Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: Also among Palakkad Iyers. Venkatesh Hariharan (whose father is Hariharan Venkatesh) Now that gets me even more confused :( - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say

Re: [silk] congrats Biju...

2007-01-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: Wow, Beena Biju Benjamin...Congratulations! Bedazzling :) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[silk] A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection

2006-12-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Beyond the obvious playback-quality implications of deliberately degraded output, this measure can have serious repercussions in applications where high-quality reproduction of content is vital. For example the field of medical imaging either bans

Re: [silk] Poking holes in FOSS..

2006-10-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: A point of view that comes from someone whose ideas I respect (actually, Maya Venkat, mmk's sister.) [quote] The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself. (Especially code from companies

[silk] BBC NEWS | Programmes | Traditions weigh on China's women

2006-08-18 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Every year, 1.5 million women attempt to take their own lives, and a further 150,000 succeed in doing so. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/5086754.stm - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why

Re: [silk] bank suggestion.....?

2006-08-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ravi Rao wrote: And to answer your question, I've heard good things about Citibank ... If only there transaction portals worked on Firefox *sigh*... - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why

Re: [silk] Dying....hopefully, the topic is dying-- and not the topic is dying

2006-08-08 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: fear not...I think there are several people in their 50's or 60's...I was merely addressing the youngsters, who generally talk of death so casually (I'll DIE if I don't buy that lens!) but don't think much about death...

Re: [silk] some birds said

2006-08-05 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Madhu Menon wrote: (No, the lamps are not pink; they're red.) If the lamps are red (and not pink) then what are the reds ? - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw

Re: [silk] Geographic spread

2006-08-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Udhay Shankar N wrote: So. Where is everybody located these days? Bangalore with occasional excursions to Pune and very infrequent journeys to Kolkata :SM - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say

Re: [silk] Geographic spread

2006-08-02 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: BTW, I notice that a favourite restaurant of mine has shut down - http://biryanimerchant.com/. Evidentally, having full tables and a regular clientele isn't enough to ensure success. Something was wrong with it anyway - a fire

Re: [silk] Red Hat's 'Mugshot' Breaks Company's Enterprise Linux Mold

2006-06-28 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: I spoke to Havoc Pennington and Donald Fischer early this month. Their motivation is to make open source more mainstream. Has anyone on Silk tried MugShot (www.mugshot.org)? A few of them are on mugshot last I checked

Re: [silk] i intro

2006-06-21 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deepa Mohan wrote: I meantthe lines you have given,by Gwendoline Brooks, are lovely, can I quote them..etc etc. Googling on the name throws up http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/archive/index.php/t-28677.html I guess it is fair enough to quote with

Re: [silk] Dzongkhalinux: made in Bhutan

2006-06-12 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
More likely to be Debian, Morphix or even Ubuntu - certainly not Fedora Core (and of course not FC2)On 6/13/06, Sean Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Why are they building on top of Fedora Core 2? This seems very old. I'm not asking to be snarky - I've only been to Bhutan once and know no Dzongkha

Re: [silk] Why only Nikon vs Canon?

2006-05-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: Why is it that for photogeeks the only serious cameras are Nikons or Canons? What's wrong with all the other well-known brands? And what do you use... ? - -SM - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that

Re: [silk] Why only Nikon vs Canon?

2006-05-17 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: What's the deal with all the D70s and EOS 350Ds on this list? Insurance I would assume ;) - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP

Re: [silk] Nikon d70s (Another latebloomer's bio )

2006-04-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ashok Hariharan wrote: i am considering the nikon d70s, but am confused by opinions ranging from crap to marvellous to overpriced. (all of them are professional photographers) Would 'overpriced crap' be good for you ? :) It is heavy on the

Re: [silk] (Yet) Another latebloomer's bio ... and yet another

2006-04-27 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Venkatesh Hariharan wrote: The last time I posted some info about myself must have been 4-5 years ago. The world has changed since then and so have I! In the spirit of things and in the rush of introductions I realised that I got on to the list and

Re: [silk] YouTube - India Driving

2006-04-24 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: But seriously, this was the funniest thing I ever saw written on a vehicle: http://www.nixcartel.org/~botsie/autorickshaw.jpg Gives you good warning about how he drives! Travel down Dehradun - Delhi sector in a bus and

Re: [silk] /. [Indian Companies Embracing Linux Faster Than Ever]

2006-04-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: Sounds impressive. But I wonder how much of a benefit these companies derive from Open Source. If you look at how they handle it and how the deals were structured, all they're getting is cheaper software. The large 'enterprise'

Re: [silk] /. [Indian Companies Embracing Linux Faster Than Ever]

2006-04-10 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Biju Chacko wrote: However, that finally does imply that one cannot blindly point at these cases and say that they are major wins for open source. They're good, but they aren't that significant in the greater scheme of things. Certainly nothing

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