re: [silk] romance and reading

2008-04-03 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Yet, there are some books that are firm family favourites...indeed, | that most people have read...oh, I forgot, they are called | best-sellers...and these change quite drastically from generation to | generation. I can't

Re: [silk] ... or I will kill you

2008-04-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Danese Cooper wrote: | When I worked for Apple we did a product with French engineers and a | Japanese customer (NTT). We had these daily video conferences with the | customer, and they used to say things like, If you don't fix this | (completely

[silk] Does there exist any public study on private healthcare in India ?

2008-03-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On and off i read in papers or see on TV some cursory conversations about private healthcare - does there exist any study (preferably public) on what the state of the private healthcare system is ? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [silk] introduction

2008-02-25 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rene wrote: | Since last September I'm in Bangalore, working with janastu.org and | Dinesh from janastu pointed me to the list. Currently staying in | Trivandrum I hope to have some nice fruitful discussions on the list. If you are the same Rene

Re: [silk] Got this from the IIM-A egroup

2008-02-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | ...and this made me feel pretty good, too! There was no info about who | wrote this article though...Jace, could you enlighten me, you young, | intelligent and dynamic conqueror? Jace plans to wow everyone with this at freed.in

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

2008-02-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkat Mangudi wrote: | Does one have to use Agile methods to use this tool? AFAIK, Agile PM | methods are a whole new world... Umm... not really is what I hear. I say I hear since I had nudged a friend (who doesn't do Agile) to use Mingle and have

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-02-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: | Er...what's a 5-subject notebook? Possibly that kind of notebook that BILT retails through various outlets - - has plastic or like material separator for subjects and has pages which remind me of the arithmetic copies of my

Re: [silk] long

2008-02-07 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: | BTW, in Malayalam, cc sugar is usually called pan[cha]sara. I've only | heard the charkarai form used for gur or perhaps palm sugar. Is there | a similar distinction in Tamil? Speaking of which,

Re: [silk] New Lurker Introduction

2008-01-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: | I'm Sirtaj Singh Kang, I live in New Delhi where I write software, Wah Taj !! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkat Mangudi wrote: | What do you drive? I will add you to the list of BMTC and other BPO | vehicles which drive me insane in Bangalore. :-) The autos and of course the stray cows - why don't they drive you insane ? Now I recall that bang

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkat Mangudi wrote: | When was this? Is it still there, would you know? Unless it has been replaced by the ghoulish one that depicts the gross remains from a traffic accident, it should be there - I saw it over a year back. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [silk] Introduction

2008-01-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashok Krish wrote: | But I find the 50 rupee fine on bovines interesting. Do they eat the | receipts? The more interesting question is that given that 50 INR is for stray cows - who ends up paying ? ~sankarshan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[silk] Social network and then some ...

2008-01-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Was reading http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=34 and a conversation throwback morphed itself into a question as to how much research has actually gone inside the social aspect of a social network. For example, sites like Flickr etc lend themselves well

Re: [silk] Will India Become the New Vanguard of the Open Source Movement?

2008-01-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gautam John wrote: | http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/india/article.cfm?articleid=4250# Open source is a relatively new concept in India, says Hariharan of the Open Source Foundation /me glares at Venky -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: [silk] Will India Become the New Vanguard of the Open Source Movement?

2008-01-11 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: | Though, that's the old style of open source. I guess if you hire people and pay them to work on open source, release open source, it just might work far better. Curiously similar to the conversation one was having at

Re: [silk] Photos of first OLPC pilot in India

2008-01-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valsa Williams wrote: | *Talk about strange bedfellows, but it would be a PR win for MSFT. | However -- how could they run Windows on an XO without a full BIOS? | Mr. Negroponte would have to back off from having a fully open source | BIOS to make

Re: [silk] Today's ET poll on Free Software

2007-12-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: Since there are many FOSS enthusiasts on this mailing list, let me take the liberty of pointing out that today's Economic Times has an online poll that asks, Should India support free software to take PC penetration to

Re: [silk] Today's ET poll on Free Software

2007-12-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ashok _ wrote: You would still need to buy a Windows license to run that build of OpenOffice when you can run it for free on a Linux distro :) What happens when there is a preloaded Windows at a pittance (and official at that) ? Also

Re: [silk] Today's ET poll on Free Software

2007-12-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Valsa Williams wrote: Besides just the free software, awareness campaigns should be loud and pervasive. I just got a new laptop with Ubuntu 7.10. ISPs like Tata Indicom Reliance still do not support Linux openly. Their sales guys do not even

Re: [silk] Today's ET poll on Free Software

2007-12-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Binand Sethumadhavan wrote: Presumably by reducing the cost associated with a reasonably-featured PC, so that more and more people can afford one (or several). The prices for a XP preloaded desktop from an Indian OEM is not much different from a

Re: [silk] Today's ET poll on Free Software

2007-12-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkat Mangudi wrote: Just *boot* it out and replace with Ubuntu. It is not just the cost of the OS. The other apps add up. What people don't understand that a linux OS does not just replace Windows, but also Office, AntiVirus, Firewall, Outlook,

Re: [silk] FoU Camp V3 Pictures

2007-12-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramakrishna Reddy wrote: /Me too.can't view the pics. I guess , vinit has made it a private set. BTW is there a Silklist group on flickr, all the tagged pics can be grouped there. Are you sure about that Group name ? A cursory search does

Re: [silk] Free software made mandatory (In Kerala)

2007-09-19 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: Venky (Hariharan) would be able to comment more on this, but when I was in Red Hat I remember working on a proposed curriculum that was neutral. It had items like How to use a Word Processor rather than How to use MS Word or

Re: [silk] Moto Q

2007-09-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shiv sastry wrote: I wanted, apart from a phone, the ability to play MP3s, a camera and an ability to surf the net. I am against a stylus equipped device - having given up on a Palm 505 many years ago for that reason. What stops more models

Re: [silk] Seeking man-sized wheels

2007-08-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: Well, if Tata does buy Land Rover maybe we'll start seeing them in the Indian market. Given the awesome situation in Pune, I shudder at the mention of the 1L car and this rumination from you would be the stuff of my nightmares

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: You do realise that joining this list is a counterproductive step for your stated goal of being ignored by the whole world (before taking over that is). My recommendation would be to disconnect your internet connection, don

Re: [silk] Another n00b

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: Why not? I've been working for a long time now but I still haven't gotten around to growing up. Hear hear ... - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard

Re: [silk] YAII

2007-08-22 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: PS: As a matter of mailing list courtesy, it's a good thing to trim off text from older mails that is not relevant to your post. there you go, done :) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never

Re: [silk] online gift shop

2007-08-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 savita rao wrote: I've ordered from indiaplaza.in a couple of times, and it's worked well. I have been trying out indiaplaza for a while now. While not generally bad (they can sure improve their packaging *and* their website) the only gripe I have

Re: [silk] Ethics in big Indian companies

2007-08-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: [interesting exercise I must admit] Why things are so bad even in Big companies: 1) Popular feeling among both the elite and common man that we can't change things as they are. (imagine if Mahatma Gandhi had felt the same

Re: [silk] Indian Economy's list of best Indian books.

2007-05-29 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ashok _ wrote: I have heard some good things about a new book by Ramachandra Guha called India after Gandhi - the history of the worlds largest democracy ... Has anybody read it? Aside from the fact that it is a heavy tome and thusly makes bad

Re: [silk] indian budget airlines

2007-04-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ashok _ wrote: Any suggestions on which budget airlines in india to avoid / go for.? Have been warned about the one called Air Deccan by many people... Air Deccan seems to be taking a large bundle of flak these days it was good earlier.

Re: [silk] indian budget airlines

2007-04-01 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: They haven't yet finished processing one booking for me, and I already hate them. Their web site is dismal. Their feedback form doesn't work. Their people are as broken as their web site. Yeah, that site needs some love

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-14 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: Bruce: I didn't know what funnel cakes were (I always imagined them to be like conical muffins), but based on your message, I now realise that they are like large, non-syrup-soaked Jalebis. ;-) A distant cousin of the

Re: [silk] Article in today's ET.

2007-03-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ingrid wrote: The article of yours (in the E.T) engenders the de-gendering or deconstruction of the hegemony of patriarchy which has constructed specific norms of masculinity and femininity. This construction has confined people to look not

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote: 3. Suppose they take the GPLed POP3 server and modify it substantially to suit their needs, and modify their program to talk to it. Releasing the modifications (in readable and compile-able format or such) and/or the

Re: [silk] Speaker Series Bangalore, Vint Cerf

2007-02-13 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Haynes wrote: It looks like invitations for this event are closed. I put in my requests, but I don't know if they made it in time. Good luck everyone. Any chance of seeing this talk on video.google.com ? - -- You see things; and you say

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: I'm not sure if it's the best place for steak, but I like Herbs and Spice in Indira Nagar. Don't know if that's the branch/sibling of the one in Pune, but the one here serves oh-so-passable fare - -- You see things; and you

Re: [silk] Koshy's not 'old Bangalore' just 'old'

2007-01-09 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 shiv sastry wrote: I believe veg only restaurants in Bangalore have a serious problem - because they are the worst places to sit down and eat. They have too many customers and there are places where the queue consists of people standing right

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